Royal Sussex Regiment - 13th (3rd South Downs) Battalion

Royal Sussex Regiment - 13th (3rd 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 13th 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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  • British Army G/6269 Serjeant Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Profile picture for Bertram Jempson

    Born 1896

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/2717 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Fred Osborne

    Born 1881

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/3643 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

    British Army 3643 Private Royal Sussex 13th Btn.

  • Born 1896

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/3140 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

  • Profile picture for John French

    Born 1892

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/2677 Serjeant Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Profile picture for Roger D'arcy Whittaker

    Died 1916

    British Army 28896 Private Canadian Infantry

    British Army 28896 Captain and Adjutant Royal Sussex Regiment

    British Army Captain Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Profile picture for James Goldsmith

    Born 1880

    British Army SD/3117 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th(3rd South Downs) Battalion

  • British Army SD/2707 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Profile picture for Claude Leonard Toye

    Born 1888

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/3034 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

    British Army SD/3034 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Bn.

  • Profile picture for Ernest Gordon Stevens

    Born 1893

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/2781 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • British Army SD/4175 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Born 1892

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/2604 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

    British Army 2604 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

  • British Army Captain Royal Sussex Regiment

    British Army Major Reserve of Officers

  • Profile picture for Frederick William Barrow

    Born 1885

    Died 1916

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Profile picture for William Bassett

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/2838 Acting Serjeant Royal Sussex Regiment

    British Army SD/2838 Serjeant Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

  • British Army SD/2712 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Profile picture for Henry Thornton Billinghurst

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/3296 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

  • British Army SD/5121 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • British Army SD/2888 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Profile picture for Robert Hargreaves

    Born 1874

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/3364 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

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