Army
Frank Olney
Rank: Private
Regiment: 5th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
Parents: Mr Ernest Charles & Mrs Annie Louisa Olney
Uncle: George Olney
Brother: Harry Olney
Cousins: Harry Bevis, Albert Edward Bevis & Frederick Bevis
Address: 36 Salisbury Road, St Leonards
Other Info: On Foreign Service
Published: January 1915
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Army
George Olney
Rank: Private
Regiment: National Reserves
Nephews: Frank Olney, Harry Olney, Harry Bevis, Albert Edward Bevis & Frederick Bevis
Other Info: Late of the Royal Engineers
Published: January 1915
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Army
Maurice Clayton
Rank: Trooper
Regiment: 1st Life Guards
Father: Constable Frank Clayton
Address: 14 Saxon Road, Clive Vale, Hastings
Other: Stands 6ft 2in at age 18. Enlisted in October 1914.
Published: January 1915
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Navy
Percy James Wilkins
Rank: Able Seaman
Ship: HMS Leonidas
Grandmother: Mrs Snelling
Brother: Richard William Wilkins
Uncles: George Snelling, Frederick John Snelling, E Snelling & Frank Walter Snelling
Grandmother’s Address: 5 Cranbrook Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Born in Hastings. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: December 1914 & October 1916
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Army
Thomas Henham
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Father: Frederick Henham
Brothers: Frederick Henham, Harry Henham
Cousin: Richard Tassell
Uncle: Edgar Henham
Address: Roebuck Yard, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front
Published: December 1914 & June 1915
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Army
Albert Tester
Rank: Private
Regiment: 8th Battalion, Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
Parents: Mr & Mrs J Tester
Wife: Mrs Muriel Tester (nee Parks)
Brothers: William G Tester, John Tester & Leonard Tester
Address: 403 Battle Road, Hollington
Other Info: A Military Wedding reads “On June 5th 1916, at St Paul’s Church, St Leonards, the marriage was solemnised between Corporal Albert Tester … and Miss Muriel Parks. The bridegroom having been at the Front for ten months was home on leave. He returned to duty a week later. … Corporal Tester, before the war, was a motorman in the employ of the Hastings and St Leonards Tramway Company.”
Wounded. Now lying in hospital in France.
Published: December 1914, January 1915, July 1916 & July 1917
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Army
J F Crouch
Rank: Colour Sergeant
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Son: F Crouch
Address: 20 Fairlight Road, Hastings
Other Info: 19 Years service.
Published: December 1914 & January 1915
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Army
F Kenward
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Parents: Mr & Mrs Kenward
Parent’s Address: 15 Berlin Road, Hastings
Address: 23 Courthouse Street, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front
Published: November 1914, January 1915 & April 1915
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Army
Wallace Butler
Rank: Private / Sergeant
Regiment: 8th Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
Wife: Mrs Ethel Butler
Parents: Mr John J & Mrs Mary Butler
Address: 47 Bohemia Road, St Leonards
Other Info: According to CWGC, Wallace was killed in action on 3rd September 1916 aged 36. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 5d. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
The Friends of Hastings Cemetery website provides this additional information from the Hastings Observer; “In our last issue we referred briefly to the death of Sergeant W. Butler, second son of Mr J. J. Butler of Hastings which took place while in action. An officer, in a letter to the widow, says he was sniped crossing an open space. ‘’He was’,” says the writer of the letter, ‘’largely responsible for the splendid attack we made that day. I cannot speak too highly for the splendid work he has always done, whether in the trenches or behind the line. In a previous attack some three weeks ago he was very strongly recommended for bravery in the German trench, and was certainly responsible for the capture of a machine gun and several prisoners. We shall never forget him, and my great fear is that we shall never replace him. He died most nobly, and was buried with due honours, and a cross was erected to his memory near the spot where he fell.’’
Published: October 1914 & January 1915
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Army
Harry Richard Lavender
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr Henry & Mrs Sarah Lavender
Address: Winchelsea Road, Ore
Other Info: According to CWGC, Harry Lavender died at rank of Second Lieutenant aged 30 on 28th August 1918. Married to Annie, he lived at 41 Emmanuel Road, Hastings. He is remembered at Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, grave reference IV.F.17.
Published: October 1914 & January 1915
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