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Open Meeting 12th February 2025
Open Meeting 22nd January 2025
Open Meeting Sunday 27th November 2024 | 1 Grassmere Parade, Felpham
Open Meeting Sunday 27th October 2024 | 1 Grassmere Parade, Felpham
VE Day Memories Needed!
Open Meeting Tuesday 24th September 2024 | Small Hall, St. Mary’s Centre, Felpham
Social Meeting Monday 19th August 2024 | The Thatch, Felpham
2024 Felpham Village Conservation Society Fete Display
Felpham History
The Earliest Years
The Middle Ages
A History of the Village
British History Online
Felpham’s Fallen
World War l
Army
The Royal Sussex Regiment
G/16401 Private Walter William BAILEY
TF/200421 Private Gilbert BEER
L/9064 Private Hugh Frank BEER (baptised as ‘Frank Hugh Beer’)
G/4214 Private G. BRIDGER
SD/1180 Private William John EADE MM
GS/180 Private Edward GEORGE
GS/177 Private William GEORGE
G/7752 Private William John JONES
SR/413 Lance Corporal James MARCHANT
SD/1204 ?? Frank John POWELL
7230 Private William J SKEITES
SD/847 Private Byron SNOOK
8325 Lance Corporal Cyril George SPARSHOTT
G/434 Lance Corporal Charles John WATSON
Regiments, Other
90151 Gunner Andrew Bailey
9793 Corporal Frank Alfred BARRETT
11485 Private William Charles BAXTER
9348 Private Frank Washington BROOKE
9117 Private Edward BURNAND
Captain John Keith CLOTHIER
205341 Serjeant Edwin Leslie FLEXMAN
L/10063 Corporal James GREENWOOD
3074 Lance Bombardier Charles HOMER
4375 Serjeant William Thomas LAGGETT
G/14457 Private Archibald Frederick MARSH
8158 Private William Richard NORRIS
12217 Guardsman William Bertram NORTON
9851 Private John RUSSELL
235556 Gunner Arthur Henry SNOOK
28626 Corporal Thomas VENUS
1558 Rifleman Victor H YOUNG
Royal Navy
K/5397/(PO) Stoker 1st Class Charles Louis BONIFACE
J/31010 Signalman Herbert William CLEAR
210094 Petty Officer Rupert William MATTHEWS
Clerk John Verity POORE
Midshipman Edward Reginald WADE
Royal Air Force
37552 Serjeant Frederick George PAY
World War l Names to be Researched
World War ll
Hampden Bomber Crash | 14th April 1942
Army
6401682 Private Alfred Clifton BIRD
1805017 Gunner Edward Roy BLACKWELL
240136 Lieutenant Roland Langley BOWRING
276770 Lieutenant Noel Jeffreys Vernede CHURCH
2888970 Private, Douglas Morton FISHER
6207032 Serjeant Martin Ronald HILBURN
5350466 Private George Edward HOWARD
200281 Private Frank Kenneth JONES
4857834 Corporal James Alan NEWNHAM
Royal Navy
Sub-Lieutenant (A) Ronald Anthony BAILEY D.S.C.
LT/JX186653 Seaman Hiram James BURGESS
Lieutenant John Walter David COOMBE
Lieutenant Basil Edward COOMBS
P/MX 49220 Electrical Artificer 3rd Class Frank Robinson COOPER
C/MX 45030 Petty Officer Cook (S) Vernon James DIXON
Lieutenant Donald Ralph Victor FLORY
P/MX 97981 Stoker 1st Class Harry James LAMBERT
P/SS 8277 Able Seaman Harry MARSHALL
P/KX 88482 Stoker 1st Class William Ronald ROUSELL
P/JX 142344 Leading Telegraphist Anthony Donald Victor Henry TURNER
Royal Air Force
42043 Pilot Officer David Conquest BARKER
40804 Flying Officer John Wintringham CUTTS
1808351 Sergeant, Flt Engr. Peter Geoffrey EDYVEAN-WALKER
755751 Flight Sergeant W.Op./ Air Gnr. Gordon Brown FIELDER
40592 Pilot Officer, Ian Percival HINTON
1390378 Sergeant Pilot Thomas John RUFF
1397534 Leading Aircraftman John Malcolm SAXBY
1448086 Sergeant W.Op./ Air Gnr. Donald James SKEITES
72476 Squadron Leader, Pilot, Antony Charles Letteblere STUART
82215 Pilot Officer, George Francis WOOLHOUSE
Service Not Known
George Arthur ALEXANDER
H.J. CHILCOTT
James Alexander WILLIAMSON
The Felpham and Middleton War Memorials
A History of the Post Office
A History of St. Mary’s Church
A History of the Village Pubs
The Fox Inn
The Hero of the Nile
Memorabilia
Carolla’s Milk Bar
Conservation Society 21st Dinner [old photos]
Felpham Coronation Souvenir Programme 1953
Postcards of a Seaside Parish
A Corner of Old Felpham
Admiralty Road
Blakes, formerly Rose, Cottage and Blakes Road
Felpham Beach
Flansham and Flansham Lane
Grassmere, site of the Old Post Office and Church Farm Dairy, now Grassmere Close
Limmer and Vicarage Lanes
Multiview postcards
Novelty Cards
Post Office Corner, Felpham Road
Rock Point, was also known as Bungalow Town
Summerley
The Fox Inn and Waterloo Road
The George Inn, Felpham Road
The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Thark Menu (dated at least prior to 1971)
Notable Persons of Felpham
Kenny Baker (1921-1999)
Catherine Blake (1762-1831)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Michael Eddowes (1903-1993)
William Hayley (1745-1820)
Joan Hinde (1933-2015)
Dr. Cyril Jackson (1746 – 1819)
Ernest Joyce (c. 1875-1940)
Edward W. Tufnell (1814 – 1896)
Publications
Bibliography
Recommended Reading
Sea, Ships & Smugglers
Swallowed by the Sea
The Growth of a Sussex Coastal Village from 1800–1914
About
Contact
Links & Other Info
[FHG Reports & Other Documents]
FHG Reports & Notes 2024-5
HH&A Reports & Notes 2023
Open Meeting 12th February 2025
All welcome!
The meeting starts at 6PM
The Fepham History Group