The Great War

The men from Norwell and Norwell Woodhouse who served King and Country in the Great War 1914 - 1919

Fifty five men who had connections with Norwell and Norwell Woodhouse served in the Great War. Of those eleven fell.

Fred Ash	Army
Harold Baines	Royal Engineers
Herbert Baines	Canadian Army 15 February 1919 Died of influenza in Bramshott Canadian Camp, Hampshire
Samuel Baldwin	Sherwood Foresters 5 July 1916 Boiselle Somme
John William Bennett	Royal Scots Fusiliers
H. Brown
Ernest Chilvers	Sherwood Foresters 27 October 1915 Hohenzollern, Flanders	Ernest Chilvers is also listed on the war memorial in Hawton.
Alfred Cobb	Royal Engineers	Alfred was a miller and baker
Herbert Dobbs	Grenadier Guards
Arthur Leslie Dodd
Charles Thomas Dodd	Royal Garrison Artillery
Ernest Elkington	Hussars	Ernest Elkington was a horseman at Model Farm before the war
John Christopher Etches	King’s Royal Rifle Corps 3 October 1915 Hohenzollern Flanders
Bertie Faulkner	Royal Leicestershire Regiment 21 March 1918 Epehy, Cambrai Western Front
Harry Frecknall	Royal Irish Constabulary Black and Tans
Walter Frecknall	Machine Gun Corps
Alfred Hazzard	Agricultural Company (Labour Corps)	Men were put into the Labour Corps if their health was not A1 and they were not fit to fight on the front line Alfred Hazzard was born in Norwell. He was sometimes absent from school helping his father who was a licensed hawker.
Alfred Heaton	Royal Navy 31 May 1916 Battle of Jutland	Alfred Heaton was serving on HMS Invincible when it went down
Arthur Heaton	Royal Navy
Benjamin Heaton	Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Harry Heaton	Grenadier Guards
Thomas Heaton	Sherwood Foresters
Arthur Hempsall	Sherwood Foresters
Frank Abdy Hempsall
John William Hempsall	Norfolk Regiment
Lawrence Wilson Hempsall	Royal Navy
John Vincent Henton	Sherwood Foresters 29 September 1917 Zonnebeker, Paschendale
John Thomas Homer	Lincolnshire Regiment
Robert Wilson Jackson	King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 10 July 1915 Ypres
Bernard Nurcombe Jackson	Sherwood Foresters
Percy Jackson	Royal Garrison Artillery
Godson Kirkham	Army Service Corps
George Henry Leeson
Bertie Marshall	West Yorkshire regiment Leeds Rifles
Ernest Marshall	Sherwood Foresters
Gonville Croft Marshall
Harry Marston	Lincolnshire Regiment 3 April 1917 Roisel, Somme
Robert Marston	Sherwood Foresters
Frederick Wilfred Norman
John Henry Parkin	Sherwood Foresters
Joseph Parkin	Sherwood Foresters
Arthur Parr	London Regiment Royal Fusiliers 28 November 1917 Passchendaele
Robert Parr (Ridge)	Machine Gun Corps
Horace Reynolds	Royal Engineers	Horace Reynolds carved his name on a church pew
Henry Shanks Robb		Henry Robb lived and worked at Hill Farm, Norwell
Tom Sheldon	Sherwood Foresters
Francis Templeman	Sherwood Foresters
Arthur Turner	Grenadier Guards
George Turner	Royal Navy
John William Turner
Fred Ward	Sherwood Foresters
Hector Willows	Royal Air Force (cadet)
Samuel Willows	Sherwood Foresters
Henry Wilson	Sherwood Foresters 8 November 1918 Pas de Calais
John Wilson	Lincolnshire Regiment	Postcard to John Wilson from his brother Henry in Folkestone on his way to France in September 1918