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As part of our Remembering D-Day commemorations on the 6th June. Thetford Town Council created a display remembering Thetford’s fallen soldiers in our schools art and photography exhibit. We will also paid tribute to the brave soldiers, from Thetford, who lost their lives in the second world war as part of the beacon lighting on Thetford Market Place.

We wanted to share the list of names of the soldiers from Thetford, that lost their lives during WWII and highlight that they had a special place and featured in our Remembering D-Day event.

Thetford’s Fallen Soldiers:

  • NEVILLE ALLISON – Royal Air Force. Died 8 January 1943
  • THOMAS FREDERICK JAMES BACKLOG – H.M.S. vesper, Royal Navy. Died 15 November 1942
  • HENRY ARTHUR BAILEY- 5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Died 21 September 1944
  • JOHN WILLIAM CLARENCE BARNARD – Warrant Officer (Navigator/Bomber), 82 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese 17 October 1943
  • LEONARD CAWLEY – 6th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died during the Japanese invasion of Malaya and Singapore 25 January 1942
  • KENNETH CHARLES CHIFNEY  – Lance Corporal, 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Died of wounds in Italy 12 June 1944
  • ALAN WRIGHT CHRISTIE -Sergeant (Air Gunner), 59 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 18 August 1944.
  • EDWARD ARTHUR CLARK – Private , 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died 10 September 1945
  • ROBERT ARTHUR COLLINS -Private, 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died 20 May 1940.
  • THOMAS HAROLD STEWARD COOKE -Private, 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died as a Japanese Prisoner of War in Thailand 25 May 1943
  • ARTHUR JOHN COOPER -Private , 8th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Died 12 November 1943.
  • FREDERICK G COOPER – Born 1924. – No further information currently available
  • STANLEY [ROLAND] DAYTON – Gunner, 86 (5th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment) Anti-Tank Regiment. Died 24 November 1944
  • REGINALD WILLIAM DICKERSON -Pilot Officer (Pilot), 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
  • BASIL IVORY DOWNES – Private, 6th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Missing, died between 25 January 1942 and 26 January 1942
  • GEORGE FREDERICK DOWNING  – Sapper, 288 Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died of illness as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese 11 March 1945
  • LEONARD ALBERT FRENCH -Private, 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died of illness as a Japanese Prisoner of War 22 November 1943
  • HEDLEY ALBERT GOLDSMITH – Flight Sergeant (Observer) , 217 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Killed in action when he was shot down off the Dutch coast during an attack on German warships during Operation Fuller (Channel Dash) 12 February 1942
  • GEOFFREY EDWARD HANSORD – Corporal 550407, Royal Air Force. Died 5 February 1942
  • JEFFREY JAMES HARRADINE – Gunner, 425 Battery, 126 Heavy A.A. Regiment. Died 22 August 1944
  • JOHN FREDERICK HILL- Corporal, 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died at sea as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese 21 September 1944
  • REGINALD WILLIAM HUBBARD – Corporal, 160 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 9 June 1945
  • CECIL ROBERT KENDLE   – Corporal, 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action during the invasion of Singapore by the Japanese 14 February 1942.
  • T E KEYMER – No further information currently available
  • WALTER ROBERT [CHARLES] KNIGHTS – Leading Aircraftman 404303, Royal Air Force. Died 16 April 1940
  • DOUGLAS CLEMENT KNOTT – Driver, 8 Air Formation Signals, Royal Corps of Signals. Died 9 December 1942
  • J N LEACH – No further information currently available
  • ERNEST BENJAMIN LOCKE – Corporal, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Died during the invasion of Singapore by the Japanese 15 February 1942
  • ROBERT GEORGE LOCKWOOD – Aircraftman 2nd Class 770908, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 10 September 1939
  • WILLIAM THOMAS LORD -Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of disease (BeriBeri) in Tambya, Burma, 14 September 1943
  • HARRY DOUGLAS MITCHELL – Sergeant (Wireless Operator [Air]), 75 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 11 June 1944
  • A NOBBS -No further information currently available
  • Richard Harwood NUTT – Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died 21 January 1942
  • D W OVE – No further information currently available
  • BERTIE CLARENCE PAGE – Private, 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died at sea as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese 21 September 1944
  • FREDERICK GEORGE RAMPLEY – Driver, Royal Army Service Corps. Died 15 September 1943
  • ALFRED EDWARD REEVE – Private, 4th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Died 7 January 1945
  • ROBERT EDWARD HARRY REGENT – Aircraftman 2nd Class, 969 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 23 March 1944
  • JAMES WILLIAM RUTTERFORD – Private, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Reported missing, found killed in action 31 May 1940 during the Dunkirk evacuation.
  • FREDERICK J SCARBOROUGH – Private, 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died 5 August 1944
  • WALTER EDWARD SECKER – Lance Serjeant, 288 Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died at sea East of Hainan Islands, off China 12 September 1944.
  • WILLIAM STEARNE – Sapper, Royal Engineers. Died 22 February 1944.
  • HARRY [EDWIN] WARREN – Sergeant (Wireless Operator /Air Gunner), 156 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 28 August 1943
  • HEBERT ALBERT WHITE  – [Listed as A H WHITE on memorial] Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Mastiff, Royal navy. Died 21 November 1939
  • K SIDNEY CHARLES WHITE -Fusilier, 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Died 22 May 1940.