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Issue Date
Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Bognor Observer
1914-07-01
6d
Royal Sussex Regiment 3rd Battalion Dinner;
Officers named
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1914-07-01
5c
4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regiment
Bowley Farm, South
Mundham
Chichester Observer
1914-07-01
7de
Littlehampton Boys' Naval Brigade
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-07-01
6e
Yeomanry Dinner at Bognor
Pier Restaurant,
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1914-07-01
5c
4th Battn Royal Sussex Regiment; Camp at South Mundham
South Mundham
Chichester Observer
1914-07-01
6d
3rd Battalion Officers' Dinner
Trocadero Restaurant
West Sussex Gazette
1914-07-02
10g
National Service League;talk about country's defense after assassination
Pulborough
West Sussex Gazette
1914-07-02
6b
Report of the death of the Archduke Ferdinand
Sarajevo
West Sussex Gazette
1914-07-02
10f
Heir to Austrian ThroneAssassinated; full article
Sarjevo
West Sussex County
Times
1914-07-04
3e
Battleships at Brighton. A public show of strength.
Brighton
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-07-04
6b
4th Battalion RSR
E Company Orders
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-07-04
8f
Captain and Burglar
Mitcham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-07-04
3e
Archduke's Assassination.
The cause for a war.
Sarajevo
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-07-07
6c
Chichester Observer
1914-07-08
3ab
The Territorials: Steady increase in recruiting.
Against conscription, says voluntary enlistment is satisfactory. No direct mention of
the war
The Supply of Horses
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-07-08
4b
Soldiers in Goodwood Park
Goodwood Park
Worthing Gazette
1914-07-08
2e
Preparing for Camp; H Company of Territorials prepare for annual camp
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-07-11
12f
The Royal Sussex for Egypt
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-07-14
8a
An engagement is announced; William Wynter Peache of the Royal Engineers. (he
subsequently died in 1914 in Malta). Awarded DSO
Haywards Heath
Bognor Observer
1914-07-15
7d
Troops at Goodwood
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-07-15
7e
Suffragists at Ford
Ford
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Worthing Gazette
1914-07-15
7e
Suffragist Coast Campaign; meeting of National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Ford
Chichester Observer
1914-07-15
7e
Troops at Goodwood
Goodwood Park
Chichester Observer
1914-07-15
6e
Three Days' Flying Promised
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-07-15
4f
Another Sea-plane
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-07-15
4c
The King and the fleet
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1914-07-15
4c
Aeroplane for Selsey
Selsey
West Sussex Gazette
1914-07-16
12f
The Great Fleet; mobilisation flag hoisted;reservists flocking into barracks
Portsmouth
Chichester Observer
1914-07-22
7e
German Protestantism and the Catholic Church
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-07-22
4f
Battleships off the harbour [a gathering of 57 vessels]
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-07-22
5b
The Fleet [review of the fleet by the King]
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1914-07-22
6b
Brief para. describing King’s review of Navy at Portsmouth
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1914-07-22
5d
The Burning of Churches; meeting of Church League for Women’s Suffrage
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-07-23
11d
The Great Fleet; tactical exercises in the Channel watched by the King
Spithead
West Sussex County
Times
1914-07-25
6g
4th Battalion RSR
E Company Orders
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-07-27
2fg
The War & the Ford car; advertisement for Sussex
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-07-28
7c
'What Folks are saying'; 20 Officers and 1,205 men are needed to complete the
strench of the Territorial Forces in Sussex
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-07-29
7c
Littlehampton; Royal Sussex Regiment Territorials’ band mentioned at camp on
Salisbury Plain
Bognor Observer
1914-07-29
5b
Territorials in Camp; 4th Battalion
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1914-07-29
5f
Territorials in Camp
Bordon Camp
Chichester Observer
1914-07-29
4c
Glorious Goodwood [The King not present owing to the foreign crisis]
Goodwood
Worthing Gazette
1914-07-29
7c
Cinemas on Sunday; letters for & against ; licence was refused]
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-07-29
4f
Not a Thief but a Deserter
Littlehampton beach
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Worthing Gazette
1914-07-29
3b
Work of the Navy League; account of meeting urging increased naval strength to
combat German threat
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-07-29
5d
The Riflemen & the Artillery; Territorials: Sussex Rifle Volunteers & Royal Field
Artillery (Home Counties Brigade) sent for training
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-07-29
6d
Women’s Suffrage Question; Worthing deputation see Gov. minister at Steyning
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-07-30
4d
Territorials in camp; 4th Battalion RSR join Home Counties Camp
Hampshire
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-01
7c
Brilliant Cavalry Leaders
Aldershot
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-01
3g
A Loan for Sea Defences. Application by WSCC to LV Legal Friendly Society
West Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-04
5de
Master and Tulley; advert asking customers to refrain from purchasing more than
they need in light of the 'war scare' and the unexpected and sudden rise in price of
all food stuffs.
Hurst and Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-04
4f
Notes and Comments; Voluntary Aid Detatchments registered with Secretary of
State for War. Sussex second in England and Wales with 101
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-04
4b
British Red Cross Society; advert for young men to join 'immediately' VAD - Sussex
Division XI
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-04
1a & 1g
War: Europe in Arms; general article about outbreak of war. General info mainly.
However end of article mentions local guarding of railways by army and boy scouts
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-04
1a & 1g
War: Europe in Arms; general article about outbreak of war. General info mainly.
However end of article mentions local guarding of railways by army and boy scouts
Sussex
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Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-04
4ef
Notes and Comments; Scouts helping to guard railway bridges
Sussex & Haywards
Heath
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
5ab
War Clouds Burst
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
5ab
War Clouds Burst
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
5e
The Crisis [local news - Ships off Portsmouth searchlights]
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
5ab
War Clouds Burst
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-05
7bc
The Angmering Primrose League; account of annual meeting; Lord Talbot pulls out of
speech due to war
Angmering
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
4d
Church Lad's Brigade
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
4f
Gymkhana [cancelled 'owing to the crisis']
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
4d
Sergeant May's Boys [marching through town with band. Raising funds for uniforms]
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-05
5e
The War Crisis; Local civilian and military preparations; advice to the general public;
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-05
5e
Meeting of ladies wishing to be involved; appeals for help by local dignitaries
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
4c
The Horse Show [cancelled owing to 'present crisis']
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
5e
The Crisis [local news]
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
5e
The Crisis [local news - Chichester Aid Society]
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-05
7d
Cinemas on Sunday; letter denouncing church’s opposition Sun. opening
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
4e
Naval Lads' Outing
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
4e
A Seaplane Descent
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-05
4f
Selsey Sports
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-05
5ef
Territorials in camp; G Company's achievements.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-05
5a
War Clouds Burst; report on the outbreak of the war, UK probable envolvement.
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-05
5cde
England in a State of War; DETAILED account of early measures; NB same page
reports on annual flower show!
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-05
6cd
The New Picture Theatre; Picturedrome opened at Worthing
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1914-08-05
3b
Nursing & Ambulance Work; annual camp of Church Nursing & Ambulance Brigade at
West Worthing
Worthing
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
12d
Our Duty; mobilisation of RSR
Arundel
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
5b
Bexhill; curtailed acivities because of crisis
Bexhill
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
12d
Activities at Chichestef;setting up of Chichester Aid Society
Chichester
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
9b
Chichester; horse show abandoned because ofcrisis
Chichester Cathedral
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
9c
Confetti & Fireworks; local yeomanry unable to attend event
Horsham
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
6e
The national Service league: An Invitation; calling on population to help the country
Petworth park
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
6f
National Service league Fete; proposal for all young men to be trained as TA
Petworth Park
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
9g
Portsmouth;restrictions in harbour
Porstmouth
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
6a
Our Weekly Gossip; assessment of readiness of war of European countries
S of England
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
10b
Selsey; two passing liners held
Selsey
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South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
4f
Flying at Shoreham; reduced display at air field because of war threat
Shoreham
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-06
11d
Corporation Employees at the War;council vote to support dependents of memebers
who enlist
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-08
5f
The War - call up to duty of Reservist, Territorial Yeomanry & Scouts
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-08
5a
My Note Book (News blackout imposed)
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
2g
Commodities Affected by the War. Imported Supplies.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
2g
Commodities Affected by the War. Stock piling by well-to-do.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
8de
Your King & Country Need You. Call to Arms.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
3b
Echoes of the War. Various items.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
3bc
A Word to the People. Advice on practising patriotism.
4West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
8c
Great European war. Germany Revealed.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
8c
More Prisoners Arrive. Germany POW's being sent to Christ's Hospital.
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
3d
Peace. Horsham & District Peace and Arbitration Society.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
5c
With the Colours. Wages of Council employees whilst away at war.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
8a
Soldiers & sailors patriotic Fund.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-08
5g
Prayers for Peace.
Horsham Parish
Church.
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
4f
Royal Sussex County Hospital; contingent of military nurses in the event of a war
was called upon as well as surgens and other territorial staff.
Brighton
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
7ab
Burgess Hill and the War Crisis; food prices and other issues
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
6g
Cuckfield Urban Council: The Queen's Hall to be equipped as a hospital if necessary;
Letter to be written to War Office to advise of this.
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
6ef
To combat panic and unjustifiable prices: Public confidence committee for Hassocks,
Clayton and Keymer
Hassocks, Clayton and
Keymer
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
8g
Spy Scares; A man thought to be a spy was captured and held at the police station
only to find the he was French and thought to be a harmless tourist
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
4f
Haywards Heath Cottage hospital; places at the disposal of the Red Cross
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
5a
the Cottage Hoospital Haywards Heath: First Soldier Patient
Haywards Heath
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Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
2ab
Patriotic Haywards Heath: The Urban Council to act as a relief committee
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
1a
British Red Cross Society: Sussex Branch; appeal to patriotic women of Haywads
Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
5a
Temporary hospital at King Edward Hall
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
5a
Lindfield fair; Army Remount officials came and requisitioned Gypsyhorses
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
2b
Good work by the Boy Scounts in Mid-sussex; guarding bridges and railways
crossings
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
1g
The Red Cross Society: Mid-Sussex Appeal for Subscriptions
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
5f
Suffragettes to be released
National
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
4f
Official food prices; list of maximum retail prices as set by the Advisory committee of
retail traiders
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
1g
German Prisoners in Sussex; Christ's Hospital taken over to house prisoners
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
5f
The National reserve - notice to men wishing to join
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-11
1g
Help for Wives and Families of Soldiers and Sailors; where to get help. Includes
places now in West Sussex
Sussex East
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Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
2cd
View of Central Europe; anti German sentiments
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5c
No more panic
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5c
An ample supply
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
6f
Prayers for victory
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5c
How to assist the enemy
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
4c
National reservist sign on at Town Hall
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
6d
The National Reserve; Bognor Div activities
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3e
A Doctor from Bognor reports on his visit to the continent
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
5d
Esperantist visit France, account of their visit
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Collecting Horses for the war
Bognor
1914-08-12
6d
Men in the National Reserve called to meeting and assigned duties etc.
Bognor
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
4f
Red Cross Society
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
4e
Postal Staff called up
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5c-e
Collecting horses for the war
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
6d
National Reserve
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5c
Bognor season [suffrence of economy tourism]
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
3e
Horses for the front
Bognor & Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
3e
Horses for the Front
Bognor Regis
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
5cd
Commandeering Horses at Bognor for the War
Bognor Regis
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Collecting Horses for the War
Bognor Regis
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
4d
Bognor Council and the War;
Civil Guard
Bognor Regis
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Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-12
6f-g
The Troops Billeted at Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-12
6g
Rugby Football Match – Sixth City of London Battalion
Burgess Hill
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Over 100 Aliens registered in Chchester
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
5e
The National Reservists of Chichester
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
5d
The War; formation of Chichester Civil Guard
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
5d
Soldiers and Sailors Families Associations
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
3d
The Sussex Reservists;
to join Royal Sussex Battn
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Troops Midnight Departure;
Royal Sussex 3rd Batt, Royal Sussex Band
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3e
Grocery establishments attempt to control panic buying
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3d
The War Troop activity in South Western Sussex
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3d
The War The Sussex reservists assembling.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3d
The War Departure of The Cyclist - 9th Hants. Battalion
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3e
Horses being sourced from the area
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3f
'C' Squadron Sussex Yeomanry depart for Canterbury
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
5e
3rd Battalion RSR troops midnight departure, local bands in attendance
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3d
The War Armed police at the Cross
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3d
The War St Johns Ambulance Brigade Mobilized
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
5d
Formation of City Guard
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5de
Soldiers & Sailors families Association open office in South Street.
Chichester
1914-08-12
5e
National reservist hold meeting
Chichester
1914-08-12
5e
Price of bread
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
8f
Local Markets
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Aliens registered in Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
3d
Departure of Reserves and Territorials
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
3d
Departure of the Cyclists
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
3f
Yeomanry depart for Canterbury
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Troops midnight departure
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Red Cross Society
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5d
Relief fund/city guard
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5de
Soldiers and sailors families assoc.
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Womens suffrage societies
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Items of interest [pows at Christs Hospital]
Christs Hospital
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
3e
German Prisoners at Christ's Hospital
Christ's Hospital
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3f
Health Insurance Reduced contributions during service.
England
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3f
The National Relief Fund
England
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
2e
On Active Service; 2 men from Royal Flying Corps let off speeding offence at
Felpham
Felpham
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-12
1a
5 th (Reserve) Battalion City of London Regiment - Concert
Haywards Heath
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
3e
German Prisoners at Christs Hospital
Horsham
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Item of Interest; POW's at Christs Hospital
Horsham
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
3e
German prisoners of war at Christ Hospital
Horsham
Bognor Observer
1914-08-12
6f
Littlehampton and Mobilization; RSR 4th Battn
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
4c
Hampshire Yeomanry on Guard at Fort
Littlehampton
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-12
6f
Littlehampton mobilization G company of 4th battalion RSR
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5e
Women's Suffrage Society suspends its political work for the time being.
Littlehampton
1914-08-12
4d
National Reservists
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
7c
Paying Visitors’ Prices; shops criticised for overcharging and not serving visitors
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
7cd
Attitude of the Churches; criticism of their objection to Sunday cinema shows,
suggesting their influence will wane [licence refused earlier]
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
6f
Littlehampton and mobilization
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
5a
From cars to aeroplanes
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
4d
Auction Sale Postponed
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
4d
Yeomanry on guard
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
7c
Paying Visitors’ Prices; shops criticised for overcharging and not serving visitors
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
7d
Visitors Return Home; tourism hit by war
Littlehampton
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-12
6e
Intercession services
Selsey
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-12
6c-e
Southdown Battalions – Recruiting Map etc
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-12
7d
Sussex Cricketers at War
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
3b
Editorial; criticism of food wholesalers buying up large quantities
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
5c
The New Alien Order, Arrest at Worthing; 1st German Otto van der Reche detained
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
6a-g
[Complete page on war preparations, including photos]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
3a
Editorial; crowds gather outside WGazette offices for latest news by telephone
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
3f
At St James’s Cinema
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
6a-g
[Complete page on war preparations, including photos]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
3f
At St James’s Cinema
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
6a-g
[Complete page on war preparations, including photos]
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
6a-g
[Complete page on war preparations, including photos]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
7b
Thoughts of a Countrywoman; War, The Mothers of Men Who Fight
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
5a-g
[Various pleas for calm, including no redundancies, reduced public expenditure, free
photography for volunteers, horse mobilisation etc; whole page captured]
Worthing & area
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-12
5a-g
[Various pleas for calm, including no redundancies, reduced public expenditure, free
photography for volunteers, horse mobilisation etc; whole page captured]
Worthing & area
West Sussex gazette
1914-08-13
3c
The Great test; a poem for the soldiers & sailors of Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-13
1h
Our Defenders' Wives & families;Prince of wales fund to help dependents
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-13
3h
Sussex territorial association;request for funds
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-13
8g
Local Aid Funds
Brighton&Worthing
West Sussex gazette
1914-08-13
7h
West Sussex education Committee; keeping all jobs open for men who enlist
Chichester
West Sussex gazette
1914-08-13
8b
Horsham;Christ's Hospital taken over as place of detention for german prisoners
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-13
2e
Red Cross;important meeting of Sussex branch
London
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West Sussex gazette
1914-08-13
8b
Porstmouth;war-time precautions
Portsmouth
Wset Sussex gazette
1914-08-13
2d
Shoreham harbour Trustees & the war;various plans
Shoreham
West Sussex gazette
1914-08-13
3d
Our Seaside Places;plea for hoilday makers not to leave seaside towns
Sussex
West Sussex gazette
1914-08-13
3c
Our Counties & War; full page article on war efforts in each area of Sussex
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-13
8h
Germans in West Sussex
West Sussex area
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-13
8b
Worthing;70 draught horses requisitioned for use of Royal Sussex Artillery
Worthing
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
2fg
The Germans at Leige. A Remarkable Prophecy.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-15
4c,d
Call to Arms
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-15
3a
Eatbournians in Belgium - a narative
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-15
44c,d
To Officers of His Majesty's Forces. Advert indicating Officers buying own uniforms
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
2f
War. No increase in the cost of Horniman's Tea
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
6fg
Bird's Custard Advertisement.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
6c
A Day of Intercession.
88West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
6de
Special Services in the Churches. The Bishop of London on Duty.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
6e
Archbishop's Call to the People.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
8c
Echoes of the War.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
7b
Arrests of Aliens. Statement by the Home secretary.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
5a
One Touch of Patriotism.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
7f
The Kaisers Admission. Germany's action in violating Luxemburg and Belgium.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
7c
Personal Gossip.
War is the greatest teacher of geography.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
7c
Personal Gossip.
Population coming out in evenings for news.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
7c
Personal Gossip.
Prominent soldiers who fought in the South African War
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Times
1914-08-15
7f
Married off the Strength. A welcome concession.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
8a
Offer of Help.
Women's Suffrage Societies.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
8d
Soldiers & sailors Help Society. Anxious to help.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
8d
WAR.
A poem.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
2g
Suffragettes mobilizes for relief work.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
3d
The Press and the Crisis. Mr Churchill's Tribute.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
4g
Soldiers & sailors Help Society. Donations and Subscriptions.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
7b
The First Victora Cross.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
8b
Severe Fighting in Northern Belgium.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
7c
Germans searching for accommodation in Brighton.
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-15
3f
Drilling on Roseheath
Chailey
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Horsham Times
1914-08-15
3e
CHAILEY drilling on Roeheath preparatory ambulance work
Chailey
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
5c
Crawley and the War notes of meeting
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
5e
British Red Cross Society
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-15
8a
Formation of a Local Defence Force
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-15
8a
The Recruiting Committee
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
5a
Editorial talk
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
8a
East Grinstead and the war
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
8c
The relief of distress occassioned by the war
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
8c
The war - a local defence force
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
3e
GLYNDE appeal to sow extra vegetables
Glynde
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
5f
Hammerwood - War relief fund
Hammerwood
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Horsham Times
1914-08-15
5f
Hartfield meeting to discuss recruitment to army
Hartfield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-15
5e
Prisoners of war at Horsham Hospital
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
5d
The Vicar of Horsham on the War.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
8e
Prisoners of War at Christ's Hospital.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
4g
Patriotic Fund. Public Meeting.
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-15
8a
Boy scouts guarding duty
Lingfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
8d
Helping at Home.
Lower Beeding.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
7c
Personal Gossip.
Maastricht - the nearest Dutch town to the fighting.
Maastricht.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
5b
Soldiers & sailors Help Society. Donations and Subscriptions.
Midhurst & Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-15
6c
Dutch Indignation Against Germany.
Netherlands
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
3d
NEWICK Ambulance Corps
Newick
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Horsham Times
1914-08-15
3b
Call to Arms
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
5b
Red Cross Workers - material available
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-15
8d
The War - editorial comment
Sussex
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-16
12e
To Our Readers; gazette will do its best to deliver papers but staff have volunteered
and war traffic must take precedence.
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
2c
'What we can do to help our Country': Open air recruitign meetign at Brugess Hill
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
6ab
Cuckfield Board of Guardians; 25 beds in the Infirmary to be offered to the
Government for use if necessary
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
6ab
Cuckfield Board of Guardians; The Superintendant nurse has been called to work in
the hospitals in Belgium. It was put to the board that her wages should be paid in
full up to departure with an extra months advance and her job kept for her return
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
2a
Cuckfield and the War: A relief Fund started, £280 raised in one evening
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
5b
Cuckefield Woman's Suffrage Society; put asside their suffrage agenda until the end
of the war and have offered their services to the Cuckfield Relief Committee
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
6ab
Cuckfield Board of Guardians; The Superintendant nurse has been called to work in
the hospitals in Belgium. It was put to the board that her wages should be paid in
full up to departure with an extra months advance and her job kept for her return
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
1g
The Rifle Club Haywards Heath; opened later so that men both young and old can
learn to handle rifles
Haywards Heath
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1914-08-18
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Haywards Heath Picture Theatre: Stirring War Scenes
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
1g
The Rifle Club Haywards Heath; opened later so that men both young and old can
learn to handle rifles
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
8a
Do you want to serve your king?; information on where to go if you wish to sign up.
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
6c
Mid-Sussex football and the European Crisis; meeting to decide future of the football
league during the war
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
4g
Women and Relief work; promt action by suffragists
National
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
2b
Seeds to Sow: Hints by the R.H.S; exampels of what can be sown in gardens and
plots
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
6f
National Day of Prayer and Intercession; letter from Bishop of Chichester
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
1g
Sussex Terriotrial Association: Discussion and plannign regarding the fund for
dependants of Sussex Territorials and about National reservisits being given
preferance when recruiting Special Constables
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
6b
Alien Enemies and prohibited areas
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
1g
Sussex and the War; local doctor signs up for active service as well as nearly the
whole of the 1st Home Counties Brigade RFA have volunteered for active service
abroad
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
1g
Sussex Terriotrial Association: Discussion and plannign regarding the fund for
dependants of Sussex Territorials
Sussex
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1914-08-18
6g
Appeal for the Boy Scouts; appeal for fund so that they can keep perfomring the
work they are doing. Appeal is somewhat aimed at other children not engaged with
the Scouts
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
4a
Recruits Wanted; rectuirment for 4 RSR. 'Young men do your duty'
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-18
2f
Sir Edmund Loder's Kindness; offers Beach House Park and grounds, Worthing for
use as a hospital
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
5cde
Map of Central Europe; showing war areas
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5b
How to increase the food supply
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
3d
Every German not an enemy
Littlehampton
Observer
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
2e
School teachers will be able to return to their post if called up for active service
\\west Sussex
1914-08-19
5c
Church and the war
Birdham
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
3a
National Relief Fund
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
3a
Street Lighting
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1914-08-19
5b
Red Cross Hospital for Chichester
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1914-08-19
4e
Territorial Recruits Wanted
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-08-19
5c
Kitcheners Army;
RSR, General Service Battn
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-08-19
5d
The Civil Guard
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5c
Kitchener's army RSR - more recruits needed
Chichester
1914-08-19
5c
The Civil Guard mustered
Chichester
1914-08-19
5de
Enthusiastic meeting for formation of Chichester Civil Guard
Chichester
1914-08-19
6cd
Butter or Margarine
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5b
Intercession service at the Cathedral
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5b
Mistaken for a spy
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5b
Red Cross Hospital for Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
4c
Territorial recruits wanted
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5c
Kitchener's Army
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
2c-e
Education Committee and the war - Use of schools for military purposes
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
2ef
War Distress Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
2f
Soldiers and Sailors Families Assoc
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
4c
Red Cross under fite
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5b
Tennis Tournament abandoned
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5c
Civil Guard
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5c
Chichester Relief Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5d-5e
Civil Guard
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
4c
Six sons in the Army
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5c
Chichester Aid Society
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-08-19
4d
Invitation to enrol for service
Littlehampton
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5f
The Prince's Fund
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
4d
Come and enrol!
