Memorial Flagstaff
The War Memorial Flagstaff was unveiled at the Eversley Court, St Anne’s Road site in late May 1922 - during Education Week in the town - by Lord Burnham (known for the Burnham Committee, named after him, which set teachers’ remuneration and terms of service).
Following the Grammar School’s move from Eversley Court to King’s Drive, the Memorial Flagstaff was relocated to the new site, initially at the end of the drive and subsequently – as shown - to its current position close to what was the main entrance to the school buildings. There are plaques commemorating those who gave their lives in the First World War, in the Second World War and subsequent conflicts, and George Dixon – a long-serving teacher at the School and first Hon Secretary of EOGA when it was revived.
Since 1992, a short Service of Remembrance has been held at the Flagstaff every year on the Saturday morning prior to the Annual Lunch and AGM as a key element of the Members’ Weekend. The names of those known to have died in the World Wars are read out as listed below the photographs.
With the recent announcement that the East Sussex College no longer has a use for what were the Grammar School's - and subsequently the Sixth Form College's buildings at King's Drive and will be selling the site for residential development, a priority for the Executive is to secure an appropriate place for the Memorial Flagstaff to be relocated. Further information on this will be announced as it becomes available.
Roll of Honour
First World War (38 names)
Ernest William Atkins
Ronald Carpenter Band
Henry Bourn
Sidney Bourton
Charles James Percival Breach
Frederick Charles Brookshaw
Victor Howell Cane
Harold Chatfield
Maurice Easton
Richard Dennis Francis
David Gilbert
John Hewitt
Walter William Jones
Eric John Kenton
Henry Limon
Herbert Lyons
Harry Wilfrid Mead
Claude Ernest Medhurst
Corrie Morse
Harry Weller Newman
Douglas William Nichols
Jack Donald Oliver
John Joseph Owen Ollett
John Turley Parish
Arthur Robert Pestel
James Ridley
Frederick Morgan Robertson
Edgar Thomas Rooks
Charles Edward Russell
John Senior
George Frank Sogno
Ralph Cecil Sprinks
Alexander John Taylor
Ewart Nutman Underwood
William Joseph Walder
Charles William Waymark
Jack Kingsley Wilcockson
Albert Ellis Willard
Working from the original EGS record, Howard Kirby has compiled a list of the regiments etc in which those in the above roll of honour served, making checks against such sources as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website and the on-line version of the 1921 publication Soldiers who died in the Great War. These details are available from the Hon Secretary.
Second World War (70 names)
Died while serving in the forces
Robert Henry Anderson
John Mervyn Archer
Charles Thomas Archer
Cyril Clifford Ashcroft
Edward Alan Bayley
William Harry Bency
Anthony Stephen Beningfield
Ronald William Benson-Dare
Leonard Brown
Peter Leighton Buck
Jack Falkner Buckwell
Ronald David Burton
Reginald Arthur Caplin
John Frank Chandler
Alan E Chapman
Anthony Thomas Charlwood
Charles William Noel Chatfield
John Ernest Chivers
Howard Climpson
Leonard Anthony Cole
Barry Coulter
Stanley Foster Creed
Rex Harcourt Edmeades
Dennis Essex
Hugh Robert Faulkner
Derek Edwin Fuge
Walter Ronald Gardiner
Leicester John Glendining
Victor Frederick Goddard
William Fielding Grant
George Leonard Green
Charles Herbert Greenslade
Ralph Kenneth Grimble
Walter Douglas Hales
Malcolm Harold Ham
Cyril Reginald Hamlin
George Alan Hawes
D R Hempstock
Frank William Hobden
Sydney Frank Hollands
Kenneth John Hulbert
J R Kau
Henry Kirby
Raymond Walter Lawrence
Ronald Stanley Victor Lewis
Herbert Cecil Lobb
Basil Walter Miller
George Denzil Oxley
Neville Page
Philip Pantoock
Stanley Muirson Parks
Albert James Penfold
Leonard Victor Pierce
Kenneth Samuel Pittock
Frederick Charles Ratliff
Eric William Ravilious
Elvir Richardson
Peter Scotcher
W Stanley
Norman Stevens Stedman
Lawrence Peter Stubberfield
John Arthur Thompson
Michael Grey Wakefield
Norman John Wakeham
Thomas Ingram Widdowson
P Worth
Philip Young
Graham John Yule
Killed in Eastbourne by enemy action
Doris Hardwick
Peter Horton