Selected Biographies

Winterbone, Alfred William – Born: Hindolveston, Norfolk on 29.5.1892.[1]  Parent: Esther Ann Winterbone (Post Woman).  Family Connections: Half-Brother to Louis Frederick Jones Winterbone [b1899] and Stanley George Lambert Winterbone [b1902].  Home: Kerdistone Road, Themelthorpe, Norfolk (1901), Chisel Hill, Haynford, Norfolk (1911), Brock Farm, Sedgefield, County Durham (1921), 35 Hobson Avenue, Redcar, Yorkshire (1939).  Occupation: Agricultural Labour (1911), Horseman on Farm (1921), General Labourer (1939).  Married: Heather Olive Dowd in 1924.  Service Record: Alfred enlisted on 26.8.1914 as Pte.2414, (later renumbered as 200332) with 1/4^th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, being posted to Gallipoli on 30.7.1915 as part of 163^rd Brigade, 54^th (East Anglian) Division.  Following the evacuation of the peninsula five months later he saw action in Egypt and during the Palestine Campaign of 1917/1918.  He was returned to England and discharged in July 1919.[2]  During the Second World War he was a member of the Air Raid Precaution Rescue and Demolition Squad in Redcar.[3]  Died: Redcar, Yorkshire in 1959.

Winterbone, Louis Frederick Jones – Born: Hindolveston, Norfolk on 10.1.1899.[4]  Parents: Esther Ann Winterbone (Post Woman) and Frederick Louis Jones.  Family Connections: Half-Brother to Alfred William Winterbone [b1892] and Stanley George Lambert Winterbone [b1902].  Home: Kerdistone Road, Themelthorpe, Norfolk (1901), living with Walter Gaskin (stepfather) at Whitwell, Reedham, Norfolk (1911), St Catherines Road, Long Melford (1939).  Occupation: Bricklayer’s Labourer (1939).  Married: Gertrude Mary Littleton in 1930.  Service Record: Louis was conscripted on 29.1.1917 as Pte.15010 with 51^st Graduated Battalion, The Queen’s [Royal West Surrey] Regiment, transferring as Pte.42771 to 8^th [Service] Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment and posted to France as part of 63^rd Brigade, 37^th Division.  This battalion saw action during the Arras Offensive and the Third Battles of Ypres in 1917 and at the First and Second Somme in 1918.  He was issued with a Silver War Badge and discharged due to wounds in September 1919.  He was registered as a Red Cross Stretcher Bearer at the start of the Second World War.[5]  Died: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in 1983.

Winterbone, Stanley George Lambert – Born: Themelthorpe, Norfolk on 19.2.1902.[6]  Parent: Esther Ann Winterbone (Post Woman).  Family Connections: Half-Brother to Alfred William Winterbone [b1892] and Louis Frederick Jones Winterbone [b1899].  Home: Whitwell, Norfolk (1911), Victoria Barracks, Belfast (1921), 67 Dartford Road, Sevenoaks, Kent (1939).  Occupation:  Married: Lucy Ellen Sherwood in 1931 and Elsie Jeffs in 1952.  Service Record: Stanley enlisted as Pte.5763918 with 2^nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.  He was stationed in Northern Ireland in 1921 while serving with 1st Battalion.  Died: Kettering, Northamptonshire in 1980.

Notes – [1] 1939 Register.  [2] Soldiers’ Documents and Pension Claims, First World War [WO 364], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329], and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [3] 1939 Register.  [4] 1939 Register.  [5] For details of 8^th Lincolnshire’s movements see War Diary [WO 95/2529/1].  See also his Service Medal and Award Rolls, First World War, Silver War Badge [WO 329] record [ref: B299489], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [6] 1939 Register.