Over 5,300 photographs of people in war service from the Hastings and Rother area during WW1
W Hick
Rank: Private
Regiment: ‘E’ Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Address: Rye
Other Info: Acting as Cook. At Dover.
Published: September 1914
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Cecil F Wait
Rank: Private
Regiment: ‘E’ Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Address: Rye
Other Info: Acting as Cook. At Dover. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: September 1914
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George C Broocks
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Sussex Yeomanry
Address: St Leonards
Other Info: At Canterbury. Additional name from the Lives of the First World War Website.
Published: September 1914
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James Ernest Bishop
Rank: Able Seaman
Ship: HMS Pathfinder
Parents: Mr William & Mrs Annie Bishop
Brother: Thomas Edmund Bishop
Address: 6 Bourne Walk, Hastings
Other Info: Lost his life on HMS Pathfinder on 5th September 1914. According to CWGC, James was aged 27 when he died. HMS Pathfinder was torpedoed by German submarine U-21 and sank with the loss of 259 men. Albert is remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial on panel 2.
Published: September 1914
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Charles Whiting
Rank: Ship’s Corporal First Class
Ship: HMS Pathfinder
Mother: Mrs Whiting
Brothers: Albert Whiting & William Whiting
Address: 47 St Georges Road, Hastings
Other Info: Lost his life on HMS Pathfinder on 5th September 1914. According to CWGC, Albert was aged 35 when he died. HMS Pathfinder was torpedoed by German submarine U-21 and sank with the loss of 259 men. Albert is remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial on panel 6.
Published: September 1914 & September 1915
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Charles Beartup
Ship: HMS Hogue
Address: 172 Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings
Other Info: Charles was formerly in the local postal service. Was one of the men saved from HMS Hogue when it was sunk, along with sister ships HMS Cressy and HMS Aboukir, by German submarine U-9 on 22nd September 1914.
Published: September 1914
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Harry Bailey
Ship: HMS Cressy
Address: Hastings
Other Info: Harry is seated in the photo. Was one of the men saved from HMS Cressy when it was sunk, along with sister ships HMS Hogue and HMS Aboukir, by German submarine U-9 on 22nd September 1914.
Published: September 1914
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Percy John Hanlon
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs Hanlon
Brothers: William John Patrick Hanlon, Albert James Hanlon, Cyril Rupert Henry Hanlon, Raymond Wilfred Ethelbert Hanlon, Stuart Leopold Hanlon
Address: 55 Priory Road, Hastings
Other Info: His father served in the 58th Northamptonshire Regiment and went to the Zulu War of 1879, and fought at the Battle of Ulundi.
He has distinguished himself by gallant behaviour on the field. He, with others, jumped into a German trench under heavy fire and held it until it was taken.
Published: September 1914, December 1916 & July 1917
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Raymond Wilfred Elthelbert Hanlon
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr & Mrs Hanlon
Brothers: William John Patrick Hanlon, Albert James Hanlon, Cyril Rupert Henry Hanlon, Percy John Hanlon, Stuart Leopold Hanlon
Address: 55 Priory Road, Hastings
Other Info: His father served in the 58th Northamptonshire Regiment and went to the Zulu War of 1879, and fought at the Battle of Ulundi.
Published: September 1914
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Cyril Rupert Henry Hanlon
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr & Mrs Hanlon
Brothers: William John Patrick Hanlon, Albert James Hanlon, Raymond Wilfred Ethelbert Hanlon, Percy John Hanlon, Stuart Leopold Hanlon
Address: 55 Priory Road, Hastings
Other Info: His father served in the 58th Northamptonshire Regiment and went to the Zulu War of 1879, and fought at the Battle of Ulundi.
Published: September 1914
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