Our thanks go to Gill Gowing (#650 in the tree) for information relating to her great uncle, Capt. William Archie Arbuthnot Middleton (#6833) of the 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders who died at Ypres on 25th April 1915 but is remembered on panel 38 of the Menin Gate.
Thanks also to Christine Brunsden for information relating to the Spooner family (#184/185) and the Fonnereau family (#125/126).
The Keep Military Museum which kindly provided information relating to Capt. John Compton Pyne (#2091), about whom we wrote last month has donated to us a copy of Jeremy Archer’s book, The Old West Country Regiments, from Plassey to the Somme which is exhaustively researched and contains a feast of fascinating description.
Congratulations to the team of archaeologists who have unearthed the ice house at Holywells. The house was built in 1813/14 and John Cobbold (#56) and his wife, Elizabeth (#58) moved in just in time for Christmas 1814 which happened to be the year of Elizabeth’s 50th birthday. My guess is that the ice house was built at the same time as the house which was then known as Holy Wells.
Anthony Cobbold