3rd Enfield Company history

Founder - Mr. Norris Storer Toms (3rd December 1890)

 

Company Captains

1890 to 1891 - Charles Coote
1891 to 1892 - Norris Storer Toms
1892 to 1916 - Thomas Room Plowman
1916 to 1917 - Charles Chopping (Honourary Captain: Thomas Room Plowman)
1917 to 1918 - Alfred L Winsley (Honourary Captain: Thomas Room Plowman)
1918 to 1920 - Thomas Room Plowman
1920 to 1921 - Alfred L Winsley
1921 to 1925 - Charles Chopping
1925 to 1928 - Sydney J Lahee
1928 - Charles Chopping
1928 to 1931 - Alfred L Winsley
1931 to 1935 - Harold J Dye
1935 to 1945 - Frank W Head
1945 to 1950 - William R Pinner
1950 to 1958 - Jack Hoskens
1958 to 1972 - Ronald W Langhorn
1973 to 1978 - Bernard Barwick
1978 to 1988 - Terry Silvey
1988 to 2001 - Andrew Mason
2001 to 2006 - Chris Sanders

 

Facts about previous Captains of the 3rd Enfield

Thomas Plowman was the manager of the family business, The Plowman Brickyard, situated in Tottenham and Peterborough.
There is a road in Edmonton named after the Plowman family (see the location here).
Alfred L Winsley worked in the Railway Office in Stafford.
Charles Chopping worked as foreman and machinist at Fairheads.
Sydney Lahee worked in a railway office.
Bob Pinner worked in the London Transport Garage.
Frank Head worked initially at a petrol station, and later in life he had a job with the Kodak Film Conventions.
Harold J Dye worked in several different types of children's homes, remand homes and old people's homes.

 

The passing of the Captains

Thomas Plowman died on the 1st January 1920.
Norris Storer Toms died sometime in 1938.
Sydney Lahee died on the 18th March 1956.
Charles Chopping died on the 22nd March 1966.
Frank W Head died on the 4th January 1970.
William R Pinner died on the 7th March 1975.
Harold J Dye died in February 1993.
Ron Langhorn died in April 2004.

 

Company Chaplains

1865 to 1905 - Rev H Storer Toms
1906 to 1913 - Rev John George James
1916 to 1946 - Rev Ebenezer Rees
1947 to 1960 - Rev Leonard T Towers
1960 to 1965 - Rev R Vivian Buddle
1965 to 1979 - Rev Kenneth F Fulkner
1980 to 1987 - Rev Roy Martin
1988 to 1993 - Rev Adrian J Bulley
2004 to present - Rev David Atkinson

 

Company Presidents

2004 to 2008 - Bill Hutchings

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Enfield Battalion Company Section 5-a-side Football
Added 6th December 2011
On 3rd December, a team from the 3rd Enfield entered the Enfield Battalion Company Section 5-a-side Football competition.
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Added 3rd December 2011
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