Company Sergeant Major SD/3790, 13th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. 39th Division. Died of wounds at home 7 July 1916. Husband of Mrs Jane James of 108, Windsor Road, Bexhill. Born in Sandhurst, Kent and enlisted in Hastings. Veteran of The Sudan and the South African War. Buried in CHICHESTER CEMETERY, Sussex. Grave reference 121. 26. - See also Little Common

Sergeant L/4737, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. 1st Division. Killed in action near Klein Zillebeke near Ypres 8 November 1914. Born in Sandhurst, Kent and enlisted in Tunbridge Wells. Regular Soldier. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Weswt-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 20. - See also Little Common

Extract from Bexhill-on-Sea Chronicle - Saturday 19 December 1914, pager 8:

DEATH OF SERGT. F. JAMES

We regret to state that Sergt. F. James of the Royal Sussex Regiment, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James, of Little Common, was killed in action at Ypres on November 8th. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on the battlefield. Mr. James who is 65 years of age, has four sons in the Army, and they will have between them done 70 years service and eight years fighting. Ten medals have been awarded to members of the family.

Extract from Bexhill-on-Sea Observer - Saturday 19 December 1914, pager 7:

KILLED YPRES.
LITTLE COMMON SERGEANT DIES ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

Another Bexhill soldier, this time a resident of Little Common, has laid down his life on the battlefield, fighting for his King and country. He is Sergeant Frank James, the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, and information was received this week by his father, Mr. H. James, market gardener, Little Common, that he had been killed while in action at Ypres on November 8th. The deceased soldier lived with his father at Little Common, and was married, but had no family. His wife is at present in Eversfield Hospital. The late Sergeant James was among the first of the British troops go to the front, and the last time he wrote home was about a month ago. He then told his father that he was well, and mentioned a Tunbridge Wells friend of his, who had been wounded in the attacks of the Germans. The deceased had a brother, Sergeant Edward James, who is attached to the Lincolnshire Regiment, and is expecting to be transferred shortly to the 3rd Battalion of the Southdowns.

Private TF/202120. 1/4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. 34th Division. Killed in action 2 September 1918. Aged 21. Son of Mr Jay and Mrs Emma Jay of 40 Sackville Road Bexhill. Enlisted in Hastings. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 86 to 88.

Extract from Bexhill-on-Sea Observer - Saturday 28 September 1918, page 8:

Mrs. Jay, of 40, Sackvilie-road, has received through the War Office the intimation that her youngest son, Private Sydney Augustus Jay, Royal Sussex Regiment, was killed in action on the 2nd September. Details are not yet to hand.

Private Jay, who was only 21 years of age, joined up in October, 1914. He was wounded in France, and after being in hospital in England he served in Egypt for 12 months. He was subsequently sent to Fiance again, and had since been on the Western Front.

Corporal G/1403, 7th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). 18th Division. Killed in action near Thiepval 30 September 1916. Born in Tunbridge Wells Kent and enlisted in Camberwell. Next of kin residents of Camberwell. Buried in MILL ROAD CEMETERY, THIEPVAL, Somme, France. Plot XVIII. Row E. Grave 2.

Extract from Bexhill-on-Sea Observer - Saturday 11 November 1916, page 10:

BEXHILL CORPORAL KILLED.

A family which has the distinction (counting more or less distant relatives) of having no fewer than 35 men on service for their Country has sustained a loss. News has been received that Corporal C. Jeffery, the East Kent Buffs., was killed in action on the 30 September.

Corporal Jefferv was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffery, of 122, Station-road, Bexhill. He was in the building trade in his youth at Bexhill, and subsequently went to London. His wife lives at Kennington Park. He was home at Easter.

Rifleman R/47037, 18th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Killed in action 3rd October 1918 in France and Flanders. Age 35. Born and enlisted Bexhill. Son of William and Margaret Jewhurst, of Bexhill-on-Sea; husband of Minnie Jewhurst, of 48A, Reginald Rd., Bexhill-on-Sea. Buried in VICHTE MILITARY CEMETERY, Anzegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot V. Row D. Grave 9.

Extract from Bexhill-on-Sea Observer - Saturday 19 October 1918, page 8:

BEXHILL TRADESMAN KILLED

Much regent is felt that Rifleman Sydney George Jewhurst, King’s Royal Rifles, has been killed in action.

He was the junior partner of Messrs. Jewhurst, Bros, bakers, and had been in partnership for 13 years. The Bexhill bakers’ combination left him free to join up about six months ago. He was home on leave in September.

The sad news came in a letter from a chaplain, who wrote to Mrs. Jewhurst “On the 2nd October he took part in the advance. The machine gun fire of the enemy was very severe. Your husband was hit in the stomach, and those who were with him tell me he was killed instantaneously. I know it must be a great blow to you, but for his sake you must try to bear it bravely. It was my privilege to meet your husband the first day he joined the battalion and I saw him almost daily after that. We had become great friends, and I felt n great interest in him. I am the chaplain appointed to the Nonconformists of this Brigade. Your husband has given his life for others. He has taken part in a victorious advance and has gone to receive a victor's reward. I know he was a true Christian, and though he had been with as we short a time he was highly respected, and many of the younger men looked to him for help in their difficulties. Please accept my deepest sympathy to yourself and family, along with that of the officers and men of the Battalion."

Mr. Jewhurst was a member of Bexhill Congregational Church, and was 36 years of age. He leaves a widow and two children.

Driver 905203, 1087th Battery, 215th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Mesopotamia) (TF). Died in Mesopotamia 19 July 1917. Aged 22. Son of Horace and Harriett Jones of Beals Barn Farm, Cousley Wood, Sussex. Born in Hooe, Battle, Sussex, and enlisted in Hastings. Buried in BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY, Iraq. Plot XV. Row C. Grave 3.