HISTORY
Charles Doughty-Wylie
V.C.- a feature with over 50 photos
& 13 documents giving the full story of the S.S. River Cylde
& his heroic attack at Sedd-El-Bahr,V Beach Gallipoli
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NEW"YOXFORD BOYS" PHOTO OF THE
MONTH
NEW ZEPPELIN
L48 "
" "
"
SEE
BELOW
Old Postcard or Photo of the
Month
Photo for February 2012
Percy
Smith ploughing on Eastbridge
Farm.....T.P
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Mary Baptie and her class in the 1950s in the now
Jubilee Hall
PLEASE can somebody tell me
any names ?!
PLEASE IF YOU HAVE
ANY LOCAL CARDS OR
PHOTOS
LET ME KNOW SO THAT OTHERS CAN
ENJOY THEM TOO
!
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To
see past photos click "H1.doc" etc below>
H1.doc
H2.doc
H3.doc
H4.doc
H5.doc
H6.doc
H7.doc
H8.doc
H9.doc
H10.docPlease submit any old postcards or photos of our Parish
you wish to share..email them or pop them in at Alde House for
careful copying & return within 24hours...we will post them
here if you need people or places identifying.Past ones will be
archived here online.
(Nearby cards etc. can be considered too).....
Theberton Jam-makers
Top L to r..Mrs: Parnell Trumpeter Wright Spalding
Fairweather [Webster?]
2nd row : Rope Walker Mason Ling Driver ..Evie Gissing. Cook. Freda
Gissing
Front left : Tibbenham and right Baker
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Who are these Theberton
schoolchildren and when ? SEE
BELOW
BIG THANKYOU
TO SUSAN [WEST] SWANN...SEE
BELOW
Hello,
I thought I'd try identifying the people
in the Primary School photo on your History
page.
Back row L to R: Richard Spall, Martin
Chambers, Paul Smith, Mrs Lightbody, Gary Linton, Anthony
Mischevski (sp), Terry Woods, Mark (Mickey) Tricker, Terry
Ginger?
2nd row: Mark (Fred) Ginger, Trudy?, Angela Revell, Shane Thurston,
Tina Biggs (moved to Australia), Heather Baskett, Frances West,
Alan Alexander
3rd row: Colin Alexander, Leslie Smith (American), Claydon Woods,
Jimmie Coates, Elaine McLaughlin (American), Andrew Revell, Mildred
Clarke, Susan West, Mrs Elvin
Front row: Kevin? (American), Michelle McGarrity (American), Yancy
Gibson (American), Sandra West, Philip Baskett, Philip West.
This must have been taken in the late
60s and the school was closed a couple of years later. I have
wonderful memories of the school and think it is very sad they
closed down the smaller ones.
Susan (West) Swann.
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NEW
YOXFORD BOYS PHOTO OF THE MONTH
February 2012
Col Dregne's "Bobby
Jeanne"....T.P.
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This book below tells the tragic story of Fletcher Adams .Shot
down
then murdered by German civilians.
NEW BOOK ABOUT THE YOXFORD BOYS
To be published in
December this year by Chris Bucholtz
"Mustang Aces of the 357th.. Fighter Group" £12-99
...but you can pre-order now on Amazon
for £11-69 post-free
More 357th. photos in
"Y1.doc" etc just below>
Y1.doc
Y2.doc
Y3.doc
Y4.doc
Y5.doc
NEW
ZEPPELIN L48 PHOTO OF THE
MONTH
February 2012
More L48 photos in the links "Z1.doc"
etc. below
Z1.doc
Z2.doc
Z3.doc
Z4.doc
Z5.doc
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To read about Lady Eve
Balfour, Theberton resident, founder of the Organic
Movement and The Soil Association ...click here
>
LadyEvelynBalfour.doc
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NEW
LT-COL CHARLES
DOUGHTY-WYLIE
V.C.
When they heard
of the plan for the ship both his wife Lilian and his
mistress, the explorer Gertrude Bell threatened suicide. He
wrote to
Gertrude..
"When I asked for this ship,
my joy in it was half strangled by that you said, I can’t even name
it or talk about it. As we go steaming in under the port guns in
our rotten old collier, shall I think about it… Don’t do it. Time
is nothing, we join up again, but to hurry the pace is unworthy of
us all."
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Charles' home Theberton Hall
THEBERTONHALLin4oldPhotos.doc
[3 more photos of the Hall]
MOREPHOTOSOFTHEBERTONHALL.doc
Doughty-Wylie in life,with his
mistress and in death.
His grave,his memorials in Gallipoli & Theberton[
Below]
PhotosofCDWmemorials.doc
C.H.M. D-Wylie from the ramming of the beach to the
surge up the hill to the fort,through the town to the hilltop, the
objective....and his death [photos below]
TheAttackin6photos.doc
The former steam collier S.S. River
Clyde is rammed ashore at Sedd-El-Bahr, V Beach on April 25th. 1915
with large Sally-ports cut in her plating and hanging wooden
decks outside for fast exit for the troops
6RiverClydePhotos.doc
More photos of the ship rammed on the rocks,
stores
& ammunition are winched ashore to tents & huts.
More Anzacs land from her, she becomes a hospital & produces
water. Later a base for French troops.
RiverClydeinMay5Photos.doc
3 paintings of the ship
ramming ashore under fire
RiverClydePaintings.doc
A short summary
of her life from 1905 to 1966
ABriefHistoryOfTheRiverClyde.doc
Showing the precise location of V Beach
Gallipoli
V Beach, Sedd-El-Bahr and the Fort, Hill
141
MapsandviewsofVBeach.doc
Views of the next door beach and the fighting
there
13PhotosofAnzacsWBeach.doc
The
whole story of the Gallipoli assault
FromMarch18toApril25.doc
The details of the gallant attack
TheLandingatWBeachXBeach.doc
True horrors of the savagery of close
combat
by the poet laureate John
Masefield.
