Dedham War Memorial

13 Responses to Dedham War Memorial

1. Joseph Orgar says:

   June 12, 2020 at 6:36 pm

   Looks like 3 sets of brothers/cousins.

   This name is rather sad for the parents

   Leonard Passiful
   2/2/16
   Age 17
   1/1 Essex yeomanry
   Bethune town cemetery

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   • Magicfingers says:

     June 12, 2020 at 11:33 pm

     Agreed Joe. Also a mother and baby among the WWII names.

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     • Nick Kilner says:

       June 15, 2020 at 9:10 am

       I’ve just noticed that! Extremely unusual to see on a British war memorial. Possibly even unique in the UK?

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       • Magicfingers says:

         June 15, 2020 at 3:11 pm

         I wonder. No idea how we find out…….

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         • Epsom Girl says:

           June 15, 2020 at 6:14 pm

           Google is your friend …….

           Civilians 1939-1945
           COOMBER Joan A
           Died Friday 10 December 1943. Age 21 at The Firs, Long Road, Dedham. Lived at The Firs, Long Road, Dedham, Colchester. Wife of William Coomber. Commemorated in the RURAL DISTRICT OF LEXDEN AND WINSTREE section of the Civilian War Dead Register.
           COOMBER Robert William
           Died Friday 10 December 1943. Age 6, at The Firs, Long Road, Dedham. Lived at The Firs, Long Road, Dedham, Colchester. Son of William Coomber, and of Joan Coomber. Commemorated in the RURAL DISTRICT OF LEXDEN AND WINSTREE section of the Civilian War Dead Register.

           Also:
           “Two of the names on the memorial are those of civilians; Joan Coomber and her six week old son Robert died on 10th December 1943. There are not many details available about this terrible event but one can only imagine that it was caused by an enemy bomb.”

           Although it’s unclear if the child was 6 weeks or 6, there is another reference to ‘her baby’, so presumably 6 weeks.
         • Nick Kilner says:

           June 15, 2020 at 9:30 pm

           Great research and info, thank you for that.
           We were actually referring to whether or not them appearing on a war memorial in the U.K. is unique. That would be very difficult to discover
2. Epsom Girl says:

   June 15, 2020 at 10:01 pm

   Ah, I see, sorry. Well, an initial search reveals that the names of 1,000 civilians who were killed in Portsmouth during World War Two were added to the city’s war memorial in 2016.

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   • Nick Kilner says:

     June 15, 2020 at 10:59 pm

     Ahhhh, interesting! Thank you for that. I wonder then if this is also a later edition. It may be something that’s come about with all the restorations due to the centenary.

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     • Magicfingers says:

       June 16, 2020 at 1:56 am

       http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Essex/Dedham.html shows that the names were there in 2003.

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   • Magicfingers says:

     June 16, 2020 at 2:02 am

     Wery interestink, Epsom Girl. And not at all schtoopid (with apologies to Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In – how old am I!)

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     • Epsom Girl says:

       June 19, 2020 at 9:54 pm

       Ha! I used to watch that with my Dad! Think he liked Goldie Hawn!

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       • Magicfingers says:

         June 19, 2020 at 11:02 pm

         Of course he did! Did you know that the late Jeremy Lloyd (who with David Croft wrote Are You Being Served?, ‘Allo ‘Allo, etc), was one of the performers on Laugh-In?

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         • Epsom Girl says:

           June 20, 2020 at 8:42 pm

           Lol No I didn’t know that. I knew they wrote Are You Being Served etc, but not that he was one of the performers. But I was only a teenager back then of course!!

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