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
4d
Two "Spies" released
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
4f
Suffragists ready
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
3cd
Suffragists and the war
Rustington
Bognor Observer
1914-08-19
5b
Home Guards for Selsey
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
Chichester Observer
1914-08-19
5b
Home guard formed for Selsey
Selsey
1914-08-19
5b
Home Guards for Selsey
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
6a
Sussex by the Sea, a Weekly Survey; Shoreham Harbour economy hit by war
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
6a
Sussex by the Sea, a Weekly Survey; Shoreham Harbour economy hit by war
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
6d
Storrington; various events prompted by the war
Storrington
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Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
6d
Storrington; various events prompted by the war
Storrington
Littlehampton
Observer
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
5c
Local football players and the units in which they are serving
West Sussex
1914-08-19
4fg
Small Shot; [numerous snippets of interesting information; 60 aliens registered
already]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4cd
Special Medical Aid; dependents of men fighting to get free medical care
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4ab
Civil Guard Killed; accident to Worthing member of West Sussex Civil Guard
[inquest]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4e
The Local Civil Guard [detailed explanation of role & numbers]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
3e
[Various events cancelled due to war]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4d
Serving King and Country; 365 Worthing men serving so far, plus details of 4th Royal
Sussex training etc
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4d
Expert Rifle Shots; schemes to train locals
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4de
Departure of the National Reserve [PHOTO on men marching in Chapel Road
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4fg
Small Shot; [numerous snippets of interesting information]
Worthing
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1914-08-19
3e
[Various events cancelled due to war]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4cd
Special Medical Aid; dependents of men fighting to get free medical care
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4fg
Small Shot; [numerous snippets of interesting information]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
5a
Twixt You and Me; WGazette reduces circulation & pages from 8 to 6
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
5cde
Good attendances reported at various cinemas, & patriotic or propaganda films
shown
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
5g
The Band; number of concerts reduced from 3 to one per week
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4c
Helping the Mayors’ Fund
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4f
Charity versus unemployment; letter denouncing comfort production at home
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
4fg
Small Shot; [numerous snippets of interesting information]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
5a
Twixt You and Me; WGazette reduces circulation & pages from 8 to 6 [changed back
to 8 pages on 26th August!]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-19
5cde
Good attendances reported at various cinemas, & patriotic or propaganda films
shown
Worthing
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South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-20
7f
Aliens Remanded;2 German women taken
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-20
4g
Soliloquy of a Sussex Civil guard at midnight-poem by L.Whitehead
Sussex
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-20
4e
Sussex Voluntary helpers
Sussex
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-20
3b,c
Our Counties and War
various areas
South of England
Advertiser
1914-08-20
3d-f
Continuation of above
Various areas
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
8e
The war - why is England involved - comment
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6c-d
Birds Custard - Household economy in war time
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3g
A Soldier's Death. The Bishop of Southwell's sermon on nobility in death.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
8d
Echoes of the War.
German spies sending messages via New York.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
8d
Echoes of the War.
Many Church Lad's Brigade volunteering.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
2g
Letters to British Soldiers. Means of address.
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Times
1914-08-22
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The Action of Japan. Japan's ultimatum to Germany.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3f
Polish Re-union. Tsar's promised restoration of the integrity of Poland.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
7c
A Mean Trick. Obtaining money from serving personnels family.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
8d
Echoes of the War.
Liptons Ltd will still pay employees who have been called to arms.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3d
Watchwords to the British Public. Watchwords issued by the National Patriotic
Association.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3d
The Missions to seamen and the War. Dependance for safety and against starvation.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3e
The National Fund. Distribution of Grants. Methods to be adopted.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3g
A Brilliant Success. The success of the Admiralty and War Office in landing the BEF
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
4g
The King and His Army. His Majesty's message to departing troops.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
6c
Billeting terms.
The Daily Dietary of the Soldier.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
8d
Echoes of the War.
Knitted sleeping helmits wanted.
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
3d
Red Cross work
Barcombe
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3e
Austrian waiter charged with being an enemy alien in possession of a revolver.
Bournemouth.
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
3d
The alleged German spy - court report
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
8d
Echoes of the War.
First Home Counties Brigade volunteers.
Brighton
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
3d
Buxted Recruiting meeting
Buxted
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
3d
Chailey - offer of hospital
Chailey
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
8c
Prisoners of War at Christ's Hospital.
Christ's Hospital.
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
5f
War Remounts - movement of horses from Hove to Woolwich
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
2e
The public meeting at Crawley - letter to the editor
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
2e
Our Gallant Volunteers - poem
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
8b
War relief fund and Crawley and the War - letters to the editor
Crawley
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Place
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
3d
Cross in Hand relief fund
Cross in hand
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
2f
The War - a caution against emotionalism - letter.
Danehill
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
8a
East Grinstead and The War
including womens anti suffrage league
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
8 c-d
The relief of distress occassioned by the war - emergency committee for East
Grinstead
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
2c
East Sussex County Relief Committee meeting - an influential gathering at Lewes
East Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6b
East Sussex County Council - how the patriotic employees are to be treated
East Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6b
Boy Scouts - watching bridges and remuneration and recognition
East Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
8c
The National Relief fund
East Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
2d
A Way to help - letter to the editor
Eastbourne
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
3d
Firle relief fund
Firle
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
5d
Forest Row Red Cross, church and carnival committee
Forest Row
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Place
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
7f
Shot by Sentry. Civilians must stop when challenged
Grimsby
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
8d
Lecture on the war
Groombridge
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
5c
Hammerwood church collection
Hammerwood
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
5d
Hartfield rifle practice and red cross ladies work
Hartfield
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
3e
National Relief fund
Hastings
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
8d
Echoes of the War.
Police round up Urban Council members with map.
Haywards Heath.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3e
German Women charged at Horsham. Failure to register.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
5a
A denial of silly rumours. Urban Council members denial he is German.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
5e-g
The Patriotic Fund.
Relief of Sufferers Through the War.
Horsham
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
5c
Lingfield and the war
Lingfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
8d
Echoes of the War.
Petworth Miniture Rifle Club
Range open for free practice.
Petworth
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Place
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
6c
Kitchener's Scheme. New Army recruitment explained.
Reading.
West Sussex County
TimesWest
1914-08-22
2g
The Russian Avalanche.
Russian offensive keeping German troops on Eastern front.
Russian Eastern Front.
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
5a
The Hospital - effect of incoming casualties to the south coast and ref to Rudyard
Kipling
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6a
British Troops in France - details of the BEF
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6a
The second Army - how long men can expect to serve
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6a
Naval Commanders letter
sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
4e
The Grouping of the Powers
Editorial comment
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6a
Kings Message & Lord Kitchener's advice
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6a
How to address letters and parcels and details of countries at war.
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6d
Our Overseas Food supply - the fatherlands extensive purchase of horses
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
6d
German Imports - board of trade appeal
Sussex
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Place
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
8d
Does peace mean decay and Foxhounds and the war
Letters to the editor
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
3e
Uckfield Local Patriotism - fund raising
Uckfield
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
5e
Sermon about war
West Crawley
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
2g
The Schools and the Military.
Emergency Measures.
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3e
Local Volunteer Civil Guard. Official recognition.
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
3b
False Rumours. An Official warning. Enemy reports of allied disasters.
Western Front
Horsham Times
1914-08-22
5c
Withyam working party
Withyam
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-22
6c
Civil Guards Death at Worthing. Killed on railway by passing train.
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
5d
During the War; things that Burgess Hill have been doing to help the war effort
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
3c
Roll of Honour: Local men on active service; men from Cuckfield and Lindfield. First
time a roll of honour appears in this paper.
Cuckfield & Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
7g
East Sussex Constabulary; special constables in every township (includes those now
in West Sussex) Lists the constables and the township to which they are attached.
East Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
7a
In southdown villages at Wartime: Impressiosn from Hassocks, Keymer and
Hurstpierpoint
Hassocks, Keymer and
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
8f
Recruitment advert for A Company (Haywards Heath) 4th Battalion RSR
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
3ab
A national day of Intercession; reports of the attendance and services in Cuckfield,
Haywards Heath, Ardingly, Burgess Hill, Lindfield and Wivelsfield
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
4a
Advert for recruits for A Company 4th Royal Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
7e
Footballers and the war; recommendation to raise money for the National Relief fund
at matches
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
4b
7th Royal Sussex, recruitment advert
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-08-25
5a
Appeal to Sussex Men: Join the 7th Service Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1914-08-26
8a
7th Service Battn, Royal Sussex Regiment
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
2d
West Sussex Farmers and the war
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
4f
Seaside letting
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
4c
Why "Scares" are raised
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
3c-f
The War
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
5b
Latest War Summary
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
7cd
Big battle begun
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
3d
Prompt action by Suffragists
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
7b
Angmering; summary of village’s war effort
Angmering
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
7b
Angmering; summary of village’s war effort
Angmering
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
3e
Relief Fund
Brighton
Bognor Observer
1914-08-26
3d
Men wanted to to to the Front; 7th Battn RSR; repeated in subsequent issues
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
5b
National reservists general administration
Chichester
1914-08-26
8ab
Advertisement for men to join 7th battalion RSR - appears in several later editions
Chichester
1914-08-26
5b
The City Guard duties
Chichester
1914-08-26
4f
War and local trade
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
3f
German Arrested
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
8f
National Relief Fund [list of subscribers]
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
3d
Time that is expected to take to transport wounded from field to England
England
1914-08-26
3cd
How to address letters to soldiers
England
1914-08-26
5b
Summary of the war position
England
1914-08-26
7cd
Reports of the various battles being fought and involvement of other countries
England
1914-08-26
7g
Lancing; formation of local war relief fund
Lancing
Bognor Observer
1914-08-26
2e
Kitcheners Army First
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1914-08-26
4e
Littlehampton Civil Guard
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
2ef
Civil guard for Littlehampton
Littlehampton
1914-08-26
4d
Intersession for the War
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
7f
National Relief Fund
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
7d
Civil Guard at Littlehampton; formation, detailed article
Littlehampton
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Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
2ef
Civil guard for littlehampton
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
4d
Deserters sent back
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
4f
Littlehampton Civil Guard
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
5b
Special military Service at Merston
Merston
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
6d
Selsey and the War
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1914-08-26
8ab
Advertisement
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
3d
Men wanted to go to the front - Sussex men for the RSR
West Sussex
1914-08-26
7a
Sussex by the Sea; 2 stories of alleged spies who turned out to be innocent
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
7e
Our Soldiers and Sailors; role of S&S’ Help Society
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
5f
The War; weather so good that visitors have returned in good numbers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
6c
Fruit Growing Industry; suffers slump in prices
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
6g
Small Shot; snippets of interesting information about war effort & mobilisation etc
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
6g
Territorials Wanted; appeal for recruits & for National Reserve volunteers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
6g
Small Shot; snippets of interesting information about war effort & mobilisation etc
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
3de
Sports & Pastimes; various approaches taken by clubs, some stopping activities,
other continuing
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
5c
At St James’s Cinema; At the Front, Record of the war in Pictorial Form
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
5f
The War; weather so good that visitors have returned in good numbers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
5f
The War; patriotic rally for Relief Fund
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
5f
The War; private appeal for money & supplies for troops & Red Cross hospitals
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
5g
The War Relief Fund; Mayor’s letter thanks residents for donating over £3,000; plus
a criticism
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
6g
Small Shot; snippets of interesting information about war effort & mobilisation etc
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
2cde
Exterior of Our Chatsworth Road Offices; drawing of Worthing Gazette premises
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1914-08-26
5c
At St James’s Cinema; At the Front, Record of the war in Pictorial Form; plus 2 other
cinemas
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-27
3g
Soldiers Letters from the Front;paper will print Sussex soldiers letters
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-27
8f
Littlehampton;football team depleted because of enlistment
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-27
4e
Sussex & recruiting; 7th service battalion of RSR to join 2nd army
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1914-08-27
3g
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
2a
In face of the foe - poem
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
2b
The War - a poem
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3d
What the Kaiser forgot - comments about our army
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
2e
All labour disputes to terminate
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3d
Princely gifts from Canada
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3d
Caution to farmers - re horses for the war effort
Worthing;YMCA enrolling local men into Sussex Civil guard
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Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3e
No intoxicants - re sending goods to the troops
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3e
Britains debt to Belgium - letter from Belgian Legation
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8f
The War - Why is England involved - letter
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7c
Curates and the Colours.
Curates and clergy flock to the colours.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7c
"Pray for our Soldiers and sailors". Churches and Chapels open all day.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7f
Returning Confidence. War has little effect on Social and Industrial conditions
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5c
Notes and Comments.
"Moral Power".
German propogander.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5f
Rural League Recruitment Scheme. Appeal to the villages by Lord Kitchener.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5g
North Sea Mine victims. A Danish Captain's story.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5a
The Nation's cause.
Supporting the principles of Christian civilisation.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7b
War and Pestilence.
Cholera reported in the armies.
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7c
Contemporary Chat.
Word of Warning. People still not aware there is a war on.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7f
Trading with the Enemy. An official explanation of a misapprehension.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
2g
Parcels for the Troops.
How They Should Be Sent.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
2g
Aeroplane Messages.
Interesting Notice. What to do with them, if found.
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
5b
Ashurst Wood - Relief fund
Ashurst Wood
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
2g
Courageous Captain.
German Cruiser Defied.
Atlantic
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
3d
Friendly Armies.
The right to requistion in Belgium.
Belgium
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3d
Convalescent home offered to Lord Kitchener
Brighton
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3d
Recruiting Office Opened
Brighton
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3d
An appeal to Brighton Men
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5d
"Spies" on Brighton Pier.
Highly dangerous foolish trick.
Brighton
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Place
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
3g
The Germans enter Brussels.
Brussels
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7c
Duchess as Red Cross Nurse.
Millicent Duchess of Sutherland. First English woman to reach Belgium.
Brussels
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
3d
Canadian Bank's Gift.
Bank of Montreal gift for patriotic purposes.
Canada
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7f
Primate on the War. Nations clear conscience.
Canterbury
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
2c
A soldier sent to prison
Christ's Hospital
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
5f
Mr S Sealey - letter from son in Paris saying he has enlisted
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8a
Letters to the editor Crawley distress committee
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
4f
Relief of distress caused by the war
Crawley & Ifield
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
5e
The War distress relief committee
Crawley & Ifield
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8a
Letters to the editor - the war and the salvation army
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8a
A noon day prayer for the war
East Grinstead
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Horsham Times
1914-08-29
4f
Relief of distress occasioned by the war
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8a
Letters to the editor - church lads' Brigade
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8b
East Grinstead and The War - fundraising and enlistment
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8b
Grand concert for the relief fund
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
2c
East Sussex Education committee patriotic officials and teachers
East Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
3f
Aliens in England.
Stronger action to be taken against spying and sabotage.
England
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
7f
National Health Insurance.
Arrears in contributions does not apply to those "called up"
England
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-08-29
3d
The War - Earl of Chichester with 5th RSR Family & estate staff
Falmer
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
3c
Falmer and Stanmer
Earl of Chichester rejoins 5th Bttn
Falmer & Stanmer
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
5e
An unseemly meeting - man in Horsham trying to discuss peace
Horsham
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Horsham Times
1914-08-29
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Letters in war time
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
3d
Conditions of the Empire.
Sermon by the Rev. R. Jamblin
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5d
German Women charged at Horsham. Two women failed to comply with the Aliens
restriction Order.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5d
Horsham Volunteer Civil Guard. Steady increase in it's strength.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
4g
National Relief Fund.
Resolution of the inhabitants of Urban District.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5b
Red Cross Work at Horsham.
Public ignorance of the wars progress.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5e
Local War Funds. Despite National Fund, Horsham go it alone.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
3e
War by Civilians.
German threat to shoot civilians not in uniform.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
3e
Progress of the war.
Fall of Namur.
British force engaged.
Namur, Belgium.
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
2d-e
Lewes Board of guardians - soldiers using workhouse and related topics
Newhaven
1West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
3b
MP's Appeal to Miners.
100,000 required for war effort.
Notts
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Times
1914-08-29
3b
Miners and the War.
Voluntary levy to the National War Relief Fund.
Notts
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
2b
The war and voluntary effort - letter
Nutley
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
5g
Roffey Proposed Civil Guard.
Enrollment well supported. A squad will be formed.
Roffey.
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8c
Ex non coms wanted - appeal
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
2b
Our London Letter - editorial comment
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
5b
Personal - various information about appointments/movements
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
6c-d
The War and the Ford Car Advert
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
5a
Relief funds
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
5b
My Notebook - editorial about relief funds
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
6a
Eastbourne Gas Company
effects of the war and employees in war
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-08-29
8a
Letters to the editor - charity funds and the war
sussex
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Horsham Times
1914-08-29
6c
Uckfield Relief fund
Uckfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-08-29
6d
Example for Employers.
New appointments will not be made until after the war.
Woolwich
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
7ab
Ardingly and District Ploughign Association: No match or show this year due to war
Ardingly and district
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
5e
Balcome number of volunteers sets example to the rest
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
6a-e
Central Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
4b
Roll of Honour: men from Albourne;Ardingly;Balcombe;Bolney;Burgess
Hill;Cuckfield;Lindfield;Hassocks and neighbourhood;Haywards
Heath;Hurstpierpoint;Staplefield; Wivelsfield. Continues weekly, sometimes with
different locations mentioned
Advert urging young men to joing up. Recruitment meeting at Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
6e
Haywards Heath and cuckfield Boys Scounts; work guarding railway bridges
Cuckfield and
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
2ab
For Home and County: Fine Response to Duty's Call from Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
5f
Letter to encourage recruitment of boys to the Church Lads Brigade Cadet Company
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
1g
Haywards Heath Picture Theatre to show patriotic films tostimulate patriotism
Haywards Heath
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Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
1a
Haywards Heath War Fund Committee sets up Womens Committee to work in
conjunction with War Fund Committee
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
8f
The Women at Work; Haywards Heath branch of the Central Sussex Women's
Suffrage society have decided to suspend its ordinary suffrage work and devote
themselves to relief work.
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
5g
Concert at Horsted Keynes in aid of the National Relief Fund
Horsted Keynes
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
7b
Our Food Supply; patriotic garden kitchen association
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
3e
Horses and the War
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-01
4b
Advert recruiting for 7th Royal Sussex
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
8ab
Advert
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
3d
The Bishop and Red Cross hospitals
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5d
Lord Roberts and games
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5d
Robbing widows and orphans
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
2c-2d
National Relief Fund [formation of local committees]
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Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
3c
Truth about the British forces
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5d
Yeomanry recruits at Bognor
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1914-09-02
4c
Recruiting at Bognor
Bognor Regis
Bognor Observer
1914-09-02
4d
Bognor Civil Guard, disbanded
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5d
Recruits from Boxgrove
Boxgrove
Bognor Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Recruiting at Chichester; many from Shipphams and Goodwood Estate
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Chichester Civil Guard
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Territorials up to strength; Royal Sussex Regiment
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Recruiting in Chichester
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Mayor appeals for men to join the 7th RSR
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
3d
Bishop of Chichester comments on the taking over of schools for hospitals
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Civil Guard arrangements
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Territorials up to strength
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
5c
The National Reserve called upon
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5d
Pulpit appeal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
4d
Chichester Aid Society
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
4f
Red Cross hospitals
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Recruiting at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Mayor's appeal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Chichester Civil Guard
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5c
Territorials up to strength
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5c
National Reserve
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
4c
Warning to Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
3a-3b
Able bodied men in workhouses
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
4f
Penny per week
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5a
Penny per week
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
2a
Sussex by the Sea; Christ’s Hospital as a POW camp for 750
Christ’s Hospital
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
5a
Relief Fund
East Preston
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
2e
Patriotism at East Preston; concert for war relief fund
East Preston
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
3d
Warning of bogus appeals for money
England
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
3e
Red Cross workers can apply to Singer for the renting of sewing machines
England
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
3c
Truth About British Forces - Official Story from War Office
England
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
2f
Findon; women’s group formed to support war effort
Findon
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Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
2g
Lancing; war effort details
Lancing
Bognor Observer
1914-09-02
6f
Littlehampton Civil Guard
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
6e
Civil Guard first night of drill
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
6f
Littlehampton Civil Guard
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
2de
Question of Local Relief; Littlehampton UDC sets up formal war relief fund
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-02
4e
Military at Merston
Merston
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
2e
Rustington Emergency League; set up to co-ordinate war effort in village
Rustington
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
2f
Mr A Hamilton - ex RSR - appointed recruiting officer for Selsey & environs
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
8c
Advertisement for recruits from Selsey
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-02
8ab
Advertisement by local traders regarding future trading
West Sussex
1914-09-02
3d
Appeal for people to smoke more which will raise more taxes to help the war effort?
West Sussex
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Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
2d
Full Range Rifle Club; big increase in membership
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
5ab
The Appeal to Worthing’s Manhood [editorial]; strident appeal by WG for Kitchener’s
New Army
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
6a-g
Success of the Recruiting Effort [ Headline ]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
6ab
Responding to the Call! Magnificent Meeting at the Kursaal …More than a Hundred
Enrol; NB ‘white feather’ mentioned & first Worthing area Roll of Honour
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
6d
With the Local Territorials; appeal for supplies from H Company’s active service HQ
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
6e
The Purchase of Horses; Government thanks to local organisers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
6e
Family To Be Proud Of! 4 brothers & 9 residents of Buckingham Rd join up
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
6d
Helping the Relief Fund; report of a concert; NB these sort of concerts continue
weekly
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
6f
Socks For Our Soldiers; details of value of socks as pillows & soap enclosed
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-02
6g
Small Shot; Worthing Patriotic Working Society formed to make comforts
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-03
8c
Farmers & the War
Chichester
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West Sussex gazette
1914-09-03
1g
Service BattalionRSR;short of recruits
Colchester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-03
2f
Horsham;assessment of recruiting numbers
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-03
2f
Horsham;Christ's Hospital free of POWs
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-03
1f
Soldiers & sailors help Society;appealing for funds
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-03
2b
Rural recruiting;big meeting
Pulborough
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-03
3g
Provision for the Wounded; discussion of availability of hospital beds
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-03
8ab
Kitchener's Army advert;for Sussex men
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-05
72f
The Sussex Yeomanry
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-05
5f
Letter from the War
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
2e
Supply of pitprops
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Horsham Times
1914-09-05
6a
Useful presents for soldiers
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
6d
The RSPCA and the War - instructions to lacal branches re care of servicemen's pets,
and first aid for horses
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
6b,c & d
Your King & Country needs you - 100,000 extra men needed appeal for men
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
6d
The Farmer's Duty.
Increasing the growth of wheat.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
7b
Onterio Sugar.
Suspension of imports from Germany and Austria.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
7c
Orleans Princes in our Army.
Have left the Austrian army to join Sir John French.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
7f
Fugitives in Germany.
germans who help allies treated as traitors.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
6a
The War Office Regulations.
Nursing being sent to the front.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
2ab
Your King & Country Need You. Another 100,000 Men Wanted.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
3g
Woman's Stirring Appeal.
Lady Maxwell calls for men of England to enlist.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
7c
Railway Men and the War.
20,000 railway men have volunteered.
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Times
1914-09-05
7c
A New Highland Battalion.
Cameron of Lochiel forms the camerion Highlanders.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
8d
Echoes of War. Incentive for men to join the colours.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
6b
'Only Time For One Thing'.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on war.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
6d
Football and the War.
War Office for the Football Association to continue.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
2g
What Women can do for Our Men. Knit socks.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
3e
Gallantry of Our Troops.
Statement by Lord Kitchener.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
7c
Organised Slaughter in Battle. "Like Firing into a Herd of Cattle"
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
8e
Tribute to the Navy.
German version of the fight at sea.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
8f
The Activity of the Fleet.
Germany & Austria's losses.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
3f
Recruiting Extraordinary.
60 young men from Bookham all in same football team.
Bookham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-05
8f
Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammer School - A military hospital
Brighton
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-05
8f
Wounded soldiers at Brighton
Brighton
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
2c
An elementary school requisitioned - for auxilliary hospital
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
6d
Duty of the Able-Bodied.
Men at a meeting invited to join Kitchener's army.
Camberley
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8c
Cowfold Recruiting - 50 recruits signed up
Cowfold
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
3d
Patriotic Meeting at Cowfold.
Fine response to appeal for recruits.
