George Henry Greenwood

George Henry Greenwood, known as “Chips”, was also a poultry farmer at Lynwood Farm. He was born in Patagonia then his parents moved near Sudbury, Suffolk when he was 4.

After attending agricultural college in the 1920s, with few jobs around, he headed back to Patagonia to work as a horseman tending sheep, and did national service with the Argentine army, staying 8 or 10 years.

When he came back his parents had moved to Mistley Heath and built a house. George built Lynwood next door and took on tenancy of the land at Church Farm from the Norman estate. With only limited land he turned to poultry farming. Naturally he had much in common with Spencer and Frostick.

George’s son John remembers Charles Frostick coming to visit at times, and Charles’ two older sons remember visiting there too. John also recalls detonators and other such items around the farm. He swapped a dud Mills bomb (hand grenade) with a friend at school, but can’t recall what he got in exchange! He still has a pair of large magnets which his father told him were from magnetic mines for blowing up railway lines.