5 June 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):

Aylmer Vivian JARRETT, DSO

Captain 2nd Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment. 16th Division.

Died of wounds 22. 6.15. age 35.

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

Buried Hop Store Cemetery, Belgium B.2.

Charles Henry KNIGHT

Stoker 1st Class K/15736 Royal Navy. HMS “Victory”

Died at home 23. 6.15. Aged 18.

Son of Frederick and Caroline Knight of 89, Dunning Road, East Grinstead.

Buried Rosskeen Parish Churchyard Extension. Ross and Cromarty, Scotland

Albert John STRIPP

Bombardier 66690 26th Battery Royal Field Artillery

Killed in action on Gallipoli 20. 6.15. Aged 22.

Son of Paul Alonzo and Fanny Stripp 16, Anatola Road, Upper Holloway London. Enlisted in Islington.

Buried Redoubt Cemetery, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey.