Stonham Aspal in WW1 & 2

Stonham Aspal War Memorial

War Grave	Date Of Death	Names
The Old Cemetery, Ipswich, Suffolk, England	8 January 1919	George Matthew Cook
The Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, Hampshire, England	5 June 1916	1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Viscount Kitchener, Viscount Broome and Baron Denton. Secretary of State for War. Col. Cmdt. Royal Engineers, Col. Irish Guards Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe, Somme, France	31 August 1916	Jack Edward Thrower
The Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France	18 August 1916	William Oliver Thrower

World War 1 & 2

Stonham Aspal

The Stonham Aspal War Memorial was unveiled on 27th June 1920. It was dedicated by Rev. Canon C D Lawrence and unveiled by Rev. T A Wonnacot. It is sited in the Church of St. Mary & St. Lambert, the Parish Church of Stonham Aspal.

It is described as a large white marble tablet in a black marble frame, with a smaller tablet below in the same from for WW2. ¹ The Makers were Mr. Ernest Death & Sons of Bildeston.

An account of the unveiling was covered by the East Anglian Daily Times, on 29th June 1920.

The unveiling at the end of WW2 was covered by the Diss Express, on 15th November 1946.

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