8 October 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):

James Henry GODWIN

Private G/7431 2nd Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 1st Division.

Died of wounds 17. 10. 15. Born in Dublin and enlisted in East Grinstead.

Next of kin, East Grinstead.

Buried Chocques Military Cemetery. F. 98