Army
H Weeks
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Fusiliers
Mother: Mrs Weeks
Brothers: F Weeks, A Weeks, Percy Weeks & Thomas Weeks & Frederick G Weeks
Brother-in-Law: W Wise
Address: 1 Wilmington Road, St Helen’s Down, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front. Wounded on 13th November 1916. Now in hospital in Aldershot.
Published: July 1916, December 1916 & December 1917
Army
Ernest Fletcher Manser
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: 88th Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr Charles Robert and Mrs Edith Fletcher Manser
Brothers: A F Manser & H Manser
Address: 150 St Georges Road, Hastings
Other Info: Been at the Front for 12 Months. According to CWGC, Ernest died aged 19 on 27th November 1915. He is remembered at Bertrancourt Military Cemetery, grave reference Plot 1, Row A, Grave 5.
Published: October 1915 & December 1917
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Army
John D Fairbairn
Rank: Sapper
Regiment: Signal Depot, Royal Engineers
Parents: Mr & Mrs Fairbairn
Address: 8 Waterworks Road, Hastings
Other Info: The paper article reads: “… I am sending a photograph of myself and comrades, also two Indians who are attached to the Indian Cavalry Corps. I am the only son of Mr & Mrs Fairbairn … and am standing with the cycle on the extreme left of the photograph. My chum, also with a cycle is on the extreme right. My chum, Sapper A W Heath, and I were both employees of the G.P.O. Engineering Department in Hastings. We are in the Signal Service of the Royal Engineers doing linesman duties, sometimes on cycles and sometimes on horses, according to the state of the weather and roads. This is a very dangerous occupation under shell fire.”
Wounded on 30th November 1917.
Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: September 1915, April 1916 & December 1917
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Army
Thomas A Fry
Rank: Sapper
Regiment: 18th Signal Company, Royal Engineers
Mother: Mrs Fry
Brother: J F Fry
Brother-in-Law: E Dann
Address: 37 Bexhill Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Wounded in France. Now in Egypt.
Published: August 1915 & December 1917
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Army
W Wratten
Rank: Corporal / Sergeant
Regiment: 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Father: Mr Wratten
Address: The Lodge, St Helens Wood, Hastings
Brothers: C Wratten & P Wratten
Other Info: Eleven years in India.
Published: June 1915 & December 1917
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Royal Air Force
Arthur John Bumstead
Rank: Private / Corporal / Sergeant
Regiment: Royal Flying Corps
Parents: Mr & Mrs A Bumstead
Brother: George William Bumstead
Uncle: Mark S Swain
Address: 7 Cornfield Terrace, Bohemia, St Leonards
Other Info: Four years with Hastings Fire Brigade. At the Front. In hospital at Leeds (December 1917)
Published: June 1915, November 1916 & December 1917
Army
Thomas James Helsdown
Rank: Sapper
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Wife: Mrs Helsdown
Brother: James Helsdown
Address: 25 High Bank, Ore
Other Info: Additional name information from Lives of the First World War website, where he is listed at the rank of Sergeant.
Published: April 1915 & December 1917
Army
Charles Moon
Rank: Private / Lance Corporal
Regiment: 2nd Southdown Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs C Moon
Brothers: George Moon, Fred Moon, Dick Moon, Bert Moon & William Moon
Brother-in-Law: Jack Adams
Address: 4a Bourne Street, Hastings
Published: March 1915 & December 1917
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Army
Richard Henry (Dick) Moon
Rank: Private
Regiment: 3rd Southdown Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment / 11th Battalion,
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)
Parents: Mr & Mrs C Moon
Brothers: George Moon, Fred Moon, Charles Moon, Bert Moon & William Moon
Brother-in-Law: Jack Adams
Address: 4a Bourne Street, Hastings.
Other Info: Killed in action on 20th October 1917. According to CWGC, Richard is remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 42 to 47 and 162.
Published: March 1915 & December 1917
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Navy
Ernest Huggett
Rank: Signalman
Ship: HMS Queen Mary
Parents: Mr & Mrs Spencer Huggett
Brothers: Charles Huggett & Frederick Spencer Huggett
Address: 22 Strood Road, Silverhill
Other Info: Ernest was on board HMS Queen Mary when it took part in the Battle of Heligoland. He went on to serve aboard HMS Fortune, and was among the 68 lost when it was sunk on 1st June 1916 during the Battle of Jutland. He is remembered at the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, on panel 14
Published: November 1914, September 1916 & December 1917
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