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The village of Pulham St Mary Norfolk
The village of Pulham St Mary Norfolk
Those men buried in the churchyard at Pulham St Mary in Norfolk, those on the war memorial and some of those who came home. It also includes men who were stationed on the airship station at Pulham St Mary. Pulham St Mary was one of the UK's first main airship stations during WW1. The station at Pulham opened in 1916 and employed 3,000 servicemen and 2,000 civilians. Airships flew from there until 1930.Locally the airships became known as the Pulham Pigs after a local man was rumoured to have looked up at a huge early airship floating above the village and said, "Thet luk loike a gret ol' pig" and the name stuck The war memorial now commemorates 23 men from the parish who were killed during the conflict, but the names of three brothers were missing from the roll call for over 90 years. Herbert Goldspink, aged 20, was killed in action in Flanders on 26 September 1915. His brothers, Arthur, 23, and Charles, 25, were killed on the same day, 19 July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme. It isn’t known why the names were originally missed from the memorial; it was only after the Goldspink’s ancestors began researching their family tree that the omission came to light. The brothers names were added in 2008, finally joining those of two of their cousins who are also commemorated on the memorial
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