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3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment
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Those known to have served with3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Britton Frederick William. Pte. (d.21st March 1918)
- Hubbard Harry Laurence. CSM
- Rose William Dennis. Pte. (d.31st Oct 1918)
- Starling Arthur William Bampton. Pte
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Pte. William Dennis Rose 2nd Btn Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.31st Oct 1918) My Nan's brother William Rose left home and signed up in Wroxham to join the 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment and fought in France in WW1.
His brother Fred was in the Royal Horse Artillery.
William unfortunately was killed in action on 31st of October 1918 and is buried in a Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Belgium. William was serving with the 2nd Loyal North Lancashire Regiment when he died. He is also remembered on a War Memorial outside Beighton Church and also a War Memorial in Long Stratton where his parents lived by the end of the war. They had moved as his father was a gamekeeper and had moved to a different farm.
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Pte. Frederick William Britton 8th Battalion Border Regiment (d.21st March 1918) Frederick Britton had previously served in the Boer War with the 3rd Norfolk Regiment. He enlisted with the same regiment on 17th of July 1915 but was transferred to the 10th Battalion of the Border Regiment on 9th November 1915 and then transferred to 8 Battalion of the Border Regiment on 30th of December 1915 and was promptly posted to France.
The battalion took part in many actions on the Western Front and he was killed in action on 21 March 1918 leaving a widow and six children.
He is commemorated at the Arras Memorial
Records have his surname variously spelled Britton/Britain/Brittain
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