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7609 Private Richard Clarkson, 2nd Devonshire Regt
Chailey resident Reg Philpott remembers that “Dick; Richard, had arough time of it. I don’t know that he was wounded but he had a rough time.” Chailey Parish Magazine first mentions him in December...
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Private John Frederick Page, 36th Royal Fusiliers
Chailey Parish Magazine first notes John Page in March 1916 when he appears in a special list of attested men. Next to his name the words “medically unfit” are written. Nevertheless he appears to have...
View ArticlePrivate Thomas Page, Royal Sussex Regt
In March 1915 Chailey Parish Magazine notes that Thomas Page is serving his King and Country. In October 1915 he appears asPage, Pte T, NR England but by January 1917 he is recorded as serving with...
View ArticleHerbert Painting
There is only one reference to Herbert Painting in Chailey’s Parish Magazine and that is in April 1916 when he appears in a special list of attested men as medically unit. Nothing further is known of...
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WR/259151 Sapper Charles John Pateman, Royal Engineers
Charles John Pateman was one of three Chailey brothers who served during the First World War. A fourth brother, Ernest Pateman, attested under the Derby Scheme but was medically unfit and did not...
View ArticleErnest Pateman
Ernest Pateman was born at Chailey in 1890; his birth registered at Lewes in the June quarter of that year. He was the youngest child of Charles and Susannah Pateman of Chailey. His name appears in a...
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82015 Gunner Percy Charles Pateman, Royal Field Artillery
Percy Charles Pateman was born in Chailey in 1890, his birth recorded at Lewes in the December quarter of that year. He appears on the 1901 census of England and Wales living with his family at...
View ArticleGeorge Prevett
Chailey Parish Magazine lists George Prevett only once, in a special list of attested men published in January 1916. I know nothing at all about this man.
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201994 Private Harry Rufus Reed, 1/4th Royal West Kent Regt
Henry Rufus Reed was born in 1888 in Buxted, Sussex; his birth registered in Uckfield District in the March quarter of that year. He was known as Harry rather than Henry and so I shall refer to him as...
View ArticleJ Alwyn Roberts
Chailey Parish Magazine notes Roberts, J Alwynin a special listr of attested men published between January and April 1916. These are the only three appearances of this man in the parish magazine and...
View ArticleChristopher Scrase
Little is known of this man other than that he appeared in a special list of attested men that the Chailey Parish Magazine published between January and April 1916. There is no evidence from parish...
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20682 Lance Corporal Albert Henry Selby, Royal Engineers
Albert Henry Selby was born in Brighton on 24th April 1895 and was the oldest child of Albert and Lydia Selby. The 1901 census sees the family living at 17 Portland Street, Brighton. The household...
View Article180740 George Arthur Carr, RAF
Chailey Parish Magazine notes in August 1918, that Cadet A Carr is serving with the RAF and this information is repeated until the final roll of honour is published in July 1919. George Arthur Carr was...
View ArticleAble Seaman Charles Cattaway, Royal Navy
In October 1914, Chailey Parish Magazine notes that Charles Cattaway is serving his King and Country. In October 1915, further detail is given that Able Seaman C Cattaway is serving aboard HMS Juno....
View Article169068 Richard Percy Challen, RAF
Richard Percy Challen was born at Hurstpierpoint, Sussex on the 7th October 1898. He appears on the 1901 census of England and Wales as a two year old living with his parents at Stonecot,...
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98183 Pte Harry Chatfield, Machine Gun Corps
Harry Chatfield was probably born around March 1891 as the census return for that year records him as “infant Chatfield aged under one month”. He was the second eldest son of Alfred and Mary Chatfield...
View ArticleJohn Chatfield, Middlesex Regiment
John Chatfield first makes an appearance in Chailey’s Parish Magazine in January 1916 when he appears in a special list of attested men. He next appears in July 1916, noted as a private serving with...
View Article288216 Clerk Thomas Spring, RAF
Chailey Parish Magazine notes in October 1918 that Private T Spring is serving with the RAF. This information is then repeated monthly up to and including July 1919.Thomas's service record survives in...
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13813 Driver Walter Stanley Starley, RFA
Walter Starley first appears in Chailey Parish Magazine in December 1916 where he is noted as: Starley, Sig W S, RFA. Twelve months later, the additional information that he has been gassed is also...
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G/6256 Pte Octavius Starling, Royal Sussex Regt
Octavius Starling was conscripted into the army on 8th July 1916. He was 36 years old and working as a porter at the Lewes Workhouse at South Common, Chailey. His surviving papers in the WO 364...
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