Army
Fred Cornwall
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: 59th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Parents: Mr George and Mrs Jane Elizabeth Buxton Cornwall
Brother: William Cornwall
Address: 1 Old Humphrey Avenue, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front. Fred died aged 31 on 9th November 1914. He is remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial on panel 9.
Published: November 1914
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Army
Henry Matthews
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr William & Mrs Mary Matthews
Address: 143 Bulverhythe Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Reservist, at the Front. According to CWGC, Henry died aged 31 on 8th November 1914. He is remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial on Panel 20. Mary Matthews later lived in Vancouver, Canada
Published: November 1914
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Army
Alberto Rusconi
Rank: Private / Lieutenant
Regiment: 49th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Parents: Mr Aldo & Mrs Louisa Rusconi
Brother: Andrew George Rusconi & Aldo Rusconi
Address: 28 London Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Killed in action on 30th October 1917…. He was only 20 years of age and was educated at St Mary Magdalen’s and the Hastings Grammar Schools. On leaving the school he went to Canada and was employed in the Bank of Ottawa at Edmonton, Alberta. In January 1915 he enlisted and went to France in the following October. For his gallantry and devotion to duty in the field he was recommended for a commission, which was given him in March.
According to CWGC, Alberto was a Lieutenant in the 49th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry when he died. Alberto is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate, panel 24-28-30.
Alberto’s CEF service papers can be viewed for free here.
Published: April 1915 & November 1917
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Army
Frank Alfred Creed
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr William and Mrs Annie Creed
Brother: Harold Creed
Address: Mornington Mansions, Hastings
Other Info: At the Front. Frank was killed in action aged 26 at Ypres on 31st October 1914. He is remembered at the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, on Panel 20.
Published: November 1914 & December 1914
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Joseph (Joe) Herbert Gale
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Canadian Naval Reserve / 39th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Parents: Mr & Mrs Joseph Gale
Wife: Mrs Ada Mary Ann Gale
Brothers: A Gale , Frank Gale & G Jones
Brothers-in-Law: Frederick John Henry Sargent & William Hewitt
Nephew: Fred Sargent
Parent’s Address: 94 Manor Road, Hastings
Home Address: Albert Street, Cobourg, Ontario
Other Info: Of the old Hastings Navals. Machine Gun Instructor. Killed in action. According to CWGC, Joe died on 11th June 1916 aged 31. He is remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, on panel 24 – 26 – 28 – 30.
You can view Joe’s CEF enlistment papers for free here.
An article in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer dated 1st July 1916 reads:
“Hastings Corporal Killed. We regret to hear that Corporal J. H. Gale, of a Canadian Machine Gun Section has been killed in action.
He was the son of Mr and Mrs Gale of 94 Manor Road, Hastings. He has been Canada for some years, but returned to England. <text unclear> he made a second trip to Canada, and soon after the outbreak of war joined the Colours, going to the Front in January.
His wife is a native of Hastings, and at the present time is residing with the late Corporal’s parents. She is left with three children. Two sons-in-law of Mr & Mrs Gale are on active service, and two sons are undergoing training and another will join up shortly. One grandson is training in Canada.
Mrs Gale received a sympathetic letter from a lieutenant, who says the late Mr Gale was ‘a fine man and a fine soldier. One cannot say any more for a man these days. I am sorry, but it is the fortune of war, and our womenfolk have a hard part to bear in this War. Their task is harder than ours, and it is the way that they keep cheerful under the strain that keeps us going”.
Published: October 1914, March 1916 & October 1916
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Albert Frank Noakes
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Royal West Kent Regiment
Parents: Mr George Henry and Mary Ann Noakes
Brothers: Percy Noakes & A Noakes
Address: 18 High Bank, Ore
Other Info: Wounded at Mons. Killed in Action aged 22 on 23rd April 1915. Albert is remembered at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial on panel 45 and 47.
Published: October 1914
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Army
George Frederick Stevens
Regiment: 2nd King’s Royal Rifles
Grandfather: Stephen Stevens
Parents: Mr William Stevens & Eliza Stevens
Uncle: Charles Stevens
Brothers: William Stevens & Charles Stevens
Cousins: Stephen Stephens & W F Love
Address: 6 St Georges Road, Hastings
Other Info: Wounded, now with his mother in Hastings (October 1914). Killed in action in France. According to CWGC, George died aged 21 on 25th September 1915, He is remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial on panel 51 and 53.
Published: October 1914 & October 1915.
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