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9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment (including 2 men who enlisted in the 3/1st Sussex Yeomanry) - the defence of Hesbecourt on the 21st and 22nd March 1918.
9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment (including 2 men who enlisted in the 3/1st Sussex Yeomanry) - the defence of Hesbecourt on the 21st and 22nd March 1918.
To the Men of the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, who lost their lives defending Hesbecourt on the 21st/22nd March 1918. The profiles of Pte Thomas Hinch, Pte George Victor Hope (enlisted in the 3/1st Sussex Yeomanry) and Capt. H. Saxon explain what took place over those two days and include the 9th.Batt. War Diaries and the Diary of Lt.Col. Hill, R.S.R. Also included are the profiles of Capt. H.Saxon, who was taken prisoner, Capt. A.V.Rewell, who was injured during the German advance and Pte. A.Balchin, who was reported 'Killed in Action', but was, in fact, injured and survived the War. Also included are the profiles of Capt. S.F.Collier, the Manchester Regt., who helped defend the Royal Sussex lines, but was subsequently Killed. The bodies of Pte. A.Lang, the Manchester Regt. and Pte. A.Vaughan, the Warwickshire Regt. are buried alongside Pte. F.W.Cole of the Royal Sussex Regt. (enlisted in the 3/1st Sussex Yeomanry), in the Hesbecourt Communal Cemetery. Pte. G.V.Hope, the Royal Sussex Regt., although recorded as being 'Killed in Action' was, in fact, severely injured and carried by the German Army to Hattencourt, where he died 10 days later. After the Armistice, his body was reburied in the Roye New British Cemetery. Also, after the Armistice, the bodies of 2nd.Lt. E.C.Regan, Pte. A.S.Turner, Pte.P.E.Homewood, Pte. F.E.Nicholls and L/Cpl. R.H.Cosstick were recovered and reburied at Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension - in all, there are only 7 known graves for the 9th Battalion for this period of the War, no other bodies were ever recovered and their names are remembered on the Pozieres Memorial Plaques. The Pozieres Memorial records the names of 59 men of the 9th Battalion who were killed during March and early April 1918. The 9th Battalion War Diaries for March 1918 record that there were 402 casualties for the month, including Prisoners of War. The CWGC Website shows 913 recorded deaths for the 9th Battalion.
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army G/18685 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army G/9104 Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1881
Died 1918
British Army SD/1371 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Died 1918
British Army 2551 Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/17647 Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1898
Died 1918
British Army G/5462 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1882
Died 1922
British Army 864 Corporal Royal Fusiliers 19th Battalion
British Army Captain Royal Sussex Regiment 9th Battalion
More about Harold Saxon -
Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army SD/301 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Reginald Harold Cosstick -
Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 3302 Private Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army G/15438 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Thomas Hinch -
Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army SD/1353 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/6689 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army G/6689 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1894
Died 1985
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army Temporary Captain Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Archibald Vernon Rewell -
Born 1879
Died 1918
British Army 8071 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment
More about Arthur Vaughan -
Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 2518 Private Manchester Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment
British Army Captain Manchester Regiment 6th manchest Battalion
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More about Samuel Francis Collier -
Born 1889
Died 1918
British Army G/8134 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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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 -
Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 1921 Private London Regiment 1/16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen's Westminster Rifles) (Territorial Force)
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army G/14538 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Frederick George Fleckney -
Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army S/21412 Private Seaforth Highlanders
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Ernest Charles Regan -
Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army G/11952 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army 3279 Private Sussex Yeomanry
British Army G/17681 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
More about Frederick James Cole