Cowfold
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5c
Crawley Parish Church - bell ringing
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5c
An open air range wanted - letter
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5d
The West Crawley Brass Band - giving collection money to war fund
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5d
Recruiting at Crawley
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8f
Crawley and the National Relief fund - organisation between parishes
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5b
Crawley Down - recruiting
Crawley Down
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Times
1914-09-05
6d
Lord Methuan Confident.
Germany's desire to be the one Empire in the World.
Devizes
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
2f
The Vicars appeal to East Grinstead Men
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
4e
The relief of distress ocassioned by the war - relief fund details
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
4f
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5c
Letters to the editor - British Red cross society -
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5d
Council employees desire to enlist
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8a
East Grinstead and the War - details of relief fund, recruitment and dispersal of local
men. Also boy scouts guarding Balcombe bridge
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8c-d
A Great Recruiting Meeting -Whitehall, East Grinstead
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
6f
Belgium and the War - a lecture by David Barron
Eastbourne
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5b
Felbridge - a series of free lectures on the course of the war
Felbridge
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5c
Ashdown Forest rifle range - letter
Forest Row
My notebook - editorial and local committee details
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Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8b
Patriotic meeting at Forest Row. Call for recruits by Col Needham & Adm. Mann
Forest Row
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5b
Forest Row - employers replacing men at the front and news of lcals at the front
Forest Row
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
2c
Framfield National Relief fund
Framfield
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
2d
Hailsham recruiting
Hailsham
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5e
Hartfield Football Club - suspended due to lack of men
Hartfield
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
2d
Board of guardians -pay for married officials on active service
Hastings
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
6c
The Hop Crop.
The effect on prices by war.
Home Counties
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
4e - f
Horsham Times Soldiers of France - editorial
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
5fg
Helpful Suggestions.
Fruit rotting on trees. Bottling for future.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
3e
Patriotic Meeting at Horsham. Stirring address by Dr. Bostock.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
8bc
Great Meeting on the carfax.
Call for recruits.
Horsham
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
5f
Belgian Refugees. Letter of thanks for the response to the request for support.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
8d
Needlework for War sufferers. Women out of work.
Horsham
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8e
Recruiting parade at Hove - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speaks
Hove
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5c
Recruits at Crawley - letter re members of Ifield Cricket club enlisting
Ifield
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5d
Reservists entertained by the Chief Constable - insufficient forms for the number of
men enlisting
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5a
Lingfield - Lectures on the war - report of lecture
Lingfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
7c
An Infamoue Crime.
The destruction of Louvain.
Louvain
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
8c
Roffey Soldier's Experiences.
Letter to his parents.
Roffey
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
2e
Red Cross Society's hospital - appeal for funds
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8e
Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School - equipping a military Hospital
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8e
Wounded soldiers at Brighton - casualties distributed to hospitals
Sussex
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1914-09-05
6a
War Items - French Canadians & Frontiersmen from Ottawa
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
6a
Mourning the dead - letter from Duchess of Devonshire
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
6a
Honey & Cigarettes for soldiers
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
8e
Sussex and the National Fund - letter to the editor from Norfolk Lord Lieutenant
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5d
Details of serving officers promotions
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
5g
Recruiting in Sussex.
Over zealous Landowners.
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5d
Letters from the War - letter from the front from Mr Tom Thorns
Tinsley
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5c
A Turners Hill Record - letter re no enlisting from village
Turners Hill
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5f
West Hoathly - an enthusiastic recruitment meeting
West Hoathly
Horsham Times
1914-09-05
5b
Soldiers at Worth Park - mounted troops
Worth
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-05
2g
English Missionaries in German East Africa. Cut off. Communications closed.
Zanzibar
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1914-09-08
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Wivelsfield; Mr W. E. Everest of HMS Zealandia comments on how he feels the
Germans will not last much longer on land or sea
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
5e
Hurstpierpoint: Letter from a Hurst soldier; account of an engagement of RSR on 3
September
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
6b
Cuckfield men in land and sea fights; letters written home by Cuckfield men
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
2g
Sussex Regiment in actions; 2nd RSR engaged at Mons. A large number of the
wounded are in hospital in Bristol
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
5d
Burgess Hill: Footballers and the war; most men of local football team have
volunteered
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
6ab
The Country's Call; recruitment meeting at Cuckfield
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
1g
Over 6000 territorials coming to Haywards Heath; London territorials to be billeted
overnight in Haywards Heath and Cuckfield. Steps taken to secure accomodation.
Horses also to be accomodated for.
Cuckfield and
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
7e
Hassocks Christmas Fat Stock Show 1914 cancelled due to war
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
8d
Milk Prices: Farmers' meeting at Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
7ab
The German Policy: Speech by Major Kenney-Herbert at Lindfield; recruiting meeting
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
7f
Field and Farm: The Board of Agriculture; inquiry board set up to investigate all
matters affecting supply of home produce
National
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Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
8e
Sunday War News; protest by newsagents
National
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
8f
"Where Duty Calls": Meeting at Scaynes Hill ; recruitment meeting
Scaynes Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
7f
Field and Farm: Horses and the Harvest; problems facing farmers whose horses
have been requisitioned for the Army.
South Coast
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
8f
Sussex Yeomanry; is at full strength so new reserve regiment to be formed
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
1a
To English Women; Poem written to encourage women to send their sons, brothers,
husbands to sign up
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
8g
Periodicals for Soldiers and Sailors
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
2g
Sussex Regiment in actions; 2nd RSR engaged at Mons. A large number of the
wounded are in hospital in Bristol
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
2g
Sussex Yeomanry; volunteered for active service
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
1a
To English Women; Poem written to encourage women to send their sons, brothers,
husbands to sign up
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-08
5e
Twineham: Current topics; Parish rector doing his bit to recruit men for the colours
Twineham
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
5a-5c
Roll of honour - the first
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Bognor Observer
1914-09-09
3f
Branch of civil guard formed
Arundel
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
3f
Arundel ciliv guard formed
Arundel
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
3f
Fishermen and riverside workers offer theiir services to the Goverment
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
7c
Credit to the town and country
Arundel
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
2ef
Recrutment meeting at Bognor with many a patriotic speech
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
2ef
Recruiting meeting at Bognor
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1914-09-09
2e
37 recruits depart from Bognor
Bognor Regis
Bognor Observer
1914-09-09
4d
Recruiting at Bognor; mentions Lowther
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
5d
Vicar's appeal for recruits
Bosham
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
2ab
Sussex by the Sea [editorial]; mention of first British wounded arriving at Brighton
station
Brighton
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Bognor Observer
1914-09-09
5e
Recruits still coming; 7th Battn RSR, numbers of recruits
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
2cd
Farmers and the War- meeting at the corn exchange
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
2f
New Battalions formed for Ex Public School & Universitie men
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
5e
Recruiting cotinues at Chichester
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
6c
Asquith delivers speech at Guildhall
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
3e
2nd Sussex fight at Mons
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
2cd
Farmers and the War
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
6e
West Sussex farmers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
6e
Business as usual
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
4f
Alien enemy tries to escape
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
4d
Reply to critics
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
6c
Premier's trumpet call
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
4c
Lancastrian school sports
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
4d
Teachers for the front
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
3c-3f
The War - Local events of the week - recruiting at Chichester - collecting fro Relief
Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
5e
Chichester's hospitality
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
5f
Belgian officers at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
6e
Entertaining the soldiers - entertainment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
5e
Recruits still coming
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
4d
House to house collections
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
6cd
House to house collections
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
5f
Chichester PC wounded
Chichester
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
6bc
What Durrington Is Doing; Patriotic Meeting etc detailed article
Durrington
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
5c
Lecture, by bandstand, on how we can all help in the present crisis
Littlehamoton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
5e
Brisk recruiting at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
4f
Yeomanry recruiting
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
5c
Who's for the front
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-09
5e
Brisk recruiting at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
2d
Football at Littlehampton; all competitions abandoned until war over
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-09
3e
Able bodied men, living in Midhurst, doing work that could be done by women
Midhurst
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
3g
Civil Guard at Rustington; formation
Rustington
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
6g
Question of Registration; Alleged Alien (C.F. Jung) Charged
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
6d
Wounded at the Hospital; first arrivals, 20 sent from Brighton
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
5a
Worthing Does Its Duty; fervent editorial celebrating 700 who’ve joined up &
lambasting those who haven’t
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
5e
Local Recruiting Effort; detailed article on recruitment drive, numbers, etc
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
6cde
Headline: Recruits Hurrying Forward
Recruits’
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
6g
The Splendid Spirit of England’s Womanhood! Criticism of men recruiters; job could
be done by women?
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
3c
At St James’s Cinema; Britsih Army, First Instalment of a Fine Descriptive Film
[more of these reports continue weekly at several cinemas]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-09
6g
The Splendid Spirit of England’s Womanhood! Criticism of men recruiters; job could
be done by women?
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-10
2f
Recruiting in Sussex;another regiment added to RSR
All over Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-10
4g
Cowfold's Lead;hospital hut for 20 at Netley
Cowfold
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-10
8g
Recriuting Poster for another Sussex Regiment
Hurstmonceaux
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-10
3b-f
Our Counties & War;various articles
Sussex
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West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-10
4de
Sussex County & Recruiting;concern over lack of recruiting
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2f
Use of surplus milk for cheesemaking
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2f
War Items - inc forresters and also seperation allowances for wives
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2f
Condition of the german armies - information rcv'd in a letter
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
7b
When the War is Over. Woun ded heroes will require fresh nourishment.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
3d
Ten Commandments.
An instructive German circular given to british manufacturers.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
2g
German Hatred.
Earl Roberts deduses that the war is the act of the German nation.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
3d
Rural League Recruiting Scheme. Appeal to the villages by Lord Kitchener.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
3fg
"One and All". (The young men ask a question).
Poem by Harold Begbie.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
7c
Real Help to the Country.
Lodgings for wives of Expeditionary Force.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
7f
Lance-corporals Escape.
LC Herbert Clarke of RWK Regiment, wounded at Mons
has escaped capture and arrived home.
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Times
1914-09-12
3f
German Baseness and Brutality. Maxims in an ambulance.
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2f
Barcombe Recruitment - 3 men enlisted
Barcombe
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
3e
Mr. Hilaire Belloc on the causes of the war. Lecture at Bedford.
Bedford
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
3f
The Ulster Volunteers. First batch of North belfast Regiment leave for front.
Belfast
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2e
Recruitment meeting at Brighton inc Rudyard Kipling speaking
Brighton
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2f
Reduced Bus service and cancelled Rugby Union
Brighton
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
6b
Chailey Rural District Council
The national Relief fund - local arrangements
Chailey
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
7c
Scrutiny of Passengers.
Are Authorities aware of possible aliens coming into England un-detected.
Channel Ports
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
3g
Germany's Place In The Sun.
Lease on Port Arthur.
China
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
5f
Copthorne enthusiatic recruitment meeting
Copthorne
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Horsham Times
1914-09-12
5f
The King - motoring through Crawley and meeting troops and visiting depots
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
5f
Some Excitement - horse has accident in Crawley High St during exercises
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
5f
Recruits from Crawley -largest ever open air meeting and names of men enlisting
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
8b
The Red Cross Society at Crawley - funding of temporary hospital 'Crawley Bed'
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
8b
Early Closing of Public Houses - while so many troops billeted in town
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
5c
Service for the Soldiers - conducted for Surrey yeomanry camped nearby
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
5c
A large body of soldiers - 6000 passing through the town
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
4b
My notebook - discussing belgian refugees, boyscouts & local relief funds
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2b-c
Grand recruiting meeting at East Grinstead, many speakers. 38 enlisted
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
3f
The relief of distress ocassioned by the war - breakdown of donations totalling
£2,272 17s 9d
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
8e
Recruiting in East Grinstead district - list by numbers of enlistments from villages
East Grinstead
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Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2a
East Grinstead Urban District Council meeting - discussing wages for staff at war,
homes for belgian refugees and early closure of pubs.
ERast Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
8c
At a meeting in Faygate it was stated that Sussex are behind other counties in
mobilisation.
Faygate
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2e
Framfield - National Relief fund - house to house collection raised £185 15s 2d
Framfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
6d
Apparent Death of German Nurses. Young Englisg girls parading as nurses.
Holland
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
4a-b
Editorial about the war
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
5f
Helpful Suggestions. Horsham Suffrage Society keen to support preserving food.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
5g
Another Appeal for recruits.
A Carfax Meeting.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
5c-e
Patriotic Meeting at Horsham
Great Gathering in the Carfax. Political Parties Unite
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
8b
A Protest. Horsham's Welcome to Troops. Poor support by locals.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
5e
Invasion of Horsham. 1st London Division stopped off at Horsham on their way to
Haywards Heath..
Horsham
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
6e
Lewes football clubs and the war - postponement/cancellation of leagues
Lewes
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Horsham Times
1914-09-12
6e-f
Lewes Wednesday Club - football club meeting about continuing playing/enlistment
of men
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
8e
Recruiting in the Lingfield area - list by name of men enlisted in surrounding villages
Lingfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
7c
From "Elevator" to Army.
Inmates from Salvation Army Institute join up.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
6d
Together Until The End. A blow to German expectations. Decleration signed by Alied
Three.
London
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
2f
Destruction of Louvain.
A breach of international law.
Louvain. Belgium
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
2e
The Call for men - letter to the editor from Alfred Peters
Lowfield Heath
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
8g
A Horsham Gunner's Letter.
Experiences at Mons.
Mons
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
7f
An Encouraging Report.
Wounds indicate enemy Infantry aim badly.
Netley
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
5f
Join the Reserve to the 4th Battalion RSR.
Newhaven
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
8f
Pease Pottage - list by name of men who have enlisted
Pease Pottage
Horsham Times
1914-09-12
3c
Selmeston & Alciston Roll of Honour
Selmeston
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-12
8b
Permission ganted for the formation of five battalions of Sussex men.
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
8c-e
'What is Your answer to your country's call?
Advert for recruits showing Britannia and a range of workers from different
occupations
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
5g
Balcombe: Mr Wallis; collectign clothign for Belgian Refugees
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
5g
Parish Council - discussion of Cuckfields War Relief Fund letter
Bolney
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
7e
Clayton Parish Council and War Distress Relief; further discussion of Cuckfields
proposals
Clayton
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
7d
A Difficult Question of Administration; War Relief Fund- Cuckfield and Keymer
Cuckfield and Keymer
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
8f
Haywards Heath Picture theatre; fundraiser for war releif and Belgian Refugees.
Showing images from the Front.
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
5e
Horsted Keynes: A Public Meeting; numbers of recruits from locality
Horsted Keynes
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
5e
Parish Council - discussion of Cuckfields War Relief Fund lette
Horsted Keynes
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
5f
Parish Council - discussion of Cuckfields War Relief Fund lette
Slaugham
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
1a
Another battalion of territorials to be raised; 4th Royal Sussex
Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
5a
Notes and Comments; official sanction for 9th Special Service (Southdown) Battalion
RSR
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-15
8d
The War and Distress: Wivelsfield favour co-operation with Haywards Heath
Wivelsfield and
Haywards heath
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
6bd
What is your answer to your country's call? [illustration + Roll of Honour]
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
5c
Young Cicestrian at the Front
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
5b
Suffragists and maternity
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
2b
Angmering, Flocking to the Colours; over 40 join up
Angmering
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
7c
Town lighting
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1914-09-16
5c
Belgians at Bosham
Bosham
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
5c
Belgians at Bosham
Bosham
Bognor Observer
1914-09-16
5a
Germans Arrested
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1914-09-16
5a
Thousands enlisting; RSR recruitment figures
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-09-16
5c
New Battalion of Territorials
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-09-16
5c
Territorials for the Front; 4th Battn RSR
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-16
5a
Young men of Chichester are showing how patriotic they are by coming forward in
great numbers
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-16
5c
4th Battalionn RSR - 750 men to the front
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-16
5b
Work of the womens sufferage movement.
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
5a
Germans arrested
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
8f
House to House collections
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-16
5c
New Battalion of territorials to be raised
Chighester
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6f
Findon & the National Fund; fundraising started
Findon
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-16
4b
Men still wishing to join Yeomanry
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-16
4d
Grand recruitment meeting with good results. Names of recruits given.
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-16
4b
Comments on Churchill's requirements to secure victory in Europe
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
3ef
Why we are at war
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
2ef
Why We Are at War; meeting arranged by vicar
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
3d
Proper patriotism
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-16
4cd
Recruiting meeting at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
2cde
Recruiting at Littlehampton, Special Effort; BIG ARTICLE very detailed & photos
including of recruiting officer
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
5e
Small Shot; report of disorder among thousands of troops at Shoreham
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
2b
Storrington, Responding to the Call; 40 in regulars & 30 more joined since August
Storrington
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Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
3f
Well Done Toddington! 6 Out of 7 eligible men join up
Toddington
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-16
6cde
Recruiting Poster
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
3a
Twixt You and Me; editorial on low price of locally grown fruit
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
3c
The Pulpit and Politics; Wesleyan Church approach to war
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
5f
Small Shot; Women’s Work Bureau started to provide work for those in need
(deserving poor generally)
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
3b
Twixt You and Me; editorial on rounding up of Germans
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
5e
Small Shot; foreign shopkeeper’s premises vandalised
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6de
Aliens Placed Under Arrest; 17 Germans etc marched through town
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6f
An Alleged Alien Charged; C.F. Jung proves he’s British
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6ef
Drilling the Civil Guard; detailed account of training & makeup of 130 volunteers
Worthing
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1914-09-16
3a
Twixt You and Me; editorial telling of woman hard up due to 6 relatives in forces
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6g
‘Your Country Needs You’, Practical Proposals; letter critical of some recruitment
methods
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6g
A Badge for Women; rosettes to be worn if their men have joined up
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
5c
At St James’s Cinema; Training our Soldiers; Third Section of Fine Army Film; also
increased attendances
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
5e
Small Shot; laundry offers free washing etc of garments being made for troops
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6ab
The Local Relief Fund; detailed account of meeting of War Relief Fund Committee;
re. distribution etc
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6f
Red Cross Society, Gifts Acknowledged; detailed list of donors of money & comforts;
continues regularly
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
3b
Twixt You and Me; editorial on rounding up of Germans
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
6f
The New Sussex Battalion; Lowther’s Lambs 1st batt. Completed & next being
formed; 75 Worthing recruits
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
3a
Twixt You and Me; editorial telling of woman hard up due to 6 relatives in forces
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-16
5f
Small Shot; Women’s Work Bureau started to provide work for those in need
(deserving poor generally)
Worthing
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1914-09-16
6f
Red Cross Society, Gifts Acknowledged; detailed list of donors of money & comforts;
continues regularly
Worthing
West sussex Gazette
1914-09-17
12e
Arundel;recruits for WS Volunteer Civil guard
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-17
11d
Recruiting at Chichester;lists new RSR regiments formed
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-17
11f
Concert for the Relief Fund
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-17
12d
Pulborough;Football prepares reccriuts for enlistment
Pulborough
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-17
12g
Shoreham;all licensed premises closed at 9pm bec so many camps in area
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-17
4f
Storrington;celebrates more recruits
Storrington
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-17
12g
Local or national-or both;discussion of town's relief fund
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-19
6c,d
Action for Libel
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-19
6a
The treatment of english prisoners of war
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Courier
1914-09-19
8e
A new sussex battalion
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-19
8e
4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regt
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
8d
Personal - details of promotions
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
8e
What they believe in Germany - extract from an English girl writing home
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
6a
Physical Fitness of Recruits. A suggestion. Rejection for the "Front" should not
include Home service.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
7c
Musicians and the War. A number of famous musicians have enlisted.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
6f
The Part Played by England. Russia's claim that German merchantmen have
vanished from the seas due to the Royal Navy.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
3g
The Guilt of Germany. The need for sterness when the enemy is crushed.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
5e
A Appeal to Sportsman. The Army need saddles.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
2f
Echoes of War. New kind of missile used in aerial combat.
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Times
1914-09-19
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The Prowess of Our Troops.
British Ascendancy. British out shoot the Germans.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
6d
British Aviators' Services.
Mastery of the Air. Individual ascendancy established.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
8e
Unnatural Women. German women show kindness to French and Russian prisoners.
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
3c
A tribute to Barcombe Territorials - packets of cigarettes for the troops
Barcombe
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
2f
Echoes of War. Belgian King dragged from the line of fire.
Belgium
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
3g
German Atrocities in Belgium
Further catalogue of crime and brutality by German soldiers.
Belgium
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
5c-d
Chailey Rural district council - the war and local distress - relief fund
Chailey
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
5b
Copthorne - details of the visit of the king to the village to inspect troops
Copthorne
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
7c
The Reward of Grousing. Mansion owner's complaint ends in Navy Reserves
commondeering his home.
East Coast
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-19
2a,b
The Military at East Grinstead - too large to snapshot
East Grinstead
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Boy scouts guarding bridges
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
2a-b
The Military at East Grinstead - long and detailed report of 6000 billeted in town and
church service and inspection by king
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
5a
Belgian refugees - finding housing for them
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
4b
The relief of distress - report on monies donated and by whom
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
5a
Soldiers clothing - laundry will wash materials for free for soldiers clothes
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
5a
Concert at the Barn, Sunnyside - held for Surrey rifles camped nearby
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
2f
Echoes of War. Germans state that the British Fleet is preventing import of essential
goods
Germany
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
2f
Echoes of War. Despatches from german declare the despair of the Kaiser's
dominions.
Germany
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
6a
German Order Cancelled. Royal Albert Dock swing brides and dock gates now to
supplied from Glasgow.
Glasgow
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
8c
German toast "1914". Drunk by German officers in 1912, W E Horne MP states.
Guildford
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
5e
Letter from a Horsham Man with the Fleert.
HMS Antrim
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Horsham Times
1914-09-19
8e
German Prisoners leave Horsham - leaving Christs Hospital
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
8b
The Belgian Refugees. Families arrive in Horsham. Splended response to appeal.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
5d
Horsham's Welcome to the Troops. A response for the people of Horsham.
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-09-19
3g
Lewes Territorials
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
3e-f
Patriotic demonstration at Lewes appeal for recruits attended by civic dignatries
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
3f
National Reserve inspected - Lewes division march in the town
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
8e
Recruiting at Lewes - numbers enlisting in the last week
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
5d
Recruiting in the Lingfield area - names of most recent recruits
Lingfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
6d
Golfer's Enlisting. Large number of professional golfers enlisting.
London
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
8b
Committee Being Formed to Help French refugees.
London
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
7c
Wounded Soldiers Pride. Refuses to go straight home until he has cleaned up his
uniform.
London
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
6g
Sacking of Louvain. Kaiser's Admission.
Louvain, Belgium
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
8e
Sussex and the war - Prince Munster's park as a military camp
Maresfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
8a
The Battle of the Marne. Contrast in Orders.
Marne
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
8c
A Hero Identified. Battery sole surviving artillaryman at Mons continued to fire
though wounded.
Mons
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
5f
Queen's Work for women fund -
Newhaven
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
3c
Gifts for the troops - concert held at local pub to raise funds
Newick
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
2f
Echoes of War. Luggage left behind during the flight from Paris.
Paris
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
3g
Achievements of Russia. Realise the magnitude of the triumphs of Russia.
Russia
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
6e
German war news of the success of the Austrians totally untrue.
Russia
Horsham Times
1914-09-19
4f
My note book - editors notes about various war issues inc formation of reserve batt
of 4th Royal Sussex
Sussex
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1914-09-19
8e
A new Sussex battalion raised and including many footballers and cricketers
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
3f
Glasses for Officers. Sportsman to give up field glasses.
UK
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-19
6c
Ten Sons With the Colours. King's Congratulations. Calpin family have ten sons in
the Army and Navy.
