Vernon Dan Vinall
Rank: Private
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Other Info: Vernon Vinall died aged 50 on 30th August 1920. He is buried at Hastings Cemetery. Additional name information from the Hastings & Rother Family History website.
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This man was born in 1869 in Brighton, Sussex. In 1871 he was living with his family in Folkestone, Kent. His father was Daniel, a 47-year old Chelsea pensioner and clerk. His mother was Maria. He was the fourth of five children in the household. There were also two spinster boarders, who were milliners and dressmakers. Sadly, his mother died in 1872.
In 1900, in the Battle district, he married Emma Vinall, who was born in Catsfield, Sussex.
In the 1901 census they were lodgers in Catsfield, he being an assurance agent.
In the 1911 census the family was living in a 3-roomed dwelling at 32 Lennox Street, Hastings. They said that they had had five children but only four were in the household. He was a hairdresser and an army pensioner.
In World War I he enlisted on the 29 October 1914 in the Royal Sussex Regiment, service number 899. He was discharged on the 16 October 1915. This was due to either wounds or sickness, as he received the Silver War Badge on the 19 May 1917.
The 1920 Electoral Register for Hastings show the couple living at 71 Beaconsfield Road.
Emma, the widow, was still at 71 Beaconsfield Road in the 1939 Register. This said that she was born 16 October 1876. She was engaged in domestic duties, while she lived with her son Ronald, born 1909, who was a general labourer. Electoral registers during the 1920s show her living with sons and what are probably lodgers. Emma died in 1954 in Hastings.
Thank you for the information Stephen. Kind Regards, Kieron.