Ordinary Seaman J/70671 Harvey Maurice Beale, was born at Mayfield on the 21st of May 1899, the son of Kate Beale of Old Croust Farm, Hadlow Down.

In the 1901 census, Harvey, aged 1, born at Mayfield, was residing with his grandparents at Old Croust farm, Hadlow Down, where his grandfather, Samuel, aged 57 and born at Mayfield was the farmer. Grandmother, Francis, aged 47, was born at Hellingly. Kate, was not mentioned but was certainly living there.

The 1911 census records Harvey and mother Kate, still residing at Old Croust farm, Hadlow Down. Kate was single, born at Hellingly and had just the one child - Harvey; the census seems to suggest that she had never been married. Samuel had died and the census records that he and Francis had been married for 35 years and had produced two children, one of which died in childhood.

Harvey joined the Royal Navy; his record notes that he was 5ft 6ins tall and was employed as a groom before joining. His first date of service being the 21st of May 1917 when he entered the Royal Navy Shore Station, HMS Pembroke, where he was given the ship's roll number 1220.

His training over, he was posted to the battleship HMS Resolution on the 21st of June of that year. He remained on the ship until March 1919 when he was admitted to the VAD hospital at Hull with septic pneumonia, dying there on the 13th.