Navy
Charles George Thomas
Ship: HMS Beaver
Mother: Mrs Thomas
Address: 11 Duke Road, Silverhill
Published: December 1914
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Frederick Webster
Ship: HMS Cochrane
Parents: Mr & Mrs Webster
Address: 5 Brewery Cottages, High Street, Hastings
Published: December 1914
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Navy
Fred Wingfield
Ship: HM Trawler Indian Empire
Mother: Mrs H Wingfield
Brother: H Wingfield
Address: 18 Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings & 3 Scrivens Buildings, Hastings
Other Info: The ‘Indian Empire’ went to the rescue of passengers aboard the Lusitania.
Published: December 1914
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H Wingfield
Regiment: Royal Navy Volunteer Reserves
Mother: Mrs H Wingfield
Brother: Fred Wingfield
Address: 18 Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings
Other Info: Was at Antwerp
Published: December 1914
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Navy
Jack Judge
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Marine Light Infantry
Ship: HMS Russell
Mother: Mrs Judge
Brother: William Judge
Address: 114 Saxon Road, Clive Vale, St Leonards
Other Info: HMS Russell was struck by a mine in April 1916. Most of the crew were rescued, including Jack, although 125 crew were lost. Coincidentally, Jack’s brother’s ship, HMS King Edward VII was also struck by a mine and sunk in January 1916. He too survived the incident.
Published: December 1914
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Navy
William Judge
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Marine Light Infantry
Ship: HMS King Edward VII
Mother: Mrs Judge
Brother: Jack Judge
Address: 114 Saxon Road, Clive Vale, St Leonards
Other Info: HMS King George VII was struck by a mine in January 1916. All but one of the crew were rescued, including William. Coincidentally, his brother’s ship, HMS Russell was also struck by a mine and sunk in April 1916. He too survived the incident.
Published: December 1914
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F J Hamilton
Ship: HMS Princess Royal
Mother: Mrs Bradshaw
Address: 119 All Saints Street, Hastings
Published: December 1914
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Navy
T E Simmons
Rank: Able Seaman
Ship: HMS Hannibal
Address: 77 Bohemia Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Formerly a St Leonards Postman.
Published: December 1914
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Edgar Kent
Regiment: Royal Navy Reserve
Sent in by: Mrs Kent
Address: 5 Tamarisk Steps, Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings
Published: December 1914
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James Spice
Rank: First Class Gunner
Regiment: Royal Naval Reserve
Parents: Mr James Henry Spice & Mrs Caroline Spice
Brothers: Joe Spice & Stephen Spice
Brother-in-Law: Charles Morfee
Address: 4 Ebenezer Road, Hastings / 22 Old Humphrey Avenue, All Saints Street, Hastings
Other Info: On HMS Excellent (a shore establishment). ‘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: December 1914, January 1917 & May 1917
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