Eli Gillett, Saddler
Eli Gillett, saddler's apprentice, outside the Saddlery which used to stand at the bottom of what is now Knightstone Close, on Thorney Road. He enlisted to fight in WW1 and was killed with several other members of the 12th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. They were engaged in an attack which aimed to capture German trenches near Morebecque/Hazebrouk in northern France - in August 1918.
