THORNHAM IN UNIFORM

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THORNHAM PEOPLE IN UNIFORM

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ALBERT WALKER                ALFRED GREEF                ERIC BECK 1942                 ERIC POARCHER

       

STEVE GREEF                OLIVE WHITING CC 1951                        CHARLIE STRATTON

TAKEN 76 TO 78

   

 SAM HEWITT 22/09/1942    ALFRED GREEF WOUNDED ( IN BED ) BATTLE OF THE SOMME 1916

   

ATC 1945 MIDDLE ROW 2ND FROM LEFT HENRY GREEF          STEPHEN GREEF 1972

                FRONT ROW LEFT CECIL RIX.                                        RAF SWINDERBY

           

HENRY PROUDFOOT         SAM PROUDFOOT              PROUDFOOT            ANGELA SUTHERLAND WW2

             THORNHAM CHURCH LADS BRIGADE GUN CREW 1906

                        

HARRY & ETHEL CUTTRESS            WILFRED DUNSTON           PILOT OFFICER JOHN HUMPREYS 

                                                                                                          EILEEN RICHMOND'S FIRST HUSBAND

                                                                                                          KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH  

       

                                                 UNKNOWN FROM WW1                        UNKNOWN FROM WW1

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                                                                                 

 

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