Carleton Rode First World War Archive
Following the digitisation of the Absent Voters Lists for 1918-1921, we were finally able to track down one of the men on our Roll of Honour board for whom we only had a surname – Gerard Philip Chapman – and we are very grateful to Paul Gardner and his wife for sharing the family photos reproduced here. ‘Phil’ as he was known to …
Fred (William Frederick W) Burt was born in Carleton Rode in 1891. His parents were James Wilson W Burt, an agricultural labourer from Bunwell, and Rebecca Butolph, a milliner and dressmaker from Wattlefield (on the road to Wymondham from Bunwell Bottom, where the Burts lived). His siblings were Percy, Martha, Ernest George, Eva M and Jack. By 1911, the family are living on …
