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Sep 11, 2015 · The Ipswich Labour Club hut was complicated to rebuild and took around 18 months from start to finish. An original World War One army barrack hut in which hundreds of soldiers slept during...
Jul 30, 2014 · While most dedicated World War One graveyards were only created after the Imperial War Graves Commission got its Royal Charter in 1917, one Ipswich community was taking matters into their own...
Nov 14, 2013 · Both in World War I and II, Ipswich engineering firms loated around the dock made major contributions to the war effort, so becoming key targets for German bombers.
Apr 20, 2016 · The Field of Honour, which has previously been described in the “Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury,” was laid out by ex-Service unemployed men, under the direction of Mr. F.B.J. Groom. Members of the Ladies’ Guild and relatives on Tuesday placed roses – England’s flowers – on the heros.
Nov 7, 2014 · In 1916 the 2/1st City of London Territorial Division came to Ipswich to prepare for duty in France. Keen to prepare as fully as possible for what they were to face, they created a network of...
Feb 14, 2024 · Off to War. As July drew to its close, the young men of Ipswich were slipping away to the various camps in different branches of the service. On the morning of Wednesday, July 25, 1917, when the Company II men took an early train for Lynnfield, many friends waved their adieus at the station.
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Oct 31, 2021 · A new exhibition commemorating the lives of the brave Ipswich men who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country during the First World War is now on show under the Lloyds arches on the...
