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L Musk
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps / London Regiment
Address: Late of High Beech, Hollington
Other Info: At the Front
Published: October 1916
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Mr Masters
Rank: Musician
Regiment: Kensington Rifles, London Regiment
Sent by: Miss Grensted
Miss Grensted’s Address: 70 Manor Road, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front.
Published: September 1916
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Emanuel Boutcher
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Civil Service Rifles, London Regiment
Father: Mr W A Boutcher
Address: 84 Stonefield Road, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: September 1916 & August 1917
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Ernest James Greenaway
Rank: Private
Regiment: 14th Battalion (London Scottish), London Regiment
Sister: Mrs G Turner
Sister’s Address: 41 St Mary’s Road, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded in the face and shoulder. Now in hospital.
Published: August 1916
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George Bristow
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Queen’s Westminster Rifles, London Regiment
Parents: Mr & Mrs George Bristow
Address: 21 Battle Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Wounded on 3rd July 1916, now in hospital in Huddersfield.
…Son of George Bristow, naturalist, of Silchester Road and Battle Road, St Leonards. From a boy George was well known locally as an enthusiastic footballer. He was a member of the victorious St. Mary Magdelen School team, and subsequently captain of the Bopeep United F.C. and a member of the Y.M.C.A. team. He enlisted at the close of 1914 in the Queen’s Westminster Rifles and was seriously wounded on July 1st 1916 by machine gun bullets, shrapnel and fragments of shell and bomb in the head, chest, leg and arm. He was in Huddersfield Hospital for four months and returned to France in early in 1917. He was again wounded in November. Recently he has received a communication from the General of the London Division that owing to his distinguished conduct in the field he has been awarded the Military Medal, and the Colonel has offered him a commission in his own regiment, which he has accepted.
Published: August 1916 & February 1918
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Herbert Bounds
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 16th Battalion, Queen’s Westminster Rifles, London Regiment
Parents: Mr George & Mrs Louisa Bounds
Address: 79 Battle Road, Silverhill
Other Info: Killed in action on 1st July 1916. According to CWGC, Herbert was 28 when he died and is remembered at Gommecourt British Cemetery No2, Hebuterne, grave reference I.D.1.
Published: August 1916
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Albert H Southey
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 8th London Post Office Rifles, London Regiment
Sent by: a friend
Other Info: Formerly a St Leonards postman. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: June 1916
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William Jesse Rackliff
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 12th Battalion (The Rangers), London Regiment
Father: Benjamin Rackliff
Mother: Mrs Eleanor Jesse Rackliff
Brothers: B E Rackliff & A F Rackliff
Brother-in-Law: P Robertson
Address: 91a Hughenden Road, Hastings
Other Info: Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War Website. The family portrait was published in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer on 27th July 1918. It states that Private Rackliff was in the Rangers for two and a half years, now discharged suffering from shell shock.
Published: June 1916 & July 1918
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Hubert Harben Taylor
Rank: Private
Regiment: 14th Battalion, London Scottish (London Regiment)
Brother: E M Taylor
Address: 32 Vale Road, St Leonards
Other Info: The text of the article reads: “We received the above portraits on Friday, and with them the following letter:- “Guernsey”, Vale Road, St Leonards. Dear Sir, I enclose two photographs if you care to publish them in this week’s Pictorial, one of myself and one of my brother, who is in a football jersey, is a Private in the 2nd Dorset Regiment, and has been taken prisoner with General Townshend’s Force in Kut-el-Amara. He went through all the campaign, and was wounded at Christmas fighting near Baghdad. No news has been heard from him since December, although we believe he is quite safe. He was in Parr’s Bank, Hastings in 1912, and then left for their Bournemouth Branch, and was in the local YMCA football team. The other photograph is of myself, and tomorrow I am leaving to join my Regiment, the London Scottish, so hope to fill his place now he is handicapped for the duration of the war. I am only 18, am also at Parr’s Bank, Hastings.
In Death they were not Divided reads: “…Three comrades in the London Scottish. Private Taylor was the son of Mr & Mrs Taylor of ‘Guernsey’, 32 Vale Road, St Leonards, and Private Sinclair was former manager of the Palace Hotel, Hastings. The three were firm friends, and when they left for the Front they were ‘seen off’ by Private Taylor’s father. On 28th October 1916 an unlucky rifle grenade or bomb fell amongst a sentry post of six men, and the three friends were killed together by the same explosive.”
According to CWGC, Hubert is remembered at Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, grave reference III.B.5.
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Published: May 1916 & December 1916
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F Aldridge
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, London Regiment, Queen’s Westminster Rifles
Father: J Aldridge
Mother: Mrs Aldridge
Address: 61 Norman Road, St Leonards
Published: March 1916
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