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Edgar Knox
Rank: Trooper
Regiment: 2nd Dragoon Guard’s (Queen’s Bays)
Parents: Mr & Mrs Edward Knox
Cousin: Harold Housecroft
Address: St Leonards
Published: December 1914
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Harold Housecroft
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: East Surrey Regiment
Uncle & Aunt: Mr & Mrs Edward Knox
Cousin: Edgar Knox
Parents: Mr Harry & Mrs Emia Housecroft
Address: 121 Thurleigh Road, Balham, London
Other Info: The Knox’s resided in St Leonards. Harold was killed in action aged 21 on 19th November 1914. He is remembered at Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, grave reference II.B.26.
Published: December 1914
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Percy Thomas Butler
Rank: Trooper
Regiment: Royal Horse Guards
Mother: Mrs J Butler
Sister: Miss R F Butler
Brothers: A C Butler & J H Butler
Address: 7 Mount Pleasant Crescent, Hastings
Other Info: Aged 18. At the Front. Height 6ft 4ins.
Published: December 1914 & December 1916
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F Burtenshaw
Rank: Sapper
Regiment: 2nd Home Counties Brigade, Royal Engineers
Sent in by Mrs Fitch
Address: 91 Manor Road, Hastings
Published: December 1914
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G Gillham
Regiment: 6th Sussex Service Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Sent by: Mrs Gillham
Address: 136 Queen’s Road, Hastings
Published: December 1914
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F J Harmer
Rank: Pioneer
Regiment: ‘B’ Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Published: December 1914
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Albert Tester
Rank: Private
Regiment: 8th Battalion, Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
Parents: Mr & Mrs J Tester
Wife: Mrs Muriel Tester (nee Parks)
Brothers: William G Tester, John Tester & Leonard Tester
Address: 403 Battle Road, Hollington
Other Info: A Military Wedding reads “On June 5th 1916, at St Paul’s Church, St Leonards, the marriage was solemnised between Corporal Albert Tester … and Miss Muriel Parks. The bridegroom having been at the Front for ten months was home on leave. He returned to duty a week later. … Corporal Tester, before the war, was a motorman in the employ of the Hastings and St Leonards Tramway Company.”
Wounded. Now lying in hospital in France.
Published: December 1914, January 1915, July 1916 & July 1917
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Albert Sinden
Rank: Private
Regiment: 5th Sussex Service Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Uncle & Aunt: Mr & Mrs Jinks
Address: 4 Oban Road, Silverhill
Published: December 1914
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Clifford O Wells
Rank: Driver
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr & Mrs H Wells
Brother: H G Wells
Cousin: Thomas George Wells
Address: 99 Beaconsfield Road, Hastings
Other Information: At Machine Gun School, General Headquarters, France
Published: December 1914 & February 1916
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H G Wells
Rank: Private
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs H Wells
Wife: Sarah Wells
Brother: Clifford O Wells
Cousin: Thomas George Wells
Address: 99 Beaconsfield Road, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded, now in Northampton General Hospital. Married at the Parish Church of Alciston. Victor Hallett gave the bride away and Gilbert Wren Acted as best man.
Published: December 1914, July 1915, February 1916 & February 1918
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