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W Hards
Rank: Private
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs T Hards
Wife: Mrs Hards
Parent’s Address: Hughenden Road, Hastings
Home Address: 5 Aldborough Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Invalided home with shell shock and fever.
Published: November 1914 & June 1917
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F Cruttenden
Rank: Private
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Wife: Mrs Cruttenden
Address: 16 High Bank, Old London Road, Hastings
Other Info: Special Reserves
Published: November 1914
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F E White
Rank: Private
Regiment: 8th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Mother: Mrs White
Brothers: A E White & E C White
Address: 96 Queens Road, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded, now in hospital in Newcastle.
Published: November 1914 & October 1916
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Mr Kent
Rank: Quarter Master Sergeant
Regiment: 8th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs Spencer Kent
Address: 1 St Clements Place, St Leonards
Published: November 1914
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W Harvey
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Mother: Mrs Harvey
Brother: H Harvey
Nephew: H Swinfield
Address: 7 Ebenezer Road, All Saints Street, Hastings
Published: November 1914
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E Kemp
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs H Kemp
Address: Flimwell
Other Info: Wounded on 10th September at the Battle of Aisne.
Published: November 1914
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Albert Peters
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Sent in by: Mrs W Peters
Address: 3 Berwick Place, Hollington
Other Info: Wounded, in hospital at Rouen.
Published: November 1914
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E Apps
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Father: Mr J Apps
Address: 49 Paynton Road, Silverhill
Other Info: Wounded, now at Torquay Hospital
Published: November 1914
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William Charles Campany
Rank: Private
Regiment: ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr Frank and Mrs Emma Campany (Nee Herrion)
Brothers: Herbert Walter Campany & Frederick J S Campany
Address: 30 Cambridge Gardens, Hastings
Other Info: Machine Gun Section. Wounded at the Battle of Aisne. According to CWGC, William died aged 23 on 25th September 1915. He is remembered at St Mary’s ADS Cemetery, Haisnes, grave reference V.C.18.
An article in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer provides the following information:
HASTINGS MACHINE GUNNER KILLED
Sergeant W H Webb (machine gun section, 2nd Royal Sussex) in a letter to Mrs Campany, 30 Cambridge Gardens, describes how the latter’s son Private W Campany was killed.
He says: – “I was the sergeant in charge of his gun on the 25th (November), we got forward right up to the enemies’ wire and then got orders to retire. We started crawl back and your son was hit by a bullet and I lost sight of him. Two privates and myself were the only ones to get back safe, the others were either killed or wounded.
The following day as I was walking round I found your son’s body; he had been shot in the neck. I take it he was just going to have a smoke as he had a packet of Woodbines in his hand. I am very sorry to say I did not have time to bury him as we were relieved from the trenches the same afternoon.
As we were coming up to the trenches last week I happened to come across a grave and to my great surprise it was Willie’s; he had been buried by the Black Watch. So I got two men to cut some turf and put over the grave, also another cross and some white stones and shell cases all round to make it look respectable. I was all I could do for him.
His death was a great loss to me as he was our oldest gunner. I miss him very much as we were always together in and out the trenches. He was also greatly liked by all the section and they send their deepest sympathy to you”
Published: November 1914 & October 1915
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Arthur William Godden
Rank: Private / Sergeant
Regiment: ‘D’ Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Father: Mr Walter John Smith Godden
Mother-in-Law: Mrs C Balkham
Wife: Mrs Mabel Lydia Godden
Brothers-in-Law: T C Balkham & W A Balkham
Mother-in-Law’s Address: 39 Warrior Square, St Leonards
Other Info: At the Front. According to CWGC, Arthur died aged 27 on 9th May 1915. He is remembered at the Le Touret Memorial, on Panel 20 and 21.
Published: November 1914
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