229851 Leading Seaman George Wood, HMS Sandhurst
George Wood was born on 16th August 1886 and appears on the 1901 census as a 14 year old agricultural labourer living in Chailey village with his family. The family as recorded on the census comprised...
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164345 Gunner Arthur Horscraft, RGA
Gunner Arthur Horscraft, RGA, is first mentioned in Chailey Parish Magazine in December 1917. The following month he is noted as serving with A[nti] A[ircraft] A[rtillery]. His final entry, still...
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2605 L/Cpl John Dicks, 9th Essex Regt
2605 Corporal John Dicks of the 9th Essex Regiment was a patient at Hickwells in 1915 and possibly into 1916. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album reads: 2605 Cpl J Dicks 9th Essex Reg. C Coy France 1914...
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12419 Pte Charles Chambers, 7th Norfolk Regt
Charles Chambers was a patient at Hickwells some time between September 1915 and April 1916. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album reads: All honour to our soldiers true Who fight in honour’s name And...
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7567 Pte John Currie, 10th Gordon Highlanders
7567 Private John Currie of the 10th Gordon Highlanders was a patient at Hickwells in 1915 after being wounded at the Battle of Loos. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album (which has been over-written at a...
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6155 Pte Frank Chivers Dixon, 1st Wiltshire Regiment
6155 Private Frank Chivers Dixon was a convalescent patient at Hickwells in 1915. His (by today’s standards) politically incorrect entry in Nurse Oliver’s album reads: 6155 Pte F C Dixon 1st Bn...
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Pte Dorchester
Private Dorchester is referenced only once in Nurse Oliver's album and that is in a faded photograph, one of a series of five, pasted onto a single page. I am unsure whether this photograph was taken...
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Bombardier Garland, Royal Artillery
Bombardier Garland is referenced only once in Nurse Oliver's album and that is in two faded photographs of a series of five, pasted onto a single page. I am unsure whether these photographs were taken...
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370722 Rifleman Harold William Parkinson, 1/8th London Regiment
2537 Private Harold William Parkinson was a patient at Beechland House in 1917. He was there not due to wounds but due to sickness. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album reads: Rifleman Harold Parkinson...
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Chailey's VADs online
I don't think I've mentioned this before but even if I have done so, it won't harm for a repeat. The British Red Cross website is steadily populating with information about the volunteers who served...
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Albert Langridge & Cecil Langridge
One of the benefits of publishing reserarch online is that you can continue to add to it as more information comes in. Imagine how frustrating it must be to see your work in print one day, and to...
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486742 Sapper Arthur Bee, Royal Engineers
Arthur Bee was a patient at Beechland House in Autumn 1917. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album (which has been heavily over-written in blue biro at a later date) reads: Riches have wings Grandeur is a...
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James Bentley was a patient at Beechland House, Newick in November 1916. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album comprises a drawing of a maple leaf with the word CANADA written underneath, followed by a...
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86771 Private Thomas S Benton, 41st Signal Coy Royal Engineers
Thomas Benton was a patient at Hickwells in August 1915. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album reads: Pte T Benton No 86771 41st Signal Coy Royal Engineers August 5th 1915 He shares this page with entries...
View ArticlePrivate T W Brown, Durham Light Infantry
Private T W Brown was a patient at Beechland House. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album reads Dear little sweetheart Tis hard to say goodbye But duty must be done Tis harder still to leave you But...
View Article1218 Private W Brown, 1/9th Middlesex Regt
Nothing is known about this man and a medal index card has not been traced for him at the National Archives, suggesting that he did not serve overseas and was probably a patient as a result of...
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Pte S F Brown, 2/9th Middlesex Regiment
Private S Brown did not date his entry in Nurse Oliver’s album. Underneath a drawing of a Middlesex Regiment cap badge he has simply written: Pte S F Brown 2/9 Middlesex Regt His entry is on the same...
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22824 Private Henry Robert Burn, 2nd Worcestershire Regt
Henry Robert Burn was a patient at Hickwells in February 1916. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s book is a cartoon – probably copied although I have not identified the original – in which Germania...
View Article1583 Sergeant William Calvert, 1/5th East Lancashire Regt
William Calvert was a patient at Hickwells from November 1915. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album (accompanied by a line drawing of the East Lancashire Regiment badge reads: The Summer. The Summer. The...
View Article16534 Private William Chadwick, 7th King's Own Scottish Borderers
William Chadwick was a patient at Hickwells in October 1915. His entry in Nurse Oliver’s album reads: Pte W Chadwick 7th KOSB Wounded at Loos Sept 25th 1915 Man's Life is But a Dream He shares this...
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