This tag refers to the town of Hastings in East Sussex where some of the people featured on this website lived.
E J Randall Rank: Signaller Service: British Army Mother: Mrs Randall Brothers: Arthur Charles Randall & R Randall Address: 23 Priory Street, Hastings Other Info: Attached to Brigade Signalling School. Published: May 1917 Please use the comments box below if you can provide more…
Harry A H Kelson Rank: Lance Corporal Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment Parents: Mr & Mrs W Kelson Brothers: Arthur T Kelson & Charles F W Kelson Address: 25 St James’s Road, Hastings Other Info: Wounded on 28th November 1916, now in Netley Hospital. Additional name information…
Arthur T Kelson Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment Parents: Mr & Mrs W Kelson Brothers: Harry A H Kelson & Charles F W Kelson Address: 25 St James’s Road, Hastings Other Info: At the Front. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World…
George Alfred Dunk Rank: Sergeant Regiment: 1st Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force Wife: Mrs Dunk Brother-in-Law: Victor Albert Groombridge Address: 140 Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings Other Info: For Active Service. According to CWGC, George died on 30th March 1917. He is remembered at Ecoivres…
Victor Albert Groombridge Rank: 1st Class Petty Officer Ship: HMS Hampshire Parents: Mr Joseph & Mrs Mary Groombridge Sister: Mrs G A Dunk Brother-in-Law: George Alfred Dunk Address: Old Town, Hastings Other Info: Recently promoted (as of October 1914). Victor was one of 650 lost when HMS Hampshire…
Sid Gambrill Rank: Ordinary Seaman Ship: HMS Musketeer Brother: Frank Gambrill Address: 198 Queens Road, Hastings Published: May 1917 Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this person.
Frank Gambrill Rank: Ordinary Seaman Brother: Sid Gambrill Address: 198 Queens Road, Hastings Published: May 1917 Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this person.
J Gallop Rank: Driver Regiment: Motor Transport, Army Service Corps Parents: Mr & Mrs J T Gallop Brothers: George Gallop, Frederick Clement Gallop & Albert Gallop Address: 54 North Terrace, Halton, Hastings Other Info: At El Fasha, Sudan. Formerly a local Tramway motorman. Published: June 1916 & May 1917 Please use…
George Gallop Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps Parents: Mr & Mrs J T Gallop Brothers: Albert Gallop, Frederick Clement Gallop & J Gallop Address: 54 North Terrace, Halton, Hastings Other Info: Played the part of Mrs Simmons in “That Brute, Simmons” at the Front in his spare…
Charles Duly Rank: Private / Lance Corporal Regiment: 3rd & 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Father: Mr C Duly Address: 25 All Saints Street, Hastings Other Info: Invalided home, frost bitten from La Bassee. Now in England, wounded for the third time. Wounded for…
Stanley Thomas Collins Rank: Second Lieutenant Regiment: 2/8th Battalion, Manchester Regiment Parents: Mr & Mrs T Collins Address: 142 Emmanuel Road, Hastings Other Info: He enlisted in the Artists Rifles in January 1915 and was gazetted in December. He was wounded whilst on patrol…
G J Collins Rank: Private Regiment: Middlesex Regiment Parents: Mr & Mrs John Collins Brother: John Charles Collins Address: 75 Emmanuel Road, Hastings Other Info: Wounded in January 1917. Now in hospital at Norwich. Published: February 1917 Please use the comments box below if you can…