This tag refers to the town of St Leonards in East Sussex, which falls within the Hastings Borough, where some of the people featured on this website lived.
Arthur Edwin Blunden Ship: HMS Dublin Sister: Miss Blunden Address: ‘Wisbury’. Tower Road West, St Leonards Other Info: Born in Hastings. Additional information from the Lives of the First World War website. Published: October 1917 Please use the comments box below if you can provide…
Oscar Dawson Rank: Gunner Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Mother: Mrs Dawson Address: 123 Bohemia Road, St Leonards Other Info: Wounded on 4th April 1917. Now in hospital in Scotland, seriously ill. He lost his right hand and half of his right leg. Published: May 1917 Please…
W Bedwell Rank: Driver / Gunner Regiment: Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery Parents: Mr & Mrs Bedwell Address: 3 Cliftonville Road / 243 Bexhill Road, St Leonards Other Info: With the Ammunition Column. Reported missing, now wounded prisoner in Germany. Published: February 1915 &…
Charles Ashton Rank: Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant Regiment: Army Ordnance Corps Address: St Leonards Other Info: A photo of the AOC Workshops Band, somewhere in France. Bandmaster Ashton is well known locally as a tenor vocalist, and also as a member of Mr Philip…
George S Hyland Rank: Lance Corporal / Sergeant Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Parents: Mr & Mrs Hyland Wife: Mrs Hyland Parent’s Address: 152 London Road, St Leonards Home Address: Acton, London Other Info: Reported missing in July 1917. Now prisoner of war in…
Harry Davis Rank: Colour Sergeant Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards / Highland Light Infantry Father: Mr & Mrs Charles Davis Brother: Frank Davis & Fred Davis Address: 11 Stanhope Place, St Leonards Other Info: Drill Instructor at Plymouth. At the Front. Published: November 1914 & September 1917…
Frank Davis Rank: Sapper / Sergeant Regiment: Royal Engineers Father: Mr & Mrs Charles Davis Brother: Harry Davis & Fred Davis Address: 11 Stanhope Place, St Leonards Other Info: At the Front. In Egypt. Published: November 1914 & September 1917 Please use the comments box below if…
Fred Davis Rank: Bombardier Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery Father: Mr & Mrs Charles Davis Brother: Frank Davis & Harry Davis Address: 11 Stanhope Place, St Leonards Published: September 1917 Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this person.
Charles E Ayling Rank: Private Regiment: 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment Parents: Mr George & Mrs Fanny Ayling Address: 15 Caves Road, St Leonards Other Info: According to CWGC, Charles died aged 19 on 2nd December 1918. He is remembered at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen,…
R Newman Rank: Private Regiment: Durham Light Infantry Mother: Mrs R Newman Brother: F Newman Cousins: A Numa, E Martin, C Gale & Frank Gale Address: 12 St Paul’s Road, Bohemia, St Leonards Other Info: Now discharged. Published: September 1917 Please use the comments box below if…
F Newman Rank: Private Regiment: Essex Regiment Mother: Mrs R Newman Brother: R Newman Cousins: A Numa, E Martin, C Gale & Frank Gale Address: 12 St Paul’s Road, Bohemia, St Leonards Other Info: For Active Service Published: September 1917 Please use the comments box below if…
Wilfred Weston Amos Rank: Private Regiment: ‘C’ Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Details sent by: Mrs Amos Address: 6 Mercatoria, St Leonards Other Info: At the Front. According to CWGC, Wilfred died on 9th May 1915. He is remembered at Le Touret Memorial on Panel…