Egbert A Bumstead

Rank: Sapper / Second Corporal

Regiment: 55th Company, Royal Engineers

Parent(s): Mr & Mrs Bumstead

Address: Gate Lodge, Barley Lane, Hastings

Other Info: Second Corporal Egbert A Bumstead, R.E., who has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in France. He enlisted in 1913 and went to South Africa. From there he was recalled in 1914, and went straight to France, where he has served ever since continuously in the fighting area. He is a native of Hastings, educated at the Clive Vale School and served an apprenticeship with the Hastings Gas Company.

Published: January 1915 & August 1917

Other Info: At the Front

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