paul guthrie Posted 17 September , 2003 Share Posted 17 September , 2003 Just finished another CEF Books book, Silhouttes of the Great War, John Becker. Quite good. At the end he is recuperating in the UK and is moved to an estate near Bexhill- on - Sea, no clue where that is. He is on this mans estate and says he was 17 and had joined the Navy as a common sailor. Who knows about this guy? He would have stood out like a sore thumb with his accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 17 September , 2003 Share Posted 17 September , 2003 Bexhill is a medium sized coastal town near Hastings. Earl de la Warr owned much of the land around where I am sitting here in East Sussex due north of Brighton - including most of Ashdown Forest. I believe that the family owned other estates elsewhere in Sussex. Being shamefully honest, I don't know anything about this local branch of the minor aristocracy except that the earl preceding the current one committed suicide a few years ago by jumping under a London tube train! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 17 September , 2003 Author Share Posted 17 September , 2003 Sounds like one of the top Python skits, upper class twit of the year contest, one of the events was committing suicide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 17 September , 2003 Share Posted 17 September , 2003 Paul Herbrand Sackville (Lord Buckhurst), the son of Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr and Muriel De La Warr, was born at Bexhill on 20th June, 1900 he died in 1976. His parents marriage had been in difficulty for some time and they were divorced in 1902. Whereas his father was a strong supporter of the Conservative Party, his mother, was a Liberal and an active member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Herbrand's own political views were closer to those of his mother and at Eton and at Magdalen College, Oxford, began expressing socialist views. In 1915 Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr, was killed in the First World War. See http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/casualty_...casualty=642064 Herbrand inherited his father's title and became the first hereditary peer to take his seat in the House of Lords as a supporter of the Labour Party. Sackville was a conscientious objector during the First World War but although unwilling to take part in active combat, did join the Royal Naval Reserve (trawler section) in 1918. As an aside the State of Delaware USA takes its name from this family's name. The attached is a drawing of him in 1912 by John Singer Sargent Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Birch Posted 17 September , 2003 Share Posted 17 September , 2003 Paul Bexhill on Sea is a popular retirement town on the south coast of England. It is reputed to have the oldest average age in Britain. It is claimed that people retire to Bexhill to die, but once they are there they forget why they came! There are some interesting historical buildings there including a row of sea front houses built in the style of an Indian Palace which housed a Maharaja and his entourage when they took a seaside break whilst on a visit to Queen Victoria. The De La Warr Pavillion which has a theatre is one of the finest surviving examples of 1930's Art Deco archticture. There is also a De La Warr Road which is now part of the main south coast trunk road and infamous for traffic jams, and the former Sackville Hotel now coverted into luxury aparments overlooking the sea. Bexhill Station has a fine Victorian Lantern Light over the booking hall. Interesting inhabitants have included a retired RFC Pilot who I had the privilege of meeting some 20 years ago and who had been a pall bearer at Von Richthofen's funeral. One of the most famous was the late Spike Milligan who described the town as "An above ground cemetery" Its got a lovely long sea front promenade, but watch out if you try cycling along it as you will be chased off by old folk waving walking sticks or rogered by their poodles! Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 17 September , 2003 Share Posted 17 September , 2003 The De La Warr Pavilion, was opened , following a competition instigated by the the 9th Earl De La Warr - Mayor of Bexhill at that time; (1932-1934). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 17 September , 2003 Author Share Posted 17 September , 2003 Guys I rarely post thanks because of clutter but thanks for excellent replies. Quite interesting young man, a real progressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 17 September , 2003 Share Posted 17 September , 2003 In East Grinstead (West Sussex) the local school is named after this local worthy - Sackville School and there are streets with his name. The school even contributes to a WW1 web site. See below http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/EastGrinstead.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 17 September , 2003 Share Posted 17 September , 2003 For other ' details ' of the Bexhill-on-sea De la Warr pavilion see the late Spike Milligan's book ' Adolf Hitler, my part in his downfall ' His first sentry duty was guarding it. Aye Malcolm Spike was Vice President of Friends of War Memorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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