THORNHAM IN UNIFORM

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THORNHAM PEOPLE IN UNIFORM

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Albert Walker

     

Alfred Greef

     

Eric Beck in 1942

 

Eric Poarcher

Jimmy Bird (Scots Guards)

Harry's Bird's Father

   

Olive Whiting cc 1951

  

    Charlie Stratton

Brian Groundsell

1941

Sgt.  Valerie Corston  A.T.S. (now Walpole)

Oct 1946

Private Nina Corton  CC 1948

                      

   

Sam Hewitt 22/09/1942

        ALFRED GREEF WOUNDED ( IN BED ) BATTLE OF THE SOMME 1916

  

ATC 1945 MIDDLE ROW 2ND FROM LEFT HENRY GREEF         

                                          FRONT ROW LEFT CECIL RIX.                                       

 

 

Steve Greef

RAF Swinderby

Square Bashing 1972

 

 

Henry Proudfoot

  

Sam Proudfoot

      

Proudfoot

 

Angela Sutherland WW2

                    

    THORNHAM CHURCH LADS BRIGADE GUN CREW 1906

        

Harry & Ethel Cuttress

    

Wilfred Dunston 

  

Pilot Officer John Humphreys. 

Eileen Richmond's first Husband, killed in plane

 

      

Unknown WW1

 

Unknown WW!

                                               

ALL UNKNOWN SOLDIERS CAME FROM THE SAME ALBUM AS DID THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF OTHER PEOPLE FROM THORNHAM, THEREFORE I FEEL THEY ARE THORNHAM PEOPLE BUT UNFORTUNATELY NOT NAME IN THE ALBUM.

ANY HELP IN IDENTIFYING THESE BRAVE SOLDIERS WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

              TAKEN APPROX 1912 AT A TRAINING CAMP    

   

  CORONATION DAY 1910     

 

           

THORNHAM ON PARADE WORLD WAR ONE

 

A PHOTOGRAPH FROM GRANDFATHER'S ALBUM

TO ME, A MOVING PICTURE AS THIS WAS TAKEN BEFORE BATTLE COMMENCED. 

JUST HOW MANY OF THESE MEN SURVIVED THE WAR WILL NEVER BE KNOWN

ROYAL NORFOLKS

IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS AS TO IDENTIFYING PLEASE INFORM US

 

 

Henry Greef

 

Desmond Greef

Annie Corston, Gwen Watson ( Later Baker) Joan Ames (Black Uniform)

Hilda Gent (Later Clarke) Unknown (Back row) Beattiie Howard (Later Hunt)

Thornham Red Cross 

ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS

EXERCISE EMPEROR 1950

 

C/OBS. MARSHALL  L/OBS. HARDY   

    

    L/OBS. HARDY    OBS. GREEF

 

OBS. HENRY GREEF

   

                   1953 TO 1963 HUNSTANTON LIGHTHOUSE.  VIEW FROM LOOKOUT POST AT TOP OF LIGHTHOUSE HUNSTANTON WAS USED AS ROC POST LOOK OUT

EXERCISE DIVIDED 1954

OBS. THROWER  C/OBS MARSHAL

C/OBS. MARSHALL  L/OBS. GREEF

L/OBS. GREEF  OBS. CLARK

2 PICTURES BELOW, UNKNOWN EVENTS & DATES