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 3339 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

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  • Died 1916

    British Army SD/5107 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

  • Born 1877

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/4063 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

  • British Army SD/2760 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Born 1892

    Died 1917

    British Army 3791 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

    British Army G/18023 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Born 1884

    Died 1921

    British Army SD/3083 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th (Service) Battalion (3rd South Down)

  • Born 1898

    Died 1916

    British Army 3531 Private Bedfordshire Regiment

    British Army G/14844 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

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    Died 1916

    British Army SD/2963 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • British Army Captain Royal Sussex Regiment

  • British Army SD/2924 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

    British Army G/6317 Private 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 George Henry Merricks

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/3167 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment

  • British Army SD/3641 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • British Army 73 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

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  • Profile picture for Harold Ingersoll Hayes

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/2699 Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment

  • British Army SD/3142 Private Royal Sussex Regiment

  • Profile picture for Walter Coates

    Born 1897

    Died 1916

    British Army SD/2649 Private Royal Sussex Regiment