Harry Olney
Rank: Private
Regiment: 5th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
Parents: Mr Ernest Charles & Mrs Annie Louisa Olney
Uncle: George Olney
Brother: Frank Olney
Cousins: Harry Bevis, Albert Edward Bevis & Frederick Bevis
Address: 36 Salisbury Road, St Leonards
Other Info: On Foreign Service
Published: January 1915
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Frank Olney
Rank: Private
Regiment: 5th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
Parents: Mr Ernest Charles & Mrs Annie Louisa Olney
Uncle: George Olney
Brother: Harry Olney
Cousins: Harry Bevis, Albert Edward Bevis & Frederick Bevis
Address: 36 Salisbury Road, St Leonards
Other Info: On Foreign Service
Published: January 1915
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George Olney
Rank: Private
Regiment: National Reserves
Nephews: Frank Olney, Harry Olney, Harry Bevis, Albert Edward Bevis & Frederick Bevis
Other Info: Late of the Royal Engineers
Published: January 1915
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Maurice Clayton
Rank: Trooper
Regiment: 1st Life Guards
Father: Constable Frank Clayton
Address: 14 Saxon Road, Clive Vale, Hastings
Other: Stands 6ft 2in at age 18. Enlisted in October 1914.
Published: January 1915
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F G Langham
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Other: At Dover
Published: October 1914
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W Sargent
Rank: Sapper
Regiment: 2nd Home Counties Brigade, Royal Engineers
Father: Mr Sargent
Address: 28 Duke Road, Silverhill
Other: At Canterbury
Published: October 1914
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Edward John Harris
Rank: Lance Corporal
Parents: Mr James & Mrs Caroline Harris
Wife: Kate Elizabeth Harris (nee Playford)
Regiment: ‘B’ Company, 11th Battalion (Southdowns) Royal Sussex Regiment
Brothers: William John Harris, George Henry Harris, Albert Joseph Harris, Frederick Charles Harris & Thomas J Harris
Address: 1 Edward Terrace, Hollington, St Leonards
Other: At the Front. According to CWGC, Edward died on 26th April 1918. He is remembered at the Tyne Cot Memorial on panel 86 to 88.
Published: October 1914
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George Driver
Regiment: 4th Lancers
Parents: Mr & Mrs Driver
Brother: T Driver
Address: 5 Croft Terrace, Hastings
Other: At the Front
Published: October 1914
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Edward Humby
Rank: Bandsman
Regiment: ‘C’ Squadron, 9th Lancers
Parents: Mr & Mrs H Humby
Brothers: Harry Humby
Address: Maze Hill, St Leonards
Other: Wounded in Captain Grenfell’s historic charge. Now returned to the front.
Published: October 1914 & May 1915
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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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