Photographs of wartime activities of men and women of Trumpington during the Second World War, 1939-1945.
Ernest Henry Chapman collection: Army Book 64. Soldier’s Service and Pay Book and Army Identity Certificate.
These photographs illustrate some of the wartime activities of the men and women of Trumpington during the Second World War. They include photographs and reports from local Cambridge newspapers, such as ‘Independent Press and Chronicle’ [I.P.&C.]. For information about the stories behind the photographs, see the page Trumpington and World War 2: Text and the spreadsheet Trumpington Men and Women and World War 2.
1926
Trumpington Church School, Group III, 1926.
Boys: D. Freestone, G. Wilson, J. Gillingham, T. Green, B. Clarke, P. Wilson, B. Chamberlain, G. Marshall, H. Chamberlain
Girls: A. Benton, D. Howard, D. Frost, K. Green, I. Wilson, E. Wilson, N. Poole, B. Porter, M. Andrews
Boys: T. Mansfield, J. Darling, J. Shepherd, M. Kefford, S. Newell, B. Medhurst, E. Chapman, S. Price
Headmaster: Mr P.R. Robinson. Teacher: Miss Burgess. Newell Family collection.
A number of these boys appear in the WW2 notes, photographs and spreadsheet.
1929
Trumpington Church School. Gardening Class, 1929.
Standing: E. King, M. Spiller, F. Seekings, A. Seekings, A. Dockerill, R. Sheldrick, R. Kitson, D. Darling, R. Mynott, J. Plummer
Seated: S. White, D. Benton, C. Spencer, F. Webb, H. Burbridge.
Newell Family collection.
A number of these boys appear in the WW2 notes, photographs and spreadsheet.
1940
The initial grave site of Lt Jack Creek at Sidi Barrani Italian military cemetery. Source: Cambridge City Council, South Area Committee decision note, 23 June 2014.
Jack Creek, portrait, c. 1940. Source: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/Trumpington.html
Death of Mr G.A. Crowson. Independent Press and Chronicle, 18 October 1940, p. 15. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Trumpington First Aid Post. Independent Press and Chronicle, 27 December 1940, p. 10. Cambridgeshire Collection.
1941
Group of Civil Defence Service men and women in the courtyard in front of the entrance to Anstey Hall, c. 1941. Source: Richard Haynes.
Richard Haynes has contributed this photograph of a group of Trumpington Civil Defence Service men and women, in the courtyard in front of the entrance to Anstey Hall. Richard observed that badges on the uniforms are Civil Defence (CD), which dates it to c. 1941. Richard’s father, Ted Haynes, is second row back, fourth from left. The family lived at 29 Shelford Road during the War.
The Civil Defence Service was a civilian volunteer service. It was established in 1935 as Air Raid Precautions (ARP) and renamed the Civil Defence Service (CD) in 1941. It included the ARP Wardens Service, fire watchers and first aid post and stretcher parties. See Wikipedia and BBC notes.
Stanley G. Ash headstone, Belfast City Cemetery. Source: https://www.ww2ni.com/greater-belfast-part-7
Two crew members of H.M.S. La Malouine were killed during the Belfast blitz.
John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury, 1934. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pendlebury
Memorial to Captain John Pendlebury, killed in action in Crete, May 1941, and also his wife, Hilda Winifred Pendlebury, died 5 March 1970, on reverse of sign at entrance to Trumpington Parish Churchyard. Photo: Andrew Roberts, 23 December 2019.
Poster for dance in the Village Hall, Percy Seeby, 19 May 1941. Source: Percy Seeby.
Wedding of E. Wilson. Independent Press and Chronicle, 31 January 1941, p. 9. Cambridgeshire Collection.
1942
A. Angell. Independent Press and Chronicle, 17 April 1942, p. 13. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Wedding of Margaret Chapman. Independent Press and Chronicle, 14 August 1942, p. 6. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Wedding of Margaret Chapman. Independent Press and Chronicle, 14 August 1942, p. 6. Cambridgeshire Collection.
B.J. Clarke. Independent Press and Chronicle, 3 April 1942, p. 7. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Robert C.W. Duke. Independent Press and Chronicle, 3 April 1942, p. 7. Cambridgeshire Collection.
John Corbett Harris. Independent Press and Chronicle, 13 November 1942, p. 9. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Ronald Kitson. Independent Press and Chronicle, 17 April 1942, p. 13. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Gilbert Marshall. Independent Press and Chronicle, 7 August 1942, p. 5. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Alfred William Mayle. Independent Press and Chronicle, 8 May 1942, p. 5. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Stanley James Newell, R.A.O.C., in Durban, South Africa, en route to El Alamein, 1942. Newell Family collection.
Charles Stanley Seekings. Independent Press and Chronicle, 10 April 1942, p. 9. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Jack Ward. Independent Press and Chronicle, 17 April 1942, p. 13. Cambridgeshire Collection.
