Army
F E Jones
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Regiment: 2nd Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Father: Mr W Jones
Brother: W W Jones
Father’s Address: 14 Battle Road, St Leonards
Published: April 1915
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Thomson Favard
Rank: Sapper
Service: East African Engineers / Southern Rifles
Grandparents: Mr & Mrs H Horscroft
Grandparents’ Address: Hastings
Other Info: Tom Favard, whose clever achievement in the capture of a rebel leader in the Cape Rebellion (possibly the Boer Rebellion of 1914?) was related in the Observer on March 20th.
The report in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer reads: “… A letter from Uitenhage describes the affair. A report came to the camp at Kimberley that the rebels were in the neighbourhood, so a party of the Southern Rifles, to which Mr Favard is attached, went in pursuit. There was a sharp fight with the rebels and two horses were killed. The main body had been stationed at likely spots for the rebels to trek through near the Vaal River; but Lieutenant Duthrie, with three men and Mr Favard captured eleven rebels and thirteen horses, and among the rebels was Commander Conroy, the last active rebel leader active in the Union of South Africa.
Mr Favard had taken a revolver and joined the combatants. The four or five were stationed on a high plateau, and Favard was relieving guard at 3am, when the sentry reported that he saw a small native boy herding sheep. Mr Favard fetched the boy and questioned him in Dutch as to whether he had seen any armed or mounted men, and the boy said there some behind behind a farmhouse about a mile away.
So the went to the spot and the Lieutenant called upon the rebels to surrender, which they did, and they were made to come one by one and give up their rifles. They were frightened and begged for their lives, and looked as if they would feint. Conroy gave Mr Favard his rifle and revolver, telling him to keep them, and asked him where the remainder of his men were. And his surprise can be imagined when he found that his party had surrendered to four or five lads. Some of the prisoners were handed over to another party to take into town as they could not deal with them all.”
Published: April 1915
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Edward Fathers
Rank: Quarter Master Sergeant
Regiment: 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers
Other Info: The text reads: ‘Group photograph sent by Mrs Breeds, Providence House, Tackleway, Hastings. The soldiers shown in the picture were billeted with her. The are: Quartermaster-Sergeant Jas. Wright, age 55, service 38 years; Quartermaster-Sergeant C. Spillman, age 50, service 32 years; Sergeant Major E. Fathers. age 57, service 33 years. They belong to the 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and have all passed fit for the Front at any moment. The sender of the photograph asks: “Can this be beaten in any one billet in Hastings?”.’
Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: April 1915
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Charles W Spillman
Rank: Quarter Master Sergeant
Regiment: 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers
Other Info: The text reads: ‘Group photograph sent by Mrs Breeds, Providence House, Tackleway, Hastings. The soldiers shown in the picture were billeted with her. The are: Quartermaster-Sergeant Jas. Wright, age 55, service 38 years; Quartermaster-Sergeant C. Spillman, age 50, service 32 years; Sergeant Major E. Fathers. age 57, service 33 years. They belong to the 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and have all passed fit for the Front at any moment. The sender of the photograph asks: “Can this be beaten in any one billet in Hastings?”.’
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Published: April 1915
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Archibald Montague
Rank: Private
Service: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr Edward & Mrs Susanna Montague
Home Address: 7 Manor Road, Hastings
Other Info: Archibald Montague died aged 24 on 9th September 1916. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial, pier and face 7C. He is also remembered on a family grave at Hastings Cemetery. He is not named on Hastings War Memorial.
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Alfred Newman Jinks
Rank: Gunner
Service: 138th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Parents: Mr William N & Mrs Sarah Jinks
Other Info: Alfred Jinks died aged 20 on 29th May 1916. He is buried at Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery, British Extension, grave reference I.A.2. He is also remembered on a family grave at Hastings Cemetery.
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Harry Creed
Rank: Sapper
Service: 25 Division, Signal Company, Royal Engineers
Parents: Mr Richard & Harriet Creed
Parents Address: 14 Waterworks Road, Queens Road, Hastings
Other Info: Harry Creed died aged 27 on 17th April 1918. He is buried at Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery, grave reference I.D.2. He is also remembered on a family grave at Hastings Cemetery.
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Jas Wright
Rank: Quarter Master Sergeant
Regiment: 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers
Other Info: The text reads: ‘Group photograph sent by Mrs Breeds, Providence House, Tackleway, Hastings. The soldiers shown in the picture were billeted with her. The are: Quartermaster-Sergeant Jas. Wright, age 55, service 38 years; Quartermaster-Sergeant C. Spillman, age 50, service 32 years; Sergeant Major E. Fathers. age 57, service 33 years. They belong to the 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and have all passed fit for the Front at any moment. The sender of the photograph asks: “Can this be beaten in any one billet in Hastings?”.’
Published: April 1915
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Ernest Edgar Wynne
Rank: Sapper
Service: Signal Depot (Dunstable), Royal Engineers
Wife: Mrs Theresa Wynne
Home Address: 4 Pinders Road, Clive Vale, Hastings
Other Info: Ernest Wynne died aged 31 on 22nd June 1919. He is buried at Hastings Cemetery.
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Charles Benjamin Wynhall
Rank: Private
Service: 1st Garrison Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Wife: Mrs Edith Kate Wynhall
Home Address: 6 Hughenden Road, Hastings
Other Info: Charles Wynhall died aged 51 on 10th October 1918. He is buried at Hastings Cemetery. The inscription on his grave says “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven”. Charles is not remembered on Hastings War Memorial.
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