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E Jenner
Rank: Private
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Mother: Mrs E Jenner
Address: Bohemia, St Leonards
Other Info: A well known Hastings Pier boy.
Published: October 1916
Army
P Walker
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs Walker
Brothers: Frederick Charles Walker, B Walker & F Walker
Address: 52 Old London Road, Hastings
Published: October 1916
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F A Pain
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs Pain
Brother: V Pain
Brother-in-Law: Arnold Weldon Dykeman
Address: 113 Emmanuel Road, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front. Wounded on 3rd May 1917. Now in Charing Cross Hospital.
Published: October 1916 & June 1917
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Eric W Mackie
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs R Mackie
Brother: D Mackie
Address: 74 Milward Road, Hastings
Other Info: Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War Website.
Published: October 1916
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Albert Edward Brown
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr William & Mrs Emily Brown
Brothers: F Brown, G H Brown & Ernest James Brown
Address: 20 Emmanuel Road, Hastings
Other Info: Killed in action on 2nd September 1916. According to CWGC, Albert died aged 20 and he is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial on Pier and Face 7C.
Published: October 1916
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Victor Charles Arscott
Rank: Private
Regiment: 13th Battalion (Southdowns), Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr George & Mrs Charlotte Arscott
Brother: William Charles Arscott
Address: The Mitre, Hastings
Other Info: Killed in Action on 3rd September 1916 aged 22. According to CWGC, Victor is remembered at Hamel Military Cemetery, Beaumont Hamel, grave reference II.A.2.
Published: October 1916
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Army
Charles Everett
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Father: Mr J Everett
Brother: Cecil Everett
Sister: Mrs Milham, 7a Tower Road, St Leonards
Brother-in-Law: Archibald Milham
Address: Folly Farm, Cooksbridge, near Lewes
Other Info: At the Front.
Published: October 1916
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Charles A Care
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Wife: Mrs Care
Address: 21 Cambridge Road, Hastings
Other Info: Suffering from shell shock and fever, in hospital in France.
Additional name and home town info from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: October 1916
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Charles Henry Bignell
Rank: Private
Regiment: 11th Battalion (Southdowns), Royal Sussex Regiment
Address: Eastbourne
Other Info: Died of wounds. According to CWGC, Charles died on 3rd September 1916. He is remembered at Acheux British Cemetery, grave reference Plot 1, Row A, grave 20.
Additional name and home town info from the Royal Sussex – Southdowns website.
Published: October 1916
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Edward J Belsey
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr Edward & Mrs Edith Belsey, late of All Saints Street, Hastings
Sent by: Mr C Merryweather, late master of the Hastings Workhouse
Brothers Alfred William Belsey, John (Jack) Robert Belsey & Robert Harry Belsey
Other Info: Aged 32 years, he gave up a good post in the Chinese Customs and came home to enlist on hearing of the death of his brother.
Born Hastings
1889, Death of mother
1899, Death of father in Union Workhouse, Ore
1901, Border at Pelham House, Home for Working Boys, Stepney
1902, Sep 19 Joined Royal Navy, Portsmouth, Boy 2nd Class, HMS Impregnable
1903, Jul 23 Boy 1st Class, HMS Impregnable
1905, Feb 27 Signed on for 12 year, Ordinary Seaman, HMS Prince of Wales
1906, Sep 06 Able Bodies Seaman, HMS Victory
1912, Dec 18 Purchased discharge from Royal Navy
1913, Joined the Chinese Customs Service
1916, Lance Corporal, Royal Sussex Regiment, unknown battalion, France
Additional information with thanks to Ian Mantel
Published: October 1916
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