Those Who Served

Alexander Bond

M.P. served in France and Germany

Charles Brereton

Son of Rev Brereton, the village Rector, Second Lieutenant Norfolk Regt. P.O.W. of Japanese.

Clifford Brown

Worked at Moulton Paddocks. Served in the 1st & 8th Armies. North Africa and Italy driver of heavy transports.

Wally Burch

R.A.F. Bomber Command, flew as rear gunner on 36 missions, ended war as Warrant Officer.

David Clarkson

R.A. served in North Africa and Italy.

Jack Clarry

No details.

Charles Cole

R.A.F. lived at No 8 Newmarket Road.

Everard Collington

R.A.F. served in Greece/Crete, Killed.

Vernon Daniells

Veteran of the First World War, when he held the rank of Captain, Served in England during W.W.II in the rank of Major.

Anthony Darling

Flt Lieu R.A.F. served in North Africa, Killed.

Diana Darling

Driver for the U.S. at Egerton House Newmarket

Charles Farman

R.A.F.

Cyril Farman

Navy

Louis Farman

Navy.

Frieze (Mr)

Lieutenant Colonel served in Egypt.

Frieze (Mrs)

V.A.D. Red Cross Nurse at Newmarket

Tom Goody

Tank Driver 11th Armoured Div (Ayrshire Yeomanry), D. Day, wounded at Caen.

Joe Goodchild

Joined in 1944, served with the Beds & Herts Regt, then the 5th Batt Royal Berks. served in France/Belgium and at Rhine crossing.

Cecil Hammond

Served in Italy.

Alexander Heatherwick

Sergeant 1st Batt Scots Guards, Anzio, Killed.

Donald Jennings

Flew with the Fleet Air Arm

Doris Joel

Nurse with the Red Cross.

Dudley Barnardo Joel

Sub Lieu R.N. Reserve, Killed.

The Second World War, those who served (Continued)

Elizabeth Kirk

Nurse with the Red Cross - lived at Lanwades Park.

George Lambert

Regular with the Suffolk Regt, served in India and Burma.

Michael Lane

Lieutenant London Rifle Brigade, Normandy landings, Killed.

Newton Lister

R.A.S.C, served in N Africa, Killed.

Wally Macro

R.A. served in France.

Alister Mackenzie

Butler at Moulton Paddocks before the war.

Malcolm MacGregor

R.A.O.C. was evacuated from Brest when France fell, later served in North Africa.

Ian MacGregor

Royal Engineers, served in Italy.

Nancy MacGregor

A.R.P volunteer at Newmarket HQ later driver for the US at Egerton House Newmarket.

Thomas MacGregor

RAF served in the U.K.

Ian Mackinson

Served in the R.A.F aircrew, Evacuee, lived with the Scrivener family in Brookside. Became a District Commissioner in Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia, after the war.

Roy Morley

Served with the Fleet Air Arm.

Ray Neal

1st Batt Suffolk Regt. Took part in D. Day landings, wounded.

Ruby Neal

Served in the R.A.F.

Cecil Norris

Suffolk Regt.

Jim Orbell

Royal Corps of Signals France, Belgium and Germany. Present at the Nuremberg trials.

Ernie Partridge

Regular with Suffolk Regt, 6 years in India and Palestine. With the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk, later Acting Sergeant Instructor in U.K.

Eric Pooley

Regular in Royal Navy. Served in Hospital Ship Maine, in Mediterranean/Far East/D Day landings. Later at Chatham Royal Naval Hospital.

Maurice Prigg

National Fire Service. Vetran of the First World War.

Ivan (Jack) Radford

Queens Own Royal Regt, wounded and taken prisoner in Italy. P.O.W. in Austria, escaped to join the Allies.

John Russell

Service Corps, served in North Africa & Italy, Killed.

David Saker

No details

Alan Sargent

R.A, lived at Bridge Farm House when it was three cottages.

Fred Scrivener

The Rifle Brigade/Manchester Regt, took part in D Day landings & the advance to Germany.

Hughie Sidebottom

Captain R.A, anti-aircraft served in UK and Gibraltar.

Walter Talbot

Served in the Army.

Arthur John Trott

Royal Norfolk Regt, from 26-07-40 to 25-03-45.

John worked on a stud before joined the Royal Norfolk Regt at the age of 28.

He served in India from 13-04-42 to 10-09-44 and in the Middle East from 11-09-44 to 04-12-44.

While in Burma on the 04-05-44, he was shot by a sniper in the top of his left lung, he was admitted to Indian General Hospital, Dimapur, then taken by ambulance train to the Indian Base General Hospital at Donra Dun, Poona. In September he embarked on a hospital ship for the Middle East, arriving there after a 10 week journey in November 1944. From there he was evacuated in the Hospital Ship ‘Oranje', arriving in the U.K on the 3rd of November. From there he was transferred to the Parkside Hospital, Macclesfield and then after Christmas to the White Lodge Hospital, Newmarket. In January 1945, an orthopaedic specialist recommended a discharge from the service as unfit from any military duty.

Medals:- Battle of Britain Star 1939-45 (Pictured), Burma Star (Pacific), Defence Medal (King's Commendation), War Medal (Oak Leaves).

