May 4, 2020 | People, WW2 Memorial
4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment Born 8th January 1910 in Bramford. Son of Frederick and Gertrude Moss of Gipping Cottages Sproughton Road, Bramford [now Fitzgerald Road].He married Doris Sadd (see George Sadd) in 1931 and in 1939 the family was living at 5 Sproughton...
May 4, 2020 | People, WW2 Memorial
No person with this exact profile is listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database but this is believed to be R/209196, Fireman Trimmer Charles Mitchell of HM Yacht. He was the son of Henry James and Lilian Mitchell of Kesgrave and born on the 23rd April...
May 4, 2020 | People, WW2 Memorial
7 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Donald was born in 1910 to George and Alice Lucas.In 1911 Donald was with his family at 31 Withipoll Street, Ipswich but by 1939 his parents had moved to 21 Pearl Road Ipswich.He married Frances Mary Elizabeth Scales in...
May 4, 2020 | People, WW2 Memorial
Born on 21st July 1917 Arthur was the son of Walter and Ada Lay of Bramford. He was captured at Singapore 15/02/1942 and a PoW at Changi Camp. He died 09/06/1943 after contracting “Ludwig’s Angina”. He was formerly employed as a Clerk at Fison’s...
May 4, 2020 | People, WW2 Memorial
Born in Ipswich, 1922, the son of Alfred Alexander Laughlin and Blanche Laughlin, of Paper Mill Lane, Bramford, husband of Grace Laughlin, of Bramford.William married Grace Benstead in Bramford church, May 1942.Died 01/08/1942Aged 20 Suffolk Chronicle 22nd May 1942...