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Frank W Voller
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr & Mrs H Voller
Brothers: Cuthbert Henry Edwin Voller & Archie R Voller
Cousin: R Voller
Address: Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings
Other Info: For Foreign Service. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: April 1916
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S S Howland
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: 3/2nd Home Counties, Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr & Mrs Howland
Parent’s Address: 39 Newgate Road, St Leonards
Published: April 1916
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Albert Douch
Rank: Driver
Regiment: 3/2nd Home Counties, Royal Field Artillery
Father: Mr A Douch
Address: Hastings Arms Hotel, George Street, Hastings
Other Info: Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: April 1916
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Army
E J Williams
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Mother: Mrs Denman
Brother: G E Williams
Address: 2 Prospect Place, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front
Published: April 1916
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G E Williams
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Mother: Mrs Denman
Brother: E J Williams
Address: 2 Prospect Place, Hastings
Other Info: In India
Published: April 1916
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R J Eldridge
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: 2/2nd Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr & Mrs W Eldridge
Brothers: T R Eldridge & W J Eldridge
Brother-in-Law: W A Ross
Address: 111 St Georges Road, Hastings
Published: April 1916
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Eric A E Hocking
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Ex Mayor & Mayoress Alderman A E & Mrs Hocking
Brother: Gunner Hocking
Address: Hastings
Other Info: Received his commission on 4th November 1915.
Published: April 1916
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Jack Ellis
Rank: Driver
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr George Berry & Mrs Ellen Ellis
Brothers: Thomas Ellis & George Ellis
Address: 14 Caves Road, St Leonards
Other Info: In India
Published: April 1916
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Albert Couchman
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Parents: Mr & Mrs Couchman
Address: 14 St Mary’s Road, Hastings
Other Info: Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: April 1916
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Alfred Jenner
Rank: Battery Sergeant Major
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Wife: Mrs Elizabeth Rhonda Jenner
Address: Bexhill
Other Info: ‘In Greece’ text reads “… who is the proprietor of the Whitefriars Hotel, Priory Road, Hastings. He has served his country in various part of the world, and retired on pension in February 1914. He served under Lord Kitchener in Egypt at the Battle of Omdurman, for which he received the Egyptian Omdurman Medal and also the Khedive’s Omdurman Medal. Also served in the South African War and received the Queen’s South African Medal. Then went to India and served there for seven years until he returned on pension and received a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
When the war broke out he could not settle himself down, so he volunteered again in September 1914. He was given a Battery to train and when proficient was sent out with it to the East. He is now at Salonika with his Battery. Writing home to his wife last Christmas he said they were all very comfortable in their dug-outs, but the snow and wet were awful. It was a great worry to him that although they were all cared for, his beautiful horse had to be tethered out in the cold and snow. Unfortunately he had the one shown in the photograph shot under him, and he also had a short time ago a near escape from a piece of shrapnel, which passed close to his head. One supposes they are rather short of clothes in Greece, for some Greeks one day stole his jacket which had all his medal ribbons on. He is a Bexhill man, and during his absence his wife is carrying on his business.
The Hastings & St Leonards Observer wrote a report in 2013 about his descendants visiting the town from Australia, which can be read here.
Published: April 1916
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