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This vintage book contains a fascinating account of the history of the Royal Sussex Regiment from 1701to 1926, with a detailed description of the role that they played in the First World War. This book will appeal to those with an interest in this particularly notable British military regiment, as well as British military history in general. Contents include: “Battle Honours”, “Regimental Colour”, “King's Colour”, “Other Notable Honours”, “Which are not on the Colours”, “The Colours—And What they Mean”, “Short History of the Royal Sussex Regiment as at Present Constituted”, “Egyptian War, 1881-82”, “Nile expedition, 1884-85”, “2nd Battalion in India”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was subsequently and repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon a combination of official papers, private papers and personal reminiscences, and upon research in the National Archives, regimental museums and collections, and other depositories, this book challenges the assumptions of both the exponents and detractors of the system. The author, David French, shows that there was not one, but several, regimental systems and he demonstrates that localised recruiting was usually a failure. Many regiments were never able to draw more than a small proportion of their recruits from their own districts. He shows that regimental loyalties were not a primordial force; regimental authorities had to create them and in the late nineteenth century they manufactured new traditions with gusto, whilst in both World Wars regimental postings quickly broke down and regiments had to take recruits from wherever they could find them. French also argues that the notion that the British army was bad at fighting big battles because the regimental system created a parochial military culture is facile. This is the first book to strip away the myths that have been deliberately manufactured to justify or to condemn the regimental system and to uncover the reality beneath them. It thus illuminates our understanding of the past while simultaneously throwing glaring new light on the still continuing debate over the place of the regimental system in the modern army today.
This is a compilation of Honours and Awards to the 35th Regiment of Foot the Royal Sussex Regiment from 1701 to 1966 when the regiment was amalgamated into the Queen's Regiment. It has taken me 25 years of research to finally finish something I had started in 1996. I was researching my maternal grandfather's Service Record when I found that he had been awarded a Mentioned in Despatches in 1919 so I decided to find out what the regiment had been awarded. With the great assistance of Alan Readman, assistant archivist at the West Sussex Record Office, I had access to all their records and photographs to use in my books; at the time I was working at the British Library Newspaper Library in Colindale and had access to all British and foreign newspapers with their press write ups and photographs, including British Forces newspapers circa WWII.This book was written in three parts: the first covered 1863-1920, the second 1921-1966. The first was published in 2000 and the second in 2004. The third was written after I had retired and the books amalgamated with the previous mistakes and omissions rectified and extra photographs added which were not available at the times of publication. The Honours and Awards range from the Victoria Cross to Cadet Force awards, there are no Campaign medal awards included except the Waterloo Medal which was the first medal awarded to all participants regardless of their rank. All foreign awards are also included in rank order. Included at the end of the book are two sections showing all the Royal Sussex prisoners-of-war from 1940-1945, and all Royal Sussex personnel who died from 1939-1953 in alphabetical order, including country of burial or memorial.