BRUNGER, ROBERT, D.S.O.. Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. The Norfolk Regt.. elder s. of William Thomas Brunger, of Framlingham College. Secretary, by his wife. Lydia Edwards, dau, of Robert Corner: b. Framlingham, co. Suffolk. 25 May. 1893: edue. Framlingham College, where he was Senior Prefect, and a Sergt. in the O.T.C.: gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Suffolk Regt. in Sept. 1911: promoted Lieut. July. 1913. and Capt. Jan. 1915 went to New Zealand in 1913, where he engaged in sheep farming, and was attached to the 3rd Auckland Battn.: was recalled to England on the outbreak of war: joined his regiment at Colchester: served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Jan. 1915, taking part in many engagements, including that of Neuve Chapelle: was wounded at Givenchy in May. 1916, and was invalided home; returned to France in May. 1918, transferring to the 9th Norfolk Regt. in Oct. 1917, and was killed in action at the Battle of Cambrai 8 Oct. 1918. Buried at Remicourt. He was mentioned in Despatches | London Gazette. 15 June, 1916] by General (now F.M.) Sir Douglas Haig, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order: For very capable service rendered when in charge of a raiding party which attacked the enemy’s trenches he so managed the operation, which was one of great difficulty, as to affect the maximum of damage with the minimum of loss. getting his men back with few casualties.” Unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Brantom F Pte 41972 7th Norfolk Regiment

BRANTOM, FRANK, Private, No. 41972, 7th (Service) Battn. The Norfolk Regt., only s. of William Joseph Brantom, of 25 Wolverton Road, Newport Pagnell, co. Buckingham, Loco. Engine Driver, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of John Frederick Stevens, of Leighton Buzzard, co. Bedford; b. 8 Dec. 1899; educ. Newport Pagnell County Council School: was apprenticed to the Motor Body Building, at Morgan’s, Leighton Buzzard: joined the East Surrey Regt. 28 Jan. 1918; was transferred to the Herts Yeomanry in April of the same year; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 1 Aug. following, being again transferred to the 7th Norfolk Regt. was reported wounded and missing after the fighting before Cambrai on the 22nd of that month, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date. While in France he saved one of his comrades by jumping in the canal, and so saved him from drowning; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Boast T T 2nd Lt 1st Norfolk Regiment

BOAST, THOMAS TOWNSEND, End Lient., 3rd (Reserve), attd. Ist (9th Foot), Battn. The Norfolk Regt., eldest a. of George John Boast, of New Mills, Stockport (late of Holt), by his wife, Mary Ann (-); &. Holt, co. Norfolk, 30 Oct. 1890; edue, there was a Bootmaker’s Manager volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, but was rejected as medically unit; after a second unsuccessful attempt to join up in May, 1916, he was eventually accepted, and enlisted in the Norfolk Regt. & Nov. following: served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 7 March, 1916; returned home to train for a commission 21 Feb. 1917, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Ist Norfolk Regt. 1 Ang. following joined his battalion in France in the following Sept., where he saw much fighting: proceeded with his regiment to Italy in Nov. of the same year, but subsequently returned to France in April, 1918, and was killed in action by a sniper, after fulfilling a most successful and gallant act, capturing a position and number of prisoners. at Neuville, near Cambral, 30 Sept. 1918. Buried in the British Military Cemetery. Neuville Bourjonval, south-west of Cambral. His Major wrote: Your husband was one of my best officers, always cheerful under any circumstances, thoroughly efficient in all his work, and one of the nicest fellows I’ve ever met. All the men had the very highest opinion of him, and would follow him anywhere frequently I have overheard them talking about him, and all the splendid things he had done with the regiment. It is a sad loss to us all, and his death is a bitter grief to us,” and a Private: He was always one of the best of our officers, and always did his best to look after the welfare of his boys.” Another also wrote: He was a fine example to us all, and he would never send one of us where he would not go himself.” He . at Banbury, 6 July, 1918, Doris Adelaide (20, Southam Road, Banbury), 2nd dan. of William Bashette.

Bell R W H Pte 19746 3rd Norfolk Regiment

BELL, ROBERT WILLIAM HARRY, Private, No. 19746, 3rd (Reserve) Battn. The Norfolk Regt., only s. of the late Robert William Bell, by his wife, Susie (63, Market Place, Great Yarmouth), dau. of the late Councillor Henry Laurance, of Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk; b. 18 Dec. 1880; educ. Winchester House School, Great Yarmouth; joined the Suffolk Yeomanry at the age of 18; volunteered in the Norfolk Regt. 15 July, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 28 Feb. 1916; was wounded the following April, and was killed in action on the Somme 12 Oct. 1916; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Hall G E 2nd Lt 1st Norfolk Regiment

SECOND LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY EVANS HALL, 1st Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment, was the eldest son of Frederick Evans Hall of Redbourn, Hertfordshire, and was born in 1880. He was educated at Temple Grove, East Sheen, at Winchester, where he distinguished himself at football, and at New College, Oxford, graduating in 1902. He became a member in 1907, and joined his father’s firm, Bragg, Stockdale, Hall and Co.

Immediately on the outbreak of war he joined the Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, and went to France with this battalion in November 1915. Four months later he was gazetted to the Norfolk Regiment, and in July 1916, the first month of the Somme Battle, was severely wounded and sent home. He returned to the Front in April 1917, attached to the 10th Norfolks, and on the 26th of the same month was killed by a shell while taking his platoon into the trenches.

Two days earlier his name had been brought to the notice of his Commanding Officer in the following report from his Company Commander: “2nd Lieutenant Hall has been very good both nights, having been in the front line during the whole of the strafe (which was very heavy), going from post to post talking to and encouraging the men.”

His Commanding Officer wrote of him: ” Although he had only recently been posted to this battalion, he had already proved what a fine, brave and capable soldier he was. His Company Commander had implicit confidence in him and had mentioned to me that he wished him to undertake the duties of 2nd in command.”

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