The 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army first raised from the Cinque Ports of Kent and Sussex in 1859. It later became the 5th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regi
Cap badge of the Royal Sussex Regiment.
Arthur Brookfield, a supporter of the Volunteers in the Commons, caricatured as 'East Sussex' by 'Spy' in Vanity Fair, September 1898.
The drill hall at Down Road, Bexhill-on-Sea.
One of the Ypres Salient's notorious duckboard tracks, October 1917.
The Home Counties Division was an infantry division of the Territorial Force, part of the British Army, that was raised in 1908. As the name suggests, the division recruited in the Home Counties, part
A soldier emerges from the 'mud bath' during training at the 44th Divisional battle school at Dene Park, Tonbridge in Kent, 22 April 1942.