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Thank you Crumbie, given that it is his own note and not a transcription, it does make you wonder if he knew PO Pertwee? but then, I do have one of his "floggle toggles"!

Serious though, a cork bottom could be a local term, but does seem a strange term to describe the cork core.

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This picture shows a Freemason, but unfortunately I do not know which lodge, "rank" or what the medals are for. It was a Black & White picture which has been coloured-up to find more detail, but I do not think the colours are true.

Can anybody help in identifying him please?

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Lucy Wheatley was a cook at the Red Cross Hospital, Hailsham in 1916 - 1919.

On her record it says: H. Harvey to Admiral Pelham Commanded Hailsham Red X Hospital Detachment Sussex/100.

The Red Cross Hospital, Hailsham was Detachment Sussex/100 and H. Harvey would have been Miss Hilda Clyde Harvey - the Comandant. But what connection was there to Admiral Pelham?

N.B. Lucy was also Part time, working 2 hrs daily, "Total 912 hrs" - https://vad.redcross.org.uk/Card?fname=lucy&sname=wheatley&hosp=hailsham&id=222631&first=true&last=true - how has this calculated?

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Any idea what a Patent Turner was?

From the 1911 census:
Mabel Batstone Daughter Married Female 26 1885 Taunton Somerset Patent Turner
Henry Albert Batstone Son In Law Married Male 37 1874 Taunton Somerset Smiths Striker
 
A Smiths Striker was a blacksmith's assistant who would swing a large sledgehammer in heavy forging operations, so could a Patent Turner be connected to the Blacksmith trade?

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