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 ...

Message 1 - East Surrey Regiment Posted on: 11 July 2005 by Barbara Lowe. Dear Rob, I read your article with much interest as my Father Ben Bentley was in this regiment and often spoke how the men ...

Tyne Cot, external is the largest of the WW1 British cemeteries ... The names of scores of his fellow soldiers from the East Surrey Regiment are listed at Tyne Cot. Some were killed on 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Message 1 - East Surrey Regiment Posted on: 11 July 2005 by Barbara Lowe. Dear Rob, I read your article with much interest as my Father Ben Bentley was in this regiment and often spoke how the men ...