Hastings & St Leonards Heritage: November 2014

Friday, 28 November 2014

£3.80 per pack of 10 (assorted designs)

Hastings History House
21 Courthouse Street
ohpscontact@gmail.com

Tickets £2.50
Refreshments Available

Maybe Hastings Insurance will insure it gratis? Or in return for use of some of the images?

L-R Deputy Mayor Judy Rogers, Mayor Bruce Dowling, Victoria Seymour and Keith Ridley, editor Hastings Observer series. SUS-141020-072905001

Award-winning historian

Looking Back on Hastings was launched during the recent Hastings Week celebrations at the Hastings History House in the Old Town.

The book is priced £9.99 is available from the History House

New -

Barthram, Edward, Ivy & Florence -Hastings born, served in Navy during WW1 and later with the Coastguard.
Beagley, Richard & Mary - lived locally, members of the temperance movement.
Kearne, Hubert Lindsey - lived locally; returned from abroad to fight in WW1, suffered severely and was found drowned.
The Lutwidge Family - Lewis Carroll’s relations
Pollard, James - local family; died 1925 of tubercular encephalitis, presumably contracted during war service.

Deaths in 1914:

Beaney, Charles Arthur and Albert Edward , both in the Navy, lost within six weeks of each other in 1914
Bumstead, Stephen J - local, serving with the 5th Royal Sussex, died aged 16. WW1- 1914
Herbert Knollys Foster - local connections, KIA, WW1 1914, just a month before his 20th birthday.
Kember, John William - lived locally; KIA, WW1 1914
Shaw, Cuthbert Frank - born locally; WW1, KIA, 1914 aged 21
Tompkins, Edgar James - Quartermaster Sergeant, regular soldier, served in South Africa and India. Wife’s grave - Edith Mary - KIA, WW1, 1914
World War One Stories
WW1 Cemeteries & Memorials

Cemetery Trail Leaflet