Newspaper articles and documents

Colonel Lowther and 11 Battalion officers

Included here are newspaper articles with RSR men’s accounts of their war experiences, including the fighting but also leisure time, comforts received and such like. Also included are Battalion War Diaries for particularly well-known RSR battles, such as Aubers Ridge and Boar's Head.

These newspapers and indexes are held at the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester. They have been digitised by kind permission of the County Archivist and may be used for private study only.

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1. To the men of Sussex (newspaper)

2. Recruiting at Chichester (newspaper)

3. Recruiting Poster for the 7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (image)

4. Territorials Leave for France (image)

5. A Sussex Concert Party in Belgium (newspaper)

6. Lowther's Lambs (newspaper)

7. Duration of the War (newspaper)

8. An Arundel Man at Mons and in The Battle of the Marne (newspaper)

9. An East Grinstead Man at the War (newspaper)

10. Ardingly Soldier with the 9th Royal Sussex (newspaper)

11. Interesting Letter from QMS Willis of Chichester (newspaper)

12. An East Grinstead Sergeant in the Dardanelles (newspaper)

13. The Battle of Gaza – A Hayward Heathen's Letter (newspaper)

14. Sussex By the Sea (newspaper)

15. The Gallant Sussex (newspaper)

16. The Good Old Boys of Sussex (newspaper)

17. A Bognor Soldiers Account of the Battle of Boar's Head (newspaper)

18. A Chichester DCM Winner (newspaper)

19. Bognor Lance Corporal Wounded (newspaper)

20. Worthing Soldier Commended for Gallantry and Devotion (newspaper)

21. Pannell brothers reported as missing (newspaper)

22. Death of William Frederick Churcher of the Royal Sussex Regiment (newspaper)

23. Death of Captain Stuart K. Reid, Royal Sussex Regiment (newspaper)

24. 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment War Diary covering Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May 1915)

25. 5th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment War Diary covering Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May 1915)

26. 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment War Diary covering Battle of Boar's Head (30 June 1916)

27. 12th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment War Diary covering Battle of Boar's Head (30 June 1916)

28. 13th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment War Diary covering Battle of Boar's Head (30 June 1916)

29. Letter from Private Ford 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment about the Front (newspaper)

30. Officer's tribute to the late Sergeant Jupp (newspaper)

31. 'Over the Parapet' a letter home about going over the top (newspaper)

32. Death of an only Son (newspaper)

33. Need of tobacco to counteract flies (newspaper)

34. The late Captain Godman - died while a Prisoner of War (newspaper)

Members of 'The Band' A Co. 9th Battalion RSR

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