Norfolk Military History
Some resources are difficult to classify. See also
Norfolk Military Records
This branch of the armed forces starts off with balloons followed by Air Battalions
(inc. Airships and Planes etc.) which then became the Royal Flying Corps (RFC)
in 1912.
The Royal Navy also had a Flying section which became the Royal Naval Air Service
(RNAS).
In 1918 the Royal Air Force was formed from the RFC and RNAS.
In the Second World War airfields in Norfolk were used by the RAF and United
States Air Forces.
- History of the formation of the UK Air Forces timeline.
- Military Airfields
There were a large number of airfields and landing sites in the county of
Norfolk during WWI and WWII. More information can be found at web sites
such as :-
- Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust
- Airfields in the County of Norfolk, England
- Control Towers which
has sections on "UK airfields" and "USAAF (in the UK) airfields".
- The following is a list of places used at various times by
the Air Forces for military purposes :-
Attlebridge
Bacton
Barton Bendish
Bircham Newton
Bodney
Burgh Castle
Bylaugh
Coltishall
Deopham Green
Docking
Downham Market
Earsham
East Wretham
Felthorpe
Feltwell
Fersfield
Foulsham
Freethorpe
Gooderstone
Great Massingham
Great Yarmouth
|
Hardwick
Harling Road
Hethel
Hickling
Hingham
Holt
Horsham St Faith
Langham
Little Snoring
Ludham
Marham
Matlaske
Methwold
Narborough
North Creake
North Pickenham
North Repps
Norwich (Mousehold Heath)
Old Buckenham
Oulton (nr Aylsham)
|
Pulham St Mary
Rackheath
Saxthorpe
Sculthorpe
Sedgeford
Seething
Shipdham
Snarehill (nr Thetford)
Snetterton Heath
Sporle
Swannington
Swanton Morley
Thorpe Abbots
Tibenham
Tottenhill
Watton
Wendling
West Raynham
West Rudham
Weybourne
|
- City of Norwich Aviation Museum Horsham St Faiths
(North side of Norwich Airport), Norfolk.
The RAF 100 Group and American 8th Army Airforce were based here.
- The Royal Air Force - Air Defence Radar Museum
at Neatishead, Norfolk
- Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum Flixton, Bungay, Suffolk
- Air Museum at Duxford, Cambs.
- RAF Bircham Newton Memorial Project
- Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum
- 93rd Bomb Group Museum, Hardwick
- 100th Bomb Group Museum, Thorpe Abbotts
- 448th Bomb Group Collection, Seething
- Blickling Hall (Small Museum on RAF Oulton)
- Bowyer, Michael J.F.
Action Stations
1 Wartime Airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945
[Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1984, ISBN 0-85059-335-2]
- Matthews, Rupert
Heroes of Bomber Command - NORFOLK
[Countryside Books, Newbury, 2006, ISBN 1 84674 000 2]
- Smith, Graham
Norfolk Airfields in the Second World War
(Airfields Series)
[Countryside Books, Newbury, 1994, ISBN 1 85306 320 7]
- Sherlock, Ron
I Remember RAF Coltishall
Archive Edition DVD
[Key Publishing Ltd, 2006]
- 2nd Air Division Memorial Library (USAAF) at the Forum,
Millennium Plain, Norwich.
- 1685 - Norfolk Regiment formed
- 1757 - County Militia (Militia Act) (serve anywhere)
National Archives leaflet on the
Militia 1757-1914 under Armed Forces heading.
- 1782-1961
Norfolk Yeomanry (The King's Own Royal Regiment)
- 1807 - Local Militia Act (serve in NFK or adjacent counties)
- Barney, John
The Defence of Norfolk
Norfolk in the Napoleonic Wars
[Mintaka Books, 2000, ISBN 0 95378 091 0]
- McGuigan, Ron
The Forgotten Army:
Fencible Regiments of Great Britain 1793-1816
(Napoleon Series)
Overview of book contents (which leads to other pages on the subject).
- 1816 - Local Militia disbanded
- See lists at regiments.org for details of all Norfolk
Militia and Volunteers and their dates.
- 1883 - Norfolk Military Organization from White's Directory.
- Harvey, Sir Charles
The History of the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment late East Norfolk Militia
[1899]
- Harvey, Lt.-Col. J R
Records of the Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry
[London, 1908]
- Smith, R J and Harris, R G
The Yeomanry Cavalry of Norfolk
(Vol 12 of series called "The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry
Force 1794-1914")
[Chippenham, Wilts - Picton Publishing Ltd, 1991, ISBN 0-9515714-3-5]
- Stanford Training Area (STANTA) created in WWII. West Tofts
Camp and Bodney Camp, both near Thetford, are the Army bases there.
- Dad's Army Museum at
Bressingham Gardens,
Bressingham (near Diss), Norfolk
- Hoare, Adrian David
Standing Up to Hitler
Story of Norfolk's Home Guard and Secret Army, 1940-44
[Adrian Hoare, Countryside Books, UK, 2002, ISBN 1853067229]
- The Muckleburgh Collection at Muckleburgh Hill
(at site of military camp), near Weybourne, Holt, Norfolk
- 1956 - Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry
- Suffolk Regimental Museum at Gibraltar Barracks, Newmarket Road,
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- 1964 - Royal Anglian Regiment
- Maritime East Archive at the Time and Tide Museum at Blackfriars
Road, Great Yarmouth
contains some Naval records including books on Nelson.
- Norfolk Nelson Museum explores the life and times of Nelson at
26, South Quay, Great Yarmouth.
- See also the link to main GENUKI page under
Other Resources.
- Meeres, Frank
Norfolk in the First World War
[Phillimore, 2004, ISBN 1860772900]
- Storey, Neil R
The Pride of Norfolk
An Illustrated History of the Territorials
[Halsgrove, 2009, ISBN 1-84114-877-9]
- Banger, Joan
Norwich at War
[Popplyland Publishing, 1989, ISBN 0 946148 61 9]
- Douglas Brown, R
East Anglia 1941
[Terence Dalton Ltd, 1986, ISBN 0-86138-019-3]
- Meeres, Frank
Norfolk in the Second World War
[Phillimore, 2006, ISBN 1860773893]
- Storey, Neil R
Norfolk at War (in Old Photographs WWI and WWII)
[Budding Books, 1998, ISBN 1-84015-061-0]
See also the page on Norfolk Military Records
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