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Royal Sussex Regiment - 11th (1st South Downs) Battalion
Royal Sussex Regiment - 11th (1st South Downs) Battalion
The 11th, 12th and 13th Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment, consisting of approximately 4,500 men, were known colloquially as “Lowther’s Lambs”. This was a reference to local MP Claude Lowther, who had taken personal responsibility for raising the battalions. The 12th and 13th Battalions, supported by the 11th, were sacrificed in a diversionary raid on the Boar’s Head salient at Richebourg on 30th June 1916 in an attempt to draw German attention away from the main Somme battle area further south. The Battle at Boar’s Head lasted less than five hours, but the Southdowns Brigade lost 17 officers and 349 other ranks. Over 1,000 men were wounded or taken prisoner, and the 13th Battalion was all but wiped out. June 30th 1916 was subsequently known as “The Day Sussex Died”. This community remembers the lives of men who served with the 11th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment, whether they took part in the battle at Boar's Head or not, and includes all those who died, were wounded, or somehow survived relatively unscathed.
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Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army G/17371 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army 3861 Private East Surrey Regiment
British Army 241498 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
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British Army SD/339 Serjeant Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army SD/1093 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Charles Alfred Piper -
Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army SD/324 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/6454 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Edwin Charles Kennard -
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Born 1894
British Army SD/2894 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/6622 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Joseph S Fuller -
British Army 1179 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army TR/10/118839 Private Middlesex Regiment
More about Michael T Cook -
Born 1895
British Army SD/3544 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
More about William George Caffyn -
British Army 8044 Private Army Cyclist Company
British Army SD/3885 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
More about Don Owen Brown -
Died 1916
British Army SD/5033 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
British Army 5033 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
More about Charles Henry Bignell -
British Army G/17386 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
More about Ernest W J Barber -
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Born 1879
Died 1916
British Army SD/2243 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Enoch Miller -
British Army SD/1047 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/6573 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about George Harris -
British Army S/432 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army R/388477 Private Army Service Corps
More about Henry J Haste