Wramplingham – War Memorial

Wramplingham War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1920 and is quite a tall and slender piece of stone. There were seven men killed from the parish during the First World War and one during the Second World War. This seems quite a high number for such a small village, especially as there were no Pals Regiments from Norfolk where friends were fight (and often die) together. Some of those who died didn’t live in the village, but had relatives here, but, it must still have been a great loss for Wramplingham.

The names of those who died are listed on the stone, although they’re a little hard to read and some attention is needed here to restore them. Those who died in the First World War were:

Arthur Yorke Bailey

John Stanford Cavalier

William Robert Collings

John Robert Howes

Frederick William Mitchell

John Robert Oldfield

Percival Ernest Thompson

And, the following servicemen died during the Second World War:

William Leonard Tolver

There’s no point in me working through the histories of these individuals, as it has already been done at http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Wramplingham.html.