14 September 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):

Henry BOURN

Private G/4351 2nd Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 1st Division.

Killed in action at Loos 25. 9.15. Aged 32. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bourn of Slaugham. Husband of Louisa Bourn (remarried) of London Road, Balcombe.

Born in Slaugham and enlisted in Brighton. Included on Balcombe Parish Church War Memorial.

Commemorated on The Loos Memorial MR.19.

Sydney Gordon COOPER

Second Lieutenant 1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. 4th Division.

Died of wounds 17. 9.15.age 32.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cooper of Spring Place, Bexley, Kent.

Buried Mailly-Maillet Communal Cemetery Extension F. 344

Wyndham Harold DICKINS

Captain 12th Battalion, The Notts and Derby Regiment. (The Sherwood Foresters) Pioneer Battalion, of the 24th Division.

Died of wounds after the Battle of Loos. 28. 9.15. Aged 45.

Son of Colonel and Mrs. H.F. Dickins. Husband of Mrs. Beatrice Dickins of 2, Belzize Road, Hampstead, Middlesex.

Buried Abbeville Communal Cemetery.F. 51

Ernest James RICE

Private G/4377 2nd Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 1st Division.

Killed in action at Loos 25. 9.15. Born in East Grinstead and enlisted in Poplar, East London.

Next of kin East Grinstead.

Commemorated on The Loos Memorial MR. 19

George SHEPHERD

Corporal S. 8117 9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade. 14th Light Division.

Killed in action at Loos 25. 9.15. Born in Newtimber and enlisted in Horsham

Resident of East Grinstead.

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

Reginald Charles WINKWORTH

Private 3242 ‘A’ Company 12th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers. 24th Division.

Killed in action at Loos 28. 9.15. Aged 20.

Son of Richard and Fanny Winkworth

Commemorated on The Loos Memorial MR. 19