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Lapford casualties (gallery)
Chronology
War is declared
Jan 1915- recruitment march through Lapford
Spring 1915
1915- from May to December
1915- Lapford men on the Somme
Spring 1916- the start of conscription
1916: more Lapford men on The Somme
Nov 1917-Mar 1918
The war memorial
A village in mourning
The unveiling
The sculptor
Memorial facts
The resolution to build a memorial
Roll of Honour A-J
Sydney James Andrews
Samuel Bater
Arthur Buchanan
Aubrey Buchanan
Henry Raymond Clifton-Mogg
Ernest John Coneybeer
Francis Stanley Coneybeer
Albert Edward Davey
Frederick Drew
Ernest Reeves England
George Galling
David Henderson
Fred James Holwill
Roll of honour J-Z
Albert John James
Frank Leach
Albert Thomas Pannel
James Pugsley
William John Pugsley
Frederick Henry Salter
William Sydney Spreadbury
John Warren
Athelstan Sylvester Kensole Webb
Vivian Stewart Webber
William Westaway
WW1 stories
The Cornwalls of Lapford and their influence on wartime London
Where’s Wally? The secret disappearance of Walter Binney
The parson, the poet and a Broadway play
Hugh Browning & the flower seller of Monte Carlo
Lapford for Sale
Lapford’s ammunition maker
Sale of Lower Town Place Farm
School minutes
School log book
Places
Easton Barton
Kelland Barton
Lapford Manor
Lower Eastington
Lowerfield House
School (council school)
Lower Bridge Farm
The stores
Poor House Lane cottages
People
Altham
Arscott
Beare
Cockwell
Croote
Browning
Cornwall
Gater
Hitchcock
Richards
Snell
Vivian
Wilson
Memories
Eric Challice
Life at home
Around Lapford
The school
Up the village street
Village self sufficiency
The blacksmith’s forge
Road mending
Leaving Lapford and returning home
The Congregational Church
WW2
WW2 evacuation- a happy childhood
Reminiscences of a WW2 evacuee
The day we caught a barrage balloon!
Eileen Parish- an evacuee to Lapford
Bill Manning- memories of Lapford Home Guard
Temperance Hotel/Lower Town Farm in the late 1910’s
Mary Brown
Phyllis Partridge- the drive into Lapford
Edgar Bragg- a Kelland lad
Memories of Lapford Football Club 1954-66
Gallery
By location
Stories
Croote’s land agency
A grave tale
The near end of the Nymet House removal men
The Gaters: from mill to mansion
The parson, the poet and a Broadway play
90 years of change
Glossary
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Posts
WW1
Lapford casualties (gallery)
Chronology
War is declared
Jan 1915- recruitment march through Lapford
Spring 1915
1915- from May to December
1915- Lapford men on the Somme
Spring 1916- the start of conscription
1916: more Lapford men on The Somme
Nov 1917-Mar 1918
The war memorial
A village in mourning
The unveiling
The sculptor
Memorial facts
The resolution to build a memorial
Roll of Honour A-J
Sydney James Andrews
Samuel Bater
Arthur Buchanan
Aubrey Buchanan
Henry Raymond Clifton-Mogg
Ernest John Coneybeer
Francis Stanley Coneybeer
Albert Edward Davey
Frederick Drew
Ernest Reeves England
George Galling
David Henderson
Fred James Holwill
Roll of honour J-Z
Albert John James
Frank Leach
Albert Thomas Pannel
James Pugsley
William John Pugsley
Frederick Henry Salter
William Sydney Spreadbury
John Warren
Athelstan Sylvester Kensole Webb
Vivian Stewart Webber
William Westaway
WW1 stories
The Cornwalls of Lapford and their influence on wartime London
Where’s Wally? The secret disappearance of Walter Binney
The parson, the poet and a Broadway play
Hugh Browning & the flower seller of Monte Carlo
Lapford for Sale
Lapford’s ammunition maker
Sale of Lower Town Place Farm
School minutes
School log book
Places
Easton Barton
Kelland Barton
Lapford Manor
Lower Eastington
Lowerfield House
School (council school)
Lower Bridge Farm
The stores
Poor House Lane cottages
People
Altham
Arscott
Beare
Cockwell
Croote
Browning
Cornwall
Gater
Hitchcock
Richards
Snell
Vivian
Wilson
Memories
Eric Challice
Life at home
Around Lapford
The school
Up the village street
Village self sufficiency
The blacksmith’s forge
Road mending
Leaving Lapford and returning home
The Congregational Church
WW2
WW2 evacuation- a happy childhood
Reminiscences of a WW2 evacuee
The day we caught a barrage balloon!
Eileen Parish- an evacuee to Lapford
Bill Manning- memories of Lapford Home Guard
Temperance Hotel/Lower Town Farm in the late 1910’s
Mary Brown
Phyllis Partridge- the drive into Lapford
Edgar Bragg- a Kelland lad
Memories of Lapford Football Club 1954-66
Gallery
By location
Stories
Croote’s land agency
A grave tale
The near end of the Nymet House removal men
The Gaters: from mill to mansion
The parson, the poet and a Broadway play
90 years of change
Glossary
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