Serving with infantry battalions including the 9th East Surrey Regiment, the officers were "like family" to Capt Pirie - however, it was the loss of Corporal Halliday that reduced him to tears.

Its curator Ian Chatfield and a team of volunteer researchers set themselves the task of recording the story of each man in the first wave of the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment and the East ...

Find out more about the site contributors. My uncle was with 1st Bn. East Surrey Rgt. at Dunkirk. He was Serjeant Ernie Beales. Did you know him? He was with 'D' Company and was killed in the air ...

We the Surries kept together and dug slit trenches around a large sand dune which we named Surrey Hill after a long ... age at the time and had been in the regiment as a band boy from the age ...

This football was kicked across no man's land during the Battle of the Somme by soldiers from the East Surrey Regiment It was perhaps one of the most dangerous kickabouts in football history.

51st Highland Division,2/6 Battalion East Surrey Regiment, The Border Regiment, The 1st Armoured Division,Sir Richard Attenborough, Tony Blair, Prime Minister,Tony Blair, The B.B.C., General ...

In the early months of World War I, British Pvt. Ernest Cable was a member of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. Records show that in early 1915, his regiment was fighting in the ...

Captain Wilfred Nevill of the East Surrey Regiment has been immortalised after his men dribbled balls to start the charge into German territory on July 1 1916. Cpt Nevill - aged just 21 - was ...

He famously appeared in the Daily Mirror later that year after officers in the East Surrey Regiment discovered his age and he was sent home. Now Sidney’s son Colin has been reunited with the ...