Remembering Edna Girling at Old Baptist Chapel, Fressingfield
There will be exhibitions of Fressingfield through the war years and the Burmese war, exhibits of the Land Army, Photographs of the Fressingfield home guard, posters, poems and readings, face painting and gifts for the children, music and much more.
A free family afternoon 10th August at the Old Baptist Chapel in Fressingfield, we just ask for donations at the door, all proceeds will be donated to the Burma Star Association
On the 27th January 1943 there was a tragic accident on Pinkneys farm Fressingfield, a Land Army Girl by the name of Edna Girling from the Halesworth Division was operating a bailing machine, but sadly her long hair got caught and dragged her into that machine. Doctor W. Chas Hutley attended the scene.
Edna Girling was just 17 years old when her life was taken; Edna of 37 Swinburne Road, Ipswich, is buried in her home town of Ipswich and honoured on the Towns war memorial.
We are paying tribute to Edna at the V.J. Day exhibition at the Old Baptist Chapel in Fressingfield at 3:00 pm. Doors open at 2pm.