Army
Charles H Jardine
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr Richard & Mrs Mary Ann Jardine
Brothers: Arthur W Jardine & (probably) Richard J Jardine
Address: 17 South Terrace, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded at the Battle of the Marne. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: November 1914
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Army
H Payne
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Address: 232 Priory Road, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded on 14th September 1914 at the Battle of Aisne.
An article published in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer on 10th October 1914 reads: “Rifleman H. Payne, 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifles, whose home is 232 Priory Road, Hastings, writing to the Editor of the ‘Observer’ from the Second Southern General Hospital, Southmead, Bristol, says :- “I am sending you an experience I had in the Battle of the Aisne, where I got wounded. On Sunday, 13th September, my Battalion, 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was detailed for outpost duty. We took up our position at dusk, and everything went well until daybreak, when we saw in front of us two lines of trenches occupied by Germans. .
Our Officer in charge of ‘C’ Company gave us the order to charge, leaving the other three Companies in support. We went for all we were worth shouting at the top of our voices, until we got up to the Germans, when they dropped their rifles and prayed for mercy.
We left 12 men in charge of them, 50 all told, while we went after the others in the other trench. As soon as we turned our backs on them they picked up their rifles and killed the twelve men we left in charge, and fired on us.
We at once turned back and had no mercy on them this time. We put our swords through them. While we were busy killed those in the first trench, the Germans in the other trench came up and fired on us, killing and wounding 50 of us, so another Company was sent up to help us but how they got on I do not know, as I was taken away wounded in the right arm to a hospital in a village close by, where we stopped for one day, as early the next morning the Germans had started shelling the place, so we had to leave it in a hurry. Just as the last man was taken out a shell dropped right in the centre of the roof setting fire to the straw we had been lying on. I hope to be able to go out and have another go at them in a month’s time.
Published: November 1914
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Army
R Jeffrey
Rank: Private
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Address: 28 Russell Street, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded on 14th September 1914.
Published: November 1914
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Army
Ernest Bliss
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Father: Mr D D Bliss
Address: 5 Barley Lane, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded on 10th September 1914. Now in hospital at Weybridge.
According to CWGC, Ernest died on 20th August 1916. He is remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 7c.
Published: November 1914
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Army
S Piper
Rank: Private
Regiment: 6th Dragoon Guards
Wife: Mrs Piper
Brother-in-Law: Basil Richard Eldridge
Address: 15 Bulverhythe Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Reservist. Wounded, now in hospital at Southend
Published: November 1914
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J Wicks
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr George & Mrs Jane Wicks
Address: 22 Park Field Road, Hollington
Other Info: Killed in action on 3rd October 1914. According to CWGC, Corporal Wicks was 19 when he died. He is remembered at Vendresse British Cemetery, grave reference III.K.3
Published: November 1914
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Harold Thomas Riggulsford
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal West Kent Regiment
Mother: Mrs Riggulsford
Brother: George Wilfred E Riggulsford
Brother-in-Law: Arthur George Crockford
Address: 141 Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings
Other Info: Killed in action on 20th September 1914. According to CWCG, Harold was 26 when he died. He is remembered at La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, panel 22a.
On CWGC and Lives of the First World War website, Harold’s surname is spelt “Riggulsford”, and on Hastings war memorial it is spelt “Riggalsford”. The September 1916 article spells the surname as Rigglesford.
Published: November 1914 & September 1916
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George Tomlin
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr William John & Mrs Sarah Tomlin (Nee Game)
Cousins: Harry Tomlin, F Tomlin & Charles Tomlin
Address: 119 Athelstan Road, Clive Vale, Hastings
Other Info: Killed in action at Vendresse on 14th September 1914. According to CWGC, George is remembered at Terlincthun British Cemetery, grave reference VII. AE. 5
Published: November 1914
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Peter Mepham
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Drill Instructor, Army Service Corps
Wife: Mrs Mepham
Son: John Mepham & Arthur Mepham
Address: 106 Saxon Road, Clive Vale, Hastings
Other Info: He is 63 years of age but has joined his old regiment as Instructor, in response to Lord Kitcheners’s appeal for ex NCO’s. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: November 1914 & January 1916
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Ronald Marchant
Rank: Transport Driver
Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery
Wife: Mrs Marchant
Address: 123 Bohemia Road, St Leonards
Other Info: At the Front
Published: November 1914
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