December 1918 Cecil Crocker steps down from a steam train carriage, places a foot on the platform of Brandon railway station and feels he is…
Chronicles of Brandon at War #63
November 1918 Saturday 9th November 1918. According to the ‘Thetford & Watton Times’, Germany has asked for an armistice and our Prime Minister, Mr Lloyd George,…
Chronicles of Brandon at War #62
October 1918 Herbert Docking’s war experience was a thoroughly miserable one, which began when he enlisted in 1915. He would have volunteered for the army…
Chronicles of Brandon at War #43
March 1917 Reverend William Foord-Crocker, Rector of St. Peter’s church, improved the lives of many in Brandon, before he died suddenly in 1899. His replacement,…