Roll of Honour
For King and Country
Names of those
who joined His Majesty's Forces from
Tunstall, Suffolk.
Died on Service.
Army.
13353 Private Tudor Willoughby Cady, 9th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
The son of Robert Cady, an agricultural labourer of The Common, Tunstall.
Died at Bernafay Wood on 25th. September 1915, aged 20.
No known grave, commemorated on Panel 37 and 38 of the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Major George Edmund Maurice Cowell, Roya Field Artillery.
Born in 1882 at Westbourne Square, Paddington, London, the son of Herbert and Allice Cowell. Husband of Dorothy Eleanor, nee Evan-Thomas, married 28th. April 1910 in Kensington.
UK Census 1911 living at Bridge House, Snape, Suffolk.
Killed in action 30th. December 1917.
Buried in Grave VIII. D. 6. at Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, Somme, France.
Also remembered on the Aldeburgh and Snape war memorials.
13472 Private Charles Durrant, 9th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
The son of Henry and Mary Ann Durrant of 3 Woodbridge Road, Tunstall.
Killed in action on 16th. September 1916.
No known grave, commemorated on Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A of the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
15248 Private Frederick Durrant, 2nd. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
The son of Henry and Mary Ann Durrant, of 3, Woodbridge Road, Tunstall.
Died on 20th. July 1916, aged 35.
No known grave, commemorated on Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A of the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
13317 Sergeant Arthur Durrant, 2nd. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
The son of Henry and Mary Ann Durrant, of 3, Woodbridge Road, Tunstall.
Died on 27th. September 1917, aged 20.
Buried in Grave VI. F. 11. at Dozinghem Military Cemetery,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
20503 Private James McArthur John Garrod, 8th. Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Born in and resident of Tunstall.
Died on 26th. March 1918.
No known grave, commemorated on Bay 2 of the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
3/9091 Private Ardley Charles Garrod, 3rd. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Born in Tunstall, enlisted in September 1914.
Died on 31st. May 1915.
On the 30th. May 1915, the War Diary for the 2nd. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, then in billets at Brielen in the rear of the front line near Ypres, carried a sober annotation: 'Private Garrod was shot by accident. How it happened is unknown or whether the wound was self-inflicted'.
Ardley would have most probably landed with the Battalion in January 1915 and would have been in the front line during the Battalion's toughest times.
Had the actions at Frezenberg and Bellewarde caused his nerve to crack? Had he tried to get himself that 'Blighty' wound that would get him sent home for good? Or had he been the victim of a comrade's nervousness? For whatever reason, the wound was fatal, and Ardley died of his injuries the following day.
Like Major Maycock, he was originally buried in the small 'Burgomaster' or 'Machine Gun Farm' cemetery where luckily, his original cross survived the war, unlike Maycock's, and he was reinterred in Grave IX. J. 54 in the larger Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium after the war.
44091 Private George Henry Newdick Hook, 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Born in July 1887 at either Earl Soham, Suffolk or Soham Cambridgeshire, the son of George Hook and Sarah Ann Newdick.
Killed in action on 30th. September 1916
Commemorated on Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A of the Theipval Memorial, Somme, France.
29197 Lance Corporal Bertie Ling, 10th. Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, formally 15045, Private, Suffolk Regiment.
The son of Arthur and Anna Ling of Old Farm, Tunstall.
Died on 12th. April 1918, aged 20.
No known grave, commemorated on Panel 4 at Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
28923 Private George Pinkney, 3rd. Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.
Born in Tunstall on 28th. January 1883, the son of Emma and Thomas, an agricultural labourer, and Emma Pinkney.
Died of wounds on 2nd. November 1918, aged 35.
Buried in grave II. A. 19 at Busigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.
43114 Lance Corporal Percival Frederick Pulham, 12th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, formally 2311, 2/6th. (Cyclist) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Born in 1895 in Tunstall, the son of Mr. F. G. and Mrs. L. Pulham later of 69, York Road, Ipswich.
Went to France July 1916, severely wounded October 1916, returned to France June 1917.
Died of wounds on 10th. January 1918, aged 22.
Buried in grave II. D. 28 at Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France.
