Ditchingham, a Norfolk suburb of the Suffolk town of Bungay, is famous for two things - H Rider Haggard and the Community of All Hallows.
Ditchingham was one of the hotspots of the 19th century Anglican revival, its high anglo-catholicism encouraged and bankrolled by the Sucklings of Barsham and the Crosses of Shipmeadow, two nearby Suffolk villages.
Ditchingham has one of the most imposing war memorials in Norfolk, a vast fl marble affair with a life-size bronze effigy designed by Derwent Wood.
Son of James and Louisa Bird, of Gorleston-on-Sea, late of Wrentham; husband of Edith A. Bird, of Ivy Cottage, Free Lane, Ditchingham, Bungay, Suffolk.
Son of Ebenezer and Eliza Gorbell, of Station Rd., Ditchingham, Bungay; husband of Lucy Jane Gorbell, of Hedenham, Bungay, Suffolk.
Sergeant Johnson was born in Ditchingham on 1st November 1893, the son of Samuel Lucy Johnson.
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