Herbert (Bert) Samuel Tapp
Rank: 1st Class Boy
Ship: HMS Dreadnought
Mother: Mrs Elizabeth Sarah Tapp
Address: 5 St Pauls Road, St Leonards
Other Info: According to CWGC, Bert died on 31st May 1916 aged 17 when HMS Black Prince was sunk during the Battle of Jutland. He is remembered at Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 14.
Published: February 1915
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A Marchant
Rank: Stoker
Ship: HMS Naiad
Mother: Mrs H Marchant
Brothers: T Marchant, E Marchant & W Marchant
Son or Nephew: Victor Marchant
Address: Buck Wood Cottage, Netherfield Road, Battle
Other Info: Active Service
Published: February 1915
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Albert Henry Diton
Rank: Able Seaman
Regiment: Collingwood Battalion, Royal Naval Division
Parents: Mr Albert P & Mrs Matilda Diton
Brother-in-Law: Percy Godfrey Goldsmith
Address: 19 Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded and died at the Dardanelles. According to CWGC, Albert died aged 23 on 4th June 1915. He is remembered at the Helles Memorial on panel 8 to 15.
Published: February 1915, July 1915 & July 1916
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Harry Gasson
Ship: HMS Europa
Parents: Mr William & Mrs Abbey Gasson
Brothers: Tom Gasson & Dick Gasson
Address: 100 Church Street, Ore
Other Info: According to CWGC, Harry died aged 32 on 31st May 1916 whilst aboard HMS Castor during the Battle of Jutland. He is buried at Esbjerg New Cemetery, grave reference VIII.H.1. The information shows that he was married to Charlotte Swaine and lived at 148 Church Street, Ore.
Published: February 1915
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Edwin C Edmunds
Ship: HMS Carnarvon & HMS Agincourt
Parents: Mr Henry & Mrs Florence Edmunds
Brother: William H Edmunds
Address: 14 John Street, Hastings
Published: February 1915 & October 1915
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Percy John Wood
Regiment: Royal Naval Reserves
Ship: HMS Celtic & HMT Olida
Mother-in-Law: Mrs H Hodd
Brother-in-Law: Henry Hodd
Address: 4 Oxford Terrace, All Saints Street, Hastings
Other Info: ‘Now in Alexandria’ reads: We received the above photograph last week, and with it the following letter: “Sir, I am sending you a photograph of two well known Hastings men from the old town whom I have had the please of talking to out in Alexandria. They are P Wood and James Spice. Wood told me how he came to be up. He said he volunteered on his discharge papers on the first day of the Reserve were going away, and he was sent away to Portsmouth with them on the 2nd August 1914, practically the first volunteer in Hastings, I presume, if not in the British Isles. If you were to apply to Mrs Wood, 67 Milward Terrace, Ore, she would let you see his discharge papers to prove his words. I think his is a very interesting case, not many like it in England and not very well known in Hastings only by a few fisherman friends. He has practically been on foreign service ever since he has been up. Left England 10th December 1914 for South America, went all round there far North, and from there to South Africa, being 13 months on this trip. He came home soon enough for Christmas leave, having 10 days, and was coming out to Alexandria on 24th January 1916 on a trawler. He has been here 16 Months. James Spice has been out here 17 months, and just two years in a trawler here and in the North Sea, after having seen service in the Grand Fleet. Spice is a Seaman Gunner. He has had some unpleasant experiences; helped to save a ship’s crew which had been torpedoed, picking up 24 survivors, and had the unpleasant site of a ship being sunk when she was being escorted for four trawlers, not one of them seeing the submarine. Jim’s ship picked up a lot of the survivors. They were only 20 miles from here. They are unpleasant and arduous duties these trawlers have to perform”.
Published: February 1915 & May 1917
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Alfred James Hyland
Ship: HMS Caroline
Sent by: Sister
Address: Hastings
Published: February 1915
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W W Bonny
Rank: Engine Room Articifer (ERA)
Ship: HMS Lord Nelson
Uncle & Aunt: Mr & Mrs Harry Hatchman
Address: Crowhurst Hotel, Crowhurst
Published: February 1915
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Arthur Payne
Ship: HMS Powerful
Mother: Mrs Payne
Brother: Edward Payne
Address: 10 Gordon Road, West Hill, Hastings
Published: January 1915
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Edward Payne
Ship: HMS Powerful
Mother: Mrs Payne
Brother: Arthur Payne
Address: 10 Gordon Road, West Hill, Hastings
Published: January 1915
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