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Little Holland cottages at top of Green no longer there
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Claypits Pond with Horses 1905
Long Melford Coronation fancy dress competition at the British Legion in Cordell road1953
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Turkentine

Selected Biographies

Turkentine, Percy – Born: Great Cornard, Suffolk in 1877.  Parents: Robert Turkentine (Blacksmith) and Sarah Ann [née Gilbey].  Family Connections: Uncle of Robert Arthur Turkentine [b1892].  Home: Sudbury Road, Great Cornard, Suffolk (1881 and 1891), Rectory Stables, Church Row, Long Melford (1901), Rectory Cottage, Daglingworth, Cirencester, Gloucestershire (1911), Morningside, Cuckfield Road, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex [1939].  Occupation: Blacksmith [1896], Coachman in Long Melford (1901), Chauffeur (1911).  Married: Ada Jeeves in 1900.  Service Record: Percy enlisted in 1896 as Pte.3663 with 3rd [Prince of Wales’s] Dragoon Guards, purchasing his release in 1897.  He was conscripted on 6.1.1916 as Pte.M2/180614 of 704th [Mechanical Transport] Company, Army Service Corps, being posted to France from 26.7.1916 to 12.11.1918 and attached to 30 Motor Ambulance Convoy as part of Third Army.  Private Turkentine was invalided home with neurasthenia believed to have been caused by shellfire endured in August 1918.  He was issued with a Silver War Badge and discharged in January 1919.[1]  Died: Brighton, Sussex on 12.3.1939.[2]

Turkentine, Robert Arthur – Born: Great Cornard, Suffolk on 12.5.1892.[3]  Parents: Arthur Turkentine (Blacksmith) and Kate Ellen Sparrow [née Sparrow].  Family Connections: nephew of Percy Arthur Turkentine [b1877].  Home: 27 Kings Street, Sudbury (1901), 23 Ballingdon Street, Sudbury (1911), 104 Magdalene Road, Norwich [1916], May Cottage, Constitution Hill, Sudbury [1919].  Occupation: Blacksmith (1911).  Married: Lily Maud Richardson.  Service Record: Robert enlisted in 1908 as Pte. T186 with the Horse Transport section of the Army Service Corps.  He was mobilised on 5.8.1914 as Staff Sergeant Farrier until his discharge in December 1916, having completed his period of engagement.  The foregoing notwithstanding he was recalled from the Army Reserve and posted in February 1917 as S/Sgt. T/292148 to 833 [Horse Transport] Company, ASC part of 221st Infantry Brigade Train engaged on home service.  He was issued with a Silver War Badge and discharged in September 1918.[4]  Died: Lambeth in 1960.

Notes – [1] For details of 704th ASC’s movements see War Diary [WO 95/411/5-6].  See his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls, First World War, Silver War Badge [WO 329] record [ref: 263810], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372]. [2] National Probate Calendar.  [3] Date of birth from the Admissions Register of 1895 for Great Cornard Board School.  [4] Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Soldiers’ Documents and Pension Claims, First World War [WO 364], [WO 329 – Silver War Badge ref: B150136], and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].          

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