2 September 2016

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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):

Montague ABRAHAMS

Major 16th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade. 39th Division.

Killed in action at Becourt 3. 9.16.

Included on Ashhurstwood Parish War Memorial.

Commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial MR.21.

John BRINKHURST

Private 440061 14th Battalion, The Canadian Infantry. (Royal Montreal Regiment) 3rd Brigade, 1st Canadian Division.

Wounded on the Somme and died in base hospital at Boulogne 28. 9.16. Aged 28.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Brinkhurst of 68, Moat Road, East Grinstead.

Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery F. 102

Ernest Stanley CREASEY

Lance Corporal SD/4899 11th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 39th Division.

Killed in action at Becourt 3.9.16. Aged 23. Son of John and Fanny Creasey of 7, Model Cottages, Felbridge.

Born in Godstone, Surrey and enlisted in East Grinstead.

Included on Felbridge Parish Church War Memorial. Commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial MR. 21

Ernest GARWOOD

Private 21015 26th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers. 41st Division.

Killed in action 18. 9. 16.

Born in East Grinstead and enlisted in St. Pauls Churchyard Resident of Wanstead, Essex.

Commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial MR.21

Albert William HOLCOMBE

Private G/8014 9th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 24th Division.

Died of wounds in military hospital at Rouen 15. 9.16.

Born in Forest Row and enlisted in East Grinstead.

Buried St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen F. 145