Exhibition Dates
Saturday 26th July to Monday 28th July and Saturday 2nd August to Monday 4th August 2014
in St Michael's Church, Reepham, Norfolk.
10am till 4pm (1130am on Sundays)
We are exhibiting a plaster cenotaph found in Booton remembering Robert Hall remembered on the Basra Memorial, in Present day Iraq. kindly borrowed from the Bircham Centre, Reepham. Do you have any firther information about Robert or the Centotaph?
Saturday 26th July to Monday 28th July and Saturday 2nd August to Monday 4th August 2014
in St Michael's Church, Reepham, Norfolk.
10am till 4pm (1130am on Sundays)
We are exhibiting a plaster cenotaph found in Booton remembering Robert Hall remembered on the Basra Memorial, in Present day Iraq. kindly borrowed from the Bircham Centre, Reepham. Do you have any firther information about Robert or the Centotaph?
Welcome to the Putting the Face to the Name website.
This is a project of gathering information on all the men listed on the World War One Memorials in Reepham, Norfolk 2 churches.
St Mary's and St Michael's, As well as both commemorating the dead of the then 3 Parishes, St Michael's also lists those that returned.
So this project is remembering them and help to discover the brave men who fought But also highlights those men not listed and a few Non native Reephamites that also had memorable service in WW1.
St Mary's and St Michael's, As well as both commemorating the dead of the then 3 Parishes, St Michael's also lists those that returned.
So this project is remembering them and help to discover the brave men who fought But also highlights those men not listed and a few Non native Reephamites that also had memorable service in WW1.
Putting a Face to the Name,
Reepham Remembering 100 years on
I have always wondered on some level each Remembrance Day Who where these people? The Men who paid the ultimate price for their Country?
Every City, town, village and hamlet has a memorial somewhere to the Fallen of the Great War. When wandering around them in my travels you see the names listed in stone or metal. But who are these men? (and women!) names put up on a list.
I moved to Reepham in 2004 With its 2 churches. In St Mary’s you have a small plaque listing the names Regiments and the year of death of 13 men. Underneath the plaque is a picture of the St Michael’s Memorial.
In 2004 the Chancel in St Michael’s was a dusty by way to the main hall hidden by dark Victorian wood and heavy curtains to keep out the draughts. The East window of St Michael’s, has since I first saw it, a wonderful picture of Christ’s Ascension and is dedicated to the fallen of the Great War. By Edward Reginald Frampton (junior) the only one he did apparently.
How things have changed!
Since the upgrade and rededication of St Michaels in 2011 light fills the chancel and you see the Memorial as a stunning stone sculpture.
It lists the 29 men who died and the 137 men who lived. Most returned to the town and hamlets of Reepham. But many moved away to other parts of the county, country and others to other countries. Also I have found that some came back to Reepham from around the country after the war. All this showing how different people dealt with the terrible memories of the war in such different ways.
Both memorials remember people from all parts of town life agricultural labourers scraping a living to the Postman from Yorkshire with a Dutch surname, To the one of the son’s of the Hall who had fought in the Boer wars and written a book about it.
Other occupations include shop keepers, tanners, railway workers and clerks, butchers, blacksmiths, malters, brewers, grooms, roadman, cattle drover, coal hawker, apprentices
The lists also show families, brothers who died and even a father and his step son are listed, ironically next to each other.
The research has shown every aspect of the people who fought in the war.
The 16 year old who signed up for 6 months only to be discovered and sent home! I hope it was bravado of wanting to do his bit rather than the thoughtless act of someone mistaking him for older and giving him a white feather.
The many men who over stayed leave and docked pay. Disciplines of firing guns and not reporting it. Deserters who later reappear back in the army. The brave men awarded Military Medals and Military Crosses for acts of selfless bravery in times of battle.
As a further commemoration to those men listed on the two Memorials of the Churches in Reepham. I have started collecting information and pictures of those men.
The aim for this is that in 2014, when we remember 100 years on of the start of World War One, to put on an exhibition of Pictures and life stories of these brave men that fought and some that lost their lives.
St Mary's Reepham and Kerdiston Born but not listed
st Mary's Reepham and Kerdiston in memoriam
st Michael's whitwell and hackford in memoriam
St Michael's whitwell and hackford roll of honour
Please use the information provided.
But remember these are someone's Uncle, Father, Grand Father, Brother and Son .
Use with reverence and please acknowledge this web site and project in your work.
If only to respect the work put in compiling it and the memory of those whom this project wishes to preserve.
Thank You
Ron Luton-Brown
But remember these are someone's Uncle, Father, Grand Father, Brother and Son .
Use with reverence and please acknowledge this web site and project in your work.
If only to respect the work put in compiling it and the memory of those whom this project wishes to preserve.
Thank You
Ron Luton-Brown