7 April 2015

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IN a regular feature on the Town Council website, we will be remembering, on the anniversary of their deaths, the East Grinstead soldiers who died during WWI,  and who are named on the High Street War Memorial.

This month we recall (as recorded on The Roll of Honour website):

Hugh Nisbet PEARLESS

Sergeant 16246 7th Battalion, The Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment) 1st Canadian Division.

Killed in action near Ypres 24. 4.15. Aged 30.

Son of Reginald Wilson and Alice Pearless later of “Heatherlea” Gratwicke Road, Worthing.

Commemorated on The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium MR. 29

Charles Harry Brownlow JARRETT

Major 1st Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers. 29th Division.

Killed in action on ‘V’ beach during the Gallipoli Landings 25. 4.15. age 40.

Son of Colonel H.S.Jarrett (CTE) and Mrs. Agnes Jarrett of South Lodge, East Grinstead.

Buried Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Gallipoli.

Photo credit B. Hamill