{{Short description|English historian (1923–2014)}} '''Norman Scarfe''' MBE, FSA, (1 May 1923, Felixstowe - 2 March 2014, Ipswich was an English historian of locality noted for his work as regards his native Suffolk.<ref name="Norman Scarfe Guardian obit">{{cite news |last1=Powers |first1=Alan |title=Norman Scarfe obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/10/norman-scarfe |access-date=23 July 2024 |work=The Guardian |issue=10 April 2014 |date=2014}}</ref>
His first publication was ''Assault Division: A History of the 3rd Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany'' (1947). This was an account of the 3rd British Infantry Division following its leading role in the D-Day landings in 1944. Scarfe served in the Suffolk Regiment, part of this division, and participated in the landing on Sword Beach.<ref name="Norman Scarfe obit EADT">{{cite news |title=Woodbridge: Tributes paid to distinguished writer and historian Norman Scarfe who ‘lived and breathed Suffolk’ |url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21724432.woodbridge-tributes-paid-distinguished-writer-historian-norman-scarfe-lived-breathed-suffolk/ |access-date=23 July 2024 |work=East Anglian Daily Times |issue=7 March 2014 |date=2014 |language=en}}</ref>
==Works== * {{cite book|last=Scarfe|first=Norman|year=2006|orig-year=1947|title=Assault Division: A History of the 3rd Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire|publisher=Spellmount|isbn=978-1-86227-338-2}}
* {{cite book|last=Scarfe|first=Norman|year=1983|title= Cambridgeshire (A Shell Guide)|publisher=Faber and Faber|isbn=0-571-13250-2}}
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