The names of those who served in both world wars are inscribed on the War Memorial’s two Roll of Honour side panels:
| Roll of Honour: Left Hand Side | Roll of Honour: Right Hand Side |
| William Forbes NORRIS * | Albert Edward ELLIS |
| Walter Blomfield ANDREWS | Henry GIBSON |
| Wilfred George LAKE * | Ernest Percy DOUGHTY |
| Edward Barber LEEDER * | Alfred Frederick WILLIAMSON |
| Charles William BURLINGHAM | Samuel Charles DYE |
| Robert Cecil BURLINGHAM * | Arthur Robert BUCK * |
| Percy Gerald MEALE | Sidney Herbert MYHILL |
| Thomas Walter DOUGHTY * | Fred SADLER |
| Ernest Charles HARVEY | George DAWSON * |
| Ernest Barnet BRAY | Cubitt George BOWMAN |
| Sidney Alec WINTERBONE | Robert Henry DOUGHTY |
| Edward WRIGHT | Cyril Frederick MYHILL |
| Albert Thomas HASTINGS | Cyril Raymond DYE |
| Nicholas Robert COLMAN * | Stanley SADLER * |
| Alfred William DUCKER * | Charles DEW * |
| Herbert George MINDHAM | Arthur SADLER |
| Frederick DAWSON | Edward SADLER |
| James DEW | John KITTLE |
| Herbert DAWSON | Frank MITCHELL |
| Augustus Elmar DOUGHTY | |
| Alfred WRIGHT * | |
| Sidney Herbert RUTLAND | |
| Arthur Charles FARROW | |
| Leonard Leslie MITCHELL |
The Heroic Dead : WW1
The names marked with an * above are listed on the central panel of the memorial, Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, where they are marked with a gold asterisk indicating The Heroic Dead. We have established their age, date and place of death, and the regiments they served with:
| Name | Died | Regiment |
| William Forbes NORRIS |
25 August 1915, aged 21 Suvla Bay, Gallipoli |
1/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment (Lieutenant), attached to the 54th Divisional Cyclist Company. |
| Alfred William DUCKER |
15 April 1916, aged 18 Persian Gulf, Basra |
2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment (Private 19342). |
| Wilfred George LAKE |
10 September 1916, aged 20 France, the Somme |
Norfolk Yeomanry (1520); 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. |
| Robert Cecil BURLINGHAM |
2 November 1917, aged 21 Palestine, Gaza |
1/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment (Private 240688). |
| Nicholas Robert COLMAN |
30 November 1917, aged 20 France, Cambrai |
7th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment (Corporal 9566). |
| Alfred WRIGHT |
8 December 1917, aged 22 Palestine, Jerusalem |
3/1st Norfolk Yeomanry (2632): 179th Company Machine Gun Corps (95831). |
| Edward Barber LEEDER |
31 January 1918, aged 21 North Sea (submarine) |
Royal Navy (SS/5311). |
| Thomas Walter DOUGHTY |
24 March 1918, aged 26 France, the Somme |
Royal Army Service Corps (Driver T4/045185): 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (Rifleman 47409). |
| Arthur Robert BUCK |
25 May 1918, aged 41 France, the Somme |
4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment (29227). |
| Stanley SADLER |
15 August 1918, aged 20 Dutch coast (torpedoed) |
Royal Navy (K/37377). |
| George DAWSON |
19 September 1918, aged 40 Salonika, Greece |
14th Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (G/20883). |
| Charles DEW |
21 December 1918, aged 19 Wood Nort0n |
6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Private G/7529). Charles was discharged from the army on the 2nd October 1918 due to wounds received, and died of pneumonia/influenza on 21st December 1918. He is buried in the churchyard; his headstone bears the inscription ‘One of the Heroes’. |
The Wood Norton Heritage Project will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of these men with a commemoration on the Every One Remembered website, and their biographies will be published on the Norfolk in World War One website.
There is one name listed for WW2:
The Heroic Dead : WW2
| Name | Died | Regiment |
| Robert Martin BELL |
4th July 1944 Normandy, France |
1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment |
WW1 War Medals and Memorials
WW1 servicemen were entitled to be awarded campaign medals, depending on their service and the theatre of war in which they served, details which were collated on a Medal Roll and an individual Medal Index Card. The most usual medals awarded were:
Those men who were wounded and discharged from service may have been entitled to the Silver War Badge.
The next of kin of those servicemen who were killed were presented with a Memorial Plaque and Scroll.
If you would like any additional information about these men, or have any information which you can share with the Wood Norton Heritage Project, please contact Joanne Burd [email protected]
