Army
W Jones
Rank: Private
Service: British Army
Wife: Mrs Jones
Father: W H Jones
Brother: A T Jones
Brother-in-Law: Alfred Morphey
Brother’s Address: 12 Courthouse Street
Published: May 1917
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Army
A T Jones
Rank: Private
Service: British Army
Wife: Mrs Jones
Father: W H Jones
Brother: W Jones
Brother-in-Law: Alfred Morphey
Address: 12 Courthouse Street
Published: May 1917
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Army
W H Jones
Rank: Private
Regiment: Cheshire Regiment
Son-in-Law: Alfred Morphey
Son’s Address: 12 Courthouse Street, Hastings
Other Info: At Salonika.
Published: May 1917
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Army
T A Jones
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr & Mrs A E Jones
Address: 35 St Thomas’s Road, Hastings
Other Info: Pictured in the centre. He went to India on 29th October 1917. Later he was sent to Mesopotamia, where he was taken sick with enteric fever and sent back to India, and there had an attack of malaria fever. He has now recovered, and is stationed at Lahore. In letters home he speaks well of the kindness and care taken of them in the hospitals. He also mentions Lady Willingdon’s kindness to them all… Gunner Jones will be 20 on 26th May 1917.
Published: May 1917
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Army
Spencer Hutchinson
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
Parents: Mr James & Mrs Rebecca Hutchinson
Brother: George J Hutchinson
Address: 2 Halton Crescent, Hastings
Other Info: Died of wounds on 15th April 1917. According to CWGC, Spencer died aged 22 and is remembered at Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, grave reference II.E.27.
Published: May 1917
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Army
Ebenezer Fairall
Rank: Private
Service: British Army
Sister: Mrs Martin
Sister’s Address: 16 North Terrace, Halton
Brother: Samuel Fairall
Other Info: Additional information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: May 1917
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Army
Edward H Dive
Rank: Private
Regiment: Army Veterinary Corps
Sister: Mrs D Martin
Brother-in-Law: A R T Martin
Sister’s Address: 16 North Terrace, Halton, Hastings
Other Info: Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: May 1917
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Richard Bourn
Rank: Sapper
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Parents: Mr & Mrs Bourn
Address: 1 Wellington Road, Hastings
Other Info: Sapper Bourn enlisted two days after war was declared, giving up his post as an electrical engineer for the purpose. He has made the two vases shown in the picture out of the shell cases. One of these (bearing the Artillery badge) was given him by a friend in the French artillery, it being a shell with which that friend brought down a Taube aeroplane. On the front of the other shell is the R.E. cap badge worn by Sapper Bourn part of each day since he enlisted up to the time he made and sent home the shells.
Published: May 1917
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Leonard Colvin
Rank: Private
Regiment: 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs Colvin
Address: Bourne Walk, Hastings
Other Info: Killed in action aged 23 on 12th April 1917. According to CWGC, Leonard is remembered at the Arras Memorial, Bay 6.
Published: May 1917
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L W Barber
Rank: Private
Regiment: Kent Regiment
Sent by: Miss A Message
Address: Tile Kiln Farm, Fairlight
Other Info: In India.
Published: May 1917
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