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IN
MEMORY
OF THE OFFICERS NON-
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
AND MEN
OF THE ROYAL SUSSEX
REGIMENT WHO FELL
IN SOUTH AFRICA
1902-1904
ANDREWS |
A |
Sergeant, 3rd Battalion. Died |
ANGEL |
WR |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
ARNOLD |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 26th February 1901. Buried in Colenso Cemetery. Grave 42. |
ATHERALL |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
ATTWATER |
GW |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BAKER |
JF |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BARNARD |
WF |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
BARTLEY |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BARTTELOT Sir |
Walter George |
Captain, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Sir Walter George Battelot was killed in action at Retief's Nek, July 23rd, 1900. He was the son of the first Baronet by Harriet, daughter of Sir Christopher Musgrave, of Edenhall, Cumberland. he was born in 1855, educated at Eton (Mr, Joynes'), and served some years in the 5th Dragoon Guards, in which he attained the rank of captain, retiring in 1879. In 1880, he was appointed captain of the first Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, and in 1886, captain and honorary major of the second Volunteer Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, being appointed temporarily captain in the army, March, 1900. He married in 1879, Georgiana Mary, only daughter of G. E. Balfour, Esq., of the Manor, Sidmouth. He was a J.P. and D.L. for Sussex, a J.P. for Devonshire and a County Councillor for the Western Division of Sussex. He is succeeded by his son, Walter Balfour Barttelot, born in 1880. Sources: "The Last Post - Roll of Officers who fell in South Africa 1899-1902" by Mildred G Dooner. |
BEENEY |
FH |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BENNETS |
EA |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BIGGS |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BLACKPOOL |
A |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BLEACH |
Frank |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. died at the Hospital, Bloemfontein, of enteric fever, on 14th March 1901, the day before his thirtieth birthday. Resident of Cuckfield. He wrote from Port Elizabeth on April 5th, that on their arrival at Cape Town on the Tintagel Castle they were transferred to the Urmston Grange, to sail for East London. He wrote again on April 26th on his way from Bloemfontein to Glen. In September 1900 he wrote again "We left Pretoria to go Boer hunting, and found a lot at Diamond Hill". In February 1901 he sent home No 1 of The Soft-Nose, a weekly paper published by the Sussex Regiment in Bloemfontein. See also Cuckfield Boer War Sources: Cuckfield Parish Magazine. |
BOURNE |
M |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BOWLEY |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BOYCER |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BRADFORD |
G |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BRAIDEN |
HF |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BROOKSHAW |
Benjamin A |
Private, 1st Battalion (Mounted Infantry). Of Cuckfield. At Krugersdorp, with Dickinson's column August 1901. December 1901 in hospital at Krugersdorp suffering from a serious attack of enteric fever, died 31st December 1901. See also Cuckfield Boer War Sources: Cuckfield Parish Magazine. |
BUCK |
C |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died. See also Worthing Boer War Memorial |
BURCHETT |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BURY |
F |
Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
BUTCHER |
E |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
BUTCHER |
T |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died. See also Worthing Boer War Memorial |
CALDWELL |
JT |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
CARTER |
ML |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
CARTLON |
TL |
Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Died |
CHANDLER |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
CHANT |
G |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
CHEAL |
GE |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
CLAPSHAW |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 27th February 1901. Buried in Colenso Cemetery. Grave 50. |
CLARK |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
COLBRAN |
AE |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
COLE |
WC |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
COOKE |
A |
Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
COVINGTON |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 28th January 1902 at Leeuw River North. Buried in Fauresmith Cemetery. |
CREASY |
C |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
DANIELS |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 2nd May 1901. Buried in Colenso Cemetery. Grave 57. |
DIPLOCK |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
DRAPERS |
SH |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
DU MOULIN |
Louis Eugene |
Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Battalion. Second in Command of the 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, he was killed in action at Abrahan's Kraal, near Koffyfontein, January 28th, 1902. He was born October, 1859, entered the 107th Foot, now the 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, January, 1880, being promoted lieutenant in the following June, captain April, 1885, major January 1896, and for his services during the South African war, brevet-lieutenant colonel in November 1900. He served in the Hazara Campaign 1885, with the 2nd battalion, being mentioned in desptaches, and receiving the medal with clasp, with the Chin-Lushai Expeditionary Force 1889-90, on transport duty (mentioned in desptahces, clasp), and with the Manipur Expedionary Force 1891, as briagde Transport Officer to the Silchar column (clasp). He next saw service with the 2nd battalion in the campaign on the North-West Frontier of India, under the late Sir William Lockhart, 1897-98, in the Tirah Expeditionary Force, including the operations in the Bazar Valley, receiving the medal with two clasps. At the beginning of the South African war Lieutenant-Colonel du Molin was second-in-command of the 1st battalion, which was then stationed in Malta. In February 1900, it proceeded to South Africa and then took part in the march from Bloemfontein to Pretoria, inclduing the engagements at Welkom Farm, Zand River and Doorn Kop, the occupations of Johannesberg and the engagement at Diamond Hill. Lieutenant du Molin was also present at the engagements round Bethlehem and in the Caledon Valley, and at Keitef's Nek and the surrender of Boer forces at Golden Gate August 1st, 1900. He also took part in the operations around round Thaba N'chu, Winburg, and LIndley, and in the engagements at Bothaville and Ventersburg. At one period of the war he was in command of a column and was mentioned in despatahces [London Gazette July 9th and September 10th, 1901] was promoted lieutenant-colonel and granted the medal with four clasps for his good services. Buried in Fauresmith Cemetery. Sources: "The Last Post - Roll of Officers who fell in South Africa 1899-1902" by Mildred G Dooner. |
DUKE |
E |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
DYER |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
ELPHICK |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
ELSWICK |
E |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
FARRANT |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
FLOYD |
JT |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
FRANCIS |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
FRANCIS |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
GASTON |
E |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 28 January 1902 at Leeuw River North. Buried in Fauresmith Cemetery. |
GILHAM |
S |
Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Died |
