Recent Comments
Anthony Miller on Coughlan’s directors mov… Jane Ruskins on Croydon bakers firm Coughlan… L on Air ambulance called out to do… Jim Bush on The weather warnings from hist… Jen Heward-Mills on Croydon bakers firm Coughlan… Jane Ruskins on Croydon bakers firm Coughlan…
Tag Archives: First World War
Remembrance and History: a special Croydon Insider episode
Can you help in our appeal, with the Deputy Lieutenant of Croydon, in providing details of personnel from Croydon who have been killed on active duty in the years since the end of World War II? On Remembrance Sunday, our … Continue reading
Posted in Bourne Society, Croydon Airport, Croydon Insider, Croydon Minster, Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, David Morgan, History, Inside Croydon, Johnny Dobbyn, Under The Flyover
Tagged Battle of the Somme, Caterham, Croydon, Croydon Airport, David Morgan, Deputy Lieutenant of Croydon, Fiona Satiro, First World War, Johnny Dobbyn, London, Menin Gate, Phil Swallow, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Royal West Surrey Regiment, Second World War, Warlingham, World War I, World War II, World War One, World War Two, Ypres
Leave a comment
The Croydon schoolboy who was among Ypres’ first casualties
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Third Battle of Ypres in 1917 lasted five months and claimed 300,000 allied casualties. DAVID MORGAN recounts the tragic story of one of them, Captain Henry Willders-Lewis, from Croydon, who died on the first day of the … Continue reading
The Town Hall hero of the Great War who ran Croydon’s baths
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A special ceremony held at Croydon Town Hall in November 1918 saw a council worker awarded the Military Medal and the Croix de Guerre. DAVID MORGAN tells the story of Ernest Saunders’ bravery in battle We are at … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croix de Guerre, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, Croydon Town Hall, David Morgan, Ernest Saunders, First World War, Military Medal, Remembrance Sunday, The Great War, World War I, World War One
1 Comment
Best Polonius you’ll never see: Miles Malleson’s classic clown
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Born in South Croydon in 1888, actor and playwright Miles Malleson’s work drew plaudits from Olivier, Thorndike and Gielgud. DAVID MORGAN recalls the life, career and campaigning of a well-recognised but often overlooked talent Alice Malleson, one of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Theatre
Tagged Alec Guinness, BBC Radio, Bolshevik Revolution, Brighton College, Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, First World War, Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy of Dramatic Art, John Gielgud, Labour, Lady Constance Annesley, Laurence Olivier, Miles Malleson, RADA, Six Men of Dorset, Sybil Thorndike, Tolpuddle, Tolpuddle Martyrs, University of Cambridge, World War I
4 Comments
Poignant moment as British Legion branch lays up its standard
The Coulsdon branch of the British Legion has formally closed, 104 years after its foundation. The decision was taken due to declining numbers of members. The occasion was marked with a final parade and the retirement of the branch’s standard … Continue reading
Christmas Eve marks cententary of the Croydon air disaster
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Christmas Eve marks the centenary of what in 1924 was the worst air disaster in British history, when an aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Croydon Airport, killing everyone on board. DAVID MORGAN has scoured the archives … Continue reading
How Croydon Parish Church remembered its brothers in arms
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: On Remembrance Sunday, using a treasured service sheet from Croydon Parish Church from more than a century ago, DAVID MORGAN outlines early efforts on the home front in World War I, and some of the many sacrifices The … Continue reading
Surrey Street’s Pightling holds unique place in WWI memorials
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: As we approach Remembrance Day next month, DAVID MORGAN outlines details of the life of one of the names on Croydon Minster’s Roll of Honour For the casual visitor, the list of names of soldiers on the Roll … Continue reading
Family keepsakes providing last link to another of war’s victims
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Life at the front in World War I was often brief, bloody and brutal. DAVID MORGAN uncovers some of the last pieces of correspondence from one of the soldiers inscribed on Croydon Minster’s Roll of Honour A few … Continue reading
Millionaire Mayor who made sacrifices for others and an ideal
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: One of the borough’s most-revered figures from the Edwardian era lost everything when he declared himself bankrupt. DAVID MORGAN recounts the noble story of Howard Houlder With Heathfield House and its gardens falling steadily into a state of … Continue reading
Officer’s distinguished service on Western and Home fronts
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: The physical and psychological sacrifices made by all those who served, including those who survived the horrors of trench warfare, are important to recall, writes DAVID MORGAN As we outlined in last week’s column about how … Continue reading
Names on Addiscombe war memorial; the real lives sacrificed
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: Last year, while at an Addiscombe church on Remembrance Day, on hearing the roll call of the fallen, one of the congregation decided to find out more about those named. This is part of what STEPHANIE … Continue reading
Brothers in arms: Polhill family’s second sad wartime sacrifice
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: What is often chilling about the Roll of Honour at Croydon Minster is how the same family name recurs. In the second instalment of this latest research, DAVID MORGAN tells of the loss of a second … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon Minster, David Morgan, First World War, William Polhill, World War I
Leave a comment
Wartime tragedy that devastated one Croydon family
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: Records at Croydon Minster and beyond reveal many stories of service and sacrifice. Ahead of Remembrance Day, in the first of a series of articles, DAVID MORGAN unravels the tragic history of one Croydon family in … Continue reading
Keep the home fires burning: WWI exhibit extended to April
And some said it would be over by Christmas… The acclaimed Remembering 1916 exhibition at Whitgift School, which was due to close yesterday, has had its run extended until April 2017. Since the exhibit, comprising of hundreds of artefacts from … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, History, Whitgift School
Tagged First World War, Waddon, Whitgift School, World War I
Leave a comment
100 years on from the start of the Somme: We remember them
Posted in Croydon Male Voice Choir, History, Music
Tagged Battle of the Somme, Croydon Male Voice Choir, First World War, World War I
1 Comment
World War I Centenary Concert, Ruskin House, Nov 2
Posted in Activities, Music
Tagged Armistice Day, Croydon, First World War, Remembrance Sunday, World War I
Leave a comment
Norwood Society to look at local stories of the Great War
The next meeting of the Norwood Society, being staged next Thursday, September 18, will look at “Researching Upper Norwood’s glorious dead of the Great War”. Jerry Green will talk about the local people who died in the war, their backgrounds … Continue reading
August 4 – A hundred years on: Croydon remembers
Hundreds of local people in communities across the borough, have been attending services and wreath-laying ceremonies at churches and war memorials yesterday and today, the 100th anniversary of Britain entering the First World War. In Old Coulsdon, after a service … Continue reading
Attention! CODA brings Morpurgo’s war drama to the stage
Metal Monkey Theatre, in association with the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association (CODA), is staging a production of Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning First World War story, Private Peaceful, at the Charles Cryer Studio Theatre in Carshalton this month. Over the course … Continue reading
