Thoughts of a Wartime childhood
Life for children in Cawston carried on in a fairly normal routine, school as usual, but adapting to strange changes....
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WW2
Robert Sonny Dewing
Fifty Years On
World War Two affected everyone, from the youngest to the oldest and those who lived through those days have many and varied memories,...
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WW2
John Kett
Red Jungle
"Red Jungle" by John Cross, D.C.M which is a book about a tiny British party left behind in Malayato in 1942 to radio intellgence, they joined up with other British soldiers including Jim Wight....
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WW2
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/booksreftocawston" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Books Ref to Cawston">Books Ref to Cawston</a></span>
H/C Library
A Fearful Freedom
This book is about the amazing survival story which tells how Jim Wright, a Norfolk gamekeeper's son, aged 23, managed to evade capture by the Japanese in WW2....
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WW2
Vic Purdy
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/booksreftocawston" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Books Ref to Cawston">Books Ref to Cawston</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/349" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="James Ernest Wright"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span>James Ernest Wright</span></span></a></p>
H/ R Library
Wright, Ernest James.
Jim Wight: Private 5776863 6th Battalion. The Royal Norfolk Regiment.
Extraordinary survival behind the lines in Japanese occupied territory WW2.
Full story in the book "A Fearful Freedom" by Robert Hammond and is also in the book "Red Jungle" by John Cross, D.C.M.
Both books are in the Heritage Centre....
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WW2
<a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/350" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="A Fearful Freomed"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Fearful Freedom</span></a>
War Times including Zeppelins last visit WW1
<p>War Times</p>
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<p>Zeppelins last visit from the school exercise book of N. B. Howard age about 10 years....</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/331" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Mr Charles Clements in his Memories of old Cawston">Mr Charles Clements in his Memories of old Cawston</a></span> read: Zeppelin Raids; One of the worst moments was when one of the airships cut its engines and drifted in silence for a while above the village.</p>
WW 1/2
Richard Howard
Charles Clements
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/14" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Memories of Cawston (Collection)">Memories of Cawston (Collection)</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/331" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Mr Charles Clements in his Memories of old Cawston">Mr Charles Clements in his Memories of old Cawston</a></span><span> </span></span></p>
Company Sgt Major W.J. Hutton
<p>The Royal Army Service Cor (RASC) merged with transportation....</p>
<p>Also see Link: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Hutton/Gould Butcher" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/140" target="_blank">Hutton/Gould Butcher</a></span></p>
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Mr & Mrs John Gould
Mother Riley
Second World War:- A very interesting piece is on the BBC website....
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" title="War Times Collection" target="_blank">War Times Coll</a><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" title="War Times Collection" target="_blank">n</a><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" title="War Times Collection" target="_blank">ection</a></span>
Cawston Manor
<p>Cawston Manor South View</p>
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This is a "Brief History" of the Royal Manor, Manor House and Cawston College to 2010....
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Mr Darren Black - Photo of Cawston Manor First World War.
Frank Hannibal (Texas USA) for Cawston Manor Memories.
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Manor WW1 History & Photos" href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/205" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manor - WW1 History & Photos</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Manor Water Tower" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manor Water Tower</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="George Cawston" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/142" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Cawston</a></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/447" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Boathouse"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boathouse</span></a></p>
Roll of Honour and War Memorials
<p><strong>Lest We Forget</strong></p>
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Roll of Honour for those who gave their lives for our country & War Memorials.
File 1/Roll of Honour WW1
File 2/Roll of Honour WW2
File 3/Lieutenant Cecil Faulkner Cawston - Boer War 1899-1902
File 4/ War Horses and Dogs
File 5/ War Memorials
File 6/War Memorial lighting damage
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<p>Mr & Mrs Brain Brownsell - (<a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/158" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="See link Bellboddy"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">See link Bellboddy</span></a>)</p>
<p>Mark Carmichael - (bellboddy)</p>
<p>Kevin Douglas</p>
<p>Ron Beall</p>
<p>Peter Lee</p>
<p>Jacci Babich</p>
<p>Evan Hill</p>
<p>Steve Andrews.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Lucky Strike" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/32">Lucky Strike</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/314" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bombrer Plane Crash WW11 at Bluestone Plantation"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bomber Plane Crash WW11 at Bluestone Plantation</span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Es Forces Personnel" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/88" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ex Forces Personnel</a></span></p>
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