York
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-22
7g
Burgess Hill's care for Belgian Refugees: More help welcomed
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-22
8g
Learn to Shoot; local young men given opportunity to learn to shoot by the Miniature
Rifle Club
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-22
8f
The Haywards Heath Picture Theatre: More topical war films
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-22
1a
Haywards Heath and Wivelsfield co-operation in Relief Fund; information and update
Haywards Heath and
Wivelsfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-22
5b
A series of recruiting meetings cancelled due to the amount of men who have
already volunteered
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-22
6g
For soldiers and sailors wives; how to get health insureance benefits
National
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-22
8c
Royal Sussex Regiment : 4th Battalion volunteers for foreign service
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5g
The War and the Rates; summons against Mr W.J. Endersby for non-payment, with
details of his situation [NB WJE later organises voluntary efforts in France to help
troops – see Jan-March 1915 article]
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Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
3d
Herring
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
3c
News from Germany
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
5b
Recruits off to Bexhill
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
5b
Royal Sussex Officers killed and wounded
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-23
3c
Letter from english lady working in germany and other details from the front
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
4c
Patriotic Night at Pierrot-Land
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1914-09-23
4d
Recruits at Bognor; Queens Hall converted to Barracks, mentions Lowther
Bognor Regis
Bognor Observer
1914-09-23
5b
Troops to be quartered at Chichester
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-09-23
5b
Recruits off to Bexhill; Lowthers battn
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-09-23
5c
Refugees at Chichester
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1914-09-23
2e
Tragedy at Chichester; Recruit found with throat cut, died
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-23
2abcd
Grand recruiting meeting with many prominent speakers
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-23
5b
Recruits of to Bexhill
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-23
5c
Belgium Refugees
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
4ab
Advertisment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
2a-d
Great recruiting meeting at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
4a
United we stand
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
5c
Refugees at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
2e
Tragedy at Chichester - Recruit found with his throat cut
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
5c
Blankets for soldiers
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
5e
House to House collections
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-09-23
8f
Territorial Recruits; new battn for married men, RSR
Horsham
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
4d
Need for conviction
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
2c
The Great Storm and Stress; Littlehampton Baptist Church annual review & war
comments
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
4c
Littlehampton Relief Fund
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1914-09-23
5c
Movement of troops
Merston
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-23
8f
Looking to recruit more for the 4th Bat. RSR
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1914-09-23
8f
Territorial recruits
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5d
For the 17,000 at Shoreham; appeal for items to entertain the troops at the camp
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5e
Small Shot; details of 4th Royal Sussex at Shoreham etc ; due to leave for France
Shoreham
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1914-09-23
5d
For the 17,000 at Shoreham; appeal for items to entertain the troops at the camp
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
2e
Storrington; 33 new recruits after meeting in Square
Storrington
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
4de
The War and Local Drapers; advert detailing lunchtime closing of shops and
appealing for public to keep spending
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
4de
Beautiful New Patriotic Postcards; sold by Gazette stationers; advert
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5b
Keep the Commercial Flag Flying; editorial praising shopkeepers attempts to avoid
unemployment
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5de
The Position of Laundry Workers; appeal for people to keep using laundries to avoid
unemployment
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5d
Well Done Worthing! Details of over 1000 who’ve joined up to date
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
6ab
Another Recruting Meeting; DETAILED ARTICLE about Worthing meeting addressed
by Kitchener’s elder brother
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5d
For the Troops; The Mayor’s Appeal for Blankets
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5de
Gazette Tobacco Fund; advert showing pack each soldier gets
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
6cdeg
Gazette’s Tobacco Fund; details of new fund to send packs of cigarettes & tobacco to
troops at Front
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
6f
Fourth Royal Sussex, A Reserve battalion; recruitment of a new batt. To replace 4th
who’re bound for France
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5de
The Position of Laundry Workers; appeal for people to keep using laundries to avoid
unemployment
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-23
5e
Mourning in Wartime; letter suggesting grieving families wear armbands
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
5d
Chichester; reduction in recruits as measurements raised
Chichester
west Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
6d
Recruiting in Sussex & elsewhere;mentions 4th RSR
England
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
6f
RSR heavily engaged-casualities
France
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
5a
Horsham;Belgian refugees housed
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
2e
east lancing Sea Defences;discussion of costs
Lancing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
5ab
Petworth;open air recruitment meeting
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
5bc
Shoreham;arrangements for the sick at army camp
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
11a
Blankets sent to Shoreham camp
Shoreham
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West Sussex Gazette
1914-09-24
6a
To all Sussex Folk;advert for all printing to be kept in Sussex while printers enlisted
Sussex
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
5a-b
My Note Book - editorial about relief funds and local life as affected by the war
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3c
War on German Trade. An angry outburst against British "robbers" of patents.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
7f
Enemy Aliens in Germany. Russian lady in Germany receives terms of internment.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3d
Echoes of the War. Half saw bayonets forbidden by laws of war, found in german
trenches.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
8c
German "White Flag" Treachery. German's wave white flag then mow down British
that advance to take them prisoner.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3d
Echoes of the War. German motor driven guns captured by Allies. Engineers from
Leyland Motor Works enlist.
Aldershot
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
3c
Brighton - Free bathing for recruits - free use of slipper baths
Brighton
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
8f
Belgian refugees - penny collection
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
8f
National relief fund - details of contributions
Crawley
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
5f
Belgian refugees - letter detailing house purchased to house refugees and appeal for
funds
East Grinstead
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Horsham Times
1914-09-26
8e
The War Relief fund - details of East Grinstead collecting committee and monies
raised
East Grinstead
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
2b
The Aliens Act - duty of householders - report of 2 cases heard at court
Eastbourne
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
7c
A Journalist's Experience. London correspondent arrest as German spy.
Epping Forest
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
5e
Reading room for the soldiers and House to house collection for relief fund
Forest Row
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
7c
German Spies Ruse. German officers disguised in British uniforms.
France
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3d
Echoes of the War. 60,000 tons sugar sold by British Guiana Government for £5/T
less than market price.
Guiana
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3d
Echoes of the War. Home Counties Div. Signal Company RE volunteer for service
abroad.
Home Counties
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
5a
Horsham Times - Short sight, editorial comment about Germany
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
5e
Begian Refugees at Horsham. Homes found for families ejected by the Germans.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
5c
Army Byplanes Trial Trip. Byplane landed near foot of Bourne-Hill to re-fuel.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
5a & c
Lord Kitchener's Appeal. Blankets for soldiers. Bring to Horsham Town Hall.
Horsham
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
6c
Horsham Welcome to Troops. Another response to SSB
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
8b
The Recent Visit by Troops. Letter of gratitude from the troops.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
8b
With the Expeditionary Force. Horsham Lineman's Letter.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
8d
Recruiting at Horsham. New "Terriers" Cordially Welcomed. Local Depot to open.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
8b
Mr. Hull from Crown Hotel visits "E" Company in Newhaven.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3f
Another Russian Success.
Jaroslav occupied. Railway bridgehead now in Russian hands.
Jaroslav
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
2f
Gunner and a Baby. Russian artileryman rescues child from death.
Lemberg
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
6d
Railway Fatality at Lewes - soldier killed while patrolling bridge
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
2e
The Pals at Lewes - report of Welsh regiment stationed at Lewes
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
6a
Military occupation of the old workhouse - short notice arrangements to billet troops
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
2c
Two recruits in trouble - report of court case of 2 men who stole from landlady
Lewes
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1914-09-26
2d
Recruits raid an orchard
Lewes
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
8e
Recruiting in the Lingfield area - numbers of men enlisted
Lingfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
6c
Lord Roberts and Irishmen. Appeal to fellow countrymen to support the course.
Liverpool
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
6c
Church Lad's Brigade. 1600 strong CLB Battalion joins King's Royal Rifles.
London
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
6c
Proposed Fund for Indian Troops. Appreciation to be shown by a support fund.
London
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
2f
Escape of The Goeben. Inquiry Ordered.
Messina Straits
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
2d
Newhaven recruits bound over - for stealing ginger brandy
Newhaven
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
8b
"The Terriers" at Newhaven. Update from Horsham Company of Territorials.
Newhaven
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
2e
Newick men in the Army and Navy - list of those who have enlisted to date
Newick
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3e
German Armed Liner Captured. HMS Berwick captures "Spieewick" in North Atlantic.
North Atlantic
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
6d
British Naval Disaster. Three cruisers torpedoed and two German submarines sunk.
North Sea
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Times
1914-09-26
7b
An Interesting Capture. London hotel head waiter captured by some of his ex-clients.
Rebais
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
2g
Destruction of Reims cathedral. Kaiser's triumph an act of brutal vandalism
Reims
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
3d
Ringmer footballers and the war - the entire team has enlisted
Ringmer
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
6b
In Camp at Shoreham. Mushroom like tents on the South Downs a repeat of 100
years ago.
Shoreham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
7f
A Smart Exploit. Cunard liner Carmania sinks German armed liner.
South America
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
7c
Women's Work for Troops. Cambridge WS opens tent to repair soldiers uniform.
Stambridge Common
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3e
Deliberate Incendiarism. Destruction of Termonde with no just cause.
Termonde
Horsham Times
1914-09-26
3d
A deserter - Frank Rhodamark in hospital awaiting arrest
Uckfield
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
7f
Fully equiped camp for Belgian Refugees has been opened in Charlton Park
Wiltshire
West Sussex County
Times
1914-09-26
3d
Echoes of the War. Action between Pegasus and German Cruiser Konigsberg. .
Zanzibar
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-29
6d
Mid-Sussex Whist league: Matches indefinately postponed, owing to the war
Mid-Sussex
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1914-09-29
7b
Mid-Sussexians' letters from the front. Haywards Heath; Lindfield; Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-09-29
6d
Farmers and Wheat growing: Advice from the Board of Agriculture
National
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
6g
Experiences of a Supply Officer; battle of Mons; letter with graphic detail of life on
front line
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
2c
Administration of the Relief Fund
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5c
Canada's gift
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
6de
Train alterations
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
4c
Our aim
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5b
Value of being a Mason
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5d
Territorial recruits wanted
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
2d
Mayor of Chichester's appeal
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5a
Brotherhood
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Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5c
Recruits at Bognor
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5c
Local casualties
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-30
5d
Recruits wanted for Home Service battalion RSR
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-30
2f
The War Pictures now available in the publication "War Budget"
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-30
5d
Work for Women fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5f
Chichester Harverst festival
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5b
Five sons in the Navy
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5d
Sunday concerts at the Corn Exchange
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5d
Entertaining the soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
6c
Public houses to be closed at 10pm
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
4d
Patriotic concert
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5d
Blankets for soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5d
Work for women fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
5b
Belgian refugees at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-09-30
4d
Generous Resolution
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
2b
Sussex-by-the-Sea; Shoreham Harbour thriving commercially partly due to
Newhaven closure [use for military only?]
Shoreham
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-30
5b
Lighter news from the front
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
2a
Sussex-by-the-Sea; local men answer the call: Angmering 58 & Findon 80
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-09-30
5b
Family with 5 sons in the Navy
Wick
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
5e
Gazette Letter Box, the High Prices of Provisions; details of price rises of bread,
meat, groceries since war outbreak
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
5e
Gazette Letter Box, The Position of Laundry Workers; please to use local not London
laundries
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
2fg
Worthing Hospital; advert for fund-raising
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
6e
Rifle Practice on Sundays; big increase in membership & activities of Rifle Club
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
5b
The Picturedrome; England Expects; “greatest patriotic film ever released!”; advert
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
6e
Rifle Practice on Sundays; big increase in membership & activities of Rifle Club
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
5f
Small Shot; 1200 garments sent off for Belgian refugees
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-09-30
5f
Small Shot; Worthing Sailing Club’s weekly hamper for servicemen
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
6f
Germany in Time of War. A Personal Statement by a Sussex Lady. Testimony of a
tourist in Southern Germany on German reaction to war.
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
5de
Recruitment for 4th (Reserve) Battalion Royal Sussex Regt. Repeated weekly
West Sussex gazette
1914-10-01
12e
Arundel. Duke of Norfolk donates cottage for Belgium refugee family
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
3fg
Arundel man at Mons Battle of Marne Harold Morley 2nd Batt Royal Sussex Regt
Arundel
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1914-10-01
4b
Arundel Territorial recruits march to station local Scouts play drum/bugels. Mayor
appeal fund for local wouded
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
4b
Contribution to Prince of Wales fund and clothing appeal for Belgium refugees
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
4b
Bognor Women and the War.
Queens Work for Women appeal. Local committee to fund women in financial
distress due to war
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
3f
Drinking Water Bad at Mons
Driver George Bramsden from Burgess Hill Battle of Mons
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
4d
Recruiting Officer to Burgess Hill Police station to receive recruits
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
10e
Burpham Lecture by Rev.Prof.Tyrrell Green 'Why we are at War'- Blaming Germany
Burpham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
1f
Chichester Christmas Fat Stock Show cancelled due to war
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
10b
Magistrates order Pubs to close at 10pm from Sept 30th due to increased military in
city to maintain order.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
4d
Godalming recruits to Royal Sussex Regt thank Chichester locals for kindness when
stationed in Chichester
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
10b
Chichester donation blankets for 9th Batt Royal Sussex Regt Shoreham Camp
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
10b
Patriotic Concert Fund raiser for British and Belgium Relief Fund October 14th Corn
Exchange
Chichester
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West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
10b
Recruitment figures for Chichester Depot
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
10e
Chiddingfold
Refugee allocated housing
Chiddingfold
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
4e
East Grindstead house to house collection War Relief Fund. Housing offers to Belgium
refugees
East Grindstead
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
4g
Cancellation Haywards Heath Garden Show. War Relief Fund contribution. Belgium
refugees thank locals
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
12d
Portslade. Catholic School as a depot for refugees until homes found
Portslade
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
5bc
Shoreham Training Camp.
Establishment of Army training camp, donations supplies and tents from Worthing
YMCA
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
12f
Storrington. Lecture on cause of war-German blame
Storrington
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
4ab
Local Men for Front. Recruitment lists
Amberly,Burpham,Littlehampton,Pulborough,Rustington,Slindon,Storrington Yapton
Various
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-01
5c
Worthing Recruits. Short vignette two Englishmen respond to recruitment call
donations for Shoreham Camp.
Worthing
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-03
5b
Red Cross letters
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
6d
Canada's sacks to be sold
canadian flour and the sacks support war effort
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
6e
The Machinery of war
shelling
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
6e
Lloyds Bank and the war
Job guarantees employees enlisting
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
3d
Bleeding Heart Poem by EDW Turner from Edinburgh
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
2f
Territorial killed at Balcombe
Private Francis John Owen 6th Liverpool Rifles knocked down on the railway.
Balcombe
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-03
2f
Territorial killed at Balcome railway
Balcombe
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-03
5e
letter from Crawley soldier
Bexhill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
3f
An aliens homing pigeon
German subject charged with having 4 homing pigeons without permission
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
3f
Brighton municipal Orchestra to visit military hospital at Grammar school 30.9.
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
3f
Visit of Dame Clara Butt
proceeds to war funds
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-03
3d
Board of guardians meeting attitude to POW in the infirmary
CHRISTS HOSPITAL
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
5e
Red Cross collection of cash and clothes for wounded soldiers
Crawley
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
5e
Crawley - more territorials required
Recruiting meeting at George Hotel for Royal Sussex Regiment. 2 men volunteered
at end of meeting
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
5d
Lecture on War and its causs by Admiral randolph Foote
Dormansland
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
2d
Moat Congregational Church Harvest Festival
Sermon condemning Germans for starting a war at Harvest time
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
5c
Football match
East Grinstaed v Sussex Yeomanry encamped at Kidbrooke Park. EG won 3-1
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
8a 8b
Roll of Honour of those serving
in army and navy from east Grinstead
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
5a 5b
My notebook
A dozen belgian refugees will be housed in EG next week
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
4f
Relief of distress occasioned by war. List of subscriptions received and from whom
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
5a
The New Warfare by the Chiel
Airships and submarines
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
5b
Our London Letter
Indian troops landing in France
Threat of air raids
East Grinstead
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-03
8e
Red Cross Appeal
East Grinstead
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-03
8f
letters to the editor
East Grinstead
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Courier
1914-10-03
6c
Defended eastbourne in 1803
an interesting coincidence
Troops stationed here
Eastbourne
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-03
3e
A Lewes nurse at the front
France
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
2b
Godstone Board of Guardians
Have they enlisted?
Decrease in numbers of tramps the result of the new regulation?
Godstone
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-03
8b
A good cause Let them all come- not charging rates on properties with refugees
HORSHAM
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-03
8e
The Belgian Refugee - some of the typical donations and gesturess
HORSHAM
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
6a
An Alien
Arthur Schlegal struck off Hamsey list arrested as a POW
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
3d
Lewes Nurse at the Front
Thanks for sending cigarettes etc
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
2f
National Relief Fund
Rural Distrct of Newhaven
A fund raising committee has been set up
Newhaven
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
3f
A recruits fatal leap jumped from bridge whilst probably intoxicated
newhaven
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-03
5c
German POWs taken from Newhaven to Frimley
NEWHAVEN
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-03
5c
"E" Company recruitment drive and general activities at camp in Newhaven
NEWHAVEN
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Sussex Courier
1914-10-03
5f
33 yrs as a Volunteer
Newhaven-Seaford
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-03
6d
To Lewes
Poem by T Whitehead Sefton
10th Loyal North Lancs regt
Seaford
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-03
8a
Alleged theft of blankets from Shoreham Camp - case later dismissed 1914-10-17
21g
SHOREHAM
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-06
7d
A (Liverpool) Territorial’s Death on the Railway
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-06
3f
The Duke of Norfolk; Sussex Territorial Association meeting;
Equipment & Recruitment
Brighton & Hove
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-06
4fg
Note and Comments; Letter with the report describing the 9th Lancers in action at
Thulin
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-06
6c
British Red Cross Society – Sussex equipping & organising a base hospital at Netley,
Hants
Handcross
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-06
1a
4TH Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment; Gifts for the men
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-06
8c
An Appeal for Blankets
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-06
5b
Voluntary Aid Red Cross Detachment; exercise and drills
Lindfield
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1914-10-06
2a-I &
3a-d
Roll of Honour; lists men from all Mid-Sussex towns & villages who are serving their
King & Country, listing the ships & regiments they’re serving on/in; notes on those
who have died or been wounded; repeated weekly
Mid-Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-10-07
8e
Bognor yeoman on defensive
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1914-10-07
4d
Recruitment at Bognor
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
5e
National Relief Fund
Bognor Section
Additional List
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
8e
Bognor Yeomen on the Defensive; reputations and businesses suffer for not
volunteering to go overseas
BOGNOR
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
5e
National Relief Fund; list of Bognor donors
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-10-07
8d
Bosham gift of clothes
Bosham
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
8d
Bosham's gift of clothes; comforts for soldiers
Bosham
Bognor Observer
1914-10-07
3e
Belgian Refugees at Chichester
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-10-07
5e-f
Chichester Aid Society
Chichester
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1914-10-07
5f
Blankets
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-07
8d
Troops for Chichester
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-07
8d
Who was the landlord
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-07
8d
Troops for chi
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-07
8d-e
Things required for 3rd batt RSR
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
5d
Made in Chichester
Proposed Toy-Making Industry
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
8f
Chichester Men at Devonport; St. John Ambulance tending British and German
wounded
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
8e
Billeting at Chichester;
400 Hampshire Cyclists
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
3e
Belgian Refugees at Chichester
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
5e-f
Chichester Aid Society
Many more articles despatched on Lord Brassey's Yacht to Rouen
CHICHESTER
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
5f
Gifts of Blankets
Another List of Chichester , and district, Doners
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
8f
National Relief Fund.
Chichester Subscription List.
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
8f
Good News; police constable not killed as previously reported
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
3d
Early Closing of Public Houses; large number of troops locally
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
8d
Troops for Chichester; arrangements for billeting winter influx
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
3f
Belgian refugees at Chichester; opening of hostel at Summersdale
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
3d
Chichester County Petty Sessions; early closing of pubs because of influx of troops
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
4ab
Advertisement for patriotic concert
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
8d
Things required by 3rd Btn RSR; appeal for comforts for troops
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
8f
National Relief Fund; list of Chichester area subscribers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
5ef
Chichester Aid Society; clothing collection for troops
Chichester
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1914-10-07
5f
Gifts of blankets; list of CHichester donors
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1914-10-07
3d
Early Closing of Public Houses
Chichester Division
Bognor Observer
1914-10-07
8d
For lack of funds
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1914-10-07
5f
Men still needed
Littlehampton
Bognor observer
1914-10-07
8e
From the seat of war
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
4b
Blankets 200 Sent
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
4b
Who'll Make Socks?
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
8d
Brigadier General Wing: Littlehampton, recently wounded, brief career details
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
8e
From the Seat of War;
description of fighting from soldier, not named
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
4c-f
Roll of Honour for Littlehampton, Angmering, East Preston, Rustington and Arundel,
continued on page 7
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Observer
1914-10-07
7a-f
Roll of Honour for Bognor and South Bersted, Chichester, Aldingbourne, Bosham,
Boxgrove, Birdham, concluded from page 4
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
5f
A Wounded Soldier
Private C.H.Cobden
Queen's West Surrey Regt.
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1914-10-07
8d
For lack of funds, Littlehampton; scheme to help refugees
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1914-10-07
5f
Recruiting meeting
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
6e
Boy Scouts on Active Service; assisting Coast Guards, 20 names listed
SELSEY
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-07
5f
Selsey Recruiting Meeting; especially for the Territorials
SELSEY
CHichester Observer
1914-10-07
5f
Selsey recruiting meeting
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-07
Another recruitingappeal
6a
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-07
Worthing
At the Winter Hall An Indian Army
5f
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-07
Worthing
The War Various Bank jobs secure after the war
5d
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-07
Worthing
Women canvassing mento join the army
5d
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West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-08
3c
Our Counties and War. Arundel. requisition of Foden steam wagon for military
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-08
20f
Stories From The Front. An Arundel Mans Experience. Lt A.L.Harman RFA letter
home.Battle of Mons
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-08
15c
Bognor. Recruitment rally reserve regt, Royal Sussex Regt.
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-08
7c
The Price of Gas. Increased gas coal prices due to war
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-08
2c
Letters To The Editor. The Sussex branch Red Cross. Appeal to set up hospital at
Netley
Netley
West sussex gazette
1914-10-08
7a
Our Counties and War. Shoreham. Increased population at Shoeham camp and
effect on local business.
Shoeham
West sussex gazette
1914-10-08
7b
Lights At Night. Request from Worthing Council to reduce lights on the coast parade
due to war
Worthing
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-10
8b
News from the Front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
2e
London Letter
King and queen visit London military hospitals
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-10
11e
A Horsham Corporal's Experiences at Mons
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
3d
Military Hospital
Brighton
Change of use
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Courier
1914-10-10
5e
A Deserter arrested in a house in Crawley
Reginald george Turnbull
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
2c
House for wounded soldiers
Fairmead house offered
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
4f
My Notebook
Appeal for young men of East Grinstead to enlist
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
2c
east grinstead urban district council
Belgian Refugees
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
8b
Belgian Refugees at East Grinstead
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
8a
News from the front
Letter from son of Mr and Mrs Goddard
East Grinstead
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-10
8b
letters to the editor Belguim refugees families and the English families row over
different allowance
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
8c
Roll of Honour
Forest Row and Ashurst Wood serving King and Country
Forest Row and
Ashurst Wood
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-10
8d
Entertaining the 4th Sussex at Carfax
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-10
13d
YMCA Welcomes the Terriers
HORSHAM
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West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-10
12a
Request for names of volunteers
HORSHAM
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-10
12g
Request for letters
HORSHAM
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-10
13g
Good Progress with Recruiting
HORSHAM
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-13
5d
Pen Down Rifle Up
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-13
5e
To Assist the Wounded
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-13
8b
The Liverpool Territorials
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-13
8b
Appeal on Behalf of the 2 RSR
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-13
1a
Letter from the Front – SM Atree
and the Battle on Mons
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-13
5e
Doing Their County’s Work
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-13
1g
Latest Casualties – Royal Sussex note this is published weekly
Sussex
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8e
An Arundel Officer's Letter;
Lieutenant A.L. Harman
British Artillery
ARUNDEL
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Arundel Man Wounded; Private F. Sturt No. 8164, D Company, 2nd Batt. R.S.R.
