Army
Charles Brignall
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr Stephen Burgess Brignall & Mrs Harriet Brignall
Brother: Ernest Brignall
Address: 16 Salisbury Road, St Leonards
Other Info: A well known local Runner. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: October 1914
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Army
Harry Walter Poole
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs H Poole
Wife: Mrs Poole
Brother: Alfred Poole
Address: 4 Duke Road, Silverhill
Other Info: He was killed in action on 4th October 1914. His parents lived at 16 Battle Road, St Leonards. According to CWCG, Harry is remembered at La Ferte Sous Jouarre Memorial, on Panel 16a.
The letter mentioned, published in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer on 31st October 1914, forms part of an article that reads: “We regret that information has been received that Private H. W. Poole, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, has been killed in action. He is a member of an old Silverhill family, and his wife resides at 4, Duke Road. An expression of sorrow from the King, signed by Lord Kitchener, has been received by his wife and parents.
In a letter to his wife on the 30th September, Poole expressed satisfaction that his wife and all at home were keeping brave and having faith that he would again be home with them. He continued ‘There is one thing you can be certain of, if the worst comes to the worst. You can say that your husband was never a coward, because you know yourself that I need not have joined the Colours, having had a certificate from Dr. Richardson the day before mobilisation, but it becomes every British Solider to stand by Old England in the time of need, so once again I give you our motto of the Regiment I am pround to belong to: “Be Brave, Fear God, Honour the King”.
Harry is not listed on Hastings War memorial.
Published: October 1914
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Army
Harry Glazier
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Published: October 1914
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Navy
James Newington
Regiment: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves
Ship: HMS Neptune
Sister: Mrs Martin
Sister’s Address: 44 All Saints Street, Hastings
Address: 2 Providence Row, All Saints Street, Hastings
Other Info: HMS Excellent was a land based gunnery school based in Portsmouth.
The text for ‘A Winning Crew’ reads: A crew on board HMS Neptune, winners of the RNR and RNVR race at the squadron regatta, 1915. The man on the left, sitting on the ground is James Newington, brother of Mrs Martin…. Another Hastings man, W Larkins, is third from the left in the second row from the back.
Published: October 1914 & March 1916
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Army
Mr Berry
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: 2th Sussex Battalion, 2nd Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Published: October 1914
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Navy
George J Seaman
Rank: Leading Seaman
Ship: HMS Lancaster
Parents: Mr James & Mrs Rebecca Hutchinson
Brother: Spencer Hutchinson
Address: 2 Halton Crescent, Hastings
Published: October 1914
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Army
F W Rowe
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps, 12 Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Mother: Ms Rowe
Address: 16 Holmesdale Gardens, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front
Published: October 1914 & June 1917
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Army
G Crouch
Rank: Private
Regiment: 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs G Crouch
Brother: Harry Ernest Crouch
Address: Harold House, East Ascent, St Leonards
Published: October 1914
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Navy
Ernest Arthur Beaney
Rank: Leading Seaman
Ship: HMS Commonwealth
Parents: Mr William James Beaney and Ellen Mary French
Address: 18 Windsor Road, Silverhill
Other Info: Not sure what R.N.B.R means. Date of Birth was 3rd June 1884 in Hollington. He died in 1971 aged 86 years. Ernest was married in 1919 to Dorothea Woodthorpe at Spilsby Registration District, Lincolnshire.
Published: October 1914
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Navy
Thomas George Rolfe
Regiment: Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
Ship: HMS Bayano
Address: Bourne Street, Hastings
Other Info: At Walmer. Was one of the survivors aboard HMS Bayano which was torpedoed on March 11th 1915. He was saved (after clinging to rafts for five hours with other members of the crew) by Captain J Foster and the crew of Balmarino. Mr Rolfe was taken to County Hospital, Ayr with three others. He was most kindly treated. Then he was taken to Portsmouth and from there sent home for 14 days leave. He has now returned to Portsmouth.
Published: October 1914 & April 1915
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