Selected Biographies

Sore, Albert – Born: Hartest, Suffolk in 1877.  Parents: Arthur George Sore (Miller) and Eliza [née Sargent] of Long Melford.  Family Connections: Brother to Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1894]; also, cousin of Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898].  Home: Westgate Street, Long Melford (1881), Wells Hall, Broom Street, Great Cornard, Suffolk (1891), Military Barracks in India (1911).  Occupation: Factory Hand (1891), Soldier (1911), Cyanide Foreman at a Gold Mine in India [1922 to 1926].[1]  Married: Florence Sarah Sturgeon in 1908.  Service Record: Albert enlisted in 1894 as Pte.4012 with 2^nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, transferring to 1^st Battalion and posted to India between 1899 and 1904.  Rising to the rank of Corporal in 1905 he served in South Africa between 1904 and 1908, Gibraltar from 1908 to 1911, returning to India until his discharge in September 1912 while serving with 2^nd Battalion.[2]  Died: Albert died of chronic nephritis and heart failure at the Kolar Gold Fields in Karnataka, Madras, India on 15.5.1926.[3]

Sore, Arthur Sydney – Born: Ashley, Cambridgeshire on 2.11.1893.  Parents: Charles Ezekiel Sore of Long Melford (Miller) and Ann [née Leeks].  Family Connections: Brother to Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898]; also, cousin of Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Sore [b1892].  Home: Ashley Mill, Ashley-cum-Silverley, Cambridgeshire (1901), The Street, Gazeley, Newmarket, Suffolk (1911), emigrated to Australia [1920].[4]  Occupation: Agricultural Labourer (1911) to [1920].  Married: Ellen E. Buckle in 1920.  Service Record: Although no definitive military record has been found, Arthur may have enlisted as Cpl.12211 with 7^th [Service] Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.  If this assumption is correct then he was posted to France from 30.5.1915, as part of 35^th Brigade in 12^th (Eastern) Division, seeing action during the Somme Offensive of 1916.  He would have been later transferred as Cpl.32081 to 15^th [Suffolk Yeomanry] Battalion, Suffolks and discharged in 1919.[5]  Died: New South Wales, Australia on 19.4.1967.[6]

Sore, Bertie Leeks – Born: Ashley-cum-Silverley, Cambridgeshire on 3.5.1897.[7]  Parents: Charles Ezekiel Sore of Long Melford (Miller) and Ann [née Leeks].  Family Connections: Brother to Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893] and Harry Sore [b1898]; also, cousin of Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1892]. Home: Ashley Mill, Ashley-cum-Silverley, Cambridgeshire (1901), The Street, Gazeley, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (1911 to 1921), Kingsway, Mildenhall, Suffolk (1939).  Occupation: Carpenter’s Apprentice (1911), Painter and Decorator (1921 to 1939).  Married: Maud Davies in 1926.  Service Record: Bertie was conscripted as Pte.640762, later promoted to Lance Corporal with the Labour Corps, receiving his discharge in April 1919.[8]  Died: Newmarket on 23.2.1962.

Sore, Charles – Born: Hartest, Suffolk on 30.4.1880.[9]  Parents: Charles Ezekiel Sore of Long Melford (Miller) and Ann [née Leeks].  Family Connections: Brother to Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898]; also, cousin of Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1892].  Home: Mill Cottage, Hartest, Suffolk (1881), Miller’s House, Cowlinge Mill, Cowlinge, Suffolk (1891), The Mill, Isleham Road, Newmarket, Cambs (1911 to 1939).  Occupation: Miller (1911 to 1921), Haulage Contractor (1939).  Married: Sarah Jane Aves in 1901.  Service Record: Charles was an Air Raid Precaution Warden during the Second World War.

