This tag refers to the town of Hastings in East Sussex where some of the people featured on this website lived.
Harold Upton Rank: Gunner Regiment: 89th Battery / ‘A’ Battery. 223rd Brigade. Royal Field Artillery Parents: Mr & Mrs Upton Address: Waterloo Passage, High Street, Hastings Other Info: In India. According to CWGC, Harold died on 1st March 1917. He is remembered at the…
W Fair Rank: Sapper Regiment: 2nd Home Counties Field Company, Royal Engineers Brothers: Edward H Fair & David Fair Address: 147 Emmanuel Road, Hastings Published: January 1915 Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this person.
Rudolph Muscat Rank: Corporal Regiment: Army Service Corps / Lancashire Fusiliers Father: Otto Muscat Brother: Paul Emil Muscat Address: Hastings Other Info: Formerly of Hastings Pier Orchestra. Killed in action. Rudolph was born 1888 the eldest son of Otto Muscat and Elsa Bitsch. He married…
Ernest Brignall Rank: Rifleman Regiment: 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade Parents: Mr Stephen Burgess Brignall & Mrs Harriet Brignall Brother: Charles Brignall Address: 24 St Mary’s Road, Hastings Other Info: At the Front in October 1914, Killed in action in December 1914. According to CWGC, Ernest was born in…
Henry Mitchell Rank: Gunner Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Parent(s): Mr & Mrs John Mitchell Address: 29 All Saints Street, Hastings Published: January 1915 Other Info: With the Indian Expeditionary Force Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this person.…
Egbert A Bumstead Rank: Sapper / Second Corporal Regiment: 55th Company, Royal Engineers Parent(s): Mr & Mrs Bumstead Address: Gate Lodge, Barley Lane, Hastings Other Info: Second Corporal Egbert A Bumstead, R.E., who has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in…
B Jones Rank: Private Regiment: Canadian Expeditionary Force Parents: Mr & Mrs Jones Brothers: F W Jones, A Jones & Walter Jones Address: 18 Old London Road, Hastings Other Info: Foreign Service Published: August 1915 Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this person.
W Wakefield Rank: Sapper Regiment: Railway Operating Division, Royal Engineers Wife: Mrs Wakefield Address: 50 St Mary’s Road, West Hill, Hastings Other Info: In France Published: February 1916 Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this person.
Arthur Lavender Rank: Sergeant Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Mother: Mrs C H Lavender Address: St Thomas’s Road, Hastings Other Info: At the front. Late of Priory Road School. According to CWCG Arthur died on 9th May 1915. He is remembered at Le…
Charles Joseph Beacham Rank: Corporal Regiment: 4th Battalion, Rifle Brigade Parents: Mr James & Mrs Frances Beacham of Hastings Wife: Mrs Alice Beacham Address: 194 Sunnyhill Road, Streatham, London Other Info: According to CWGC, Harold died aged 39 on 25th…
Sidney John George Rank: Able Seaman Regiment: Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division Adopted Parents: Mr & Mrs Beaney Father: E George Address: 234 Priory Road, West Hill, Hastings Other Info: On Active Service. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.…
Henry James Morfee Rank: Private Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Mother: Fanny Hatch, of The Violet Nurseries, St Helens Woods, Hastings Sisters: Mrs Clara Annie Trusler & Miss E Morfee Brothers: William George Morfee & Albert Edward Morfee Brothers-in-Law: Frank George Trusler, Harry Trusler &…