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Head and shoulders portrait of a man in a military uniform and peaked cap, wearing round spectacles against a black background.

Frederick Newton Dall Drake Digby

9 Mill Road, Mill House

History of 9 Mill Road

1901

James Digby, 39, journalist author, b Norfolk

Black and white postcard showing a residential street in Cambridge with shops, pedestrians, a cart, and two boys in the road.

Mill Road junction with Willis Road

1911

Newton Digby, 49, journalist, b Kings Lynn
Harriett Elizabeth, 49, b Cambridge
Frederick Newton Dall Drake, 24, journalist, b Cambridge
Maurice Newton, 19, out fitter, b Cambridge
Gladys Nora, 16, mother’s help, b Cambridge
Neva Winnifred, 15, b Cambridge
James Drake Victor, 14, b Cambridge
Alexandra Ena, 9, b Cambridge
Lilian Badcock, 16, servant, b Cambridge


1913

Newton Digby, University and Sandringham Intelligence Service, councillor of the borough
Fred N Digby, journalist and insurance broker

According to the Cambridgeshire Regiment website:

As well as working parties, there was training and the arrival of drafts of officers and men. One of the new officers, who arrived on October 13, was the Cambridge sporting journalist Lt Frederick Newton Dall Drake Digby, who would command the Cambridgeshires in the 1930s. Having enlisted in the Artists Rifles in 1916, he was commissioned into the Cambs Rgt in May 1917. His spell on the front line would be shortlived because he was wounded on October 31 and returned to England. After the war, Drake Digby, as he was known, joined the re-formed Cambrideshires as a Captain in A Company, becoming a Major in 1929 and commanding the Battalion from 1936-40. He died in 1948.

A large group of soldiers in uniform poses for a 1933 panoramic photograph with a smaller portrait of an elderly man below.

1st Battalion Cambridgeshire regiment, 1933 at Dover, with Major Drake Digby


1918

Harriet Grace Ogle died 22.12.1918 aged 60


1962

Frederick P Poulter

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