ARUNDEL
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
2e
Bognor's Chance in the Trade War, Letter from Captain Gonne
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8e
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8e
The War Bognor Casulaties;
Private Munday, Rifle Bde
Frederick Wheatland, grandson of Mary Wheatland
R. Haddington, 7th Batt. RSR
A Bognor Protest Supported;
reputation of Sergeants Mann and Hawkes defended for not serving overseas
Bognor observer
1914-10-14
8f
Preparing for wounded
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-14
8f
Troops in Chichester
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-14
4e
Patriotic concert
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Preparing for Wounded Soldiers; Royal West Sussex Hospital to treat Belgian
Soldiers
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Troops at Chichester; 9th (Cyclist) Battalion Hampshire Regiment (Territorials) and
Army Service Corps
CHICHESTER
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Observer
1914-10-14
2d
Homes for Belgian Refugees.
Problem of payment of Rates
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Relief Fund Concert at Chichester; Corn Exchange, to aid Work for Women Fund
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Chichester Men from New Zealand;Bob King, Bert Hooker and Alan Miller
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8f
A Cisestrian's Letter Home;
Lieutenant Aston Buckell Royal Army Medical Corps
Luxuary quarters, 3 hours in Paris whilst attending sick
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Chichester Man Wounded;
Private F.A. Coombes, 2nd Batt. R.S.R.
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Sussex Officers Killed and Wounded;Captains Aldridge and Bond, Lieutenants Panton
and De Chair
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Preparing for wounded soldiers; Royal West Sussex Hospital ready for Belgian troops
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
8f
Troops at Chichester; influx of hundreds, complaints about lack of food
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
4ab
Patriotic Concert; advertisement for British and Belgian relief funds
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
4b
A Note for Recruits; 2nd Regiment of Yeomanry
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Observer
1914-10-14
4b
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; terms of service for recruits
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
4b
A Local Promotion; Lieutenant E.W. Benbow, recruiting officer
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
8e-f
A Letter from the Front;
Royal Horse Artilleryman, not named
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
4b
A Popular Promotion; Mr S.T. Matthews promoted to Lance-Corporal in 4th Batt.
R.S.R.
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
4c-f
Roll of Honour for Littlehampton, Angmering, East Preston, Rustington, Arundel,
Wick and Lyminster, and Ford, continued on page 7
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
7a-f
Roll of Honour for Bognor and South Bersted, Chichester, Aldingbourne, Yapton and
Clymping, concluded from page 4
LITTLEHAMPTON
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-14
7c
Visiting the Battlefields
Littlehampton
Bognor observer
1914-10-14
8e
Midday prayer
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
5f
Scouting; Boy Scouts over 14 may volunteer to assist Coast Guards
SELSEY
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
2c
Manhood Aid Society.
Good Work Accomplished.
SELSEY
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Observer
1914-10-14
5f
Three Commissions; Mr F.R. Leith, J.P., Captain in 9th Batt. Royal Sussex Regiment
and 2 others
SELSEY
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
5f
A Recruiting Entertainment; in Cinema Hall, war pictures and patriotic songs
SELSEY
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
2c
Manhood Aid Society; list of items sent to hospitals, refugees, troops
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
5f
Selsey Local Relief Fund
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
5f
Scouting; senior Scouts sought for coastguard stations patrol duty
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-14
4b
Capture of Deserters; from 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
SHOREHAM
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
4d
National Relief Fund; contributions from West Sussex
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
4d-f
Roll of Honour; lists Bognor, Bosham, Boxgrove, Birdham, Chichester, Earnley,
Eartham, Funtington, Selsey, Wittering men serving; repeated and augmented at
intervals
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-10-14
2d
Westhampnett Guardians; includes details of homes for Belgian refugees
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-14
Aliens change of nameHome Office order
6d
Worthing
"Lowther's Lambs" Southdown Battalion of the Royal SussexRegiment
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-14
6cd
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Equipping the Civil Guard
6c
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-14
Worthing
Service men's wives official allowance
6f
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-15
Our Counties and War.
Weekly summary of all Surrey,Sussex, Hampshire, Kent villages, recruitment,
appeals, wounded,refugees etc. Lots of short pieces.
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-15
23f
Stories from The Front. An Arundel Man and Ambulance Work.Letter home
West Sussex gazette
1914-10-15
3b
Letters To the Editor. 6th (Cyclist Home service) Batt Royal sussex regt. recruitment
West Sussex gazette
1914-10-15
3c
Lowthers Lambs.
Initial problems feeding and accomodating voluteers Southdowm Battalion
Bexhill
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-15
2d
Sussex Territorials. Recruiting Problems. Sussex Territorial Force Association
meeting discuss various problems
Brighton
West Sussex gazette
1914-10-15
8e
Recruiting in Sussex. Numbers of recruits at Chichester Depot. Weekly
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-15
8g
Pulborough. 180 men and officers marching from Hampshire. Example of how locals
had to cope with unexpected overnight army camps.
Pulborough
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-15
3g
Shoreham. Military Sports meetings at Shoreham Camp for recruits. Sunday
afternoons local spectators.
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-15
4d
Sussex and her Camps. How the landscape of Sussex is changing due to the number
of army camps and pleas to locals for patience and help
Sussex
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1914-10-15
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For King and Country. Local Men For the Front. Recruitment lists from various West
Sussex Parish's. Repeaeted weekly
West Sussex villages
and Parishes
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-17
2b
News from the front
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-17
2c
The Naval Volunteers
Antwerp
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-17
8d
6th Cyclist Sussex Batt formed
Brighton
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-17
1f-g
Along the line to Life’s Terminus – London Territorial Killed on Railway
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-17
3g-h
The Scout in War-Time – Burgess Hill Troop
Burgess Hill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
2e
Nil Desperandum
Poem written by Mr Donald Sims son of Mr and Mrs JG Sims Gayton Thorpe Crawley
which has been publicly recited several times
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
5f
An Ifield Man's death at the war
Francis Franks
Crawley
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-17
5b
Loss of the (HMS) “Good Hope”
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-17
7g
Royal Sussex Regiment – Living Like Rabbits
Cuckfield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
5d
Hampshire Carabinerers
passing through and accomodated.
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
5a
My notebook
Need for more recruits
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
5c
The roll of Honour - additional names
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
5b
A party of Belgian Refugees has arrived . Housed in a house in railway approach
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
8d
Letter from AF Boyce of Camden Villa suggesting volunteers for local territorial army
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
5b
First East Grinstead Man to lose his life in the war
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
8b
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
5c
An East Grinstad man at the war
Private Charles H Mitchell
2nd Royal Sussex Regiment
3 officers and 100 men killed in recent engagement 10.9.14
private JN Skinner
badly wounded
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
2b
Roll of Honour of East Grinstead Men
Serving their King and Country in the Army or the Navy
East Grintead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
2f
relief and the wa
Conecern about dependants of soldiers and sailors relieved by Poor Law
Godstone
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-17
1a-b
Haywards Heath Urban Council – suggested formation of a V.T.C.
Haywards Heath
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1914-10-17
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Haywards Heath Urban Council –
Haywards Heath
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
2f
The Murderous British Fire
writing to his parents in Haywards Heath Major H Attree of 18th Hussars
Haywards Heath
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
5e
A rifleman's death
Arthur J Soper
Horsham
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-17
2d
Medical Motor Ambulance from East Sussex
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
8f
Peas Pottage
Smoking concert held for cigarettes for the troops and sailors
Pease Pottage
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-17
8e
Turners Hiill
George Harrison 19 , son of Mrs Harrison, killed at the front. Stretcher bearer
Turners Hill
Fen Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-20
5d
Defence of Antwerp – Sussex RNVR
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-20
7d
Ditchling Lights and Zeppelins!
Ditchling
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-20
6e
Guarding the Brighton Line
London Territorials Succeed the Liverpool Rifles
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-20
6g
Men of Sussex
London
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1914-10-20
6e
Sussex men at Antwerp - London Territorials Succeed the Liverpool Rifles
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-20
6f
Sussex Casualties Killed and Wounded – Biographical Notes
Weekly
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
5b
Pagham and Aldwick, To help the Soldiers; Jumble Sale for our Sussex Tommies and
gallant Men of Sussex
ALDWICK
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8e
The War, Bognor Men at Bexhill; 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, G.E. May, H.E.
Griffin and L. Kilroy
BEXHILL
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
4b
Bognor and Belgian refugees at Bognor
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
4c
A paper on war
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
5d-e
Near the fighting
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
5b
Roll of honour repeated weekly
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
6f
Bognor's New Rate; two items about the War, The War and the Bands, lamenting
loss of income without Regimental Bands for the Season AND Cause for Satisfaction;
Firemen doing the duty of Civil Guards
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8e
A Bognor Appeal; 9th Hants Cyclist Batt. would like more accomodation in the town
during the winter
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
4e
Soldiers versus The Ladies; Hockey on skates at Bognor Kursaal
BOGNOR
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1914-10-21
8e
A Bognor Appeal for Comforts; Major Widdicombe, who spent his furlough in Bognor
1907-09, appeals to the Town to send comforts to his Regiment, First Battalion 9th
Gurkhas
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8e
Sergeant Mann and Hawkes' Letter; Further support for the two sergeants from
Bognor
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
Victim of the Aboukir: Bognor; Albert Rogers, son in law of Mr and Mrs Brittain, who
now have 5 sons and 1 son in law on active service
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
A Bognor Musician Killed; Bandsman Jesse Ide, 2nd Batt. Durham Light Infantry
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
Bognor Victim of the Hawke; Surgeon Gustavus William Custance, 35, son of Rev
and Mrs G.M. Custance
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
5d
Near the Fighting Line; a trip to Paris and near the Front by a Bognor Man, related as
if on holiday in peacetime
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8d
The Queen's Work for Women Fund; Bognor Subscription List; Collectors all females,
names and amounts
BOGNOR
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
4f
Soldiers v The Ladies; hockey matches at Bognor
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
8e
A Bognor appeal; captain's thanks for use of private house as soldiers' reading room
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
4f
Is early closing illegal
Chichester
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1914-10-21
8e
Wanted big drum r s r
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
8f
The receipts of patriotic concert
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
8e
The refugees at Chichester
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
3c-d
Chichester Council, Emergency Precautions; Hospital Accomodation for Troops and
charges, fear of smallpox spreading
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
3e
Motor Vehicles in the Market; Charges for Military to park motor vans
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
The Troops at Chichester; Catering facilities are improved with appointment of
Regimental Master Cook
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8e-f
The Refugees at Chichester;
Now 20 Belgians here, a second house is being prepared, funds raised for starting
them afresh in Belgium as soon as possible
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
2d
Patriotic Concert at Chichester. In Aid of British and Belgian Relief Funds, attended
by local nobility
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
3e
A Victim of the Hogue; City Council agrees seaman's widow, Mrs Ansell, his pay until
9th November
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
Mentioned in Despatches;
Major E.W.B. Green and Sergeant T. Diplock of 2nd Batt. Royal Sussex Regiment
CHICHESTER
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Observer
1914-10-21
8f
Work for Women Fund; Summary of recent donations
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
3c
Accommodation for troops; concern about isolating smallpox cases
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
3d
Alderman Gibbings explains; dangers of smallpox being "imported"
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
8f
The troops at Chichester: catering improvements after complaints
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
8ef
The refugees at Chichester; Belgians at Summersdale hostel
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
4d
Is the early closing order illegal? licensees challenge restricted hours
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
2d
Patriotic concert at Chichester; in aid of British and Belgian relief funds
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
4c
War fund concert
Eastergate
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
Flansham Private Killed; Mrs Burnand received a post card about death of her son C.
Burnand serving in the Hampshire Regiment
FLANSHAM
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
2f
Child Labour on Farms;
West Sussex Farmers' Union idea accepted by School Attendance Sub-committee for
boys 12 and over
HORSHAM
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
2f
Prayers for Our Troops;
Proposal that National Anthem sung and prayers offered daily in all schools
HORSHAM
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Observer
1914-10-21
2e
Men on Active Service; Pay rates of male employees of West Sussex Education
Committee serving in forces
HORSHAM
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
2f
A Privilege for Boy Scouts;
Permission can be given for those over 12 to go out of school and assist authorities
when required
HORSHAM
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
2f
French Lessons for the Troops; proposed by West Sussex Education Committee
during Winter months
HORSHAM
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
8e
Kitcheners paying guest
Lewes
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8e
Kitchener's Paying Guests; Recruits at Lewes are soon to be dispersed over Sussex,
paper highlights virtues of Welshmen and Lancashire Lads to the locality
LEWES
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
8e
Kitchener's paying guests; Welsh and Lancashire troops leave town
Lewes
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
4c
Belgian wounded
Littlehampton
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
3f
Belgian wounded at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
4c
Belgian refugees
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
3f
Belgian Wounded at Littlehampton; 12 soldiers taken to temporary hospital at
Sailor's Institute
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
4c
The Belgian Wounded; Progress report, visited by a Belgian noble
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Observer
1914-10-21
8e
Marine Hunting; Bert Wingfield, of Littlehampton, serving on HMS Glasgow chasing
German battleship Dresden
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
4c
The Belgian Refugees; Appeal for under clothing for upper class refugees
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
4c
A Paper on War; contentious view expressed placing duty to God before Country
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
4b
Charity Whist Drive; For Queen Mary's Needlework Guild
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
5b
Roll of Honour, Additions and Corrections; for Chichester, Bognor, West Wittering,
Birdham, Selsey, Sidlesham, Pagham, Rustington and Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
3f
Belgian wounded at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
4e
The Belgian refugees and wounded
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
Death of a Pagham Man; Private Ernest Keates, 2nd Royal Sussex, has a brother
serving in another battalion of the Regiment
PAGHAM
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-21
The Royal Sussex InIndia "Longing to Go!
Peshawar India
For Men over 45; Scheme to offer Lord Kitchener a battalion or more of military
experienced older men
ROWLANDS CASTLE,
HANTS
6d
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
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1914-10-21
7d
Readiness to offer relief
Rustingto -n Littleham
-pton
Bognor observer
1914-10-21
2c
Patriotic concert at Rustington
Rustington
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
2c
Patriotic Concert at Rustington. A Successful Effort; Rustington War Emergency
Fund, many performers named
RUSTINGTON
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
2c
Patriotic concert at Rustington
Rustington
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
7c
Selsey Recruiting Meeting; Third and most successful, some celebrities present
SELSEY
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
7c
Selsey recruiting meeting
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8f
Wanted - A Big Drum; Adjutant appeal for drum and games for 9th Batt. Royal
Sussex Regiment
SHOREHAM
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-21
8e
Men of Sussex; London based fund for sending comforts to Royal Sussex Regiment
SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
2f
Child labour on farms
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
2e
Education in West Sussex; payment to council staff on active service
West Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
2f
Prayers for troops; advice for all schools
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-10-21
2f
French lessons for the troops; plan for soldiers quartered in W Sussex
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-21
Official order relating to lighting at night
5f
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-21
Worthing
Arrival of our Guests Fifty Refugees
6d
Worthing Gazette
Worthing Gazette
Worthing
1914-10-21
1914-10-21
6b
Newspaper censorship
Worthing
6b
Hasty marriages withinpast few weeks
Worthing
The Kaisers numbers upAn artilleryman'sprediction
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-21
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-21
7d
Worthing
England not Beaten yet!A Guardsman's comment
7c
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-22
3g
Sussex Men at Antwerp.Lt H.B.Baylis Sussex RNVR entrenchment and escape from
Antwerp
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-22
3b
Burgess Hill. Red Cross Society evening concert for Netley Hospital
Burgess Hill
West Sussex gazette
1914-10-22
3b
Chichester. Refugee intakes
Chichester
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1914-10-22
3d
Pulborough. Refugee allocation
Pulborough
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-22
2d
Shoreham Camp and the Approach of Winter. Urgent Appeal funds letter
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-22
3d
Shoreham. Sunday sports at Aerodrome for Shoreham recruits church opposition
Shoreham
West sussex Gazette
1914-10-22
3e
Worthing Welcomes Belgium Refugees. Report of allocation of housing and funding of
refugees
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-24
3h
The Last Post- Territorial’s Burial Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-24
5e
Soldiers and Gentlemen
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-24
5f
Football
Burgess Hill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
2b
Absentee at Crawley
Herbert Stack Gunner 4th Territorial Howitzer Brigade RFA absent without leave since
October 17th
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5d
Belgian Refugees
arrangements to accomodate delayed by concerns about possible spies
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5d
Cottage Hospital
8 beds available for wounded soldiers
Crawley
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Courier
1914-10-24
8c
Roll of Honour of enlisted men from Crawley Down, Turners Hill and West Hoathly
Crawley Down Turners
Hill West Hoathly
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5b
War relief Committee
£2526 collected so far
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
2a
An East Grinstead lad in Malta
Private Baker 4th City of London Regiment Royal Fusiliers describes his journey to
Malta
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5a
Our notebook
Sapper GW Friend of the Royal Engineers of our workplace is now in charge of a
field printing office at the front. Mention of other East Grinstead men at the front
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-24
8e
The Late Earl Roberts – Bell-ringing peal
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-24
3g
The Central V.T.C. – Formed at Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-24
8a
The Central Volunteer Training Corps
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-24
8e
Mending for Soldier – Work done free of charge
Haywards Heath
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5f
Death at the Front
Private H Isaacs of 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
34 on 10th October
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-24
3h
Oldland Convalescent Hospital
Keymer
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Sussex Courier
1914-10-24
3f
Belgium refugees at Lewes
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5f
Newnham Private Alfred Edward Victor died of wounds. Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd
Battalion aged 20 Oct 16th
Lindfield
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-10-24
2a
East Grinsted lad in Malta
Malta
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5f
Salaugham
Rev AH Boyd, Rector has gone to france as Chaplain
Slaugham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
8d
Roll of Honour of enlisted men from Three Bridges
Three Bridges
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5f
Belgian Refugees
Housed in Three Bridges thanks to local ladies
Three Bridges
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
8b
Turners Hill
Private F Enticknap of Ryal Sussex killed at Front on September 10th
Turners Hill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-24
5d
West Hoathly - entertaining the 80 or so encamped Yeomanry
West Hoathly
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-10-25
8b
A Patriotice Company
Haywards Heath
Bognor observer
1914-10-28
4a-b
Alien enemies in uk
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-28
Sketch of soldiers smoking outside a tent
6d
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1914-10-28
7ab
Stirring Times in BelgiumGerman Destructiveness Adventures of a former resident of
Littlehampton
Belgium
Bognor observer
1914-10-28
4c
Belgian relief fund
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-10-28
5a
For Sussex tommies
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-10-28
5e
The observer at the front
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
4f
Special Rink Attraction and Victorious Ladies; skating events at Bognor Kursaal for
war effort
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5f
Bognor Prisoner of War; D. Jones, 6th Dragoon Guards
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
2c
A Letter from the Front; Bognor Man's Interesting Epistle; brother of Mr A.G. Tipper,
serving with No. 1 Company, 3rd Coldstream Guards, 4th Guards Brigade, 2nd Division
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
7a-f
Roll of Honour for Bognor and South Bersted, Chichester and Aldingbourne
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5b
Queen's Work for Women Fund, Bognor Section Second Subscription List
BOGNOR
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
4f
Victorious ladies; Bognor hockey women beat soldiers
Bognor
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1914-10-28
5f
7 aliens arrested
Bognor and Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
5f
Seven aliens arrested
Bognor, Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5b
Roll of Honour; Additions to Boxgrove section
BOXGROVE
Bognor observer
1914-10-28
5a
Wounded soldiers at chi
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-10-28
4d
Uni. Prof. Charged at chi.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
4d
University Professor Charged at Chichester; Under the Alien Order; Herman Oelsner
asked to prove his identity, bailed until further notice
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5f
Seven Aliens Arrested; 5 in Bognor, 2 in Chichester, sent to a concentration camp
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5a
Wounded Soldiers at Chichester; About 30 arrived by train, taken to Royal West
Sussex Hospital in motor cars owned byCiscestrians
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5c
Appointments and Promotions; Senior and Junior Officers in the Sussex Yeomanry
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5f
The Belgian Refugees; Are not to be accomodated on South Coast. No intention to
remove those already here
CHICHESTER
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Observer
1914-10-28
5f
Captain E.O. Skaife Killed; younger son of Dr and Mrs Frederic Skaife, North Street,
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5f
Summersdale Man Wounded; Private George Barber, Rifle Brigade
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5f
From a Prisoner of War; Private Thomas Richard Blake, Duke of Cornwall's Light
Infantry
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
5a
Wounded soldiers at Chichester; British troops bound for Royal West Sussex Hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
5e
The Belgian refugees; ban on further arrivals in coastal areas
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
8e
Daily Telegraph Belgian fund; Chichester Observer opens simlar fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
4c
Smokes for the warriors
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
4e
The patriotic concert
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
5c
The Scouts' usefulness; boys help coastguards and hospitals
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
5c
Ambulance men for Seaford; Chichester SJAB men called up for hospital duty
Chichester
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1914-10-28
5e
The Observer at the front; newspaper sent to troops
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5c
The Scouts' Usefulness; 34 Boy Scouts assisting authorities, Coastguard, some
joined Royal Sussex Regiment
EAST PRESTON
Bognor observer
1914-10-28
5b
Muffled bells
Eastergate
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5f
Lieutenant Robinson, R.N.; HMS Arethusa, brother of Mrs J.A. Greenwood
FUNTINGTON
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-28
7b
Bognor observer
1914-10-28
5d
Postcard attacks
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5b
Muffled Bells; Churches to ring peals to remember the fallen on All Saints Day. Public
is warned of this event
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5d
Postcard Attacks, Anonymous and offensive messages sent to woman with German
sounding name accusing her of being a spy
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
4c
More than a Rumour; Cross Channel Steamer services to sail from Littlehampton,
Newhaven is to be closed to non-military use
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
6d
A Littlehampton Concert, Trafalgar Day Worthily Celebrated; repeat of concert held
at Rustington
LITTLEHAMPTON
The men at the Front They hope to be homeby Christmas
Littleham -pton
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Observer
1914-10-28
5e
How Captain Murray Fell; death of local hero serving with 1st Gordon Highlanders
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5e
The Observer at the Front; revealing background of Littlehampton poet Thos. Baker,
but does not name him
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
4c
Roll of Honour; Additions to the Littlehampton section
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5e
An Astounding Story; Present serving soldier was reported dead in South African War
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
6d
A Littlehampton concert; Belgian soldiers in audience loudly cheered
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
5d
Postcard attacks: Littlehampton; anonymous cards to women with German-sounding
names
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5c
Ambulance Men for Seaford; 4 men named serving with St. John Ambulance
attached to Home Hospital Reserve
SEAFORD
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
8d
An Entertainment; Concert for Belgian Refugees Fund at Cinema Hall
SELSEY
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
8d
An entertainment; in aid of Belgian refugees
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-28
6f
Wounded in Five Places Netley HospitalSouthampton
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1914-10-28
5d-e
1000 more recruits wanted
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5e
Medicinal Plants; Home growing to replace imports from Central Europe
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
2c
Church Lads' Brigade Cadets, An Appeal for £50,000. For Uniforms, CLB provides
superior recruits for Forces
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5d
Trade with Friends; Letter from Lord Desborough clarifying position of traders who
hold goods made in Germany and Austria
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
4b-c
Alien Enemies in United Kingdom; concern about numbers of Germans and Austrians
living here and speed at which sensitive war news is received in Berlin
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
8e
Daily Telegraph Belgian Fund; Placing funds at disposal of King of Belgium
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5c
The War, Patriotic Songs of 1914; Wartime parodies of Get Out and Get Under, and
Sister Susie
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5d
Kitchener's Appeal to the Public; Not to treat soldiers to alcoholic drinks or
encourage drunkeness
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5f
War Lectures for the Winter; Communities are urged to provide facilities. First
subject offered concerns German Fire and Sword
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5b
Men of Sussex, Annual Meeting; London based Association, between 20 and 30
members have enlisted
SUSSEX
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Observer
1914-10-28
5de
1,000 More Recruits Wanted; To complete the 3rd , Depot and new 10th Battalions
Royal Sussex Regiment
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-10-28
5c
May God Keep England!; Support from pioneer Suffragette in United States
SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-10-28
5de
1,000 more recruits wanted; effort to complete 10th RSR Battalion and fill vacancies
in 3rd
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1914-10-28
5c
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-29
8f
Wounded Soldoers at Chichester Hospital. First casualties arrive, crowds gather to
watch.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-29
3c
A Priest on German Outrages. Talk in Cuckfield by Rev. Rankin Brussels on German
atrocities
Cuckfield
West Sussex Gazette
1914-10-29
3b
Territorials and Football.