Sore, Edwin Francis – Born: Great Cornard, Suffolk on 29.9.1887.[10]  Parents: Arthur George Sore (Miller) and Eliza [née Sargent] of Long Melford.  Family Connections: Brother to Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1894]; also, cousin of Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898].  Home: Gregory Street, Sudbury, Suffolk [1887], Wells Hall, Broom Street, Great Cornard, Suffolk (1891), 82 East Street, Sudbury (1901), 6 Burkitts Lane, Sudbury (1911), 67 Ipswich Street, Stowmarket, Suffolk [1916], East Street, Sudbury (1921), 14 Inkerman Row, Sudbury (1939).  Occupation: Plaiter of Yarn Mats (1911), Coconut Mat Maker for W. Armes and Son (1921 to 1939).  Married: Annie Byham in 1910.  Service Record: Edwin was conscripted on 15.8.1916 as Pte.26432 with ‘B’ Company, 14^th [Labour] Battalion, The Queen’s [Royal West Surrey] Regiment, transferring as Pte.451058 to 28^th Ambulance Train, Royal Army Medical Corps and posted to France from 30.3.1918.  He received his discharge in 1920.[11]  Died: Ipswich, Suffolk in 1953.

Sore, Ernest George – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 21.3.1882.[12]  Parents: Arthur George Sore (Miller) and Eliza [née Sargent] of Long Melford.  Family Connections: Brother to Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1894]; also, cousin of Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898].  Home: Westgate Street, Long Melford (1881), Wells Hall, Broom Street, Great Cornard, Suffolk (1891), 82 East Street, Sudbury [1899], Military Barracks, Colchester, Essex (1901).  Occupation: Labourer [1899], Soldier (1901).  Service Record: Ernest enlisted in September 1899 as Pte.6126 with 3^rd [Reserve] Battalion, Essex Regiment, transferring to 12^th [Prince of Wales’s Royal] Lancers in November 1900.  He later re-enlisted as Pte.2561 with 1^st [King’s] Dragoon Guards, Corps of Dragoons, which at the outbreak of the War was stationed in India.  The Dragoons landed in France in November 1914 as part of 8^th [Lucknow] Cavalry Brigade, 1^st Indian Cavalry Division, seeing action at the Battle of Festubert in May 1915.[13]  Died: Ernest Sore died of wounds on 3.6.1915 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing [panel 3], Ypres, Belgium and on the Sudbury War Memorial, Suffolk.[14]

Sore, Ezekiel Robert – Born: Great Cornard, Suffolk on 6.9.1884.[15]  Parents: Arthur George Sore (Miller) and Eliza [née Sargent] of Long Melford.  Family Connections: Brother to Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1894]; also, cousin of Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898].  Home: Wells Hall, Broom Street, Great Cornard (1891), 82 East Street, Sudbury, Suffolk (1901 and 1911), 3 Church St/Row, Sudbury [1920 to 1957].  Occupation: Bricklayer’s Labourer (1901), Brickmaker’s Lime Burner (1911 to 1921), Sanitary Worker for the Urban District Council (1939).  Married: Mary Ann Elizabeth Parmenter [d1918] in 1911 and Beatrice L. S. Chambers [née Ralph] in 1919.  Service Record: Ezekiel enlisted as Pte.5838 with 2^nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, being posted to France from 21.12.1915 as part of 76^th Brigade, 3^rd Division.  His unit saw action during the Somme Offensive of 1916, Arras, and the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917, and in the final year of the War, at the Battles of the First and Second Somme, the Lys and the Hindenburg Line.  He received his discharge in 1919.[16]  Died: Sudbury, Suffolk on 10.8.1957.[17]

Sore, Ezekiel Thomas Ÿ Born: Hartest, Suffolk in 1875.  Parents: Charles Ezekiel Sore of Long Melford (Miller) and Ann [née Leeks].  Family Connections: Brother to Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898]; also, cousin of Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1892].  Home: Mill Cottage, Hartest (1881), Miller’s House, Cowlinge Mill, Cowlinge, Suffolk (1891), Military Barracks in India (1911).  Occupation: Miller (1891), Soldier [1896 to 1916].  Service Record: Ezekiel enlisted in 1896 as Drummer Pte.4487 with 2^nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, posted to India from 1898 to 1902, South Africa from 1902 to 1908, Gibraltar from 1908 to 1911 and India from 1911 to 1914.  During the First World War he was posted to Mesopotamia, as part of 18^th [Begaum] Brigade, 6^th [Poona] Division, Indian Expeditionary Force serving from 6.11.1914 to 30.6.1916.  He was captured on 29.4.1916 together with 9,000 others, by Ottoman Turk forces at the fall of Kut-Al-Amara, a walled town on the Tigris River 100 miles south-east of Baghdad.  British and Indian troops had been besieged in Kut since December of the previous year.[18]  Died: Ezekiel died of dysentery while a prisoner of war at Mardi Kaps sometime in June 1916.  He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial [panel 10], Iraq and the Gazeley War Memorial in Suffolk.  His Service Record notes that his next of kin were not informed of his death until December 1918.[19]

