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A C Hyland
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards
Father: Mr F A Hyland
Address: Orchard Cottage, Sedlescombe
Other Info: Wounded. Now convalescent at Bristol
Published: December 1914
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Louis Kemp
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Brother: Mr G H Kemp
Address: Ticehurst
Other Info: Wounded at Ypres on 6th November 1914.
Published: December 1914
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Frederick Hutchings
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Parents: Mr Thomas Horler & Mrs Sarah Annie Hutchings (Nee Welch)
Brothers: George Hutchings, Albert Hutchings , Percy Hutchings & Sidney Hutchings
Address: 1 Springfield Valley, St Leonards
Other Info: Seriously wounded, now at 3rd General Hospital, Oxford
Published: November 1914
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J Sellings
Rank: Sapper
Regiment: 57th Company, Royal Engineers
Wife: Mrs Sellings
Brother: W Sellings
Address: 69 Albion Street, Halton, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded. Now about to return to the front.
Published: November 1914
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H G Stonham
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifles
Parents: Mr & Mrs J Stonham
Brother: George C Stonham
Sister: Winnie Stonham
Uncle: Charles Stonham
Address: 67 Greville Road, Ore
Other Info: Wounded. Now in hospital at Oxford.
Published: November 1914
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E Dash
Rank: Trooper
Regiment: 2nd Life Guards
Parents: Mr & Mrs Dash
Address: 13 Caves Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Wounded, now in Rouen hospital.
Published: November 1914
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Sidney Henry Tilby
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Father: Mr Ernest Albert Tilby and Mrs Edith Adelaide Tilby (Nee Simmons)
Address: 52 Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards
Other Info: Wounded, lost his right arm. Now in hospital in Dublin.
Published: November 1914
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William P Stuteley
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Address: 104 Milward Road, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded.
An article published in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer reads: “Private W. P. Stuteley, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, is now at his home at 104 Milward Road, Hastings, recovering from a rifle shot in his right ankle, which severed a tendon, and may cause him to be permanently lame.
He is a nephew of the late Mr. Edward Stuteley, formerly bandmaster of the Hastings Town Band for a number of years and son of Mr & Mrs William Stuteley, now residing in Hastings. He served eleven years and seven months in the Regiment and then went on the Reserve, being called up for service with the Expeditionary Force.
Private Stuteley went through the Battles of Mons, the Marne, the Aisne, La Bassee and Ypres, receiving his injury on the second day of the latter battle. This was on October 30th, so that he had been fighting continuously from October 10th, escaping harm often in a miraculous manner, as some of the engagements were decidedly ‘hot’. When he was hit he was lying flat on his stomach, shooting at the Germans who were within 50 yards.
The shock was so great that he was turned right over on his back. He felt no pain for some time, but he found he was unable to walk, so had perforce to crawl two miles before he could find the first aid hospital.
The men he was then fighting with had a position about seven miles outside of Ypres, where he had to wait a day and a night in the station for a hospital train to take him to Boulogne, from whence he was sent on the Carisbrooke Castle to Southampton, and thence to Aldershot, where, after remaining nine days, he was allowed home on sick leave.
He speaks in the highest possible terms of the general management of the War on the English side so far as the comfort of the men is concerned. The food transport he regards as little short of marvellous. The supply is steady and ample, and when it comes to hot soup being served in the trenches there is need to say little more.
The work, nevertheless, from the soldiers’ standpoint is terribly hard, and there is very great privation to be suffered. It is not war in the ordinary sense. It is scientific slaughter.
He hopes that the War may be nearly over in January, and that the Germans will be then be well beaten. Large numbers of prisoners come in every day, men of 50 and boys of 15 together, and all say they have had enough.
Published: November 1914
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R Fairclough
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards
Parents: Mr & Mrs Fairclough
Address: Woodbine Cottage, High Wickham, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded, now in Badminton Hospital
Published: November 1914
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Edgar Stewart Grant
Regiment: London Regiment, Queen’s Westminster Rifles
Father: Mr James Grant
Address: 66 Eversfield Place, St Leonards
Other Info: At the Front. The text from the press cutting below reads: Rifleman E S Grant, Queen’s Westminster Regiment, son of Mr & Mrs James Grant, 66 Eversfield Place, has been seriously wounded and probably owes his life to the soldiers pay book shown in the above pictures. Transport Sergeant H W Chapman, writing to Mrs Grant, says the injuries are severe but not dangerous; both his legs are broken and he has a nasty wound beneath the left eye. He was on duty on June 26th with a wagon and a pair of horses, when a large German high explosive shell struck and utterly destroyed the two horses and Rifleman Grant was blown violently against some timber and sustained the worst of his injuries in that manner. He was made quite comfortable in the field ambulance, and the Doctor was quite confident that there was nothing to prevent a complete recovery. His pluck and coolness earned the admiration not only of his comrades but also of the doctors attending him and contributed more than anything else to the fact that he lived lived through the effects of the shock.
To show how narrow was his escape, a fragment of the shell cut his pay book in half and embedded itself in his pocket book. The pocket book, shell fragments etc have been forwarded to Mrs Grant. The Sergeant in conclusion says “I should like to express to you on behalf of the whole section and myself how sorry we are to lose one of our best boys. I never met a more willing or harder worker. He was always one of the best”
Published: November 1914 & July 1915
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