4th Batt Royal Sussex Regt, form football team
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-31
2b
Deserter and absentee at Crawley. Edward Lowe
2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards deserter since 1913
Also Arthur Henry Turner Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-31
8a
Letter to the Editor
Crawley and the War
Letter from WH Chalk
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-31
8c
Roll of Honour of enlisted men
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-31
2f
My notebook
Enlistment details in East Grinstead
Letters from Drivers Sloman and Weller from the Front
East Grinstead
Police action No German of military age inWorthing
Worthing
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Courier
1914-10-31
8d
A Refugee's story
Belgian Priests graphic account of flight from Belgium to East Grinstead
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-31
5a
East Grinstead's Cyclist Union
Patriotic social attended by 150
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-31
2c
Roll of Honour from Forest Row and Ashurst Wood
Forest Row and
Ashurst Wood
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-31
8f
Handcross Smoking Concert at the Red Lion to provide tobacco for troops
Handcross
West Sussex County
Times
1914-10-31
8e
Arrival of Composite Battalion - licensing issues
HORSHAM
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-10-31
5d
Three Bridges
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-01
8a-b
Killed in action
Private Albert Payne
Queens Royal West Surrey
New Street
on September 25th
recruiting in Sussex 4th Royal Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-03
7e
Hospital Ship Wrecked – Burgess Hill Surgeon Among the Saved – Yorkshire Coast
Burgess Hill
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-03
7e
The Belgian Refugees’ Home At Burgess Hill – Some Interesting Fact
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-03
1914-11-03
5e
5g
The Boy Scouts – Chichester Coastguard Station
Fishing at the Front – Royal Sussex Officer
Burgess Hill
Cuckfield
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1914-11-03
8a
Can You Meet These Needs?
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-03
1914-11-03
1914-11-03
6f
1d
8d
1914-11-04
Horrors of War – A Haywards Heath Man’s Experiences
Spies at Shoreham Camp
Haywards Heath
Shoreham
100, 000 Recruits Wanted
UK
Wounded officer fired on by Germans
6b
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
6e
The Opening Coursing Meeting; Collection made for Belgian Relief Fund
ALDINGBOURNE
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5b
A Bognor Naval Family; Mr J.M. Donald of Aldwick has 3 sons serving, also son in law
ALDWICK
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
5c
Alien enemy sentenced
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
5c
Alien enemy sentenced; Arundel German's two months in prison
Arundel
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
5c-d
Advert
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
4e
Relief for Belgian refugees
Bognor
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Observer
1914-11-04
3f
Bognor District Nursing Association; Offering Nurse to wounded soldiers and sailors
who need additional care in hospital
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
3f
A Military Wedding; Frank Wilkins, A.S.C. to Lilian Reeves, page slightly creased
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
7a-f
Roll of Honour; Bognor and South Bersted, and Chichester
BOGNOR
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
6e
The wounded soldiers at chi
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
5b
Entertaining the troops
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
5c
Recruiting meeting at chi
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
5b
2 more aliens arrested
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
4f
War lectures at chi
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
6e
The Wounded Soldiers at Chichester; information about all 30, names and units
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5b
In Defence of the National Reserve; Letter explains nature of Reserve and why
members do not readily volunteer for active service
CHICHESTER
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Observer
1914-11-04
5a
A Letter from the North Sea; From George Stearn of HMS Hindu
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5b
Entertaining the Soldiers; Facilities provided by Unionists, Congregationalists and
Church of England Men's Society
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
3e
A Footballer's Wedding; Sergeant Feist, 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment and
Miss Hetty Blakeman
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5c
A Recruiting Meeting at Chichester; 4th (Home Service) Battalion Royal Sussex
Regiment
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
5b
Two more aliens arrested
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
6e
The wounded soldiers at Chichester; 30 at Royal West Sussex Hospital (all named)
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
8ef
Belgian relief fund; help from Observer readers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
5b
Entertaining the soldiers; arrangements in Chichester
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
5d
Belgian refugees fund
Eastergate
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5d
Belgian Refugee Fund Entertainment; Committee of Red Cross Working Association
EASTERGATE
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1914-11-04
5d
Belgian refugee fund entertainment; Eastergate group
Eastergate
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5a
Lord Esme Gordon-Lennox Wounded; Major, Scots Guards, 2nd son Duke of
Richmond and Gordon
GOODWOOD
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5b
Mr Archibald Hamilton, of Iping; Photograph in dress uniform of 4th Battalion Royal
Sussex Regiment
IPING
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
5b
Aliens arrested
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5b
Aliens Arrested at Littlehampton; 4 Enemy Aliens sent to concentration camp at
Newbury
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5c
Alien Enemy Sentenced; Frederic Curtheckel claimed he was a Pole, 2 months in
prison for failing to register
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
3d
Government Inspection of the Hospitals; Argyle Hall, Sailor's Institute and District
Hospital inspected
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
3d
Aiding the Refugees; Lantern Slide Lecture on Churches for Belgian Refugees
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
3d
Charity Football; Wednesday XI against Shoreham Grammar School
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
2d
Roll of Honour; Additions to Littlehampton section
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1914-11-04
5b
Aliens arrested at Littlehampton; taken to Newbury "concentration camp"
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
4f
Government inspection of the hospitals; RAMC visit re wounded soldiers
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
4f
A fine record; recuiting at Littlehampton for 4th Battalion RSR
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
3d
Lieutenant K. Rawson-Shaw Missing; Serving with Army Flying Corps
RUSTINGTON
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
8e-f
Belgian relief fund help from observer readers
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-11-04
5b
Only small fireworks on the 5th
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5ab
Canada's Rally to the Empire; First pictures of Canadian Contingent in the Daily
Chronicle
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5b
Only Small Fireworks on the Fifth; Reduced size displays before 8pm
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5a
The Church Lads' Brigade; A C.L.B. Battalion of the New Army is training and a
second is planned.
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5a
The Belgian Fund; Daily Telegraph scheme for rewarding child collectors with cards
and a signed certificate
SUSSEX
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Observer
1914-11-04
2f
St. John Ambulance Brigade; Start of one shilling fund appeal
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5a
Some Popular Songs; Words reflecting the War set to Peacetime hit songs
SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
5b
Precautionary measures; blackout advice for Sussex
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
5cde
There's a vacant place; recruiting poster
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5b
Precautionary Measures; No night time naked lights, bonfires or enemy aliens
allowed in West Sussex
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
8ef
Belgian Relief Fund; short list of subscriptions to date
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-04
5cd
There's a Vacant Place for you My Lad!; poster, an Officer points to a place in the
line, could be faces of local men already serving
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-11-04
5b
In defence of the National Reserve; ex-petty officer on the situation in Chichester
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-04
The Expulsion of AliensHow Worthing is Affected
5e
Worthing
Celebration of the Fifth A limited Display5th November
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-04
5d
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1914-11-04
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Headline or Summary
Place
National Reserve Urgent
4c
Worthing
Afternoon at the HospitalVisiting the Britishwounded
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-04
6cd
Worthing
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-07
8f
Thanks from Belgiums
Belguim
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-7
5d
Roll Of Honour Copthorne
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
8a
Dependents of soldiers
Letter from Sidney Matthews Holly Lodge asking for details of dependents of soldiers
other than wives for consideration for support.
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
5f
Roll of Honour additions
Display of Ghurka knives
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
5e
Pr Eggleton of Albany Road and Pr Gravely wounded
PC Webster rejoined as a Gunner. Sends letter home
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
2c etc
Roll of Honour
East Grinstead men
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
5a and b
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
5b
My Notebook
70 extra names on EG Roll of Honour
Sgt FA Winser mentioned in Dispatches by John French then killed instantaneously in
huge explosion.
Stildon House being use as a hospital for the wounded.
personal
Lt Hon HL Pelham 2nd Battalion RSR killed in action
Roderick Noel Raleigh King appointed 2nd Lt 3rd Battalion RSR
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
2a
East Grinstead Urban Council
The country and war sufferers. Debate on provision of help to dependants of
Servicemen.
Eat Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
5f
PC Cudby killed in Action. In a Welsh Regiment.
Walter Unsworth tried in Horsham Magistrates as an Absentee
Soldiers Social
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
5e
Collection at St Margarets Ifield for Belgian Refugees
Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
8e
Roffey YMCA Institute opened up for use of locally encamped soldiers
Roffey, Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-07
5f
Mr M Mcleoud received a letter from one of his relatives at the front speaking of
successfuk action
Turners Hill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-7
8b
West Hoathly Cadet Corps
Monday Nov 10 Company Training 7pm
West Hoathly
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
5e
Bravo the Veterans
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
5e
Gifts to Territorials
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
7a
How Germany Made War – Lecture at Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
1g
Up The Firing Line – Burgess Hillian’s Letter
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
8d
Queens Hall as a Hospital
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
6c
Doing a Bit of Damage – A Cuckfield Sailor’s Letter
Cuckfield
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Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
6f
What the Ghurkhas Do – Letter from a Haywards Heath Corporal
Haywards Heat
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
5e
Aliens to be Registered
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
8a
It is Proposed – (Sussex) Cadet Corps RFA
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
How a Commission Was Won
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
6g
4th (H.S.) Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment – A route march
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
5c
Wounded Soldiers at King Edward Hall
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
8b
The Soldiers Are Coming – Billeting
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
8g
1st Batt Sussex National Reserve
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
5e
Jam for Wounded Soldiers
Pyecombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-11-10
3a-c
There’s A Vacant Place For You My Lad!
UK
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5a
Soldiers language manual
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
4e
Arundel Council; Believed that number of men joining Territorials in proportion to
size of town was higher than elsewhere
ARUNDEL
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
8ef
March of the Home Battalion, Great Arundel Recruiting Meeting; 4th (Home Service)
Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
ARUNDEL
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Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
8ef
The march of the Home Battalion; 4th Battalion RSR visits Arundel and Littlehampton
Arundel/Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5cd
Exciting Voyage to New Zealand; Passengers from Bognor, vessel Rhuhane, escorted
by warships, carrying £1 million in bullion
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5a
Bognor Artilleryman's Letter; Driver Ed. Hammond, Royal Horse Artillery, 4th Cavalry
Brigade. Relates plight of civilians in the war zone
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
7a-f
Roll of Honour, Local Men on Active Service; Bognor and South Bersted, and
Chichester sections
BOGNOR
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
2e
The wounded soldiers at chi
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5c
The wounded at chi
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5d
Belgian wounded at chi
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5b-c
Entertaining the soldiers
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
6e
Recruiting at chi visit of4th r s r
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
6e-f
The march of the home batt.
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
2e
The Wounded Soldiers at Chichester; Concert, list of gifts and doners, also motor car
owners offering rides
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5c
Ambulance Men at Devonport; Writes about funeral of Belgian soldier and Mr
W.Holder, the Handy Man
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5c
The Wounded at Chichester; Some are sent to Brighton others expected
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5b
Men of Sussex Association; letter of thanks for comforts sent to Royal Sussex
Regiment
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5b
Entertaining the Soldiers; Free games and writing materials at Congregational
Schoolroom
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5d
Five Guineas for the Mayoress' Fund; Work for Women Fund
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5a
Cicestrian Wounded; Private Clifton 2nd Battalion R.S.R., of Somerstown
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5b
Dr Skaife's Great Loss; Captain Arthur Skaife, 1st Middlesex Regiment, killed. Also
mention of Eric Scaife, his brother, also killed, by a soldier in his company in a letter
to a schoolgirl
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5b
Recruiting in October; comparison of places in Sussex
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
6ef
Recruiting at Chichester; 4th (Home Service) Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment,
speeches both stirring and moralistic
CHICHESTER
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Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
2e
The wounded soldiers at Chichester; includes list of donors and "chauffeurs" for
drives
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5c
Ambulance men at Devonport; Chichester SJAB men and Belgian wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5c
The wounded at Chichester; 15 soldiers leave for Brighton
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
4ab
Advertisement for soldiers' comfort boxes from Sharp Garland, Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
4ef
Belgian relief fund; list of donors
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5b
Men of Sussex Association; collection for RSR men at the front
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5b
Entertaining the soldiers; games provision in Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5c
Comforts for 3rd Battalion RSR; list of goods supplied and letters of appreciation
Chichester
Chichester
Observer
1914-11-11
6ef
Recruiting at Chichester; visit of 4th Battalion RSR
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5a
Fair Murder Not War; Letter from Private F. Sinnock, 2nd Life Guards, cavalry serving
in the trenches
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
4ef
Littlehampton Recruiting for Home Battalion, Can a Hundred be Secured?; 58 names
listed
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
4e
Littlehampton recruiting for home battalion RSR;
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5ab
Lieut. K. Rawson-Shaw A Prisoner; Confirms he was captured by German cavalry
when his aircraft was shot down
RUSTINGTON
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5e
Military at Selsey
Selsey
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5e
Recruitment meeting
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5d
Military at Selsey; Every member of Forces has honourary membership of village
Institute
SELSEY
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5d
Recruiting Meeting To-Morrow; At the Cinema Hall
SELSEY
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5d
Military at Selsey; Rectory "open house" for soldiers
Selsey
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5a
Warm clothing needed
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5b
Men of Sussex assc
Sussex
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Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5c
Comforts for 3rd batt r s r
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5b
Recruiting in October
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-11-11
5b
To the men of Sussex
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5a
Soldiers' Language Manual; Brief review of publication to assist troops serving
overseas
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5b
To the Men of Sussex; Impassioned appeal to form second Southdown battalion by
Claud Lowther, impresses idea of serving together
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5a
Warm Clothing Wanted; Duke of Norfolk appeals for comforts to be sent to Sussex
Territorials
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5c
Comforts for 3rd Battalion, R.S.R; List of items sent and thanks from various officers
of 2nd Battalion, not named
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
5c
Well Merited Promotions; In 2nd and 7th Battalions Royal Sussex Regiment AND More
Casualties; in 2nd Battalion
SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5a
Warm clothing wanted: Duke of Norfolk's appeal for Sussex soldiers
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5b
To the men of Sussex; recruiting appeal by Col. Lowther, Southdown Battalion
Sussex
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
4ef
Belgian Relief Fund; updated list of subscriptions
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
5b
Recruiting in October; West Sussex figures
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-11
6d
A More Generous Allowance Suggested; Westhampnett Guardians support move to
increase payments to dead and wounded soldier's dependents
WESTHAMPNETT
Chichester Observer
1914-11-11
6d
A more generous allowance suggested; Westhampnett Guardians urge more money
for families of solders killed
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1914-11-12
2b
Recruiting Meeting At Arundel. Large on street recruitment Duke of Norfolk and 4th
Batt Royal Sussex
Arundel
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-14
8b
East Grinstead man at the front
West Sussex County
Times
1914-11-14
3e
Board of guardians meeting question of whether billeting moneyinfluences relief
money
West Sussex County
Times
1914-11-14
5c
A Horsham Man's Tribute to Officers and high moral of soldiers
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
5c
Driver T Hartfield sends a cheery letter home after the Battle of Mons
Ashurst Wood
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-14
3d
Red Cross Wounded train at Brighton
Brighton
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-14
8f
the Encouragement of Recruitment 6th Cycle Batt
Brighton
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8cd
Rolls of Honour
Letter from 'Patriot' asking for more men of Copthorne to enlist
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
5e
Roll of Honour
6 additional names
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8e
Wounded at East Grinstead
17 wounded soldiers transferred from Brighton to EG Stildon House
Patrick Donovan for Inniskillin Fusiliers recounts his experiences
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
5a and b
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Appealing for more men from east Grinstead to enlist in the Royal Sussex Regiment
2nd/Southdown Battalion
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8c
East Grinstead Modern School Boys and the Services
Letter from Guy L Hart listing old boys enlisting.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8c
A Christmas gift for the East Grinstead Territorials
Letter from Mrs Margaret Beale of Saint Hill appealing for gifts for the 120
Territorials.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8c
An appeal for shirts and socks to send to a base hospital in Boulogne
from Elaine Harrison Orchards EG
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8c
The Needs of the 4th Sussex
Needs of the Scouts of 4th Sussex for field glass. 16 pairs required.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8b
Letter home from Driver Frederick William Goddard serving in ASC
Writes of
Aeroplanes as common as birds
East Grinstead Observer at the Front
One continual roar of Guns
Splendid work by the Guards
Flower of German Army against British Troops
Happy German Prisoners
The Indian Troops
We are as happy as sandboys
East Grinstead
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Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-14
8e
Wounded English and Belguims at new hospital
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
5f
Douglas Leonard Harvey killed in action
2nd Lt 9th Lancers
son of Rev Harvey
Handcross
West Sussex County
Times
1914-11-14
55b
German's Suicide and an Alien Restriction Order
HASTINGS
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8a b
Start of a march through West Sussex to elist men for the Reserve of the 4th Royal
Sussex Regiment to Chichester and Midhurst
Horsham
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-14
3f
Home Protection Brigade
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
2e
Enlistment
Letter from Alfred Peters urging men to enlist
Lowfield Heath,
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
5d
Rudgwick
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
3c
Rudgwick
An airman's death
Military funeral for a pilot
Edward Busk at Farnborough
To the men of Sussex
Urging enlistment to Royal Sussex Regiment from Claude Lowther Lt Colonel
Southdown Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
West Sussex County
Times
1914-11-14
5c
Horsham Terrier's Route March
SUSSEX
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
8e
The possible invasion of England
Public Meeting held at Turners Hill
Turners Hill
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-14
2b, c and d
Roll of Honour of those enlisted from Crawley Down, Turners Hill, West Hoathly and
Three Bridges
Turners Hill West
Hoathly
Crawley Down
three Bridges
Bognor observer
1914-11-18
5c
The war horses
1914-11-18
6g
Fund for Sick & Wounded Horses on the Battlefield
Worthing Gazette
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-18
The Sporting Spirit in theTrenches True Britons
6f
Soldier's HopefulEstimate Thinks war will last less then 3 months
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-18
6e
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
4c
Rolling Skating Attractions; Reduced prices for all men in uniform
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5d
Home from the Front; Gunner William Johnson, 36991, Battery No. 108, Royal Field
Artillery wounded
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5e
Gunner Smith: Bognor; Lost right arm serving on HMS Falcon, taken to hospital on
Lord Tredegar's yacht
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5d
Letter from a Bognor Man; Driver G. Tadd, Royal Garrison Artillery, sundry incidents
at the front
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
7a-f
Roll of Honour; Bognor and South Bersted, and Chichester sections
BOGNOR
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1914-11-18
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Meeting. War and theVictimisation of Women
4e
Brighton
Bognor observer
1914-11-18
4c
A Belgian lecture
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-18
4c
Local territorial recruits
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
3c
Farmers and the War, The Employment of Schoolboys; Comments on mental and
physical development
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5c
Gifts for Wounded Soldiers; at Royal West Sussex Hospital, long list of gifts and
doners
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
4b
A Belgian Lecture; On behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
3d
Education in West Sussex, Married Teachers to be Employed Temporarily;
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5e
A Felpham Victim's Funeral; Stoker Charles L. Boniface conections with Gunner
Smith and William Penney
FELPHAM
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5c
Lord Bernard Gordon Lennox Killed; Captain in Grenadier Guards, third son of Duke
of Richmond
GOODWOOD
Bognor observer
1914-11-18
4e
Littlehampton and wounded soldiers
Littlehampton
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
4e
Littlehampton and Wounded Soldiers, A Large House Now Available; List of local Red
Cross detachment names
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5d
A Littlehampton Bereavement; Midshipman P.S. Candy, HMS Monmouth
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5e
Interesting Letter from SSM Boxall; Humorous slant on life at the Front
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1914-11-18
4e
Littlehampton and wounded soldiers; large house to accommodate 44 patients
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-18
German spy Lody shootat Tower of London
5a
London
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
3ef
Selsey, A Recruiting Meeting; At the Cinema Hall
SELSEY
Chichester Observer
1914-11-18
3ef
Selsey: a recruiting meeting
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5d
For British Horses on the Battlefield; Army Veterinary Corps seeks help from RSPCA
and appeal for funds
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5e
Public Schools Battalions; Request to form two for Royal Sussex Regiment
SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-11-18
5d
Precautions against aircraft; Brighton Railway Company's plans
Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1914-11-18
5e
Public schools battalions; appeal for two battalions for RSR
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5de
Precautions Against Aircraft; Trains to have blinds in carriages closed after nightfall
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
4ef
Belgian relief Fund; Latest list of subscriptions
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5f
Aux Refugies Belges; Offer of free eye tests and spectacles for Belgian Refugees in
South West Sussex
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-18
5f
Practical Sympathy; Explanation of free optical assistance to Belgian Refugees, part
of notice in Flemish
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-11-18
3c
Farmers and the war; discussion on employment of schoolboys
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-11-18
4ef
Belgian relief fund; readers' subscriptions
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-11-18
3d
Married teachers; wartime arrangements for employing
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-11-18
5c
Gifts for wounded soldiers; list of gifts and donors
West Sussex
Worthing's PracticalPatriotism. Lowther's Lambs Pet lamb
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-18
5c
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16 year old MidshipmanYoungest resident oftown serving King &Country
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-18
5d
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-11-19
6f
Chichester Airman At The Front. Letter home from Herbert Parker RFC
West Sussex Gazette
1914-11-19
6f
Lord Bernard Gordon Lennox Killed. Duke of Richmonds 3rd son.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1914-11-19
7b
Recruiting in Sussex. weekly numbers of Chichester recruits
Chichester
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
3e
A local man with the Indian Troops
Driver George Bransden with Army Service Corps with Indian Expeditionary Force
writes home to his father
Burgess Hill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5e
Memorial Service for Douglas Lennox Harvey 2nd Lt 9th Lancers recently killed in
trenches
Colgate
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5f
Copthorne Band and recruiting
7 of 21 band members have enlisted
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
2f
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5e
Recruiting Meeting at Crawley
George Hotel
About 12 men enlisted at the end. Greater enthusiasm shown than at previous
meetings.
Recruitment Meeting
William John Hygate an addition to the previous list
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5d
Lord Roberts' death commemorated by Crawley Town Band and by the tolling of
muffled bells
Crawley
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
2a
Service of Intercession at East Grinstead
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5c
Cyclists Union
Queens Hall Patriotic social
160 present including from the various camps in the district
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
8f
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5a
East Grinstead Police Court
Frank Goodall charged for being absent from 3rd Battalion South Lancashire
Regiment
Richard Hy Gill charged with being absent from 13th Battalion Manchester Regiment
My Notebook
News from the Front from:
Prvt CH Sloman (an EG Footballer)2nd Wilts Regiment near Ypres
Prvt HC Coleman 14th Hussars
Sapper Fred Baldwin
East Grinstead
An 'EG chap' in Royal Sussex regiment
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5c
A war prisoner
Charles Marchant of EG
1st Duke of Corwall's Light Infantry taken prisoner and is at Hameln on the Weser
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
2b
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
8ef
The loss of the Monmouth
An East Grinstead Officer on Board presumed dead.
Lt Maurice JH Baghot
'How can a man die better than facing fearsome odds?'