13337 Private Frederick Robinson, 9th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Born in Tunstall, he lived with his grandparents James and Anne Robinson on Tunstall Common. He was an agricultural labourer.
Died on 15th. May 1916.
Buried in Grave I. W. 17 at La Brique Militery Cemetery No. 2, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
13511 Corporal Charles Tye, 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Born in Tunstall, the son of John and Kate Tye later of 102 Charlton Street, Collyhurst, Manchester.
Killed in action on 16th. September 1916, aged 26.
No known grave, commemorated on Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A of the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
F/939 Private Eli Wardley, 17th. Battalion (Duke of Cambridge's Own), Middlesex Regiment. (1st. Football)
The son of John and Mrs. S. Wardley of Stone Cottage, Snape Road, Tunstall.
Killed in action at Waterlot Farm on 6th. August 1916.
Buried at Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban, Somme, France.
20371 Private Herbert Wardley, 7th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
The son of John and Mrs. S. Wardley of Stone Cottage, Snape Road, Tunstall.
Died on 22nd. March 1918.
Buried in Grave V. C. 2 at Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension, Nord, France.
Navy.
307995 Petty Officer Stoker Albert Henry Bailey, Town-class light cruiser H.M.S. Dartmouth. Royal Navy.
The son of Peter and Sarah Ann Bailey, husband of Charlotte Bailey of 63 Southside Street, Plymouth, Devon.
Died on 15th. March 1915, aged 28.
Commemorated on Panel 6 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.
Dartmouth was sent to join the forces operating off the Dardanelles in support of the Gallipoli Campaign. On 15th. March she was involved in a naval bombardment when she sustained returning gun fire damage that resulted in her suffering a boiler explosion that killed 15 of her crew, including Petty Officer Bailey.
202233 Able Seaman William Friend, H.M.S. Pembrook, Royal Navy. Pembroke was a shore establishment at Chatham, Kent.
Husband of Mary Ann of Marton Cottage, Thorofare, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Died on 15th. March 1915, aged 33, death recorded at Medway, Kent.
Buried in Grave, Naval. 17. 879 at Woodlands Cemetery, Gillingham, Kent.
7781DA Second Hand Spencer Thomas Gibson, H.M. Smack Ethel and Millie, Royal Naval Reserve.
The son of James and Rosa Anne Gibson, of Jessamine House, Tunstall.
Died on 16th. August 1917, aged 29.
No known grave, commemorated on Panel 25 of the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent.
HMS Smack Ethel and Millie was a Lowestoft fishing smack that was taken over by the Royal Navy and, along with another fishing boat, the Nelson, they became the two smallest ‘Q’ ships, heavily armed special service ships that attempted to ensnare German vessels into action. The two boats, originally called Boy Alfred LT 200 and I’ll Try LT 649 had already had some success, having been responsible for sinking a U-Boat.
On 15th. August 1917, the two boats were fishing on the Jim Howe Bank when the Nelson sighted the mine-laying submarine UC-63 commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Karsten von Heydebreck. The Nelson attacked and fought until she sank, with the loss of her skipper, the rest of the seven-man crew were eventually rescued. UC-63 took on the Ethel and Millie in another gun battle. The smack came under lethal fire and badly damaged soon began to sink. What happened next is the subject of much speculation. The crew of Ethel and Millie then abandoned their battered boat and were hauled aboard the German submarine, where the Nelson's survivors last saw them standing in line on deck being addressed by a German officer. The submarine sailed off and the seven crewmembers of Ethel and Millie were never seen again.
The UC-63 was sunk later in the year by the Royal Navy E-boat E52, and a number of her crew taken prisoner, but there were no records to indicate the fate of the Ethel and Millie crew. After the war, the German records also give no indication that POW's were taken.
The Prime Minister made an announcement of the action in Parliament and an 'official' account was widely distributed in the press. The skipper of the Nelson, Tom Crisp, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, but in none of these official announcements was there any mention of the involvement of the Ethel and Millie.
Of the 625 residents of Tunstall in 1914, no fewer than 131 of them went off to fight, about half of all the men in the parish. Eighteen of them never came back.
The Roll of Honour displayed in the village church, St. Michael and All Angels.