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 November 2008 
                  
                   
              
  Pat Keeble's Garage..now "Wild About Birds" & Pump Cottages. T.Preston
 
               
 To see past photos click "H1.doc" etc below>
       H1.doc   H2.doc   H3.doc  H4.doc  H5.doc 
Please 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).....
..and who are these Theberton Jam-makers..please let me know!!
          
         
                                   NEW YOXFORD BOYS PHOTO OF THE MONTH
                     
                                   November 2008
         
             
   
               
        
Two unofficial Squadron Badges of the 357th...via Tony Preston                  

                           More 357th. photos in "Y1.doc" etc just below>
                                                   Y1.doc
 
                               NEW ZEPPELIN L48 PHOTO OF THE MONTH

                                      November 2008
                             
                        
                            
   Gunner Sgt. Sid Ashby M.M. who probably did most to shoot down L48
[Courtesy Ray Rimmell from his excellent book "The Last Flight of the L48"]

                                                                    
                            More L48 photos in the links "Z1.doc" etc. below 
                                                   Z1.doc 
                                                      
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 dealers.
              
"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"