Sore, Frank – Born: Cowlinge, Suffolk on 23.11.1886.[20]  Parents: Charles Ezekiel Sore of Long Melford (Miller) and Ann [née Leeks].  Family Connections: Brother to Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898]; also, cousin of Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Sore [b1892].  Home: Miller’s House, Cowlinge Mill, Cowlinge, Suffolk (1891), Ashley Mill, Ashley-cum-Silverley, Suffolk (1901), The Street, Gazeley, Suffolk (1911 to 1921), Saxon Street, Newmarket, Suffolk (1939).  Occupation: Grocer’s Assistant (1901), Agricultural Labourer (1911), Gardener (1921 to 1939).  Married: Mabel Elizabeth Woollard in 1932.  Service Record: Although no definitive military record has been found, Frank may have attested as Pte.14641 with 8^th [Service] Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.  If this assumption is correct then he would have been posted to France from 25.7.1915 as part of 53^rd Brigade, 18^th [Eastern] Division, seeing action during the Somme Offensive of 1916.  He would later have transferred to 7^th [Service] Battalion, Suffolks and been discharged in March 1919.[21]  Died: Newmarket, Suffolk in 1948.

Sore, Harry – Born: Ashley-cum-Silverley, Cambridgeshire on 26.12.1898.[22]  Parents: Charles Ezekiel Sore of Long Melford (Miller) and Ann [née Leeks].  Family Connections: Brother to Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893] and Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897]; also, cousin of Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1892]. Home: Ashley Mill, Ashley-cum-Silverley, Cambridgeshire (1901), The Street, Gazeley, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (1911 to 1921), Church Hill, Mildenhall, Suffolk (1939).  Occupation: Agricultural Labourer (1921), Council Roadman (1939).  Married: Edith E. Waller in 1926.  Service Record: Harry was a member of Decontamination Squad A in Mildenhall during the Second World War.[23]  Died: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in 1973.

Sore, Horace Charles – Born: Sudbury, Suffolk on 30.7.1894.[24]  Parents: Arthur George Sore (Miller) and Eliza [née Sargent] of Long Melford.  Family Connections: Brother to Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887] and Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892]; also, cousin of Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898].  Home: 82 East Street, Sudbury, Suffolk (1901 and 1911).  Occupation: Coconut Mat Weaver for Armes and Son of Sudbury (1911).  Service Record: Horace enlisted in 1911 as Pte.1220 with ‘D’ Company, 5^th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment [Territorial].  Horace was recalled to his battalion on 5.8.1914, which had been restyled as 1/5^th Battalion, Suffolks.  In January 1915 he qualified as a signaller and was transferred as Spr.1914, later Pnr.528081 to 54^th Divisional Signals Company, Royal Engineers, being posted to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from 28.7.1915 as part of 54^th [East Anglian] Division.  The Division was engaged in defending the southern section of the Suez Canal for much of 1916, before forming part of the invasion force into Palestine in 1917 and seeing action initially at the First Battle of Gaza in March.[25]  Died: Horace was killed in action on 19.4.1917 during the Second Battle of Gaza and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial [panel 9] and the on Sudbury War Memorial in Suffolk.[26]

