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.

Research reveals tragic story of Surrey's WW1 regiments. ... The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment 1st Battalion musters 1,000 soldiers in August 1914, just before it is deployed to France.

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.

East Surrey Regiment members were awarded seven VCs alone during the Battle of the Somme, along with more than 60 other honours. Col Harber said all VCs kept in Clandon Park were "copies" and the ...

It was perhaps one of the most dangerous kickabouts in football history. On 1 July 1916 a company of soldiers from the East Surrey Regiment punted footballs across the shell-scarred landscape of ...

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 ...

Sidney Lewis was 12 when he signed up, and fought in the horrific Battle of the Somme at 13 in 1916., but officers in the East Surrey Regiment discovered his age and he was sent home ...

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 ...