PC Noakes was born in Hadlow Down in 1890 a Sergeant number 204669 in the Hampshire Regiment 15th (Hampshire Yeomanry) Battalion. He died age 28 the husband of Alice Annie Noakes.
Harry Noakes was killed at Tynecotstraat on the 9th. August 1918 and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
He enlisted at Winchester when he gave his residence as Crowborough, Hants (?)
Harry Noakes joined the Surrey Constabulary on 16th September 1912 aged 22, and was sworn in at Guildford before Col. Ricardo and Capt Briscoe on 20th September 1912. His appointment number was 1630 and his collar number 214. At the time of his appointment his gave his trade as Groom working for Mr Les Chattas at Highams.
There were considerable allied advances throughout the Western Front during the second week of August 1918. The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders, which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient.
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St. Mark’s Church Visitors Guide
St. Mark’s Church visitors guide. (Date unknown)
Church Visitors Guide
Corner Cottage, Cross-Ways
Corner Cottage, Cross-Ways
(Cross Roads at Main Road, Wilderness Lane and School Lane)
Hadlow Down FC 1921-22
Hadlow Down FC 1921-22
Top Row from left:
Brian Hemsley, George Standen, Albert Packham, W Markwick, George Rich, T Smith, B Hoad.
Middle Row:
Jim Viger, C Packham, G Cheeseman, Dennis Rich.
Bottom Row:
C Lade, Bert Swift, F Wickens.
South Beacon Road, Hadlow Down
LVA Meeting at The New Inn
Eridge Hunt Outside The Grange
Costello, Brigadier-General Edmund William CMG, CVO, DSO (7 August 1873 – 7 June 1949)
Brigadier-General Edmund William Costello, CMG, CVO, DSO was born on 7th. August 1873 in Sheikhbudin, near Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab on the North-West Frontier of India and was a British Indian Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. The son of a colonel in the Indian Medical Service. He was educated in England at Beaumont College, Stonyhurst College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1892 he was commissioned into
the West Yorkshire Regiment but transferred to the Indian Army in 1894 and was posted to the 22nd Punjab Infantry.
He was 23 years old and attached to Punjab Infantry during the Malakand Frontier War, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
Costello’s connections to Hadlow Down are by his marriage to Elsie Maud L Huggins the daughter of Charles Lang Huggins, of Hadlow Grange, at St Peter and St Edward′s church, Pimlico, on 16 October 1902 Continue reading “Costello, Brigadier-General Edmund William CMG, CVO, DSO (7 August 1873 – 7 June 1949)”
Rowden, Diana (31 January 1915 – 6 July 1944)
Diana Hope Rowden served in the Womens Auxiliary Air Force and was an agent for the United Kingdom‘s clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. Rowden was a member of SOE’s Acrobat circuit in occupied France where she operated as a courier until arrested by the Gestapo. She was subsequently executed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Continue reading “Rowden, Diana (31 January 1915 – 6 July 1944)”
Hadlow Down It;s Origins and History
The booklet written by Frederick T Barrett in 1970.
To read or download
HD Origins & History