121. Thomas Henry Bossence Batten, killed in action age 19, France, 29 July 1916
Date: c1916
Image ID IYS_050_003

122. Charles Godfrey Bonner. This Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British Empire service personnel who were killed as ...
Date: 27 August 1918
Image ID IYS_194_005

123. Mersea Seed Growers during WW1. Bocking Hall Farm, Seed Growing War Time on 1,500 Acres.
From E.W. King, Seed growers, Coggeshall. See ...
Date: c1917
Image ID JAY_SDG_005

124. Mersea Seed Growers during WW1. Land Army in First World War.
Mrs Goldy Green, Beatie Green, Mrs Watcham, Mabel Benns. [Names from back of card.]
Date: c1917
Image ID JAY_SDG_007

125. L-R back 1. Charlie Woods, 2. John Chatters, 3. Hannah Chatters (mother of Charlie senior), 4. Edwin Chatters, 5. Charles Chatters.
Front 1. Charlie Woods ...
Date: c1914
Image ID JNY_OPA_009

126. Richard Francis - Grandfather of Kay Francis. Born c1883.
After WW1, Richard was a farm worker in Salcott, and also worked on the building of Abberton ...
Date: c1915
Image ID KBA_PPL_111

127. Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye
See linkres,id=LDH_WW1_001; for transcription.
Date: 28 October 1917
Image ID LDH_WW1_003

128. Layer de la Haye - World War 1 survivors
Top Row: L-R Stan Curtis, Sidney Porter, A Green, Fred Curtis, Robert Demmant
Front Row: L-R Wilfred Allen, ...
Date: c1919
Image ID LDH_WW1_005

129. The back of this post card says 'Peace day July 18th 1919'.
Photograph taken in the school - the school log book for 21 July 1919 says "School closed to ...
Date: 18 July 1919
Image ID LIL_SCH_001

130. Titled 'some of the lads from the village' - Mussetts ?
Date: c1916
Image ID MIL_OPA_071

131. Thought to be John Catt.
From the Estate of Mrs Mary Catt.
Date: c1917
Image ID MMC_P1077F_016_001

132. Royal Navy group photograph. This is probably the Royal Navy Experimental Station at Stratford in WW1. One of the men is probably John Catt.
From the ...
Date: c1917
Image ID MMC_P1077F_016_005

133. War Memorial, West Mersea
Postcard 80924
Image ID MMC_P755_061

134. World War 1. 2nd Battalion 'The Rifles' (The Prince Consorts Own). Cleaning rifles.
Fred Peters Rfn 3955 is 3rd from right back row. Stephen Horace Mole is ...
Date: c1912
Image ID MPR_SHM_001

135. 2nd Battalion 'The Rifles' (The Prince Consorts Own). Fred peeling potatoes.
Fred Peters is 5th from left standing. Steven Horace Mole is 3rd from right.
Date: c1912
Image ID MPR_SHM_003

136. Some of the crew of HMS INDUSTRY. The vessel was sunk in the Irish Sea 18 October 1918. 20 men were lost, including 6 men from Mersea Island.
Middle row ...
Date: Before 18 October 1918
Image ID MPUB_NJN_AJM_001

137. Private Arthur Wade from Birch (sitting).
Arthur Wade was killed at the Somme 9 July 1916
Photograph from Not Just a Name, page 42.
Arthur Wade ...
Date: c1916
Image ID MPUB_NJN_P042_001

138. In Not Just a Name, page 62 this photograph was thought to be Harris William Hoy. Another copy of the photograph is embossed "Cairo" and has "Ripper" and ...
Date: c1917
Image ID MPUB_NJN_P062_001

139. Rifleman Edward Oscar Green and his wife. Edward was killed in Ypres 24 December 1917. He is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial near Ypres, and on West Mersea ...
Date: 1917
Image ID MPUB_NJN_P122_001

140. Fireman Alfred John Mole, Mercantile Marine Reserve. He was lost with HMS INDUSTRY in the Irish Sea, 18 October 1918.
Covered in much more detail in Not ...
Date: Before 18 October 1918
Image ID MPUB_NJN_P171_001

141. Frederick Westhorpe Mole with his wife Susannah Ellen née Wright and their only daughter Ena Ruby.
Frederick was an Able Seaman in Mercantile Marine ...
Date: c1917
Image ID MPUB_NJN_P173_001

142. Auntie Doll and Uncle Clarence
Dorothy and Clarence Cudmore. Clarence served in the Royal Engineers in WW1.
Image ID MRM_004_003

143. Yorick Murray Mussett - a WW1 photograph. His left sleeve as RNRT on it - Royal Naval Reserve Trawlers.
Photograph H. Jenkins Lowestoft. The pack has ...
Date: c1917
Image ID MST_EEM_201

144. Yorick Murray Mussett - a WW1 photograph. His left sleeve as RNRT on it - Royal Naval Reserve Trawlers.
The back of the photograph has "SEAMAN Yarmouth ...
Date: 1918
Image ID MST_EEM_203

145. German prisoners of the First World World War on their way from Hall Barn, Wet Mersea, to the parish church for a service. A picture loaned by Mr Reg D'Wit of ...
Image ID NH02_101

146. A tribute to Arthur Whiting in Stisted Church. Arthur, from Peldon, died in WW1. His brother Vic Whiting moved to Stisted to farm and it is his descendants who ...
Image ID OJR_071

147. A close-up of the photo of Arthur Whiting in the tribute at Stisted Church. Arthur, from Peldon, died in WW1. His brother Vic Whiting moved to Stisted to farm ...
Image ID OJR_073

148. George Brown. 1892 - 1957. Son of Charles F. Brown and Emily née Oliver.
George BROWN (24) Army Ordnance Corps 014884, 66 Company (Jan 1916) [Andrew ...
Date: 1916
Image ID OJR_369

149. WW1 soldier.
Photograph Whitfield & Cosser Colchester, Ipswich & Bath, donated by Pat Milgate
Image ID OJR_453

150. Work on West Mersea War Memorial. Tom Hannan and Nigel Pickering.
August - September 1990
There is a report on the restoration on Lions Talking ...
Date: cSeptember 1990
Image ID PAT_WMM_001