ERIC BADEN POWELL FARTHING

From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG”: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730

As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570

Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.

Photograph courtesy of Derrick

Born: 7th September 1924, Ipswich.

Died: 6th September 1944; age: 20.

Residence: 8, Stirling Street, Ipswich.

Occupation: a Machine Hand – Saw Mill.

Rank: Fusilier; Service Number: 14400272.

Regiment: Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 4th Battalion – Infantry.

Grave Reference:

X.18.23.

Brussels Town Cemetery,

Evere,

Brussels

Belgium.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of John Hubert Baden Powell Farthing & Elizabeth Ellen Farthing; husband of Joyce Kathleen Farthing, of Fulford, Yorkshire.

Father: John Hubert Baden Powell Farthing, born July 1900, Ipswich.

Mother: Elizabeth Ellen Rose Farthing (nee Hood), born August 1900, Ipswich.

ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939.

Eric was a Machine Hand – Saw Mill. He was living with his parents & siblings at the family home – 8, Stirling Street, Ipswich.

John, a Timber Porter & Labourer – Brown’s Timber Yard. Discharged from the Middlesex Regiment in 1920. In Auxiliary Fire Service at the place of work.

Eliza, unpaid Domestic Duties.

Phyllis Elizabeth Phiscilla Farthing, born 1922, Ipswich.

Charles Henry Farthing, born January 1927, Ipswich.

In 1944, Howden, Yorkshire, Eric married Joyce Kathleen Gibbons, born 1924, Chesterfield, Derbyshire – daughter of Arthur Gibbons, a corporation labourer, and Doris May Gibbons (nee Fenwick), of Heslington Lane, York.

Eric is also remembered at The Mission Free Church, Curriers Lane, Ipswich.