Roll of Honour
Forest Row and Ashurst Wood
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5e
Horsham
A soldier's death
Private John Collins 2nd Batt RSR
Died at Ypres aged 33 on 31st October
Horsham
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Times
1914-11-21
8b
Appeal for Cars from recruiting officer
HORSHAM
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-21
2b
The loss of The Monmouth
East Grinstead Officer lost
Pacific
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-21
5b
West Hoathly
Smoking Concert including music and wrestling
West Hoathly
Bognor observer
1914-11-25
3e
The new recruits scheme
Bognor observer
1914-11-25
5e
Xmas puddings for the forces
The Adventures of a cyclist Soldiers on bikesnear Ypres
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-25
6g
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8d
Lord E. Talbot's Son; Nephew of Duke of Norfolk is wounded
ARUNDEL
Bognor observer
1914-11-25
5A-C
USEFUL PRESENTS FOR THE FORCES
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-11-25
4d
Soldiers reading room
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
5ab
Useful Presents for Men on Active Service; Gents Outfitter Advertisement
BOGNOR
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8de
Interned in Holland; RNVR man blames Second Brigade for leaving them in the lurch
at Antwerp
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
5a
Bognor Soldier's Story; Joseph Hills, 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
7a-f
Roll of Honour; Bognor and South Bersted, and Chichester sections
BOGNOR
Chichester Observer
1914-11-25
5b
The lights of Bognor; letter complaining about town's illuminaton
Bognor
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-25
From India to the Front Men & horses by sea
BombayIndia
6fg
Bognor observer
1914-11-25
4e
Recruits still enlisting
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
4e
Interesting War Lecture; Successful event despite the wrong material being sent
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
5b
The Professor Dismissed, Adjourned Charge under Alien Order; The case of Herman
Oelsner
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
4de
A Military Wedding; Changed to Chichester, Sergeant Frederick Lewington, 9th Hants
(Cyclists)
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8e
The Scouts' Defence Corps; Proposal to enrol 15 to 17 year olds and give military
instruction to assist civil authorities and prepare for the forces
CHICHESTER
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8d
Good News for Dr and Mrs Skaife; Their son Eric is not dead but a prisoner of war
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-11-25
8e
The Scouts' defence corps; Chichester appeal to establish one in city
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-11-25
3c-d
The brotherhood and war
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8d
Germans: Are they brothers?; Religious and moralistic questions about the war
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
4d
More Wounded Arrive; 4 British and 5 Belgian soldiers at Belgrave House, from
Brighton
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1914-11-25
4f
More wounded arrive
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-25
7d
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8f
Territorials Entertained;C and D Companies of 9th Hants in School Room at United
Methodist Church
SELSEY
Bognor observer
1914-11-25
8f
Work in wartime
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
3ef
The New Recruiting Scheme; Proforma to be completed by householders of men
aged between 19 and 38 years
SUSSEX
In War-Stricken France Graphic Description atthe Brotherhood Anniversary
Littlehampton
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8e
Inoculation Against Typhoid; Some troops are being told that they cannot go to front
unless they are innoculated
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8e
Why Some Do Not Enlist; A number of debateable points about volunteering and
conditions of service
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
8e
Well Done Robert!; 100 out of 180 Sussex Policemen have enlisted in forces
SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-11-25
5a-c
Useful presents for men on active service; advertisement
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-11-25
4b
Well Done; Editorial supporting measures for increasing pensions and the suffering
of working class here and in Belgium due to war and German artrocities
WEST SUSSEX
New War Taxes Extra halfpenny a glassor a penny a pint
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-25
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-25
5d
Worthing
Free Churches and the War Call to Christianity
6f
Worthing
The Treatment of Wounded Soldiers Belgrave House RedCross Hospital
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-25
7e
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-25
6e
Worthing Gazette
1914-11-25
Worthing
The New Scheme Appeal from theParliamentary recruitingcommittee
Worthing
Censorship. Code wordsin newspaper
5d
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Place
Off to the Front Packinthe "Gazette" parcels
8d
Worthing
West Sussex County
Times
1914-11-28
3ab
Advert for Stockings for Refugees with line drawing
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-28
8c
the luckiest man in the Ward
Bristol
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
8b
Recruiting at Copthorne
Letter from 'The Patriot' bemoaning lack of recruits from Copthorne.
'Play the Game Copthorne!'
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
5d
Civil Guard at Crawley
Mr Rossi-Ashton as Commandant. To be based at East Park, Southgate
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
5d
Harry Pullinger of Ifiled Park Farm
Private in Rifle Brigade injured in the hand at Battle of the Aisne
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
8b
British Red Cross
Hospital opened at Stildon House, London Road receives 17 wounded soldiers
Letter from Clara Blount
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
2bcde
East Grinstead Roll of Honour
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
5c
Territorial Promotions
Among rank and file of East Grinstead company of 4th royal Sussex
11 men mentioned
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
5c
YMCA Roll of Honour
14 members listed - a good record given small size of the Association
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
5c
Turkey having declared war
Heavy price rises for Christmas fruit but Young and sons have noy raised their
prices!
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
8b
An appeal for the Royal Engineers for 150 mittens for Christmas from Margaret L
Reid
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
5ab
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
8d
My notebook
Lt CWM Firth Dorsetshire Regiment badly wounded Nov 1st Ypres
North Somerset Yeomanry quartered at East Court fighting at Ypres
65 casualties
More men are needed to enlist
News from an East Grinstead Prisoner of War
Private C Marchant writes a letter home from Hameln on Weser
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
8b
Seats for Soldiers
Appeal to provide seats or benches for soldiers in the town centre from a 'Tommy's
mother'
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
8d
The luckiest man in the ward
Private CJ True RSR wounded at the Battle of the Aisne in hospital in Bristol
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
5b
Military Activities
Hundreds of huts erected in Ashdown Forest
Forest Row
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-28
8c
East Grinsted Prisoner of War
Germany
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
8b
Captain and Hon Major LCR Messel (of Nymans?) promoted to Major in 4th Battalion
of Buffs East Kent regiment
Handcross?
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
8b
Cliffird Norton has received a commission as 2nd Lt 10th Battalion Suffolk Regiment
Haywards Heath
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Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-28
3a
Railway fatality 4th or 5th occurence
Lewes
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-11-28
6c
Lewes Dispatch Rider amazing spped
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-11-28
6b
Old Mother Church at the Front
Letter from Noah Whitman
Verger, St Leonard's Turners Hill
Turners Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-01
5d
Our Guests
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-01
8g
What to do if there is an Invasion – instructions for civilian
England
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-01
1g
In Case of Invasion – What VTC Could Do
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-01
5g
RSPCA Fund for Sick and Wounded Horses
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-01
8d
9th Royal Sussex Regiment – Mittens in Demand
Shoreham
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
2c
Billeting in public houses
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
2c
Our religious leaders on a just war
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5a
Tokens of goodwill
5c 6g
What the Engineers areDoing. Digging trenchesrigging barbed wirebuilding bridges &
roads
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-02
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Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5a
Horses for the asking
Arundel
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
3d
Lord Edmund Talbot's Son, Definite News From Germany; MP for Arundel's son is
prisoner of war
ARUNDEL
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
3c
In defence of Kaiser
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5b-d
Useful presents for men on active service
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
4d
Recruitment at Bognor
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
4f
The Red Cross Society; Bognor Detatchment is accepted by War Office and awaits
their first wounded
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
8d
National Reserve; 26 names from Bognor, 26 from Chichester and district all serving
locally
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5b
With the Good Hope: Bognor; Jonathan Saigeman, Naval Reservist killed
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
3c
In Defence of the Kaiser, Letter to a Bognor Gentleman; Enemy propaganda
published so it can be discredited
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
4f
Marriage of a Soldier Fisherman; Corporal Walter James Welfare, Royal Sussex
Regiment
BOGNOR
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5b
Bognorian Dies of Wounds; Sergeant Jesse Mills, 3rd Coldstream Guards
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
6a-7a
Roll of Honour; Bognor and South Bersted, and Chichester sections
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
2e
Billeting in Public Houses, The Bishop's Opinion; the temptation to treat soldiers
BRIGHTON
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5a
Tolling cathedral bell
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5c
Sussex officers appeal
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5d
Xmas treat for wives and families
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5a
Returning to the front
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-02-
5e
Helping the red cross
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5ab
More Gifts for our Wounded; long list of doners and their gifts to Royal West Sussex
Hospital
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
3c
The Belgian People; Lecture showing before and after German invasion
CHICHESTER
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Observer
1914-12-02
5c
Christmas Treat for Wives and Families; Hugh tea party for servicemens' relatives
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
8e
Helping the Red Cross; long list of donated items and names of receiving units,
hospitals, ships, etc.
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
4d
Wedding of Popular Territorial; George Silvester of Home Service Battalion Royal
Sussex Regiment
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5c
Two Brothers Wounded: Chichester; Drummers T. Irish and G. Irish, 2nd Batt. Royal
Sussex Regiment
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5c
London Scottish Cicestrian Killed; Private J.O. McCarogher, brief biography
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5c
A Sussex Officers' Appeal; Sword, revolver and field glasses, expensive items for
young officer to provide
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
8e
Helping the Red Cross; Chichester's contribution to Royal West Sussex Hospital,
troops and Royal Navy
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
2e
Lord Bernard Gordon Lennox Some Scottish Tributes; Condolences from tenantry on
Highland estates
GOODWOOD
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5a
The Wounded at Littlehampton; 4 British and 5 Belgian at Red Cross Hospital, names
given
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5b
German Royalty at Littlehampton; Suggesting pre-war visits were cover for spying
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Observer
1914-12-02
4d
The Bulwark, Two Local Links; Warrant Officer John C. Burr and Petty Officer Joseph
Kemp
LITTLEHAMPTON
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-02
7b
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
5a
The wounded at Littlehampton; names of British and Belgian soldiers
Littlehampton
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5a
Chaplain to 4th batt r s r
Newhaven
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
3f
Belgian refugees
Rustington
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
3f
Belgian Refugees' Thanks, Concert at Rustington; Mr and Mrs R. Gaston Wittman
RUSTINGTON
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
3f
Belgian refugees' thanks
Rustington
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-02
Current price of BeerPosition at LittlehamptonLicence holders and their customers
Littlehampton
SomptingMen & the Countrys' Call
7c
Sompting
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
3e
Please spare a shilling
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
2ba
Amusing story from front
Sussex
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1914-12-02
5a
Recruiting figures
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5a
3rd Southdown's batt.
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
2d
Our Religious Leaders on a Just and Righteous War; Each Denomination's support for
the war
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
2c
Hard Lines! Amusing Story From the Front; Written in perceived style and language
of the common soldier
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5a
Recent Recruiting Figures; men coming forward at average of 80 a day
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5a
A Third Southdown Battalion; Royal Sussex Regiment
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5a
Returning to the Front; draft of 300 wounded from Royal Sussex Regiment
SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
2e
Billeting in public houses; Bishop of Chichester attacks practice
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
5a
Returning to the front; slightly wounded RSR men going back
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
5a
More gifts for the wounded; list of donors
Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
5a
Recent recruiting figures
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
5a
A third Southdown Battalion
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
5a
Tokens of Goodwill; purchasing and sending British made Christmas Cards
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
8d
The New Beer Tax; indignation at war measure, mention of movement towards
prohibition in USA
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
3e
Please Spare A Shilling, A Christmas Present for the Gallant Belgians; Long appeal
covering sufferings
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
7c
War Stories, Ducking in the Trenches; 11th Hussars Pushing back hordes of Germans
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
7c
War Stories, Jolly Fine Sport; HMS Venerable bombarding German trenches from off
Belgian coast
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
7c
War Stories, Shot the Lot; 1st Life Guards encounter German machine gun firing from
a Red Cross waggon
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
7c
War Stories, But for Our Navy!; Seaman on HMS King George V refutes charge that
the Army is doing all the fighting
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
7c
War Stories, The German Way; Royal Horse Guards (Blue) attacked by enemy
playing National Anthem and singing hymns
WEST SUSSEX
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
7c
War Stories, The Right Sort of Spirit; Expectation of far higher casulties before the
war is won
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
3e
Please spare a shilling; appeal for Christmas presents for Belgians
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-02
4f
Volunteer Corps for West Wittering; Military training and recruitment
WEST WITTERING
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
4e
Volunteer Corps for West Wittering
Wittering
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-02
3a
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-02
Trading with the EnemyCorporation dealing withGerman firms
Worthing
Limiting Public Lighting.Along sea front
3a
Worthing
Troops from ShorehamSeveral thousand accommodated at private houses & YMCA
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-02
6cd
Worthing
Bognor observer
1914-12-02
5a
Yaptons contribution
Yapton
Chichester Observer
1914-12-02
5a
Yapton's contribution; 70 join Forces
Yapton
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-12-05
2c
amusing news from the front
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Sussex Courier
1914-12-05
2c
how Tiny Martin spitted a German
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-12-05
2c
the Coldstreams
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-12-05
8c
Honours for East Grinstead men
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-12-05
5f
news from the front
West Sussex County
Times
1914-12-05
6fg
A soldier of the King - recruitment advert with drawing of a soldier
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
8a
Copthorne Football Club and Recruiting
List of ten club members who have joined up.
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
8a
Crawley Cricket Club and the war
Letter from WJ Chalk listing 15 names of club members joining up
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
5e
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
5f
Local war Items
Corporal Ralph Charman of Spencers Road 1st Lifeguards is a prisoner of war in
Germany
Private Ben Eggleton 2nd Sussex wounded at battle of Aisne. Finger amputated at
Crawley Cottage Hospital
Private Parker of ifield badly wounded in arm in hospital in Chelsea
Private Pullinger well on road to recovery
Social Evening at Railway Hotel for the relief of Belgians still resident in their own
country. 120 attended
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Courier
1914-12-05
5e
Death at the Front
Lt Colonel Kelly engaged to Mrs Masson. Shot whilst leading Indian troops
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
8cdef
Roll of Honour for Crawley Down, Turners Hill, West Haothly and Three Bridges and
Rowfant
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
8a
East Grinstead Boys Scouts and the Services
List of 26 past and present members who have joined up
Crawley Down Turners
Hill, West Hoathly and
Three Bridges and
Rowfant
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
8b
Recruiting in East Grinstead
Details of 71 local residents who enlisted during November 1914
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
4f
Relief of Distress occasioned by war
£2582 raised locally recently
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
2c
With the Coldstreams
2nd Lt Whidbourne of Hammerwood currently on leave.
Coldstreams holding the line at Ypres in hard fighting
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
5a
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
5b
My Notebook
Colonel Needham of Forest Row goes to France as a Censor
George Heasman to 6th Reserve Cavalry to Dublin
George Heasman on duty in Cairo
Sir Alec Bailey appointed as Major
Note that East Grinstead men have been awarded Distinguished Service Medal and
Victoria Cross - reported elsewhere
News from the Front
Lord Roberts last Guard of Honour
Gunner H Bell of Expeditionary Force writes. It is very cold and no gloves!
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
8b
Honours for East Grinstead Men
Distinguished Conduct Medal and Victoria Cross
Private Sidney Godley awarded Victoria Cross 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers for bravery
at Mons
Now a prisoner of war
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Drummer Arthur W Foster awarded DCM for bravery during battle on Oct 21st
Death of Sgt F Winser reported after mentioned in Special Dispatches by General
John French
1914-12-05
2c
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
2c
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
8ef
Red Cross work at Forest Row
Making garments for soldiers at the Front with long list of volunteers involved.
Forest Row
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-05
5f
Death of Charles Edward Smith
on HMS Bulwark which exploded. Nov 26 Aged 19
Haywards Heath
West Sussex County
Times
1914-12-05
5e
Horsham's Christmas Parcels for the troops sent ofs
HORSHAM
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-08
8b
How 'Tiny' Martin spitted a German
Letter from Corporal CH Mitchell of 2nd Royal Sussex
Refers to Tiny Martin and Hort Dawe in church 'I believe they are all that are left of
the East Grinstead boys in the battalion'
Amusing News from the Front
An East Grinstead resident with the RAMC (Medical Company?)
Private Bernard M Rusden
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
The Volunteer Training Corps
East Grinstead
Haywards Heath
Drawing of A Soldiers'special Christmas BoxWhat it will consist of
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-09
3cd
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5f
The Billeting of Troops; Mayor of Arundel to ask War Office why town has not
received a quota of soldiers
ARUNDEL
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
5ef
Arundel Council: why no troops for the winter?
Arundel
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Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
8f
Arundel: the relief fund
Arundel
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
5a
Novel recruitment scheme
Bexhill
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
5b
Novel recruitment cont.
Bexhill
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
5ab
A novel recruiting scheme; badges and medals for top recruiters
Bexhill
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
7c
The Belgians
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
7c
Belgium and the Belgians; Important lecture describing life pre-war and German
atrocities
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
4f
An Official Roll of Honour?; Suggestion to maintain a roll of those who have fallen in
the service of their country, from Bognor and District
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5a
Captain M.K. Sandys: Bognor; York and Lancaster Regiment, brief biography of
officer who died of wounds
BOGNOR
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
7c
Belgium and the Belgians; Louvain University lecturer at Bognor
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
4b
Example for Funkers; Mr W. G. Scotcher has returned from Argentina to join forces
BRIGHTON
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Wounded Indian Soldiers Brighton Pavilion
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-09
3a
Brighton
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
5a
Recreation for soldiers
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
5c
The dean on Lowthers Lambs
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5a
Recreation for Soldiers: Chichester; A clergyman comments on the type of soldier he
meets
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5b
Wounded Soldiers at Barracks; Public asked not to forget the few solders recovering
at the Barracks
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
7e
Royal West Sussex Hospital; appeal for funds in view of increased War Office
demand to take wounded soldiers
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
6e
Chichester City Petty Sessions, The Recruit's Baby; Maintenance dispute that must
have been a fairly common event in the war
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5a
Cicestrian's Letter from the Cape; Archie Barratt writes of war against Germans and
Boers, disparaging view of local Colonial forces
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
3e
Westhampnett Guardians, More N.C.O.'s Wanted; Board asked to encourage its'
employees with military experience to join up
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5a
Lady Recruiting Officers; Mayoress and Ladies to boost recruiting for new 3rd
Southdown Battalion
CHICHESTER
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5c
The Dean on Lowther's Lambs, Another Recruiting Meeting in Chichester; Tongue in
Cheek humour on the Southdowns' nickname
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
5b
Wounded soldiers at the barracks
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
7e
Royal West Sussex Hospital; appeal for funds because of influx of war wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
5a
Recreation for soldiers; school premises opened for troops
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
5a
Lady recruiting officers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
5c
The Dean on Lowther's Lambs; recruiting meeting
Chichester
Happiness for Christmasfor our Soldiers Families Government allowance
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-09
5c
In or near Worthing
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5b
Man Killed; Private R.F. Rodell, of Littlehampton, joined 3rd Battalion, R.S.R.
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
7e
The new beer tax; letter supporting wartime price increase
North Bersted
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-09
Rustington Women'sVolunteer Drill
Rustington
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
4d
Selsey, A Recruiting Address; for Southdown Battalion at Cooden Camp known as
Lowther's Lambs
SELSEY
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
4d
Soldiers entertained
Selsey
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
5e
Is your name on this list
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
5a
Sussex recruiting in November.
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
5a
Lady recruitment officers
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
6c-d
Our Sussex men
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
7e
The New Beer War Tax; Argument that tax has driven drinkers to spirits is defended
as good because the tax on spirits is higher
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5a
Sussex Recruiting in November; Totals for places in County for Regular Army only
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5ab
A Novel Recruiting Scheme; for Lowther's Lambs. Sponsers of 2 recruits will receive
a badge or medal, entries on a postcard
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
6cd
Our Sussex Men, Recruiting for the Southdown Battalion; Long article. Lists many
officers' names
SUSSEX
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Southdown Battalions Recruiting Map (Linedrawing)
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-09
6cde
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
3d
YMCA appeal; help sought for Territorials and recruits in camp
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
5a
Sussex recruiting in November; figures from major towns
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
6c
Our Sussex Men; report on Southdown battalions at Bexhill camp
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
3d
YMCA Appeal, Another £50,000 Needed; for work and facilities in Camps
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
4f
Is Your Name on This List?; Appeal for Belgian Relief Fund, names and amounts
WEST SUSSEX
Bognor observer
1914-12-09
5c
At the expense of the Kaiser
West Wittering
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-09
5c
At the Expense of the Kaiser; Spoof notice shaming those who have not joined Local
Defence Corps
WEST WITTERING
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
3e
More NCOs wanted; War Office appeal via Westhampnett Guardians
Westhampnett
Chichester Observer
1914-12-09
5c
At the expense of the Kaiser; sarcastic letter about non-volunteers
Wittering
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Military regulations9.30pm curfew forsoldiers in Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-09
5c
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-09
2f
West Sussex gazette
1914-12-10
3f
Victoria Cross for East Grinstead Soldier. Private Sidney Frank Godley No 13,814 4th
Batt Royal Fusiliers
East Grinstead
West Sussex Gazette
1914-12-10
7b
Horsham Christmas Presents for Soldiers and Sailors.Small ad Oldershaw's selling
comforts for troops
Horsham
West Sussex gazette
1914-12-10
7b
Horsham. Concert at Corn Exchange West St, very patriotic
Horsham
West Sussex gazette
1914-12-10
8g
Shoreham Camp. Report on poor living conditions at camp,need to build wooden
huts. Camp life
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1914-12-10
3d
Lowthers Lambs (Southdowns) At Cooden. Recruiting 3rd Batt Royal Sussex regt,
women urged to encourage recruits.
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
8b
Copthorne Roll of Honour
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
8cd
Crawley and District Roll of Honour
Compiled by Mr WL Small 34 Spencers Road
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
8b
False Teaching
Letter from WJ Chalk bemoaning German Kultur and those who do not volunteer
locally.
Crawley
National Christmas Card Prince of Wales Relief Fund
Worthing
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
8a
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
5e
Thanks from Tommy Atkins to Crawley Friends
Letter from Frank Trim, Woodhurst, Crawley for tobacco donations. Quotes letter
from Private J Rowland of Horsham and a Private Bourne thanking local people.
Fund Raising at Black Swan Pease Pottage and Railway Hotel, Crawley mentioned.
An Absentee
Michael Butler absent without leave to await escorting back to Newhaven
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
5e
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
5e
Deaths at the Front
Edgar Gorringe Ifield Road RSR
Edward Gregory Sangster RSR formerly of Crawley now of Povey Cross
Both killed in action and single.
Private W Wright of Victoria Road wounded at Front but not seriously
Private Hibberd is 'mending splendidly'
Private Allen of Ifield is in a serious condition in a London Hospital
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
5b
Crawley Down
Gifts to the Red Cross VAD hospital. Thanks to listed donors
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
8a
Appeal from Miss GL Hamilton of Broad Oak to send eggs to Base Hospitals in France
and Belgium via Harrods.
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
5c
Recruiting Meeting
For Southdown regiment of RSR
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
2b
Billeting
East Grinstead Urban District Council agrre to write to War Office to volunteer to
billet up to 1000 troops locally. Proposed by Mr Steer.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
5a
My Notebook
East Grinstead familes:
Captain HE Matthews promoted to temporary Major in RSR
Lt CTA Hankey promoted to Captain
Gerald Martin 2nd Lt Kings Royal Rifle Corps
C Matson Lance Seargent in Grenadier Guards at the Front
O Matson Private in Canadian Overseas Force training at Winnipeg
Walter Relf Pearless Colonel in NZ Medical staff
East Grinstead
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Charles William Pearless Major in South Wales Borderers now in Singapore with
General Staff
Herbert Campbell Pearless Trooper in NZ Mounted Rifles
Mr Lipscombe, EG tobacconist has sent out 1500 cigarettes to RSR in the trenches
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
6a
The League of Honour
Crowded meeting at East Grinstead
League dedicated to prayer,purity and temperance for the period of the war.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
2cd
Roll of Honour of Men of Forest Row and Ashurst Wood
Forest Row and
Ashurst Row
Horsham Times & West
Sussex Courier
1914-12-12
8a
thanks from Tommy Atkins
Handcross
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
5e
PC Bleacher of Horsham of Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in hospital in Boulogne
suffering from enteric fever
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
8a
A badge needed
Letter from J Terry aged 74 for a badge to be issued to those who have volunteered
but have been turned down on medical grounds.