Arthur Trott or as he was always called ‘John', was born in Cheveley, coming to Moulton on his marriage to Moulton girl Elsie Tredgett. After being discharged from the army Elsie & John lived with Elsie's grandparents, George & Olive Scrivener, who lived in a bungalow beside the Chippenham Rd.

In 1950, when Benefield Rd was built, they moved into No 4, where they lived for the rest of their lives, raising a family of three children, Edward, Margaret & Janet. John was the village newsagent for a number of years, then head gardener for Mr & Mrs Brundell - Bruce, who lived on the Moulton Paddocks Estate.

John was a familiar figure in the village, he loved village life. His hobby was gardening, his expertise in this field, enabled him to help many people with their gardens. John died in from complications associated with his war wound in 1963 aged just 52, & Elsie in 1997 aged 71.

Edward Tweed

Regular in Royal Navy. served in HMS Belfast, took part in the sinking of Scharnhorst. Russian Convoys Arctic & N Atlantic action. D Day landings, Indian & Ceylon campaigns. After the Second World War served in 1st Suez & Kuwait crisis (HMS Bulwark) served in Falklands War HMS Lancelot. Awards include N Atlantic Medal, Russian Convoy Medal, India Star, & as Wrecks Officer Singapore the Malayan Star. Son of Chris Tweed.

Arthur Ward

R.A.F.

Cyril Wilson

Regular Royal Marines, served Dunkirk, Narvik, Middle and Far East.

Page Wilson

R.A.S.C captured in Crete. P.O.W. in Poland.

Eric Wright

Regular Suffolk Regt captured at Singapore POW.

Ernie Wybrew

Served with the 8th Army in North Africa.

Leslie Wybrew

Served with the London Fire Service.

Maurice Wybrew

RA served in N Africa and Italy, wounded in North Africa, Ernie, Leslie and Maurice were all brothers.

Men who lived within the Parish of Moulton who died in the Second World War & Korea

Everard Collington

Employed by Lady Bullough, of 'Warren Park', as a under chauffeur.

He lived with his wife and daughter in one of the estate houses.

Served in the R.A.F, he was killed in Crete.

Anthony Darling

FL/LT R.A.F, died in Libya of pneumonia, on the 16th of January 1942 aged 26, buried in Tobruk. Memorial in St Peters Church.

Lived at 'Warren Place', his father Sam Darling was a prominent racehorse trainer,

Alexander Heatherwick

Sergeant, 1st Batt Scots Guards. Died of wounds sustained in the Anzio beach head, on February the 19th 1944 aged 27. A regular soldier he had been the army for eight years.

Married local girl, Ruth Wright in February 1941, at Moulton Church.

They had made their home in Moulton.

Dudley Banardo Joel

Sub Lieut. R.N. Reserve. Joined the navy at the start of the war. he was drowned when his minesweeper was sunk in the Atlantic, not far from the coast, in 1941, aged 36.

A strong swimmer, his was the only body from the ship to be recovered, being washed ashore. He was identified by the ring that he wore.

Owner of Moulton Paddocks estate, he was the youngest of the four Joel children, the others being, Doris, Stanhope and Eileen. His father owned the estate from 1922 to 1931.

Dudley Banardo Joel was the M.P. for Dudley in Worcestershire.

John Lane (killed in Korea)

Captain Royal Artillery. Killed on January the 4th 1951, aged 28.

Twin brother to Michael Lane who was killed in the Second World War.

Family lived at Moulton Manor.

Michael Lane.

Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade. Killed in Normandy shortly after 'D' Day, on the 1st of July 1944, aged 21.

Family lived at Moulton Manor.

Michael was the son of Lindsay Lane of Moulton Manor Farm.

Michael Lane commanded No 9 Platoon, G Company of the 8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade at the time of the Normandy landings, landing at D Day plus 4, the 10th of June.

The 8th Battalion was a unit of the 11th Armoured Division and its role as a motorised infantry battalion was a support group for the 3rd Tank Regiment. No 9 Platoon consisted of three Bren Gun Carrier Sections.

Having crossed the river Odon (Normandy in the Caen sector) the next objective was to take the notorious Hill 112. While taking up position of 'hull down' for observation purposes, the three Platoons came under machine gun and mortar fire from a distance of 25 yds. Michael Lane was wounded in the engagement, later dying of his wounds, he was the first officer of the Company to be killed in action.

Mr Rogers of 'Long Acre, Newmarket Rd, served with Michael Lane and related this story to me. Mr Rogers joined No 9 Platoon some time later as reinforcements.

For further reading of 'G Company' History read 'From The Beaches to the Baltic'.

Newton Lister

Served in the R.A.S.C. Taken prisoner when Tobruck fell. Killed when the ship carrying prisoners back to Germany, was torpedoed in the Mediterranean by an Allied submarine, in 1942. Posthumously decorated for bravery. Before his marriage, he lived at No 3 The Green. He worked as a painter and decorator. Married Nora Pooley, had a son John.

John Russell

Served in the Service Corps, in North Africa and Italy. While in Italy he contracted polio. He died in Naples in 1945 aged 30.

He was engaged to be married to a French girl called Colette Tardieu, who he met in North Africa.

Worked as a butcher for Harold Jennings, whose shop was at the rear of the Post Office. A Lay Preacher to the Methodist community in the village. He lived at No 7 Newmarket Road.