Navy
Edwin C Edmunds
Ship: HMS Carnarvon & HMS Agincourt
Parents: Mr Henry & Mrs Florence Edmunds
Brother: William H Edmunds
Address: 14 John Street, Hastings
Published: February 1915 & October 1915
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Army
William Henry Edmunds
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Parents: Mr Henry & Mrs Florence Edmunds
Brother: Edwin C Edmunds
Address: 14 John Street, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front. Died at Hastings after being invalided home from the Front. According to CWGC, William died aged 20 on 3rd October 1915. He is remembered at Hastings Cemetery, grave reference L.A.K10.
Published: February 1915 & October 1915
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Army
Reg Noakes
Rank: Private
Regiment: 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Parents: Mr Thomas F & Mrs Sarah J Noakes
Address: 6 Stone Street, Hastings
Other Info: According to CWGC, Reg died aged 22 on 9th August 1917. He is remembered at Locre Hospice Cemetery, grave reference I.B.21.
Published: February 1915 & September 1917
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Navy
Percy John Wood
Regiment: Royal Naval Reserves
Ship: HMS Celtic & HMT Olida
Mother-in-Law: Mrs H Hodd
Brother-in-Law: Henry Hodd
Address: 4 Oxford Terrace, All Saints Street, Hastings
Other Info: ‘Now in Alexandria’ reads: We received the above photograph last week, and with it the following letter: “Sir, I am sending you a photograph of two well known Hastings men from the old town whom I have had the please of talking to out in Alexandria. They are P Wood and James Spice. Wood told me how he came to be up. He said he volunteered on his discharge papers on the first day of the Reserve were going away, and he was sent away to Portsmouth with them on the 2nd August 1914, practically the first volunteer in Hastings, I presume, if not in the British Isles. If you were to apply to Mrs Wood, 67 Milward Terrace, Ore, she would let you see his discharge papers to prove his words. I think his is a very interesting case, not many like it in England and not very well known in Hastings only by a few fisherman friends. He has practically been on foreign service ever since he has been up. Left England 10th December 1914 for South America, went all round there far North, and from there to South Africa, being 13 months on this trip. He came home soon enough for Christmas leave, having 10 days, and was coming out to Alexandria on 24th January 1916 on a trawler. He has been here 16 Months. James Spice has been out here 17 months, and just two years in a trawler here and in the North Sea, after having seen service in the Grand Fleet. Spice is a Seaman Gunner. He has had some unpleasant experiences; helped to save a ship’s crew which had been torpedoed, picking up 24 survivors, and had the unpleasant site of a ship being sunk when she was being escorted for four trawlers, not one of them seeing the submarine. Jim’s ship picked up a lot of the survivors. They were only 20 miles from here. They are unpleasant and arduous duties these trawlers have to perform”.
Published: February 1915 & May 1917
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Army
H Tickner
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Address: 49 St Mary’s Road, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front
Published: February 1915
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Army
Albert Edward Dernbach
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: 237th Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Sent by: Mrs Dernbach
Address: 19 Cornwallis Terrace, Hastings
Other Info: Enlisted with the late Captain J W W Nason on August 28th 1914, in the RFA. Proceeded to France August 1915. In action at Loos, Vermelles, Aubers Ridge, Ypres, Elverdhinge and in the Somme (August 1916 to February 1917. Recommened for a commission in February 1917. Engagements at the Somme were at Moutabon, Trones Wood, Gillimont, Guincy, Les Beoufs, Gombles, Reincourt, etc. He very luckily came through them all without a scratch.
Additional information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: February 1915 & October 1917
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Army
Charles John Saxby
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Parents: Mr Charles & Mrs Emily Saxby
Grandmother: Mrs Saxby
Address: 1 St Thomas’ Road, West Hill, Hastings
Other Info: According to CWGC, Charles died aged 25 at the rank of Sergeant on 14th November 1918. He is remembered at Berlin South Western Cemetery, grave reference XII.A.7.
Published: February 1915
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Army
Albert John Crawley
Rank: Private
Regiment: 19th Lincoln Regiment / Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Wife: Mrs Edith Crawley
Brother: J Crawley
Address: 17 Mann Street, Hastings
Other Info: Late of Hastings Goods Depot.
Albert’s CEF Enlistment papers can be viewed for free here.
Published: February 1915 & October 1916
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Navy
Alfred James Hyland
Ship: HMS Caroline
Sent by: Sister
Address: Hastings
Published: February 1915
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Army
Albert George Orchard
Rank: Bandsman / Private
Regiment: Hampshire Yeomanry / 11th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
Father: Frederick Orchard
Address: 49 Castle Hill Terrace, Hastings
Other Info: A notice placed in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer on 11th May 1918 reported that; ‘Private Albert George Orchard, Pioneer, Hants Regiment, killed in action on March 30th. Oldest son of the late Colour Sergeant Instructor Orchard. His step-mother lives at 49 Castle Hill Road, Hastings.’ According to CWGC, Albert is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial on Panel 48.
Albert is not named on Hastings War Memorial.
Published: February 1915 & May 1918
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