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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 2610 Serjeant Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 155283 Serjeant Labour Corps
More about George Baker -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army SD/2701 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion
More about George Harry Henshaw Azzopardi -
Died 1916
British Army SD/2875 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion
More about George Cloake -
Born 1887
Died 1918
British Army SD/3393 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/6690 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Herbert Lockyer Martin -
Died 1916
British Army SD/3404 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion
More about William Moon -
Born 1887
Died 1916
British Army SD/3147 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Charles Ireland -
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Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army SD/2692 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion
More about Alfred Greenaway -
Born 1881
Died 1916
British Army SD/3427 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 13th (3rd South Downs) Battalion
More about Albert Plummer -
Born 1884
Died 1916
British Army SD/3121 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th (3rd South Downs) Battalion
More about Ernest Hartley -
Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army SD/3611 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army SD/3611 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion
More about Charles Stapley Jempson -
Born 1870
Died 1917
British Army SD/2611 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army SD/2611 Company Serjeant Major Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion
More about William Henry Bignell -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army SD/2920 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army SD.2920 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion
British Army SD/2920 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 13th (3rd South Downs) Battalion
More about Charles Gell -
British Army SD/3451 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Robert J E Shearring -
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British Army SD/2910 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/6668 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about James S Furmidge -
British Army SD/2639 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/6359 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about James Leadbetter -
Born 1879
Died 1916
British Army SD/2865 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion
More about Joseph Banks -
Born 1886
Died 1916
British Army SD/5008 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army SD/5008 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Leonard Pierce -
Born 1881
Died 1916
British Army SD/3188 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Percival Philip Perrin