In a September Cobbweb I advised that I would be attending the Armistice Day Commemoration at the Menin Gate in Ypres on Monday 11th November this year.
Permission has been granted for me to lay a wreath on behalf of The Cobbold Family History Trust. The dedication on the wreath is shown below, but a word of explanation is necessary. A while back it was discovered that the names of 10 men of Framlingham, Suffolk had been inadvertently left off the local war memorial. A good friend of the Trust has worked hard to research them and their names are included as our small contribution to overcoming the original omission.
COMMEMORATED BY THIS WREATH ARE:
35 Cobbolds who died in WWI, who are recorded in ‘King & Country’ on the family website at www.cobboldfht.com
6 Cobbold family members recorded on the family tree, who died in WWI:
Richard Charles Graves-Sawle 2nd November 1914
William Archie Arbuthnot Middleton 25th April 1915
Reginald Fitzroy (Fritz) Talbot 27th August 1916
Noel Roland Abbey 12th April 1918
Geoffrey Foster Griffith 26th September 1917
Geoffrey Percy Robert Toynbee November 1914
10 Men of Framlingham, Suffolk who are recorded on the Menin Gate but who hitherto have been unrecognised in their home parish:
Cecil Henry Ashford 9th October 1915
Walter Catchpole 25th May 1915
William Chilvers 31st July 1917
Charles H Clow 31st July 1917
Ernest J Creasey 15th November 1914
George Fuller 5th May 1915
Christopher E Gibbons 22nd January 1916
William Glasson 1st November 1914
Walter J Lazell 19th January 1916
Walter George Mann 12th August 1917
13 Cobbolds who died in WWII, who are recorded in ‘King & Country’ on the family website at www.cobboldfht.com
This wreath is laid in gratitude by The Cobbold Family History Trust
11th November 2013
