Army
W Ellis
Rank: Driver
Regiment: du Cros Motor Ambulance Convoy, Army Service Corps
Parents: Mr & Mrs Ellis
Brothers: Albert George Ellis & R Ellis
Address: 4 St Paul’s Road, Bohemia, St Leonards
Other Info: At the Front
Published: September 1915
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Army
Albert George Ellis
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Parents: Mr & Mrs Ellis
Address: 4 St Paul’s Road, Bohemia, St Leonards
Other Info: Killed in action on 9th May 1915. According to CWGC, Albert is remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, panel 46-48 & 50.
Published: September 1915
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Army
Frank Stanley Duke
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Parents: Mr David & Mrs Eliza Duke
Brothers: Godfrey Charles Duke, Percy Duke & George Duke
Brothers-in-Law: George Coote, W Jennings & J Martin
Address: 2 Cross Street, St Leonards
Other Info: Killed in action on 14th August 1915 aged 25 years. According to CWGC, Frank is remembered at Woods Cemetery, grave reference I.A.24.
Published: September 1915 & October 1917
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Mercantile Marine
Harry Diton
Ship: HMS Transport SS Ariadue / SS Elswick Manor
Father: Mr Henry Diton
Brothers: Jack Diton & Wallace Diton
Address: 13 Woods Passage, All Saints Street
Second grandson of Councilor Dighton (sic). *The spelling of the surname ‘Diton’ corresponds with Navy records.
Published: September 1915 & April 1917
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Army
Bernard Dabson
Rank: Private
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs W T Dabson
Former Address: ‘Wesley’, Bourne Street, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded for a second time. Now in hospital in Shropshire. Formerly of the Hastings Observer and Pictorial Advertiser.
“… has gained the Military Medal which was presented to him last Sunday morning after Church Parade at Tunbridge Wells, by the Colonel in Command. After Church Parade the Battalion was marched back to the Parade Ground, and Private Dabson called to the front. The Colonel then said that it gave him great pleasure to decorate one of the 5th, and complimented him on his deed. Prior to pinning on the medal he read out what gained it: ‘On several occasions Private Dabson showed great devotion to duty and bravery in rescuing wounded men from No Mans Land under heavy shell fire.’ The Colonel warmly shook hands with Private Dabson, as did all the other officers.
Published: September 1915, November 1916 & March 1917
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Army
John Campion
Rank: Private
Regiment: 11th Battalion (Southdowns), Royal Sussex Regiment
Sent by: Miss Hilton
Miss Hilton’s Address: 18 Cambridge Gardens, Hastings
Other Info: Additional name information from the Royal Sussex – Southdowns website.
Published: September 1915
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Navy
William Butler
Rank: First Class Stoker
Ship: HMS India
Mother: Mrs Johnston
Address: 25 Perth Road, Silverhill
Other Info: Lost on 8th August 1915. The SS India, an armed merchant cruiser, was torpedoed by the German submarine U-22 off the coast of Norway. 160 crew were lost and 141 saved. William is remembered at Plymouth Naval Memorial on panel 6.
William is not named on Hastings War Memorial.
Published: September 1915
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Army
E Burgess
Rank: Private / Lance Corporal
Regiment: ‘The Welsh Bantams’, 22nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Parents: Mr Albert Arthur & Mrs Ellen Mary Burgess
Brother: Reginald Thomas Burgess
Address: 24 Shepherd Street, St Leonards
Other Info: At the Front
Published: September 1915 & January 1917
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Army
Bruce Buchanan
Regiment: Canadian Expeditionary Force
Mother: Mrs Buchanan
Address: 9 Cambridge Gardens, Hastings
Published: September 1915
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Army
G Brown
Rank: Private
Regiment: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Sent by: Miss E Foster
Miss Foster’s Address: 2 Garden Cottages, All Saints Street, Hastings
Published: September 1915
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