Edwin Trangmar Wadman

Mr Wadman shared his home at Priest Hawes with his wife Janet (nee Vardy) and young family. He was a land tax Commissioner in 1938, well known local agriculturalist and post war Justice of the Peace. In 1939 he was a Special Constable in Hailsham. Mr Wadman was awarded an OBE in the 1963 birthday honours for his work as Chairman of East Sussex River Board. 22 April 1938 both Dr Hogg and Edwin Wadman of Stone Cross Outstation were awarded the Liberty of Pevensey.

The family recalled to author Stewart Angell that every time Edwin went down into the dugout, his three dogs would sit down on the entrance hatch waiting for him to emerge. A definite compromise of secrecy ! Mr Wadman's son Andrew (born 1925) recalled his role to Stewart Angell. He stated he was to note down any troop movements on the Stone Cross to Hailsham Road and put this information into a split tennis ball. He would then roll the ball down one of the ventilation pipes into the dugout for his father to transmit.