Roll of Honour

They Also Served

Names  A - G of Felsted Residents who also served in World War 2

 
Thomas William Adams Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Evelyn Road, Willows Green
 
Charles Henry Wilfred Armitstead Charles Henry Wilfred Armitstead, known as Harry was born in 1925 and educated at Felsted School. He served with the Gurkha Rifles in India in the war, and afterwards joined British American Tobacco Company working in Jamaica, Ethiopia and Nigeria before returning to the London Office. He married Gillian Louise Bartley on 9th February 1958 in Addis Ababa, the daughter of Sir Charles Bartley, an Indian High Court Judge.  After Gilliian's death Harry married again to Elizabeth (Leafy). Harry died on 1 January 1996.
 
Hester Zoe Armitstead Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Garnetts

Hester 'Zoe' Armitstead was born on 12 May 1923, and was educated at Wadhurst and served in the WRNS in Ceylon during the war. After the war she worked for Sekers of Bruton Street. She married on 10 September 1955, at St Mary’s church, Colchester, Thomas Rowland Watts (Tom), a Chartered Accountant, and partner in Price Waterhouse.
 

Sydney Kenrick Armitstead

Sydney Kenrick Armistead
S.K. Armitstead
 

Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Garnetts

Sydney 'Kenrick' Armitstead was born on 6th June 1921 and was educated at Felsted and Hertford College, Oxford. After serving as a Major in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War (mentioned in despatches), he became a teacher of modern languages and spent most of his career at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, where he was Head of Modern Languages and tutor to the Prince of Wales during his time there. Although he never married, he led a very active life and had many interests, particularly sailing and, latterly, family history. He was a co-founder, with Colonel Iain Swinnerton, of the Swinnerton Society, and was planning to work part-time as a professional genealogist after his retirement.

These plans were never realised, as he died of a heart attack on 24 August 1984, the year he was due to retire, while ashore in France in charge of one of the college’s yachts.
 

Alfred Edward Badger Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at 3 The Terrace

Born at the end of 1917 in the West Ham registration district to Sidney Badger and Emily L. Badger (née) Lowdell
 
Frederick Henry Vincent Badger Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at 3 The Terrace

Born in the spring of 1920 in the West Ham registration district to Sidney Badger and Emily L. Badger (née) Lowdell
 
James Peter Baker Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at 2 Leighs Lane
 
Eric John Baynes Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Chelmsford Road
 
Conrad Leonard 'Len' Berey DSM


 

Conrad Leonard Berey was born on 23rd November 1914, in the W. Ashford registration district of Kent. He was the son of Leonard R. Berey and Annie R. Berey (née Ashton) who had married in Chester during the last quarter of 1913.

Len married Christina Dunn in 1938.

During the war he served as with the Royal Navy as a Petty Officer Cook, but in 1942 he volunteered for special operations and trained as a diver/charioteer. Chariots were two-manned piloted torpedoes which were guided into harbours were the explosive head was attached to the target ship.

Len was one of four charioteers who took two chariots into La Spezia harbour on the coast of northern Italy on 21st June 1944 where the occupying German forces were repairing the Italian Cruiser Bolzano. The attack successfully destroyed the Bolzano. Len was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his part in the action.

He appears on the Felsted Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at The Mount, Willows Green

Len died on 20th July 2009 aged 94.
 

Frank Arnold Berey Frank Arnold Berey was born in 1917 in the Cranbrook registration district. The younger brother of 'Len' Berey.

He appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Mount Farm, Willows Green
 

Frank George Boreham Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at The Broadway
 
George William Brown Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Apple Trees, Hartford End
 
Reginald Bertram Willie Butler Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at The Butchers Arms
 
Leslie Ronald Frederick Buttle Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Ingrams Close
 
Stanley James Byatt Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at The Bury Lodge
 
Charles James George Collins Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Littlefield, Cock Green
 
Bernard Stanley Cranfield Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at 5 The Terrace
 
Kenneth Donald Crook Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at 2 Buckcroft Cottages
 
Robert Walter Crosier Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Leighs Lodge Cottage
 
Stanley Crow Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Braintree Road
 
Robert Albert Darby Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Algores
 
Thomas Gent Darby Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Algores
 
Charles William Clifford Davey Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at 3 Oxney Villas
 
Edwin Alfred Dickenson Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at 2 Chaffix Villas
 
Frederick Edward Francis Doubleday Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Kingstons
 
Edith 'Maud' Farrow

NAAFI Collar badgeEdith Maud Farrow, known as Maud to family and friends was born in Felstead in 1921. She was the sister of Elsie and Sidney Bertie Farrow listed below.

The second of the eleven children of Sidney Bertie Farrow (snr.) and Edith Elsie Farrow (née Gamble).

She was a member of the Navy Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) and worked in the canteens of the Army establishment set up in Felsted School. She was later transferred to other locations. The photograph was taken in Wycombe, and she married John 'Jack' Norman in Norwich during 1945.

They began there married life in Norwich, but later emmigrated with most of their children to Perth in Western Australia.

Elsie Beatrice Farrow

Joshua and Elsie Melrose 12th July 1943Elsie Beatrice Farrow was born in Felstead in 1923. she was the sister of 'Maud' Farrow and Sidney Bertie Farrow.

The third of the eleven children of Sidney Bertie Farrow (snr.) and Edith Elsie Farrow (née Gamble).

She was a member of the Navy Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) and worked in the canteens of the Army establishment set up in Felsted School. She met her husband Joshua 'Joe' Melrose in the NAAFI when he was posted to Felsted with the Gordon Highlanders. They were married in Felsted on 12th July 1943 and their wedding reception was held in the NAAFI Canteen based in what was then called the Lower School.

'Joe' took part in the D-Day landings and ended his war in Hamburg after which he returned to Felsted to collect his bride and take her back to Newtown St Boswells, in the borders of Scotland. They had two sons.

Leonard Harry Farrow Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at The Bungalow
 
Sidney Albert Farrow Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at 2 Bury Villas
 
Sidney Bertie Farrow

Sidney Bertie Farrow

Sidney Bertie Farrow (jnr.), was born in Felstead in the final quarter of 1919.

The eldest son of Sidney Bertie Farrow (snr.) and Edith Elsie Farrow (née Gamble)

He married Edith Harvey in February 1943 whilst on military service in Sussex.

After the war they lived at 29 Chaffix for many years.

Stacey Edward Farrow Stacey Farrow was born in Felsted in the summer of 1923.

He appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at 4 Chaffix Villas

He married Alice M Parkin in last quarter of 1951.
 

John P. Foster He appears on the Service Voters List for 1946. Normally resident at Crix Green School House.
 
Victor George Franklin Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Blackley Lane, London Road
 
James Herbert Frost Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Bircholme, Watch House Green.
 
Frederick Douglas Fuller Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Milch Hill Lane
 
Frederick George Fuller Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Barn Court
 
Leslie Donald Fuller Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Barn Court
 
Norman D. Fuller Appears on the Service Voters List for 1946. Normally resident 2 Bury Cottages, Station Road
 
Charles Joseph Game Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Cheyne House, Station Road
 
Nixon Arthur Gardner Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Tudor Cottage
 
Charles Albert Gibson Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at 3 Garnetts Villas
 
Eric William Godbold Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Valentine Cottage.
 
Donald George Green Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945 & 1946. Normally resident at Camsix Chase, Hartford End
 
Harold Frederick Greenslade Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Chelmsford Road
 
William Charles Griffiths Appears on the Service Voters List for 1945. Normally resident at Howletts Cottage, Gransmere (sic) Green