Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal

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Reference WMO/151646

Address:

Beach Road

Mundesley, Norfolk

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Other monument
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Situated on the grass between the road and the beach, adjacent to the Mundesley Museum. A 500kg German World War 2 Bomb, pointed nose down, on a Granite Base, forming a memorial to those that helped clear the beach of mines between 1944 and 1953. One face bears the general commemoration, whilst the other three bear the name panels. It lists 27 names of those who lost their lives carrying out this work. Rank, name, age, date of death and place of death are recorded, grouped by similar dates, but not all listed in strict chronological order.
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DEDICATED BY / SIR TIMOTHY COLMAN KG / H.M. Lord-Lieutenant Of Norfolk / On / 2nd MAY 2004 THIS IS A MEMORIAL TO THE MANY BRAVE / ROYAL ENGINEER BOMB DISPOSAL PERSONNEL / WHO WERE KILLED WHILE CLEARING BRITISH LANDMINES / FROM THE NORFOLK COAST BETWEEN 1944 AND 1953 IT IS THANKS TO THEM AND THEIR COLLEAGUES / THAT OUR CLIFFS AND BEACHES ARE NOW SAFE / FOR EVERYONE TO USE AND ENJOY THOSE WHO SURVIVED WILL NEVER FORGET / THOSE WHO DID NOT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN / AUTHOR UNKNOWN ONE DOES NOT MOURN BRAVE MEN / ONE SALUTES THEM / DEREHAM DISTRICT CORONER, A H WOOD 1959

(Plaque one) NAME AGE DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH SAPPER / ERNEST LAND 20 05 JANUARY 1944 GREAT YARMOUTH/ LIEUTENANT/ KENNETH PERRY 35 05 JANUARY 1944 GREAT YARMOUTH / LANCE SERGEANT/ JOHN RICHARDS 33 05 JANUARY 1955 GREAT YARMOUTH / CORPORAL / EDWARD JAMES GRIFFITHS 30 17 SEPTEMBER 1945 CAISTER / LIEUTENANT / CHARLES LEONARD SHRIMPTON MBE 25 17 SEPTEMBER 1945 CAISTER/ SAPPER / ARTHUR WALTER HOWSHAM 22 03 JUNE 1946 WINTERTON / CORPORAL / FRANK A VIOLET BEM 39 28 FEBRUARY 1945 HORSEY / CORPORAL / THOMAS CAMPBELL 34 23 APRIL 1945 HORSEY / (Plaque 2) LANCE CORPORAL / ALBERT H HARRISON 35 23 APRIL 1945 HORSEY / CORPORAL / SAMUEL DOUGHERTY 45 22 MAY 1945 HORSEY / CORPORAL / GEORGE JONES 28 22 APRIL 1945 HORSEY / SAPPER / WALTER KENNETH GILBERT 23 31 JULY 1946 HORSEY / CORPORAL / ARTHUR F RACKETT 22 31 JULY 1946 HORSEY / SAPPER / STANLEY JAMES SULLIVAN 19 31 JULY 1946 HORSEY / LANCE SERGEANT / LESLIE G HOLBROOK 32 05 FEBRUARY 1945 WAXHAM / LANCE CORPORAL / GEORGE W SWEETMAN 31 05 FEBRUARY 1945 WAXHAM / CORPORAL / WILLIAM VAUGHAN BEM 29 05 FEBRUARY 1945 WAXHAM / (Plaque 3) LANCE CORPORAL / VINCENT REGINALD GODDARD 24 11 DECEMBER 1944 HAPPISBURGH / SAPPER / WILLIAM PALIN 32 11 DECEMBER 1944 HAPPISBURGH / CORPORAL / KENNETH BRADDOCK 21 06 MAY 1953 TRIMINGHAM / SERGEANT / ROBERT JOSEPH O'DOHERTY 29 06 MAY 1953 TRIMINGHAM / LANCE SERGEANT / THOMAS O'DONOGUE 32 18 JANUARY 1945 WEYBOURNE / SAPPER / RICHARD J BENNETT 23 24 APRIL 1944 WEYBOURNE / SAPPER / FRANCIS McMEECHAN 31 29 AUGUST 1944 WEYBOURNE / CORPORAL / AMOS HENSHALL 28 O5 DECEMBER 1944 HOLKHAM / SAPPER / JOSIAH W POTTER 26 17 DECEMBER 1944 HOLKHAM

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