Hello all, This is an urgent request for info, as the person who needs it is back off home to Canada on Tuesday morning and I promised I would help - I also mentioned how helpful this list was! We have a (now deceased) relative who served as a machine gunner in WWI with the Royal Sussex Regiment. he was taken priosner on 27 May 1918, and repatriated on 3 December 1918. Amongst his paperwork, there is a certificate stating that he was a PoW, the care he received, etc. , and what help he was initially given on his return. The paperwork and certificate are signed by: Miss Flora MacCarty, of the Soldiers and Sailors Home, 27 Upperton Road, Eastbourne and by Violet Leckonfield of Petworth House. The initial help they received was in the form of clothing, good meals, and the use of stationery and stamps to contact their relatives. I know Petworth House is now owned by the National Trust - was it a convalescent Home of some sort during WWI? Does anyone either have a photo of 27 Upperton Road, or recognise the names of the two ladies above? There is other info on the papers, but this is now so faded it is a fight to decipher it. I would be very grateful for any help before the Tuesday flight deadline. Many thanks.

Hi Margaret, Not sure how much I can help here. Violet Leconfield would presumably have been Beatrice Violet Rawson who married Charles Henry Wyndham 3rd Baron Leconfield of Leconfield in 1911. Their residence was Petworth House. I cannot find anything on the web that suggests Petworth House was an infirmary - you may be best to try phoning them direct on 01798 342207. The Royal Sussex Regiment have their own website - http://www.royalsussex.org.uk/RSLHG_main_index.html - and are very helpful but I doubt that you would get a reply that quickly. There is a company called The Sailors and Soldiers Home Eastbourne at 18 Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne. Miss F MacCartie is listed at The Sailor's and Soldier's Incorporated Help Society at 25 & 27 Upperton Road in the 1915 Kelly's - search www.historicaldirectories.org by keyword, specify Sussex and then put in 27 Upperton Road as your keyword. Violet may have been a patron of the society. You could also try Eastbourne Council http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/leisure/museums-galleries/local-history. hth, Anne > Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:37:11 +0100> From: margaretusmar@gmail.com> To: SUSSEX-PLUS@rootsweb.com> Subject: [SXP] Soldiers and Sailors Home, Eastbourne> > Hello all,> > This is an urgent request for info, as the person who needs it is back off> home to Canada on Tuesday morning and I promised I would help - I also> mentioned how helpful this list was!> > We have a (now deceased) relative who served as a machine gunner in WWI with> the Royal Sussex Regiment. he was taken priosner on 27 May 1918, and> repatriated on 3 December 1918. Amongst his paperwork, there is a> certificate stating that he was a PoW, the care he received, etc. , and> what help he was initially given on his return.> > The paperwork and certificate are signed by:> Miss Flora MacCarty, of the Soldiers and Sailors Home, 27 Upperton Road,> Eastbourne and by Violet Leckonfield of Petworth House. The initial help> they received was in the form of clothing, good meals, and the use of> stationery and stamps to contact their relatives.> > I know Petworth House is now owned by the National Trust - was it a> convalescent Home of some sort during WWI? Does anyone either have a photo> of 27 Upperton Road, or recognise the names of the two ladies above?> > There is other info on the papers, but this is now so faded it is a fight to> decipher it. I would be very grateful for any help before the Tuesday flight> deadline.> > Many thanks.> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ 100’s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music https://www.musicmashup.co.uk