Sore, Horace Mumford – Born: Clare, Suffolk on 26.1.1883.[27]  Parents: Charles Ezekiel Sore of Long Melford (Miller) and Ann [née Leeks].  Family Connections: Brother to Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898]; also, cousin of Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Sore [b1892].  Home: Miller’s House, Cowlinge Mill, Cowlinge, Suffolk (1891), The Street, Gazeley, Suffolk (1911), Ashley-cum-Silverley, Suffolk (1939), Winston Cottage, Gazeley [1963].  Occupation: Soldier [1899 to 1916], Grocer’s Porter (1911), Gardener and Odd Job Man to a Farmer (1939).  Married: Edith E. Spurling in 1918.  Service Record: Enlisting in 1899 as Pte.5283 with 2^nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, Horace was posted to France from 12.11.1914, firstly as part of 8^th Brigade, then from October 1915 with 76^th Brigade, both under the command of 3^rd Division.  He was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal seeing action at the First and Second Battles of Bellewaarde in 1915.  He was transferred to 3^rd [Reserve] Battalion, Suffolks, and on 13.2.1916 was issued with a Silver War Badge and discharged as ‘permanently unfit’.[28]  Died: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on 1.6.1963.[29]

Sore, Otley Joe – Born: Birdbrook, Essex on 9.9.1879.[30]  Parents: Arthur George Sore (Miller) and Eliza [née Sargent] of Long Melford.  Family Connections: Brother to Albert Sore [b1877], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887], Thomas Maurice Sore [b1892] and Horace Charles Sore [b1894]; also, cousin of Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898].  Home: Westgate Street, Long Melford (1881), living with Robert and Mary Aldridge (Grandparents) on The Green, Hartest, Suffolk (1891), 34 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury (1911), Brewery Bungalow, West Bergholt, Essex (1921), Garden Cottage, Colchester Road, West Bergholt (1939).  Occupation: Ostler and Boots (1911), Labourer for Daniells and Sons Brewery of West Bergholt (1921), incapacitated Copper Foreman (1939).  Married: Alice Emily Byham in 1909.  Service Record: Otley enlisted on 2.9.1914 as Pte.3/9669 with 8^th [Service] Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, being posted to France from 25.7.1915 as part of 53^rd Brigade, 18^th [Eastern] Division.  He moved to the Albert sector and took part in many actions during the Somme Offensive in 1916.  He was transferred as Cpl.TR/9/4057 to 26^th Training Reserve Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, issued with a Silver War Badge and discharged on 21.9.1916 due to wounds.[31]  Died: Colchester, Essex in 1954.

Sore, Percy William – Born: Glemsford, Suffolk on 31.10.1899.[32]  Parents: Charles King Sore of Long Melford (Coconut Mat Maker] and Albina [née Underwood].  Home: Brook Street, Glemsford, Suffolk (1901), Denmark Street, Diss, Norfolk (1911), 29 Mellor Street, Gorse Hill, Stretford, Lancashire (1921), Gorse Drive, Stretford (1939).  Occupation: Assisting Mat Foreman at Henshaws Blind Asylum in Salford, Manchester (1921), Teacher for the Blind (1939).  Married: Maud May Batley in 1926.  Service Record: Percy was conscripted on 5.12.1917 as No.111897 with the Royal Flying Corps, transferring to the Royal Air Force on 1.4.1918 and receiving his discharge in 1919.[33]  Died: Barton, Lancashire in 1968.

Sore, Thomas Maurice – Born: Great Cornard, Suffolk on 22.2.1892.[34]  Parents: Arthur George Sore (Miller) and Eliza [née Sargent] of Long Melford.  Family Connections: Brother to Albert Sore [b1877], Otley Joe Sore [b1879], Ernest George Sore of Long Melford [b1882], Ezekiel Robert Sore [b1884], Edwin Francis Sore [b1887] and Horace Charles Sore [b1894]; also, cousin of Ezekiel Thomas Sore [b1875], Charles Sore [b1880], Horace Mumford Sore [b1883], Frank Sore [b1886], Arthur Sydney Sore [b1893], Bertie Leeks Sore [b1897] and Harry Sore [b1898].  Home: 82 East Street, Sudbury, Suffolk (1901), 8 New Street, Sudbury [1910], 39 Wantz Road, Maldon, Essex (1911), 8, New Street, Maldon (1921), 1 Cromwell Lane, Maldon [1963].  Occupation: Compositor (1911 to 1921).  Married: Alice Clara Foster in 1915.  Service Record: Thomas was conscripted in December 1915 as Pte.4050 with 1/5^th Battalion, Essex Regiment, being posted to Egypt from 13.6.1916 to join his battalion at Shallufa on the Suez Canal.  In 1917 his unit was part of the Palestine Campaign, seeing action at the First, Second and Third Battles of Gaza.  He was issued with a new service number in 1917 as Pte.251226, remaining in Egypt until his discharge in April 1919.[35]  Died: Maldon, Essex on 9.8.1963.[36]

