The people we meet.....

 ...when exploring Hastings Cemetery, and the mysteries we find (and occasionally solve).

• Brooks, William Alfred - A Church Lads’ Brigade funeral;  he was for five years a member of Blacklands Choir, and a sergean
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  t in the Church Lads’ Brigade.

• Godney, Lt. Col Philip & Mary Louisa - Philip was killed in the Indian Mutiny,and Mary escaped with some of their children

• Miroy, Ivy Gwendoline - killed by enemy action in London, this is something of a mystery.

• Sherer, Major General Joseph Ford, Charlotte Louisa, and two of their children - Served in India for many year, the “father” of polo, his wife was one of the children of Mary Goldney.

• Shrewsbury, Abraham & Family - of Alderton & Shrewsbury Ironmongers



• Somervell, Major William -  Northumberland Fusiliers, stone erected by his fellow officers