Soham, High Street c.1955
Photo ref:
S597009
More about this scene
Between Soham and Wicken once lay a large expanse of water called Soham Mere. It suffered from gradual encroachment by farmers over the centuries, and finally succumbed in the drainage of 1664. Here we see a soldier memorial, like the one at March. The names of those killed in the Second World War have been added around the base of the monument. They include the names of several Soham men who died in captivity in the Far East following the capture of Singapore by the Japanese in 1942.
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War Memorials
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