Notes – [1] Passenger List for SS Morea arriving in London from Bombay on 25.5.1922, and SS Caledonia bound for India on 1.9.1922.  [2] British Army Service Records 1760-1915 and [Wo 97] – Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1913.  [3] British India Office Death Register [ref: N-2-144] and British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns for a record of his death.  [4] Passenger List SS Euripides 31.3.1920. [5] For details of the movements of the 7^th Suffolks see War Diary [WO 95/1852/1-4], and Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. R. Murphy The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1927 [London: Hutchinson and Co, 1928], pp.129-33 and 177-81.  See also the Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [6] My thanks to Narelle Young for sharing this image.  [7] 1939 Register.  [8] Pension Card [ref: 11/M/124273]. [9] 1939 Register.  [10] Baptism Register 2.2.1889, St Peters Church, Sudbury, Suffolk. [11] Recorded as Edward Francis Sore on his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329], and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  For details of 28^th Ambulance Train’s movements on the Western Front see War Diary [WO 95/4138/6].  [12] Baptism Register 7.5.1882, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford. [13] For details of 1^st Dragoon Guards operations in 1914 and 1915 see War Diary [WO 95/1174/2].  See also his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [14] Commonwealth War Graves Commission record and Medal Rolls [WO 329] gives date of death as 3.6.1915, British Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects, 1901-1929 file [ref: 206644] gives date of death as 2.6.1915.  [15] 1939 Register. [16] For details of 2^nd Suffolk’s actions during this period see War Diary [WO 95/1437/1], and Murphy [op. cit], pp.133-42, 182-89, 219-25, 260-68 and 287-93.  See also his Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372]. [17] National Probate Calendar.  [18] For details of 2^nd Norfolk’s movements in Mesopotamia see Diary [WO 95/5124/1-2].  See also Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  For further reading on the treatment of captives in Ottoman Turkish PoW Camps see International Encyclopaedia of the First World War [http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_ottoman_empiremiddle east].  For an in-depth study of the siege and fall of Kut see Nikolas Gardner The Siege of Kut-al-Amara: At war in Mesopotamia 1915-1916 [Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2014].  [19] Commonwealth War Graves Commission record and British Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects, 1901-1929 file [ref: 863727].  [20] 1939 Register. [21] For details of 8^th Suffolk’s movements on the Western Front see War Diary [WO 95/2039/1-5], and for its involvement during the Somme Offensive see Murphy [op. cit], pp.146-50 and 165-72.  See also his Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [22] Baptism Register of 8.1.1899 for St Marys Church, Dalham, Suffolk.  [23] 1939 Register.  [24] Date of birth from Admissions Register 6.1.1902, St Gregory and St Peters Infants School, Sudbury, Suffolk. [25] For details of 54^th Signal Company’s movements in Egypt and Palestine see War Diary [WO 95/4645].  See also his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [26] British Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects, 1901-1929 file [ref: 519777].  [27] 1939 Register. [28] For details of 2^nd Suffolk’s movements see War Diary [WO 95/1437/1], and Murphy [op. cit], pp.39-44,56-60, 72-74 and 133-36.  See also his Service Medal and Award Rolls, First World War, Silver War Badge [WO 329] record [ref: 398685], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [29] National Probate Calendar.  [30] 1939 Register. [31] For details of 8^th Suffolk’s movements during this period see War Diary [WO 95/2039/1-2] and Murphy [op. cit], pp.165-72.  See also his Service Medal and Award Rolls, First World War, Silver War Badge [WO 329] record [ref: 72111], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [32] 1939 Register.  [33] British Royal Air Force, Airmen’s Service Records 1912-1939 [AIR 79/1002].  [34] Date of birth from Admission Register 21.4.1896, Pot Kiln County Primary School, Great Cornard, Suffolk. [35] For details of 1/5^th Essex’s movements during the Palestine Campaign see War Diary [WO 95/4650].  See also his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [36] National Probate Calendar.