About: Royal Sussex Regiment

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The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot and the 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry). The regiment saw service in the Second Boer War, and both World War I and World War II.

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  • The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot and the 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry). The regiment saw service in the Second Boer War, and both World War I and World War II. On 31 December 1966, the Royal Sussex Regiment was amalgamated with the other regiments of the Home Counties Brigade – the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) – to form the Queen's Regiment; which was later, on 9 September 1992, amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment to form the present Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). (en)
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  • 1966-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1881-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1–2Regularbattalions
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  • Honi soit qui mal y pense
  • (unofficial) Nothing succeeds like Sussex
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  • Line infantry
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  • 0001-09-13 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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  • Badge of the Royal Sussex Regiment. (en)
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  • 1881 (xsd:integer)
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  • Sussex by the Sea (en)
  • The Royal Sussex (en)
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  • Honi soit qui mal y pense (en)
  • Nothing succeeds like Sussex (en)
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  • The Haddocks (en)
  • The Iron Regiment (en)
  • The Orange Lilies (en)
  • The Prince of Orange's Own (en)
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  • Up to 17 Hostilities-only battalions (en)
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  • Royal Sussex Regiment (en)
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  • The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot and the 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry). The regiment saw service in the Second Boer War, and both World War I and World War II. (en)
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  • Royal Sussex Regiment (en)
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  • Royal Sussex Regiment (en)
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  • The Haddocks (en)
  • The Iron Regiment (en)
  • The Orange Lilies (en)
  • The Prince of Orange's Own (en)
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