I have had for a while a photo album that belonged to a Great Uncle, he was the brother of my paternal Grandfather, a lot of these photographs were from the First World War and the regiment he served in, but amongst them are images of people from local areas and also some local towns and villages.

The above image is titled in the Album ‘Allenby Own Light Horse’, from what I can make out my Great Uncle was in the ‘Suffolks’ and a few of his images seem to be in Tuddenham and Ipswich, so I am guessing this may be Tuddenham or another village.

I know there is another Tuddenham near Ipswich, Tuddenham St Martin, but from the image above I was able to identify the village in the photographs as Tuddenham St Mary, which is near Barton Mills and Mildenhall also Cavenham Heath National Nature Reserve which is always worth a visit.

The above two images are also just labeled Tuddenham, I do not know if anyone would be able to locate these buildings in the village today, but the top one looks like the houses are fairly new at the time compared to the bottom picture, but what brings this image to life is the two girls in the doorway.

The next photo is again in Suffolk and Christchurch park Ipswich, by the look of the trees it may have been taken in Springtime, certainly interesting to see the dress of the two young girls here.

The Above image was actually a postcard sent by my Great Uncle to my Great Grandmother, it looks like he may have been in Peterborough as part of his enlistment or training, below is the reverse of the postcard, which actually gives the name and address of where he was staying in Peterborough.

I do not know if it is a bit of black humour on my Great Uncles part but it did seem a bit odd to send your Mother a postcard of a cemetery.

The next image above is a German gun captured by the Suffolks, what I find interesting here is the building, obviously somewhere in Suffolk, perhaps someone would recognise that door or building, I wonder whatever happened to that Gun?.

The Above Photo is my Grandfather and Grandmother, Grandfather died in 1945 after an accident at sea on his fishing boat, but what I like about this image is the landscape, I am going to guess that this was taken at Pulham st Mary, near Harleston in Norfolk as my Aunt ( My Father’s sister ) married into a farming family here, but it is the field they are standing in and the amount of flowers there, a glimpse back at one of the many meadows that we had in East Anglia.

I am going to finish up with images of local people in the album, unfortunately I do not know who they are but someone out there is obviously related to these people and you never know I may have an image of a relative you have never seen before.

And last but not least, My Grandfather