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The
Royal Sussex
Regiment |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
Kingdom
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| How to find information about individuals who served in this corps |
| 1881.07.01 | The
Royal Sussex Regiment organised as the county regiment of Sussex, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions: |
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| 1966.12.31 | united
with The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment,
The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent
Regiment, and The
Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), to form
The Queen's Regiment |
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History of The Royal Sussex Regiment, by F.A. Mason. | |
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History of The Royal Sussex Regiment, by John Baines. | |
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History of the Royal Sussex Regiment, by Military Museum of Sussex. | |
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The Royal Sussex Regiment Family Tree, by Military Museum of Sussex. | |
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The Royal Sussex Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). | |
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The Royal Sussex Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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Royal Sussex Regiment 1914-19, by Paul Reed (Old Front Line) | |
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Picture Galleries, 1st Bn The Royal Sussex Regt 3rd Bn The Queen's Regt [1945-1992] (Association site) | |
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| 35th Regimental District at Chichester [1881-1905] | ||
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| C Group, at Shorncliffe [1946-1948] | ||
| Home Counties Brigade, at Canterbury [1948-1966] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1881-1966] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1881-1948] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (Sussex Light Infantry
Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953] |
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| 4th Battalion [1881-1890]
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| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| [3rd VB] 1st Cinque Ports (Cinque Ports and Sussex) Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1908-1943] | ||
| 4th/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion [1943-1967] | ||
| 5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion [1908-1943] | ||
| 6th (Cyclist) Battalion [1911-1921] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/4th Battalion [1915-1915]
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| 4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 2/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion [1914-1915]
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| 2/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 2/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion [1915-1915]
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| 2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 3/6th (Cyclist) Battalion [1916-1916]
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| 6th Battalion [1939-1946]
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| 7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 7th (Cinque Ports) Battalion [1939-1942]
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| 8th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
[1914-1919] |
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| 8th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 2/8th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1940-1940] |
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| 9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 9th Battalion [1940-1942, 1943-1946]
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| 10th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1915]
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| 10th Battalion [1940-1943]
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| 11th (1st South Down) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 11th (Home Defence) Battalion [1940-1941]
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| 12th (2nd South Down) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 13th (3rd South Down) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 14th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 15th Battalion [1917-1918]
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| 16th (Sussex Yeomanry) Battalion
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| 17th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1943]
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| 50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| Cadets: | ||
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Sussex Army Cadet Force | |
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battle honours of 35th Regiment
and 107th Regiment, plus:]
Gibraltar 1704-051, Louisburg1, Quebec 17591, Martinique 17622, Havannah2, St. Lucia 17782, Egypt 1882, Abu Klea, Nile 1884-85, South Africa 1900-02 The Great War [23 battalions]: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18 Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '17 '18,Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Avre, Lys, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Soissonais-Ourcq, Amiens, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Rumani, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917-18, N.W. Frontier India 1915 1916-17, Murman 1918-19 The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Amiens 19140, St. Omer-La Bassée, Forêt de Nieppe, North-West Europe 1940, Karora-Marsa Taclai, Cub Cub, Mescelit Pass, Keren, Mt. Engiahat, Massawa, Abyssinia 1941, Omars, Benghazi, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Akarit, Djebel el Meida, Tunis, North Africa 1940-43, Cassino I, Monastery Hill, Gothic Line, Pian di Castello, Monte Reggiano, Italy 1944-45, North Arakan, Pinwe, Shweli, Burma 1943-45 1. awarded
1882 for service of 35th Regiment. |
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The Colours and What They Mean, by John Baines. | |
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| Uniform: | 1881-1953:
scarlet; facings: blue 1953-1966: blue; facings: blue; piping: scarlet headdress:
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| 1953.06.30 | HM Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands | |
| 1881 | [1st Bn:] Gen. Henry Renny, CSI [also Loyal North Lancs Regt] | |
| 1881 | [2nd Bn:] Gen. Hon. Arthur Upton | |
| 188u | [1st Bn:] Gen. Sir Richard Thomas Farren, GCB [also Loyal North Lancs Regt] | |
| 1885.09.14 | Lt-Gen. William Lenox Ingall, CB | |
| 1888.01.12 | Lt-Gen. Robert Julian Baumgartner, CB | |
| 1895.09.25 | Lt-Gen. John McNeill Walter, CB [also Manchester Regt] | |
| 1898.10.06 | Lt-Gen. Sir George Samuel Young, KCB [also S Staffs Regt] | |
| 1900.04.12 | Gen. Sir John Davis, KCB | |
| 1901.10.06 | Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Francis Williams, KCB [also KRRC] | |
| 1903.07.29 | Lt-Gen. Sir William Freeman Kelly, KCB | |
| 1914.03.28 | Maj-Gen. James Charles Young, CB | |
| 1926.05.10 | Brig-Gen. William Lushington Osborn, CB, CMG, DSO | |
| 1941.07.30 | Brig. Richard Maule Birkett, DSO | |
| 1942.12.01 | Brig. Thomas Francis Vere Foster, CBE, MC | |
| 1953.12.01 | Gen. Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler, GCB, KBE, DSO [also Col. Cmdt. RWAFF] | |
| 1963.07.04 | Brig. John Blackwood Ashworth, CBE, DSO [continued 1966 as Dep. Col. Queen's Regt] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Royal Sussex Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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Victoria Crosses of the Royal Sussex Regiment, by Military Museum of Sussex. | |
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Victoria Cross Winners WWI, by Paul Reed (Old Front Line) | |
| Motto: | Nothing succeeds like Sussex | |
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| Nicknames: | The
Orange Lillies (from its orange facings and the fleurs de lys of
a French Colour captured at Quebec);
The Haddocks (late Victorian distortion of the famous
Brighton Dolphin emblem); The Iron Regiment (sobriquet
given to the 2nd Bn by German POWs in WW1); 11th-13th Bns: Lowther's Lambs (from the CO of 11th Bn Lt-Col. Claude Lowther, MP) |
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| Anniversaries: | Quebec (13 Sep.) | |
| Freedoms: | Brighton (1944), Hastings (1947), Chichester (1951), Eastbourne (1951), Lewes (1953), Arundel (1954), Hove (1958), Worthing (1959), Belfast (1961) | |
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| Miscellaneous Tradition Links: | ||
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The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment | 1934-1966 | |
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The New Brunswick Rangers |
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11th Battalion (The City of Perth Regiment) | 1935-1948 | |
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11th/44th Infantry Battalion (The City of Perth Regiment) | 1948-1960 | |
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The Royal Western Australia Regiment | 1960-1966 | |
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16th Punjab Regiment | ||
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The Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment | ||
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The Royal Sierra Leone Regiment |
-1966
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The Royal Sussex Living History Group [Victorian & WW1], by John Baines. | |
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The Royal Sussex Regimental Association, by John Baines. | |
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1st Bn The Royal Sussex Regt / 3rd Bn The Queen's Regt, by Robert Jones & Leslie Deacon. | |
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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Museum, Dover (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Royal Sussex Regiment Collection, Redoubt Fortress, Eastbourne (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Royal Sussex Regiment Museum gallery, Military Museum of Sussex, Eastbourne. | |
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Sussex Combined Services Museum, Eastbourne (Simonides listing) | |
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Sussex War Memorials, by John Baines. | |
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Archives of the Royal Sussex Regiment, West Sussex Record Office. | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The Roussillon gazette. | |
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