The Trust is pleased to record the acquisition of 5 items this month.
The April 1947 Conveyance of Alton Hall, Farmhouses, Cottages, Buildings and Land situate in Suffolk by The Personal Representatives of P.W.Cobbold Deceased to Captain L.A.H.Wright. Philip Wyndham Cobbold DL JP was born in 1875 and died in 1945. He is #324 on the family tree.
The document is signed by his son, Lt. Cdr. Alistair Philip Cobbold RNVR (1907-1971) (#472) and by his co-executor, Francis Alfred Worship Cobbold (1882-1947) (#361) a lawyer who had won a DSO in WWI.
It is possibly Francis’s last signature for the document is dated 3rd April, just 18 days prior to his death.
Freedom We Died for You by David Miller (of Newton Abbot, not Ipswich!) being an account of Old Blues (Christ’s Hospital) who died in WWII, one of whom was Peter Charles Victor Cobbold (1897-1942) (#7595) victim of the Long Nawang massacre.
2 photographs of Tolly Cobbold pubs, both called The White Horse, one at Tattingstone, the other at Kersey.
Advertising playing card promoting Lowe, Son & Cobbold, brewers of Stamford carrying the image of an overweight monk astride a long suffering donkey, exclaiming:
Oh Lowe, Son & Cobbold, our hearts you do cheer
Through supplying the world with such excellent beer
For though to our grief from Chartreuse we’re turned out
We shall lessen our sorrow by drinking your Stout!
200th Anniversary Waterloo Campaign Medal to archive alongside Elizabeth Cobbold’s Ode on the Victory of Waterloo, of which we reproduced 3 verses here back in June.