Thefullstoryofthelandings.doc
"Unlucky 13"
SS Magdapur mined off Sizewell
The 8,641 ton
freighter S.S. Magdapur sank on Sep. 10th 1939 at
5.25p.m., just one week after war was
declared.
[NOTE: this one photo has produced an avalanche of
requests for more details. I have now added ALL the extra photos
and details that I have. I have archived all this with
the title S.S. Magdapur sunk off
Sizewell
]
SSMagdapursunkoffSizewell.doc
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Local History
Those wishing to research the early history of Theberton will
find scant references in the usual sources and even less for
Eastbridge. However, we are better served in the more modern
era and the recent past. These resources are listed
below:
Books:
"The Chronicles of Theberton" by Henry M Doughty pub. Macmillan
1910..250 pages 11 illustrations..... but expect to pay about £40
from good second-hand dealer
NEW
I am descended from Baileys (maternal side) at Theberton
(Blacksmiths), I have recently purchased “The chronicles of
Theberton” which has been reprinted, you can now buy it through
Amazon @ £17.99.(see below), If anybody in Theberton can tell
me more about Thomas Bailey (1694-1759) i.e. his parents etc, I
would be most grateful, also any old photos of the Baileys in the
village would be wonderful.
Thank you
Barry Johnson
"God's Fugitive" the life of C.M.Doughty (author of "Travels in
Arabia Desert")by Andrew Taylor 1999 pub.
Flamingo
"Theberton in the 1840's a snapshot of village
life in rural Suffolk" Suzanna Burnay, Sigma Books
2002. A 63page booklet of local registers and
field
owners etc. (no photos) £4-99.
Allan Jobson of Middleton wrote many factual books of local
interest, involving Theberton &
Eastbridge
LISTOFBOOKSBYALLANJOBSON.doc
ZEPPELIN L48
(LZ95)
The Zeppelin that was shot down and crashed in
flames at Holly Tree Farm, Theberton on June 17th 1917 with 2
crewmen surviving is a major interest to local
historians.
Zeppelin L48 - to read about this,
press
TITANICOFTHESKIES.doc
or
TheexcavationofL48.doc by Julian Evan-Hart, who
organized the "Timewatch" excavation of our "Zeppelin Field"
click
for flyer..>
ZeppelinWar.jpg
"The Zeppelin War" by Neil
Faulkner £17 99
pub. Tempus Books
..and now you should read this excellent
book
packed full of rare and unique photos and
info.
about the tragic last voyage of the great airship.
"The last flight of the L48" by Ray Rimell.
The true story of Theberton's Zeppelin. pub. Windsock Datafile,
2006. 26 pages many photos £9 - 50.
Look at the link below to get a copy Post Free!
Last Flight of
the L48..Post Free !
NEW
published by Pen & Sword Oct. 16th
2008
Mark Mower's " Zeppelin over Suffolk..the final raid of the
L48" @ £12.99
[with over 50 photos]
Zeppelin
Over Suffolk tells the remarkable story of the destruction of a
German airship over East Anglia in 1917. The drama is set against
the backdrop of Germany's aerial bombing campaign on Britain in the
First World War, using a terrifying new weapon, the Zeppelin. The
course of the raid on that summer night is reconstructed in vivid
detail, moment by moment - the Zeppelin's take off from northern
Germany, its slow journey across the North Sea, the bombing run
along the East Anglian coast, the pursuit by British fighters high
over Suffolk, and the airship's final moments as it fell to earth
in flames near the village of Theberton in the early morning of 17
June 1917. Mark Mower gives a gripping account of a pivotal episode
in the pioneering days of the air war over England.
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"Pictorial Souvenir of the Strafed Zeppelin L48" by J.S.
Waddell. Rare, usually £50+ secondhand...a full copy of this
is displayed in The Lion Inn, Theberton.
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Theberton Airfield - 357th - Yoxford Boys
Where were
they? See map below..
What's their
story? Look on the Friends of Leiston Airfield [F.O.L.A]
website..click below...
Friends of Leiston Airfield Website
Who
were they? ..read on below
"The Yoxford Boys"Merle Olmsted.1971 pub. Aero
"The 357th Over Europe" ditto 1994 pub.Phalanx
"To War with the Yoxford Boys" ditto 2004
pub.Eagl. the 376 page masterwork
"357th Fighter Group" James Roeder 2000 pub. Squadron Signal -
excellent for modellers.
"90 Miles to War" Peter Saunders of F.O.L.A., 2000
"Leiston - memories of a Suffolk Airfield" F.O.L.A.
"To Fly and Fight" by "Bud" Anderson 1990
pub. Pacifica Press.
"Yeager" by "Chuck" Yeager 1990 paperback
Local History features heavily in Les
Higgs'
excellent monthly newspaper available
at local outlets and pubs.."The Heritage Coast
Gazette"
Click here to
Email Les
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"The Minsmere Scrapbook" Hilary Welch 2000 is a
nice booklet of memories and photos..from R.S.P.B.
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The following websites are excellent for research
Bud Anderson's
Website
Chuck Yeager's
Website
USAF 357th Yoxford Boys
Website
Longshop Museum
Leiston
(has a display of L48 artifacts alongside its main
attractions.)
Postcards:
J.S. Waddell of Leiston was a prolific producer of local cards and
many of his are readily obtainable.
Both "The Eel's Foot" Eastbridge and
the "Lion" Theberton have excellent wall
displays of local photos. Click below to read about Jumbo
Brightwell and others singing at the "Eel's Foot" in the old days.
Jumbo at
the "Eel's
Foot"