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===Accident=== On 31 July 1943, newlyweds Ronald Knapp and Winifred Standing were killed when they were pulled under a train from Lewes to East Grinstead.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120913074536/http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/news/Newly-weds-buried-week-wedding-day/article-2723768-detail/article.html Article on local news website]</ref> The couple walked along the railway on a dark rainy night. When the train got to Horsted Keynes, the guard found a raincoat covered with blood on the engine. Another coat was found near two bodies in the middle of the tracks. The ganger who found them told the inquest the couple must have been walking with their backs to the train. "There was a very heavy squall at the time and the couple would probably have not heard a thing," he said. The coroner said Ronald and Winifred were trespassing and no blame could be attached to any railway worker. Little more than a week after they were married, the couple's funeral was at [[St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes]], where they are buried together in a grave marked by a War Graves Commission headstone.<ref>{{cite web|title=Casualty details: Knapp, Ronald|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2723438/KNAPP,%20RONALD|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|access-date=30 August 2017}}</ref>
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