Suffolk Regiment’s WW2 PoWs
On Thursday 12th November at 7.30pm, Elmswell History Group look forward to welcoming back renowned local military historian, Taff Gillingham, for his talk on “Suffolk Regiment’s WW2 Prisoners of War”.
Born in Ipswich with a passion for British Military history since his teens, Taff’s interest in the Suffolk Regiment comes from his uncle who completed his National Service with the 1st Battalion in Cyprus. His involvement with the Suffolk Regiment began in the late 1980s when he became involved with the Ipswich Branch of the Old Comrades Association, of which he later became Chairman.
Taff carried the Branch Standard and accompanied its members on many pilgrimages to both Normandy and Holland, and he is a Trustee of the Suffolk Regiment Museum. He has also assisted them in the production of a small volume of Regimental History, the creation of the Regimental Gallery at Bury’s Moyses Hall in 1999, and the re-organisation of the Regimental Museum in 2004.
Co-author of the book “The Old Dozen – A Century of Photographs,” he has been most active in ensuring that Ipswich War Memorial had the names of the fallen of WW2 added to it in 2005, and that in 2017, a memorial to Sidney Day VC was finally erected in his hometown of Norwich.
The Elmswell History Group meet at 7.30pm on the second Thursday each month (Sept to June) at Elmswell’s Wesley Hall (School Rd, IP30 9EE), where there’s plenty of free on-site parking and at adjacent Tavern Pub, or the venue is 5 mins’ easy walk from Elmswell Railway Station. Admission: Members £4, Visitors £6, under-18s £2 (cash or cheque only please, no cards). Doors open at 6.45pm for 7.30pm start. All welcome.
• More details on this and other forthcoming talks – 01359-242601 or
www.elmswell-history.org.uk.