Over 5,300 photographs of people in war service from the Hastings and Rother area during WW1
The tag Prisoner has been allocated to each of the service personnel featured on this website who were taken prisoner during WW1.
C Vidler
Regiment: Royal Naval Division
Sent by: Miss Pettitt
Brother: S Vidler
Miss Pettitt’s Address: 15 Calvert Road, Hastings
Other Info: Interned in Holland.
Published: January 1918
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W Bedwell
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Mother: Mrs R Bedwell
Address: 243 Bexhill Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Prisoner in Germany.
Published: January 1918
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William Noble
Rank: Private
Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment
Mother: Mrs Noble
Address: Sandown Road, Ore
Other Info: Wounded and prisoner of war.
Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: December 1917
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James Waters
Regiment: Middlesex Regiment
Sister: Mrs Coates
Nephew: F W Coates
Brothers: J E Waters & T Waters
Brother-in-Law: J Rich
Sister’s Address: 34 Whitefriars Road, West Hill, Hastings
Other Info: Prisoner of war.
Published: October 1917
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Frank Gale
Rank: Private
Regiment: Monmouthshire Regiment
Aunt: Mrs R Newman
Cousins: R Newman, F Newman, A Numa, E Martin & C Gale
Uncle & Aunt’s Address: 12 St Paul’s Road, Bohemia, St Leonards
Other Info: Prisoner of war since 9th May 1915.
Name information from here.
Published: September 1917
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J Hutchinson
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Mother: Mrs Hutchinson
Address: 99 Bulverhythe Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Prisoner of war in Germany.
Published: February 1917
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Frank Kent
Rank: Private
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Parents: Mr Henry & Mrs Emma Kent.
Address: 59 Fairlight Road, Ore
Other Info: The text reads “… The first (portrait) was taken on Salisbury Plain, when he was training there with the 3rd Canadian Battalion, and the second was taken at Wiesbaden, Germany, in September of the present year, he being a prisoner of war. Mr & Mrs Kent have two other sons serving, one in the Sussex Engineers and the other in the 1st Canadians. They are old townspeople, having lived in Hastings or the district all their lives. Mr Kent is a fisherman.
According to CWGC, William died aged 31 on 10th November 1920. He is remembered at Vancouver (Mountain View) Cemetery, grave reference Jones.45.21.15.
Frank’s CEF enlistment papers can be viewed for free here.
Published: December 1916
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William H Ticehurst
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Regiment: Indian Infantry
Sister: Mrs H Chapman
Brothers-in-Law: H Chapman & Sidney Lay
Sister’s Address: 20 Duke Road, Silverhill
Other Info: Prisoner of war at Kut. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: November 1916
Albert Ellis
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Father: Mr Thomas Ellis
Address: 37 Hardwicke Road, Halton, Hastings
Other Info: Prisoner of War in Germany.
Published: October 1916
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