Dersingham at War

Dersingham First Aid Personnel

Back: Miss Athow, Mr F Houchen, Miss Goss, Mrs Glyde, Mr P Houchen, Mrs Bunting, Mrs Wilson, Mr J Welham, Miss Reynolds

Middle: Mr Drayton, Miss M Stanton, Colonel Morphew, Mrs A C M Coxon, (Senior Casualty Worker) Dr A C M Coxon, Mrs Burton, Mr Fisher.

Front: Miss M Rolfe, Mr. G Emmerson, Miss D Goff, Miss Standaloft, Mr J Playford, Mrs Stoveld, Miss Rout

Dersingham Branch of Women's Institutes July 1944 (1)

Back: Mrs F Wells, Mrs Rutherford, Miss Bunting (?), Mrs Howell, Mrs T Houchen, (? hidden)
Second back: Mrs Welham, Mrs A C M Coxon, Mrs Allen, Mrs Lloyd Pratt, Miss C Stanton, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Prime,
Mrs Southgate, Miss H (?)
Third: Mrs. Scas (?), Mrs. A Nurse, Mrs Keeley, Miss Garner, Mrs (?), Mrs Burton, Miss Reynolds, Mrs R Daw,
Mrs Searle, Mrs Short, Mrs Firth
Second: Mrs R Houchen (hon sec) Mrs F Bunn, (vice-president), Mrs T Bunn, Mrs Taplin, Miss D L Brown,
Miss S Corkran (vice-president), Miss Sayer
Front: Mrs Manning, Mrs M Senter, Mrs G Lee, Mrs E Soanes, Mrs Leathersitch, Mrs W Fitt

Dersingham Branch of Women's Institutes July 1944 (2)

Back: Mrs Hunter, Mrs Drayton, Mrs (?), Mrs Hardesty, Mrs Twite, Mrs Bolton, Mrs Wells, Mrs F Wells
Second back: Mrs W Nurse, Mrs Whyatt, Mrs J Chambers, Mrs J Jackson, jun, Mrs E Riches, Mrs Barlow, Mrs Boughen,
Miss Yallop, Mrs Wilson, Mrs G Wells, Mrs Dew, Mrs Welham
Third: Mrs Blowers (out of frame), Mrs Harrison, Mrs S Wells, Mrs F Fitt, Mrs Harrod, Mrs Franklyn, Mrs Hodges, Miss Woods,
Mrs Gagen, Mrs Hudson, Mrs A Southgate, Mrs W R Senter, Mrs W Smith, Mrs Scas (?)
Second: Mrs Batterbee, Mrs Rolfe, Mrs R Stanton, Mrs Linford, Miss Butcher, Miss Farrant, Mrs Seaman, Mrs C Reynolds,
Mrs Jolley (vice-president), Miss A C Brown (President), Mrs R Houchen (hon sec)
Front: Mrs Chilvers, Mrs S Bird, Mrs Hammill, Mrs C Taylor, Mrs Francis, Mrs Courtney, Mrs W Walden, jun, Mrs Rayner,
Miss D Chambers, Mrs Manning

Dersingham Wardens

Back: Messrs G Blowers, H Standaloft, J Walker, Taplin, H Prime, L Tuck, C Lincoln, R Linford, Rayner, and Barnard
Front: Messrs W Walden sen, Potter, G Coates, D Terrington, Lloyd Pratt, (Senior Warden), J Jackson jun. Mason-Jones, Rolfe and E Tingle

Dersingham Savings Collectors

Back: Mesdames Linford, Whyatt, & MacGarigle, Miss A.C.Brown, Mrs F Wells, Mrs Rutherford, Miss E Stanton & Mrs W Walden (secretaries), Mesdames L Boughen, Read, H Nurse & Shipton

Middle: Mesdames Hodges, Warren, & Linford, Miss Garner, Mesdames Short, Drayton, Keeley & Allen

Front: Mrs S. Nurse, Miss Emmerson, Mrs Rayner, Miss Wardale, Miss Butcher, Mrs Stoveld & Miss Hammill

Dersingham Canteen Workers

Miss Hough, the secretary, ran a private school in Manor Road at a house then known as Wellswill, now called, I think, Wood Royal. Mr. Mason-Jones was clerk to the Parish Council and Headmaster at the village school; He was nicknamed “Old Foss”. Mr. L. Tuck was a nurseryman. Mrs. Chilvers was wife to Arthur Chilvers the Station Master. The Coxons lived at a house then called Highlands; what is it now I wonder? The Lloyd Pratts lived at The Oaks, the house burnt down in 1965. Miss Garner was the postmistress with her sister.

Back: Mrs Mitchell, Mrs M Senter, Mrs Chilvers, Miss Farrant, Lieut Warren, Mr Mason-Jones, Mr C. Rayner, Mr Lloyd Pratt, Mr A L Tuck, Miss Allen, Mrs S Bird, Miss M Stanton, Mrs Wheeler, Mrs. Shipton

Middle: Miss M Beck, Mrs Linford, Mrs Courtney, Miss Butcher, Mrs Hodges, Miss E Stanton, Mrs W Walden, Mrs C Reynolds, Miss Garner, Mrs Leathersetch, Mrs Taplin, Mrs A Bird, Mrs Rutherford, Mrs Bell, Miss D Chambers, Mrs Wyer, Mrs Yaxley

Front: The Committee: Mrs W Twite, Mrs A C M Coxon, Mrs C Rayner, Mrs F Bunn, Miss Sitwell (Treasurer), Mrs R. Stanton (Chairman). Miss Hough (Secretary), Mrs Pain, Miss Yallop, Mrs Lloyd Pratt.

Dersingham Special Constables

Beck: Messrs Playford, Wells, Mapus-Smith, Whisker, Twite, Bird Cross & Benstead

Front: SPC Taylor, SPC Batterbee, PC Goldthorpe, Sgt Keeler, Chief Constable. S H van Neck CVO MC, Supintendant Woodeson, SPC Reynolds, PC Mitchell, Detective Constable Watts & SPS Dunger.