Friday 1 July marks the centenary of the beginning of The Battle of the Somme. It was the largest battle of the First World War on the Western Front; more than one million men were wounded or killed in the four and a half months it lasted. Among those killed were men from Aldeburgh including:
| 01-July-1916 | Stewart Alexander CRUM |
| 01-July-1916 | Philip Squarey HOUGHTON |
| 03-July-1916 | Maurice Freshfield JONES |
| 03-July-1916 | George MARSHALL |
| 20-July-1916 | Frederick John MOUNTAIN |
| 17-August-1916 | Bertie CRACKNELL |
| 22-August-1916 | Harry Edward CADY |
| 16-September-1916 | Alfred Colby ALLERTON |
We will remember them and also:
| 12-October-1916 | Richard HAKEN |
| 12-October-1916 | Reginald Ernest PECK |
both killed ‘somewhere in France’.
You can read more about these men and all those others who gave their lives during the First World War in “Aldeburgh War Memorial: The story behind the names” by Simon Last and Michael Good.