Brighton – Downs/Woodvale Cemeteries

 

 

The cemetery, in Hartington Road, belongs to the Brighton and Preston Cemetery Company, Ltd. It was opened in 1886, and covers 30 acres. It contains 118 scattered War Graves; and a War Cross is erected on the main drive, at the top end of the Cemetery. The medical units stationed at Brighton included the 2nd Eastern General Hospital, the Kitchener Military Hospital (which became the 10th Canadian General), an Indian Hospital and New Zealand Convalescent Homes.

 

WWI

 

Lance Corporal G/21467 C F BONUS

Died 12/04/1917

Grave Reference: G. 786.

       

Pte 21543 O S Bridle

Depot

Died 4th January 1919

Grave Reference: S. 497.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pte 170400 C J DAVIS

Sussex Yeomanry

Died 20/10/1918

Grave/Memorial Reference:     T. 1260.

 

 

 

 

 

Sjt 20339 George Herbert DAWES

4th Bn.

Died 01/10/1915

Age 39

Son of Frederick and Harriett Dawes;

husband of Rosalind Elizabeth Dawes,

of 26, Artillery St., Brighton.

Born at Brighton.

Grave/Memorial Reference N. 407.

                                          

Pte 20997 A J DRAKE

2nd/4th Bn.

Died 18/04/1918

Age 48

Son of James and Elizabeth Drake.

Grave/Memorial Reference ZA. 364.

 

 

 

Pte 1439 G E ELLIS

Sussex Yeomanry

Died 18/10/1914

Grave/Memorial Reference I. 258.

 

Pte G/11539 Harold James FEIST

11th Battalion

Died 08/09/1917

Age 20

Son of Louise Ada Feist, of 34, Viaduct Rd., Brighton,

and the late James Ambrose Feist.

 

 

 

 

 

                                          

Pte 265811 Albert Charles GALE

"B" Coy. 2nd/6th Bn.

Died 04/04/1920

Age 34

Husband of Jessie Gale,

of 53, Whippingham Rd., Brighton.

Born in London.

Grave/Memorial Reference:     D. 858.

 

L/Sjt 265451 Leonard GOODE

2nd/6th Bn.

Died 28/06/1920

Age 36

Son of John Gregory Goode and Caroline Goode.

Grave/Memorial Reference:     QB. 16.

 

 

                                          

L/Cpl L/10573Alfred Henry HAYLER

9th Bn.

Died 15/08/1917

Age 27

Son of G. and A. Hayler, of Pulborough.

Grave/Memorial Reference Q. 291.

 

 

 

Pte T/2259 A E HOLLAND

1st/6th Bn.

Died 16/02/1916

Age 21

Son of William Thomas Holland,

of 2, Whichelo Place, Brighton.

Grave/Memorial Reference H. 801.

 

 

 

 

Pte 7625 Herbert Charles LITTLE

"B" Coy. 9th Bn.

Died 17/07/1918

Age 22

Son of George James and Charlotte Jane Little,

of 5, Oak Cottages, Mill Rd., Burgess Hill, Sussex.

Grave/Memorial Reference A. 1110.

 

Pte 265387 A MARCHANT

2nd/6th Bn.

Died10/04/1920

Grave/Memorial Reference P.1003.

 

 

 

 

 

Pte G/16766 Frank Leslie OSBORNE

2nd Bn.

Died 12/02/1919

Age 20

Son of Alfred Jarratt Osborne and Annie K. Osborne,

 of 35, Cheltenham Place, Brighton.

Grave/Memorial Reference Q. 309.

 

 

Pte G/5391 William George OWENS

Died 08/10/1918

Age 21

Son of Charles Frederick and Alice Clara Owens,

of 48, Robertson Rd., Preston Park, Brighton.

Grave/Memorial Reference O. IA.

 

 

 

Pte SR/315 T F H ROGERS

8th Bn.

Died 14/04/1918

Age 50

Husband of Florence Rogers, of 26, Guildford Rd., Brighton.

Grave/Memorial Reference P. 793.

 

 

 

Pte 3189 G E SIMMONS

9th Bn.

Secondary Regiment Labour Corps

transf. to (139446)

Died 10/11/1918

Grave/Memorial Reference E. 847.

 

 

 

Pte 894 A H TULLETT

6th Bn.

Died 07/09/1916

Grave/Memorial Reference Z. 672.

 

 

 

 

 

WWII

 

Pte Richard Thomas GRINYER

15th Sussex (Brighton) Bn. (Home Guard)

Age 49

Died  01/08/1944

Husband of Bessie A. M. Grinyer,

of North Moulsecoomb, Brighton.

Grave/Memorial Reference Sec. X.C. Grave 245.

 

Pte D/21660 George Albert JARROLD

30th Battalion

Son of George and Ethel Jarrold;

husband of Maud Emily Jarrold, of Brighton.

Died 9th May 1942

Age 54

 

 

 

Volunteer H WELLER

15th Sussex (Brighton) Bn. (Home Guard)

Died 07/02/1942

Grave/Memorial Reference Sec. J. Grave 362.