BERWICK
WAR MEMORIAL
World
War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © John
Harrison 2007
additional information Janet Graves
Berwick
is both a village and a parish about 8 miles south east of Lewes and
just south of the A27 to Eastbourne. The parish church is dedicated
to St Michael and All Angels. As befits a rural area there are only
a small number of casualties, three from the First World War and one
for the Second. In the early part of the war the church was damaged
by bombing. As part of the restoration murals were painted by the
artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, the latter with her son Quentin.
They used local people as their models and one was the only local
fatality of the war, Douglas Hemming. The War Memorial is situated
on a small piece of raised ground near the church
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Photographs
Copyright © Janet Grave 2008 |
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1914-1918 |
HAMPER |
Frank |
Gunner
41466, 206th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Born about
1890 in Bishopstone near Newhaven. Son of Richard and Hannah Hamper
of 14, Upper Berwick, Berwick Station. The station is about a mile
and a half north of the village. Living in Berwick when he enlisted
in Eastbourne. Killed in action12th February 1917. Buried in Grave
I H 18 in Dranoutre Military Cemetery. His mother was also one of
the local shopkeepers. |
SANDS |
Harry |
Private
78710, 1/6th Bn Durham Light Infantry Born in Theddlethorpe, near
North Thorsby, Lincolnshire about 1890. Son of Edward and Frances
Sands. Enlisted in Louth. Connection with Berwick not know. Killed
in action 26th March 1918 during the German spring offensive. Commemorated
on Panel 38 - 72 of the Pozieres Memorial. The unit was a Territorial
battalion. |
SMITH |
Herbert
Stephen |
Sergeant
G/4183, 9th (Service) Bn Royal Sussex Regiment Born about 1888.
Husband of Ethel Alice Smith of Buckwish, Henfield. Enlisted in
Steyning Died of wounds17th May 1916. Buried in Bailleul Communal
Cemetery Extension (Nord). The battalion was raised in Shoreham
and went to France in 1915, taking part in the battle of Loos during
September and October. |
1939-1945 |
HEMMING |
Douglas
George |
Sergeant
555511, 23rd Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. Killed in action near
Caen 27th June 1944. Born about 1918. Age 26. Son of George Frederick
and Doris Edith Hemming of Berwick. Buried in Plot XXVII Row F Grave
13 in Bayeux War Cemetery, Normandy.
Painting
in the Nave by Duncan Grant: To the left are kneeling figures of
a soldier (Douglas Hemming, killed at Caen, 1944), a sailor, and
an airman. (From St. Michael and All Angels Church Guide).
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BURIAL
IN THE CHURCHYARD |
GATES |
Charles
Edward |
Driver
T/732533, Royal Army Service Corps. Died 23rd February 1943. Age
39. Born about 1903. Son of James and Edith Gates, and husband of
Grace Helena Gates, of Hampden Park, Eastbourne, Sussex. Buried
in the Churchyard of St. Michael and All Angels, Berwick, Sussex.
T/732
533 DRIVER
C. E. GATES
ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS
23RD FEBRUARY, 1943 AGE 39. |
Last updated
21 November, 2019
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