GOODES |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
GOSLING |
G A |
Colour Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Died 20th February 1901. Buried in Colesberg Military Cemetery. Grave 35. |
GREEN |
C |
Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Died died 28 January 1902 at Leeuw River North. Buried in Fauresmith Cemetery. |
GREEN |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
HANCE |
CG |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
HARVARD |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
HAWKINS |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
HIDE |
G |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 15th April 1901. Buried in Colenso Cemetery. Grave 54. See also Worthing Boer War Memorial |
HILDER |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
HILL |
TEO |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
HISCOCK |
PJ |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
HOLDER |
A |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
HOLLINGDALE |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
HOLLLINGTON |
J |
Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
HOAD |
W P |
Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died. See also Worthing Boer War Memorial |
HOOD |
F A |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 4th May 1901. Buried in Colenso Cemetery. Grave 59. |
HOPE |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
HUGHES |
WH |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
IANSON |
P |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
JARVIS |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
JONE |
CC |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
KENYON |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
KING |
HJ |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
LAMBERT |
L |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
LAMBKIN |
T |
Lance Corporal, 3rd Battalion. Died |
LATTER |
G |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
LEADBETTER |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
LIGHT |
T |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
LITTLE |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
LUCAS |
CH |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
LUCAS |
WH |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
LUCK |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
LUCK |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
MAGUIRE |
Charles James Kinahan |
Captain, 1st Battalion. He was killed in action at Diamond Hill, near Pretoria, June 11th, 1900. He was a son of the Dean of Bangor, co. Down, was born March, 1872, and educated ar Rossall. He enetred the Royal Sussex Regiment from the Militia in March, 1892, being promoted lieutenant May, 1894, and captain April, 1899. At the commencement of the war he was serving at the depôt of his Regiment at Chichester, and belonged to the 2nd battaion then stationed in India. Volunteering, however, for active service, he joined the 1st battalion in South Africa in April, 1900, and served with it in Orange River C. and the Transvaal until his death. Sources: "The Last Post - Roll of Officers who fell in South Africa 1899-1902" by Mildred G Dooner. |
MANN |
AB |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
MARTIN |
JA |
Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
MARTIN |
JT |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
McCORMICK |
J |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
McGILL |
JD |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
MEDLEY |
J |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
MERRIT |
G |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
MILLS |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
MITCHELL |
A |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
MOCKINGOFRD |
M |
Colour Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Died |
NIGHTINGALE |
FW |
Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Died |
PARSONS |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
PETTENDEN |
T |
Drummer, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
PETTS |
A |
Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
PHILLIPS |
E |
Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
PIMM |
DH |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
PRIDDIS |
H |
Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
REEVE |
A |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
ROBINSON |
RG |
Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
RUSSEL |
E |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
RUSSELL |
G |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
RUSSELL |
S |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
SEARLE |
A |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
SELBY |
J |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
SHELLEY |
PW |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
SHORNEY |
CJ |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
SHORT |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
SHUTTON |
C |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
SIMMONS |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
SKINNER |
C |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
SMITH |
George Henry |
Private 7101, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died of disease at Heibron 28th July 1900. |
SMITH |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
STANFORD |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
STEADMAN |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
STENNING |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
STOMER |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 9th May 1901. Buried in Colenso Cemetery. Grave 63. |
STREETER |
A |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
STREETER |
J |
Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
SYMONS |
H |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died 13th August 1900. Buried in Colenso Cemetery. Grave 6. |
TANNER |
GT |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
TANSWELL |
F |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
TEE |
HWT |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
TESTER |
A |
Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
THRESHER |
GAS |
Corporal, 3rd Battalion. Died |
THWAITES |
J |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
THWAITES |
SS |
Sergeant Major, 1st Battalion. Died |
TIDBURY |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
TOMLOM |
G |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
TYLER |
T |
Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
VENESS |
WA |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WADLEY |
JE |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WALSH |
C |
Corporal, 1st Battalion. Died |
WALTERS |
WA |
Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Died |
WATTS |
A |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WEBB |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WELCH |
WF |
Private, 3rd Battalion. Died |
WELLS |
H A |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
WEST |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WESTGATE |
A |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WESTON |
AE |
Colour Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Died |
WHITE |
G |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WILKINS |
WP |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
WILKINSON |
G |
Corporal, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
WILLET |
D |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WILSON |
W |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WOOD |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WOOD |
WC |
Private, 1st Battalion, Active Service Volunteer Company. Died |
WOODGATE |
A |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
WOODHAMS |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
YELDEN |
J |
Private, 1st Battalion. Died |
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