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Name

Rank

Regiment

Age & date of death

Additional information

Cemetery

 

CRUMP, Jack

Private

Hampshire Regiment 1/4th Batt

24, 15/03/1943

Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Rose Crump;  husband of Ellen Annie Emma Crump of Sedlescombe, Sussex

Oued Zarga War Cemetery, Tunisia

 

FARROW, Harold William

Sergeant

Royal Corps of Signals

38, 30/09/1945

 

Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore

 

FRANKLIN, James Howard

Lieutenant

Royal Armoured Corps, The Queen’s Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)

20, 20/09/1944

Son of George Gould Franklin and Mary Howard Franklin of Sedlescombe, Sussex

Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy

 

HINDE, Harold

Corporal

Royal Air Force serving in H.M.S Courageous

26, 17/09/1939

(born 17/08/1913 and living at Chittlebirch Farm on his baptism)

Son of Henry Clarke Hinde and Susan Mary Hinde of Staplecross, Sussex

Runnymede Memorial, Surrey for over 20,000 airmen who were lost in WWII during operations from bases in the UK and N & W Europe, and who have no known graves

 

NOBLE, John Padmore

Captain

Royal Horse Artillery “G” Bty 5 Regt.

26, 08/06/1944

Son of the Revd.William Hatt Noble M.A., and Elizabeth Frances Noble of Hawkhurst, Kent

Sully Churchyard, France

 

READ, Henry Edgar

Leading Aircraftman

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

25, 11/06/1941 (born 14/03/1916 and living at Cherry Tree Cotts when he was baptised, father was a gardener)

Son of Edgar Read and Florence Read, of Sedlescombe

St John the Baptist Churchyard, Sedlescombe

 

SHAMBROOK, Horace James

Gunner

Royal Artillery

20, 07/08/1942

(born 23/11/1921 and living at Holly Cottage, Brede when baptised, father was a general labourer)

Son of Henry William and Charlotte Shambrook, of Sedlescombe

St John the Baptist Churchyard, Sedlescombe

 

SMITH, James Percival

Leading Aircraftman

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 920 Balloon Sqdn.

29, 09/05/1942

Son of Arthur and Caroline Smith, of Sedlescombe

St John the Baptist Churchyard, Sedlescombe

 

SWANSON, Thomas Harold

Gunner

Royal Artillery, 114 Field Regt.

29, 22/03/1943

 

Colombo (Kanatte) General Cemetery, Sri Lanka

 

WILLIAMS Marcus Allan

not included in CWGC Roll of Honour

         
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