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Shoreham Camp
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Want to know more about Shoreham Camp? There are:1 items tagged Shoreham Camp available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
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Those known to have trained at Shoreham Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. - Earwaker Frederick William. Pte.
- Melton John Robert. Pte.
- White Leonard Gilbert. Pte. (d.16th November 1918)
- White Leonard Gilbert. Fus. (d.16th November 1918)
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260438 Pte. Frederick William Earwaker 2nd Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment My grandfather Frederick Earwaker worked at Shippams in Chichester and joined up in 1916. He took part in the assault on High Wood, part of the Battle of the Somme, and was shot in the back on 9th September 1916. He was treated by a German first raider in a shell hole and under cover of darkness and walked to a trench dressing station.
He eventually went to Rouen field hospital where he was operated on and thence via HMHS Asturias to Milton hospital in Portsmouth. By the 22nd November 1916 he was in Castle Hospital convalescing. He described the food as "first rate... rabbit pies, beefsteak, puddings etc. The nurses are very nice here, too". He appears to have left around January 1917, by which point he was at the eastern command unit at Shoreham. He never returned to the front but served out the war in the Labour Corps and the RAF in the UK. He returned to work at Shippams after the war and completed 50 years’ service. He died months short of retirement in 1961.
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254867 Pte. John Robert Melton 1/14th Btn. London Regiment Robert Melton enlisted with the 1/14th Battalion London Regiment on 2nd August 1917.
He was posted to the Western Front and saw action at the Battle of Langemarck in Belgium. Later, he was posted to the Cambrai salient and his division were involved in diversionary operations at Mouevres. The unit was then moved to the Somme valley during the winter of 1917/18.
He was diagnosed with Trench Fever on 21st of February 1918 and sent to No.42 Casualty Clearing Station close to the village of Aubigny. He was transferred to the Birmingham War Hospital on 2nd of March 1918.
After a period of recuperation, he was sent to Shoreham Camp and served the remainder of the was in the Army Pay Corps.
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251885 Fus. Leonard Gilbert White 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.16th November 1918) Leonard White was a milkman. He enlisted at Shoreham Camp at Shoreham by Sea, Sussex in 1914. He served through the Dardanelles Campaign, also served in Egypt, then to the trenches on Western Front. He was wounded in Nov 1918 days before the Armistice was signed. He died of wounds in a Miltary Hospital in Liverpool on 16th of November 1918. He is buried in Mill Lane Cemetery at Shoreham by Sea.
His mother was a midwife Mrs Caroline White of 5 Buckingham Cottages, Shoreham by Sea.
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249924 Pte. Leonard Gilbert White 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.16th November 1918) My great uncle, Leonard White, enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at Shoreham Camp, which was Training Camp situated on the South Downs.
He served at Gallpoli, but was wounded just before the war's end, and died of wounds at a hospital in Liverpool. His body was transferred to Shoreham-by-Sea. He was aged 31, and a bachelor. His civilian job was as a milkman.
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