Navy
Sydney Jas Pilcher
Ship: HMS Iron Duke
Mother: Mrs Pilcher
Brother: Francis Gordon Pilcher
Address: The Cottage, Val Mascal, Hollington Park, St Leonards
Published: October 1914
Other Info: Their great-grandfather on the father’s side was in the Crimean War at Sevastopol, also in the Indian Mutiny
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Navy
Francis Gordon Pilcher
Ship: HMS Blonde
Mother: Mrs Pilcher
Brother: Sydney Jas Pilcher
Address: The Cottage, Val Mascal, Hollington Park, St Leonards
Published: October 1914
Other Info: Their great-grandfather on the father’s side was in the Crimean War at Sevastopol, also in the Indian Mutiny
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Army
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 20 & 21.
Published: October 1914
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Army
Horace Corps
Rank: Private
Regiment: Army Transport Service
Mother: Mrs G Corps (Widow)
Brothers: George Thomas Corps & Charles Brown Corps
Address: 13 Salisbury Road, St Leonards
Other Info: At the Front. Was ambushed by Germans while driving a motor lorry but got through safely with his charge.
Published: October 1914
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Navy
Charles Brown Corps
Rank: Petty Officer
Ship: HMS Europa
Mother: Mrs G Corps (Widow)
Brothers: George Thomas Corps & Horace Corps
Address: 13 Salisbury Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Has served in the Navy for 12 years. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: October 1914
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Army
George Thomas Corps
Rank: Private
Regiment: 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment
Mother: Mrs G Corps (Widow)
Brothers: Charles Brown Corps & Horace Corps
Address: 13 Salisbury Road, St Leonards
Other Info: At the Front. Had several narrow escapes and was so shaken by a shell bursting under him and sending him into the air that he had to be sent to the South of France. According to CWGC George died on 2nd October 1914 and is remembered at La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial.
Published: October 1914
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Army
Nelson J Burton
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: 56th Battery, 44th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Parents Address: 18 Horntye Road, St Leonards
Parents: Mr & Mrs Alfred Burton
Brothers: Arthur William Burton, A Burton & A J Burton
Brother-in-Law: Sydney Chambers
Wife: Celia E Burton
Other Info: Killed in action. According to CWGC he died on 14th September 1914 aged 30. Home address of 3 Lakeview Terrace, Plumstead Common, London. He is remembered at the Vendresse British Cemetery, grave reference IV.E.5.
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Published: October 1914, September 1915 & March 1918
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Army
Frederick Victor Cornford
Regiment: 1st Signal Squadron, Royal Engineers
Address: 47 Caves Road, St Leonards
Brother: William H Cornford
Other Information: With the Expeditionary Force
Published: October 1914
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Navy
George Edward Bracey Stroud
Rank: Able Seaman
Regiment: HMS Albermarle
Sister: Miss G L Stroud
Mother: Mrs Stroud
Brothers: Ebenizer L Stroud & Frederick A Stroud
Address: 23 Alfred Street, St Leonards
Other Info: Gun Layer, First Class. With the First Battle Squadron in the North Sea. According to the ships log, George Stroud was lost overboard at 2.27am on 7th November 1915 when the ship was hit by two large waves due to it travelling too fast for the conditions. The waves smashed the bridge and chart room and wrecked the conning tower. Large quantities of water flooded the fore turret and decks below. Also swept overboard was Commander George Russell Nixon. Two other men were killed and fourteen injured in the same incident. George is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Published: October 1914 & November 1915
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Army
Frederick L Soan
Rank: Private / Lance Corporal
Regiment: ‘D’ Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr Harry & Mrs Constance Emma Soan
Address: 58 Western Road, St Leonards / 55 North Terrace, Halton
Other Info: With the Expeditionary Force.
Found on the Battlefield; The above portrait was received by the Editor yesterday (Wednesday, October 1915), and with it a letter from a soldier on active service in France. In this letter the writer says “This photograph was picked up after an attack on the 25th September, and seeing that it was from Hastings, and I am from the same town, I thought it was my duty to send it to you, so that you can publish it in the ‘Pictorial Advertisor’ or ‘Observer’.” On the back of the portrait are the words “To dear Len from Elsie”. The young lady can apply for by writing to the Editor, 14 Claremont, Hastings.
The Owner Found; In our issue last Thursday, October 1915, we published a portrait of a young lady which had been found on a battlefield and sent home with a view to finding the owner. During the morning the young lady called at our office, received the picture, and left the above portrait of the soldier who lost it. This is Pioneer (Frederick) L Soan, 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment whose local address is 58 Western Road, St Leonards. We are glad to say the finding of the portrait did not mean that he was either killed or wounded. He dropped it whilst in action and wrote to her to tell her about it.
It would appear that Frederick and Elsie married in 1916. Additional name and other information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: October 1914, October 1915 & December 1917
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