1943
Arthur E. Carter. Independent Press and Chronicle, 24 September 1943, p. 9. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Florence Mary Orr. Independent Press and Chronicle, 5 November 1943, p. 6. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Obituary of Percy Robinson. Independent Press and Chronicle, 10 December 1943, p. 14. Cambridgeshire Collection.
1944
Brian Thomas Farrington, 1944. Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56461788/brian-thomas-farrington
The headstone to Thomas Farrington and Olive Laura Farrington and memorial to Brian Thomas Farrington in the Shelford Road cemetery. Photo: Wendy Roberts, 25 February 2019.
Francis B. Harradine. Independent Press and Chronicle, 9 June 1944, p. 3. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Wedding of Miss M.J. Medhurst. Independent Press and Chronicle, 15 September 1944, p. 9. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Wedding of Sidney Price. Independent Press and Chronicle, 2 June 1944, p. 9. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Walter Mostyn Scott. Independent Press and Chronicle, 11 August 1944, p. 11. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Victor White. Independent Press and Chronicle, 2 June 1944, p. 9. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Group of Italian prisoners, understood to be in Trumpington Camp, including Vittorio Prati (second from right in the front row). Source: Cristina Prati, December 2013.
Camp pass giving permission for Vittorio Prati, number 41372, to be absent from Trumpington Camp, after duty until 22 hours, 15 September 1944. Source: Cristina Prati, 2013.
Alexander Angell, headstone in Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan. Photo: Paul Murray, 2017.
Jack Rupert Carter. Source: https://www.myheritage.com/names/jack_carter.
Ernest Henry Chapman and colleagues in Rangoon, 1945.
Ernest Henry Chapman’s invitation to Trumpington Homecoming Social and Trumpington Homecoming Fund Gift Card.
Stanley H. Goodwin. Independent Press and Chronicle, 14 December 1945, p. 7. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Stanley H. Goodwin, wooden cross marking the mass grave at Buddhist monastery in Mewaing, 1946. Source: https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/in-remembrance-wwii-descendants-seek-closure-in-yangon
Stanley H. Goodwin, Memorial at Taukkyan War Cemetery, 2017. Source: http://aircrewremembered.com/smith-harold.html
Stanley James Newell serving in R.E.M.E. in Kalyan, India, 1945. Newell Family collection.
1946
Wedding of Elizabeth Rosemary Hall. Independent Press and Chronicle, 29 March 1946, p. 6. Cambridgeshire Collection.
Donald George Spalding. Independent Press and Chronicle, 28 June 1946, p. 3. Cambridgeshire Collection.
1947
Unveiling of the new inscription on the Trumpington War Memorial by Major E. Saville Peck, D.L. (Cambridgeshire Regt. T.), with Rev. T. Young to his left, 9 November 1947. Newell Family collection.
1948
German Prisoners-of-war, 1948. Photo captioned “A Cambridge University course for German Prisoners-of-war was being held in 1948: listening to the opening lecture given by C.W. Guillibaud at St John’s College. About 200 prisoners attended this six-week course organised by the Board of Extra Mural Studies in 1948, which terminated in mid-March. A wide variety of subjects was covered and half the lectures were given in German and half in English”. Cambridgeshire Collection. Cambridge Central Library. Reference Y.Tru.K48, filed at S.1948.37242-3.
German Prisoners-of-war, 1948. Photo captioned “While the special course for German Prisoners-of-war was being held at Cambridge University in 1948, the prisoners were moved to a special camp at Trumpington”. Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library. Reference Y.Tru.K48, filed at S.1948.37242-3.
1949
Harry James Newell and Ellen Newell in 1949, with Harry Newell in his Special Constable uniform. Newell Family collection.
Harry Newell completed 32 years of service as a Special Constable. Previously he had taken part in the 1st World War and was involved in the Battle of the Somme.
Extract from the obituary in Cambridge News, November 1962: Harry James Newell, died 11 November 1962 “He commenced business in the Old Pound building in the High Street just about 40 years ago and his workshop in the rear was removed from the Royal Show site (now known as Barrow Road) in 1922. Harry was born in Cambridge. He served in the Army Service Corps and was with the supply units at the Battle of the Somme. For something like 35 years he was a Special Constable and served in the War Reserve. His generous nature and service to the community found its field in the local branch of the British Legion and here he was able to do good work in an assuming way without reward and with very little acknowledgement.”
c. 1967
Remembrance Day, c. 1967. British Legion Chairman, Stanley Newell, laying a wreath at the War Memorial on Remembrance Day. Newell Family collection.
2014
Trumpington War Memorial, Remembrance Sunday, 9 November 2014. The original inscription to World War 2, unveiled on 9 November 1947. Photo: Andrew Roberts.
The wreath in memory of Lieutenant Jack Creek underneath the newly added inscription commemorating ‘Jack Creek’, Trumpington War Memorial, Remembrance Sunday, 9 November 2014. Photo: Andrew Roberts.
