Army
A G Hollingsdale
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Address: 208 Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings
Other Info: For Active Service
Published: September 1915
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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
F Bumstead
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Address: Wallbrook Cottage, Croft Road, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded. Now in convalescent home in France.
Published: September 1915
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Army
William G Truebridge
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, 1st Home Counties, Royal Field Artillery
Sister-in-Law: Mrs Bryant
Brothers-in-Law: Lance Corporal Bryant & Private Lewis
Sister-in-Law’s Address: 1 The Tackleway, Old Town, Hastings
Other Info: Additional name and rank information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: September 1915
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Army
Mr Lewis
Rank: Private
Regiment: East Surrey Regiment
Sister-in-Law: Mrs Bryant
Brothers-in-Law: Lance Corporal Bryant & William G Truebridge
Sister-in-Law’s Address: 1 The Tackleway, Old Town, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded at Ypres
Published: September 1915
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Army
Mr Bryant
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Wife: Mrs Bryant
Brothers-in-Law: Private Lewis & William G Truebridge
Address: 1 The Tackleway, Old Town, Hastings
Other Info: Home, wounded.
Published: September 1915
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Army
W G Grace
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: West Riding Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
Address: Hastings
Other Info: Text Reads ‘He is 55 years of age, but is at the Front, and has two sons serving there also. Lance Corporal Grace is well known in Hastings as a driver and acted as chauffeur for a local gentleman for seven years. He hope the mention of the fact that he is serving in the field will induce some of the young men of the town to “shoulder arms and come out to help us”. He has been told that he is the oldest man from Hastings at the Front, but we do not know if that is the case.
Published: September 1915
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Army
A Selmes
Rank: Private
Regiment: Army Service Corps, Transport
Mother: Mrs Reeves
Address: 8 Pelham Street, Hastings
Other Info: At Rouen.
Published: August 1915
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Army
Edward Pollington
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Regiment: Army Service Corps
Address: 80 Milward Road, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
The text from ‘A French Boy’s Terrible Experience’ reads: “These portraits are of Staff Sergeant E Pollington, A.S.C., and Marcel, a French boy who is with the Staff Sergeant “Somewhere in France”. The photographs were sent by Staff Sergeant Pollington to Mr J O Forster, newsagent, 55 Queens Road, Hastings and with them a letter, from which we take the following extracts: – At the beginning of the war the Germans captured the village where Marcel and his mother lived alone. They held the village eight days, and it was the eighth day which was the worst for him. The German soldiers came to their house, and tried to outrage his mother, and with her resisting one of them clubbed her with his rifle, and when she was on the floor a German officer shot her with his revolver. The little chap told me he witnessed it all. It was at this point the German cyclist came in with the news that the French and English were advancing, and they cleared out. The French Zouaves cleared them at the point of the bayonet. After he saw his mother buried Marcel went with the French soldiers, but these having to go to the trenches, sent him back. He then went with the English motors, and finally ended up with falling across our Company. He first worked with the cooks, but I, seeing he wanted looking after, took him under my charge. He is working now under me, and I can say he is very handy as an interpreter sometimes, and helps me with my French”
Published: August 1915 & February 1916
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Army
J Hilling
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Mother: Mrs Hilling
Father: R Hilling
Address: 28 St Mary’s Road, Hastings
Published: August 1915
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