War and Conflict
Suffolk Record Office holds numerous records on war and conflict in both Suffolk and abroad.
- Our Military Archives page gives details of the collections and material that be helpful for researching military history.
- Suffolk’s Victoria Cross page provides a brief highlight of those men awarded the highest military honour.
- Letters from the Front is the poignant story of the Stopher brothers during World War 1.
- George Punchard’s First World War Diaries
Record Office staff and researchers have uncovered other interesting stories including:
- Suffolks in Salonika during World War 1.
- A personal journey through the records of World War 1 – Doug Ireland, one of the Ipswich volunteers, tells us about his own research.
- A Unique Record of Lowestoft in the Second World War – Diaries recording the raids on Lowestoft.
- The Wreck of the Birkenhead: “STAND FAST” .
- The crew of the S. S. Royal Crown – Recording the dead following the attack on the vessel.
- South African War Memorial at Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds
- Waller’s Raid in Lowestoft, 13 January 1942
- Tribulations of the First World War
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- S. S. Royal Crown run aground at Covehithe, [1264/14].
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- Letters from the Front: Photograph of George Stopher c 1915 (HD825/3/8)
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- Boer War Memorial, Cornhill, late 1940s [KPF/Bury St Edmunds/131]
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- Suffolk’s Victoria Cross recipients: Sgt Claude Charles Castleton (1300/72/35/43)
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- A Unique Record of Lowestoft in the Second World War : Diary of Air Raids on Lowestoft, 3 Sep 1939-Dec 1940 (2433/1/1).
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- The wreck of the Birkenhead – Col Massey Lloyd’s copy of the painting by Thomas Hemy [K5050/3962]