Rowfant
West Sussex County
Times
1914-12-12
3e-g
Southdown Recruiting Map of numbers of eligible men in each parish
SUSSEX
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
5b
Five sons in the Services
Father Mr H Charman
4 in Army one in Navy
Three Bridges
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
2ef
Volunteer Training Corps for West Hoathly
In case of an invasion. Public Meeting held.
West Hoathly
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-12
8a
The war and the Artistic Professions
Letter from Charlotte E King, Stonelands promoting concerts to support musicians
and fund raising from them to support local artists. Both groups currently struggling.
West Hoathly
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-15
5d
A Complaint
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Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-15
5e
Off to the Front
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-15
4g
Haywards Heath Bench – Two Absentees charged
Haywards Heath /
Burgess Hill
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
8d-f
NCOs and men who have won the Victoria Cross; recruiting poster
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-16
6cd
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
8e
Bognor Council: The promenade lights; lighting restrictions
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
4f
Congregational School and Belgian children; fund-raising event
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
3e
Civilian volunteers: Bognor letter on how they can help
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
5c
Naval victory consolation fund; appeal for families of those killed in action
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
2c
Chichester Council: motor transport cars; military appeal to use market
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
4d
New Fishbourne: For the Belgian refugee children
Fishbourne
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
3d
Littlehampton Council: billeting of troops
Littlehampton
Line drawing Send YourSixpences to the"Gazette" See what comfort they provide
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Worthing Gazette
1914-12-16
3a
Soldiers in demand as profitable patrons ofSussex towns
LittlehamptonArundel
Bognor-Regis
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-16
5f
Germans Bombard the East Coast Warships shelling towns
ScarboroughHartlepool
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
4d
Our Christmas gift to Belgians; list of Selsey subscribers
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
8d
Selsey: successful recruiting meeting
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
2c
Classes for soldiers; evening tuition for Shoreham Camp
Shoreham
Chichester Observer
1914-12-16
2c
Education Committee: boys employed on farms
Sussex
The Billeting of soldiers2s 6d a day for each man
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-16
5g
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-12-17
4f
Stories From the Front. With the Royal Sussex Regt. Letter home from Pte H E Ford
2nd Batt Royal Sussex Regt
Kirdford
West Sussex Gazette
1914-12-17
5b
The Southdown Battalion. The Ladies Caravan recruiting tour of Sussex
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1914-12-17
10d
Home Guards For Sussex. the need for a volutary home guard.
Sussex
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Courier
1914-12-19
3bc
Advert for Russian Furs effective against Germans
West Sussex County
Times
1914-12-19
3ab
Recruitment advert with drawing of an officer and civilian
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
6e
Volunteer Defence Corps
Formation of the 'Copthorne Borderers' with about 39 members
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
6cd
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5e
Methods of Teaching
Leter from WJ Chalk of The Limes
Importance of teaching 'Facts' especially History in Elementary schools
History shows how are liberties were won and how our position as a nation was
attained.
Roll of Honour
Additions and correction
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5e
Private Charles Dumsday
RAMC of Alpha Road
A lucky escape rom an exploding shell
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5e
National Relief Fund
Only £259 currently collected locally so far. 41 local families assisted thus far.
Contact AT Harms Station Road
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5e
Another Recruiting Meeting held at George Hotel but very disappointing response
with only two men coming forward, one of whom was medically unfit.
Mention of deaths of Cpl Franks and Prvts Gorringe and Sangster
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
6b
Crawley Down
Red Cross Hospital
East Lodge being used as a hospital by permission of Mr and Mrs Norton
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5d
Salvation Army
Letter from E Steer documenting good work done by SA at the Front and at home
e.g. supporting Belgian refugees. Appeal for extra funds from local people to support
work of SA
East Grinstead
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Courier
1914-12-19
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East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5c
East Grinstead Police Court
Corporal summoned
Cpl Thomas Mason, stationed at Forest Row, summoned for riding a motorcycle
without a licence.
Royal Engineers Territorial Force
Conditional Dismissal
For our soldiers
Donation of 10 guineas for 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment and C Company RSR. Also
£50 to Red Cross hospitals
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5d
Smoking Concert
to be held at the soldiers room, Sackville College. All soldiers invited.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5a
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
2b
My Notebook
Capt Stanley parsons RAMC in firing line treating wounded
Rev Frank Edwards enlisted in Sportsmans Battalion. Boer War veteran
Eric Gordon Edwards promoted to 2nd Lt Hampshire Yeomanry
Now 5 Pearless boys have joined up (not 3). Sidney Harrison P 5th Battalion City of
London Rifle Bigade. Hugh Nisbet P corporal 6th Rifles
Sgt Fred R Pratt invalided home.
Letter from Cpl CH Mitchell. He has been supplied with a few coat but main problem
is keeping feet warm.
Letter Pr H Leppard No 2 Co Coldstream Guards 'War might last another 12 months'
Troops need more rest. Could throw snowballs at German trenches
The North Somersets in Action
Recently billeted locally. Letter written by a chaplain to his wife in Sussex documents
brave fighting and fearsome battle.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-19
5f
Death at the Front
Cpl John Sturt of Bishopric 38. Mrs Sturt has three other sons serving.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-12-19
8c
Sussex Yeomanry - the whereabouts of the men of the Horsham Troop
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1914-12-19
8c
Horsham's Christmas Parcels - thanks to all who helped
HORSHAM
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Courier
1914-12-19
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The War and Agriculture
Letter from Alfred Peters suggesting that agriculture shoul thrive in war conditions
Lowfield Heath
(Crawley)
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-22
8a
Descent of a Balloon
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-22
8a
Suspected Spies
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-22
1a
Good – Bye! – RAMC Men Leave Lindfield
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-22
6f-g
Right in the Thick of it.
Mid-Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8e
The duration of the war
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8f
England expects
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-23
3cd
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8e
Luxuries for the Southdowns; Subtle way of encouraging recruits
BEXHILL
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8f
Indian wounded aided
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
4f
Fairyland in Bognor; Toyshop reflects the war in its display of Christmas presents for
boys
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
7e
Operations at the Front; It is alleged that some British hospitals are operating
without chloroform
BOGNOR
Line drawing On theWay to The front Smokesfor the Trenches
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Observer
1914-12-23
5e
Daily Telegraph's Christmas Gift to Belgium; List of subscribers and amounts
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8d
Bognor Man's Experiences; Corporal E. Burgess, Royal Horse Guards, wounded,
hoping to be home for Xmas
BOGNOR
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8e-f
Wounded Indians pass through Chichester, AND Indian Wounded Aided; Reminder
that the Indian Army was alongside the BEF
BOGNOR
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
8f
Indian wounded aided; Bognor collection
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
5b
Bognor Sanitary Authority: Troops wanted please; request for billeting in town
Bognor
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8d
Special service for soldiers
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
4f
Boxing day treat for soldiers
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
5c
Tobacco more tobacco
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8f
Help from chi
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
2e-f
Nursing the wounded
Chichester
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1914-12-23
8e
Wounded Indians pass through Chichester
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
4e
Boxing Day Treat for Soldiers; Tea, chocolates, carol singing, for 400 at the
Assembly Rooms
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8f
Help from Chichester; Instruments to start a band for the Army and bales of clothing
for the Belgians
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8f
Late Sergeant Major W. Cleare; Death of stalwart of 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex
Regiment, killed in action
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8e
Gifts for Our Territorials, A Twister, The Kaiser's Illness, and The Difference; 4
humorous aspects of the war
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
2e
Nursing the Wounded, Experience of a Chichester Nurse; Highly complimentary view
of young Belgian soldier patients in Southampton
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
8e
Wounded Indians pass through Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
5c
"Tobacco, more tobacco"; Observer fund to meet "Tommy's most pressing need"
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
8f
Help from Chichester; collection of band instruments
Chichester
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
7d
Carol singing at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
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1914-12-23
3c
Littlehampton motor boat club helping the soldiers
Littlehampton
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8e
Big enough for two
Littlehampton
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8e
A good word for territorials
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8e
A Good Word for Territorials; Householders are assured that billeted troops will be
well behaved
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
7d
Carol Singing at Littlehampton; Cancelled due to singers serving in forces and lack of
spare money
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
3c
Littlehampton Motor Boat Club; Usual activities are curbed, but efforts put into fund
raising for comforts
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
2f
The Disastrous Pacific Fight; Bert Wingfield on HMS Glasgow sends copy of his
Admiral's report
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8d
Trooper Sinnock's Story; Exploits of 2nd Life Guards in retreat from Mons and
advance to the Aisne
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
7d
Carol singing at Littlehampton; abandoned because so many choristers on active
service
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
3c
Littlehampton Motor Boat Club; help for local recruits
Littlehampton
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1914-12-23
8e
A good word for Territorials; praise for billeted troops
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-23
6a
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
2c
An interned alien
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
2c
An Interned Alien; Westhampnett Guardians pay allowance to Wife where the War
Office have not acted promptly
SELSEY
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
7e
Operations at the front
Shripney
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
7e
Operations at the front; letters concerning alleged lack of chloroform
Shripney
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
5d-e
Is your name on a roll of honour
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
4d
Celebrating victory
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8d
The spirit of our sailors
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
5e
Xmas gift for begins
Sussex
First to form countryBranch of the women's Volunteer Reserve
Rustingto -n
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1914-12-23
3d-f
Southdown's recruiting map
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8e
Gift for territorials
Sussex
Bognor observer
1914-12-23
8e
Luxuries for the Southdown's
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
3d-f
Southdown Battalions Recruiting Map; Showing potential numbers of recruits
SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
8e
The Duration of the War; Quoshing the idea that the war will soon be over and,
therefore, that more men are not needed
SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
3d-f
Southdown Battalions' recruiting map; numbers of men in each district aged 18-39
on outbreak of war
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
8e
The duration of the war; comment on need to maintain recruiting momentum
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
6de
Is Your Name on a Roll of Honour?; Recruiting poster asking employers to keep
men's jobs open if they enlist
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-23
5c
Tobacco More Tobacco; Fund started to supply smoking material to individual
servicemen
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
5e
Daily Telegraph's Christmas gift to Belgium: Observer fund exceeds 1,000 shillings
West Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1914-12-23
2c
Westhampnett Guardians; help for interned alien's family
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-23
6g
West Sussex Gazette
1914-12-24
2b
Lowthers Lambs. Rally and inspection 2500 recruits 1st 2nd 3rd Batt.
West Sussex County
Times
1914-12-26
3abc
Recruitment advert drawing of the trenches
West Sussex County
Times
1914-12-26
5e
Christmas parcels thank you letter from the front, the most detailed of several
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
8cd
Roll of Honour
by Mr WL Small 34 Spencers Road
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
3b
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
3e
Methods of Teaching
Letter from WJ Chalk
Has been re-assured about the quality of history teaching at the Ifield Road School
by a visit to History lessons
Crawley Civil Guard
Now 60 on the roll of the Crawley Branch of the West Sussex Civil Guard. Training
has started and more volunteers are needed.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
8d
Crawley Down
Red Cross Hosptal
List of Gifts including from Grand Duke Michael of Russia -five brace of pheasants
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
4abcdef
Roll of Honour
A soldier writes:'The paper was worth gold to me to scan down the names of those I
knew so well'
East Grinstead
Local militarymovements Artillerymen Arrive
Worthing
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
3b
Christmas present for C Company
East Grinstead Territorials
List of names of donors
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
3c
Soldiers Room at sackville College for the benefit of military located nearby is
comfortably furnished.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
4f 5a
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
4f
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1914-12-26
3a
My Notebook by The Chiel
Report of life in tenches
Capt Harold Leeney(EG vet) in Royal Army Vetinary Corps now in charge of Vetinary
Hospital in Winchester
Guy Robertson Fleming of Coombe Place appointed Lt-Commander in RNVR for
special anti-aircraft service
Sapper Baldwin sends a Christmas card printed at 1st Field Printing Office at General
Headquarters
Prvt HC Coleman with the Hussars describes a successful bayonet charge
Drummer Arthur W East killed in action
The EG Buffs have sent smoking parcels to 360 EG men in uniform
Poem by an EG lady written 30/40 years ago entitled' the Charm of my own native
land'
A Local MP at the war
Capt Spender Clay MP of Ford Manor near East Grinstead
I hate the feeling of not progressing. One of the brigades has 6 officers left out of
75. England is no place for able-bodied men now.
Football
No matches this season as 50 fellows have joined up to fight the Germans who
attacked Scarborough
Mid-Sussex Times
1914-12-29
1g
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
6a-f
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-30
4d
Hitting Harder Than Old Jack
East Grinstead
Turners Hill
Burgess Hill
Roll of Honour; Bognor and South Bersted, Yapton and Clymping, Chichester
BOGNOR
A Proclamation by theLord Lieutenant of Sussex Landing of theenemy in England
BrightonHastingsEastb
ourne Hove
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Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
3ef
Bishop of Chichester and the War; Long address about muddling through, no glory to
be had but doing your duty
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
4d
Festive Territorial Cyclists; Officers of Foreign Service and Reserve Battalions of 9th
Hants entertaining their men
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
2d
School Prize Distributions; Lancastrian Schools, boys remember 2 masters serving at
front and over 250 old boys in forces
CHICHESTER
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
7a-d
Roll of Honour; Chichester continued, Bosham, Boxgrove, Pagham, Selsey
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1914-12-30
3ef
Bishop of Chichester and the war; pastoral letter to diocese
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-30
4c
German self contradiction; editorial
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-30
4d
Festive Territorial cyclists; Christmas entertainment by officers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-30
5a
Big Christmas party at Chichester; 1,000 relatives of serving men entertained
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-30
5c
Soldiers entertained; 500 billeted in Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1914-12-30
2d
School prize distributions; Lancastrian Schools masters and boys at the front
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
2c
An Eastergate Entertainment; Patriotic show by school children in aid of Belgian
Relief Fund
EASTERGATE
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1914-12-30
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Headline or Summary
Place
Paper money replacingcoins
3a
Hove
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
3b
A Letter from Whitby; Comparison with exposed position of Littlehampton to
bombardment from the sea
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
5a-e
Roll of Honour; Littlehampton, Wick and Lyminster, Ford, Arundel, Angmering, East
Preston, Rustington
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
5f
Christmas in Newhaven Workhouse AND The Territorial Promotions; Humorous piece
and correction both concerning 4th Battalion Royal Sussex
NEWHAVEN
Chichester Observer
1914-12-30
5d
Christmas in Newhaven workhouse; 4th Battalion Royal Sussex men entertained
Newhaven
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
5f
Letter from a Fishbourne Gunner; interesting comment about conscription
OLD FISHBOURNE
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
5f
Gifts for the Royal Sussex; Over 1000 Christmas gifts already sent, plans to send
plum cake in the New Year
PETWORTH
Chichester Observer
1914-12-30
5d
The war: Gifts for the Royal Sussex; Petworth woman's appeal helps troops
Petworth
The Restriction of Lighting New OrderIssued
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-30
5de
Littlehampton
Observer
1914-12-30
7ab
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-30
7
Sussex W Worthing
The War Four Questions to Employers; Recruiting poster pleading for the release of
men for the forces
WEST SUSSEX
German Prisoners & their Armed Escort Passing up Chapel Rd
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Unaccustomed Spectacle outside theKursaal Soldier with fixed bayonet on duty
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-30
7
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-30
7
Worthing
Departure of theNational reserve
Worthing
Territorials on the way tothe station Marchingdown Chapel Rd
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-30
7
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-30
7
Worthing
Territorials Arriving atWorthing Their welcomeat the Town Hall
Worthing
Where our BelgianGuests are Entertained Saltley Lodge
Worthing Gazette
1914-12-30
7
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1914-12-31
7e
Local Constables Experience at Front.Cpl McGregor Royal Sussex Regt.Wounded at
Ypres
West Sussex Gazette
1914-12-31
6e
Christmas Tea for Troops. Party for recruits in Chichester
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
6E
peace parley
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
5B
Considerable Number of bulky packages in post to P.O.W.s
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
5A
Aircraft, island security shaken by introduction of aircraft
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Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
2A
How a driver captured 5 germans
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3D
Hove war distress commitee
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3D
Arrival of wounded Indians
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3D
concert for convalescent Indians
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-01-02
2A
Christmas in military hospital
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
5E
Tabacco to soldiers at the front
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
8B
Southdown & East grinstead breweries Ltd
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
4CD
Officers uniform & equipment
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
5D
Treat for Belgian refugees
East grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
2E
Camp dittie
east grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
5D
Collection by primrose leaque for Red Cross
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
2F
Soldiers & drink
Guildford
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3E
Second Sports.Battalion Royal Fusilliers
Hastings
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3E
Vegetables for the fleet
Haywards Heath
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
5B
Two men arrested
Haywards Heath
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
2F
Prisoners and the war
Home office
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3e
Mules for the army due to shortage of horse
Home Office Bullitin
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-01-02
5c
BELGIAN REFUGEES CHRISTMAS PARTY & ENTERTAINMENT
HORSHAM
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3F
Workhouse not required as a hospital
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3F
Floors for fire wood.Soldiers tearing up floor boards for feul in cold witer
Lewes
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-01-02
3b
HOW SOMETHING HAPPENED
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Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
6A
4th Royal Sussex Regiment
New Haven
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-01-02
2F
Gifts for Royal Sussex Regiment at the front
PetworthSu
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
2E
Fatal home coming
Pevensey
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
3F
Sergt. Major promotion to commission
Ripe
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
6A
Seaford Hospital
Seaford
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
5C
Unionist candidate killed in action
Sunderland
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
5D
My Note Book
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-02
2D
Ambulances for the french
Wimbledon
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Times
Times
Times
Times
Times
Times
Times
Times
Times
1915-01-05
1915-01-05
1915-01-05
1915-01-05
1915-01-05
1915-01-05
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WOUNDED INDIANS PROGRESS
KICHENER'S HOSPITAL
A CHURCH FOR THE WOUNDED
BURGESS HILL GUNNER IN ARTILLARY DUEL
IN THE TRENCHES
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES FOR SAILORS
THE SHELLING OF BOULOGNE
BELGIAN REFUGEES-HORSE MEAT
BELGIAN REFUGEES- NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATIONS
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1915-01-05
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CHAUFFERS IN DEMAND
SUSSEX
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
8c
A Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex December 30th 1914; What people
should do if there is an invasion
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
8f
Duke of Norfolk's Proclamation (Editorial comment)
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
4e
The Belgian Fund - Our List Still Open;A regular article, with updates and
contributors
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
2e
Your King And Coutry Called You; poem by T. S. Wadhams
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
3cd
The Great Resolution for the New Year. Recruitment advert
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
5e
Royal Sussex Losses; Now total close to 600
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
4c
Treat for Soldiers' Families; South Bersted, Pagham and other ecclesiastic parishes for wives and children under 12
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
2fg
Worthing Hospital; advert with info & photo
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
8e
Off to the front; picture of boxes being packed
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
2cd
Smokes for the trenches; Is there a gift from you? advert
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Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
6ef
The Men on the spot; life in trenches
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
6f
Christmas Day in the trenches; account of 1914 truce
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
4ef
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
4d
Entertainment to Belgian Refugees; Committee of the Belgian Refugees, Christmas
Tree and presents on New Years Day.
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
6ad
Roll of Honour - Men on Active Service; Lists all men, inc. fighting for Dominion
Countries, Bognor and South Bersted
Bognor/South Bersted
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
7a
A above for Bosham and also Boxgrove
Bosham; Boxgrove
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
4f
Don’t Wait Until You Break a Limb; Advert for torches; Shows dimming/blackout
already in operation in Chichester (before 6thJan 1915)
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
2c
How scouts can help; Visit by Lord & Lady Beden Powell where tasks that could be
undetaken in defence of the country by scouts were mentioned
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
5bc
Loss of the "Formidable"; Chichester Man Rescued after Terribe Experience
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
6dg
As above for Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-06
2c
Baden-Powell at Chichester.
Chief Scout Reviews City Troops.
How Scouts can Help.
Chichester
TWO MOTOR OFFENCES - Wounded Lieutenant's Interesting Story at Arundel
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Chichester Observer
1915-01-06
4d
The Dark City
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-06
4e
"Tobacco, More Tobacco."
Tommy's Most Pressing Need.
How it May be Supplied.
An "Observer" Fund.
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
6e
Another local soldier killed; first from Heene
Heene
Chichester Observer
1915-01-06
3ef
Lieut. Gen. Sir Baden-Powell.
Visits to Littlehampton and East Preston.
Three Inspections
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
5e
Midhurst Licensed House's; removal of closure requirement from 2 to 6pm for the
public (but not servicemen)
Midhurst
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
5c
The Bugle Call - poem by Sergt E Churcher 4th RSR in Newhaven
Newhaven
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
6g
As above for Pagham
Pagham
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
3b
A Selsey Man's letter from the Front to Lieut. Archibald Hamilton. "The need for mor
men"
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
7b
As above for Selsey
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-01-06
3b
Selsey Man's Letter to Lieut. Archibald Hamilton.
The Need for More Men.
Selsey
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Chichester Observer
1915-01-06
8c
A Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex
December 30th 1914
(Orders for civil population in the event of enemy landings)
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-01-06
5e
Royal Sussex Losses
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
5d
West Manhood Volunteer Training Corps - Tea and Entertainment but also mentions
duties and who to contact to join up
West Wittering
Chichester Observer
1915-01-06
5d
West Manhood Volunteer Training Corps
West Wittering
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
6e
The Red Cross Hospital; donations & patient number for December; continues
monthly
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
5e
Diminished public lighting
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
3f
Gazette Tobacco Fund
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
4g
Worthing and the War; summary of town's contribution in 1914
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
6c
Gazette Tobacco Fund; summary to date; continues in subsequent issues
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
7b
The man on the spot; tobacco fund advert
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-06
2a-f
Local Roll of Honour; lists Broadwater, West tarring & Worthing men serving &
dead; repeated weekly
Worthing
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Place
Bognor Observer
1915-01-06
7a
As above for Yapton and Clymping
Yapton and Clymping
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
6g
Military Intelligence commissions of local men
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
6g
Volunteer's Duties in case of invasion - The "Drillions"
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
3g
Saving Brood Mares;
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
6b
new Sussex marching song 'Lowthers Own'
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
4fg
Advert - Soldiers want Zam-Buk for Wounds & Sore Feet
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
5a
collecting toys for Belgian refugee children
Angmering
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
5b
Bognor Belgians entertained
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
5a
Red Cross Hospital closed
Cuckfield
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
9f
Volunteer Training Corps
Lindfield
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
12b
Need for more recruits
Slindon
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1915-01-07
12c
Steyning Parish Church Service for collection
Steyning
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
12c
Funds raised for Red Cross and Camps
Steyning
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-07
3/e
The Church and Sussex Camps
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
5B
Food and clothes for the armies
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
4F
West to East. Catering contracts
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
5A
Aliens wives
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
5A
Reduction in crime
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
2A
England and Germany
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
4F
Uniform for Volunteer training Corps
Sussex and surrey
courier
1915-01-09
5E
Canadian cavalry horses
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Place
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
3D
Arrival of wounded soldiers
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
5A
Invasion plans
Daily Chroncle
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
8CD
Voluteer corps for home defence
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
5a
Letter
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
5C
The war sermon at St Marrys
Forest Row
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-01-09
5C
the Free Masons
Forest Row
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-01-09
5b
HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL POLICY MEETING ON RELEASING EMPLOYEES FOR
WAR SERVICE
HORSHAM
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
8A
German atrocities
london
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-09
3F
Trials of prisoner
Newhaven
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-01-12
3e
ANOTHER 241 WOUNDED INDIANS
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-01-12
1915-01-12
3e
5c
BRIGHTON AND HOVE
FOES AND FRIENDS
BRIGHTON
HASSOCKS
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Mid-Sussex Times
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-12
1915-01-12
1915-01-13
2e
7e
6d
HASSOCKS RAMC MAN HOME FROM THE FRONT
INVASION
Interesting work in France; Worthing man organises voluntary work catering for
troops in France
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-13
6d
Interesting work in France; Worthing man organises voluntary work catering for
troops in France
Bognor Observer
1915-01-13
5a
Promotions and Appointments; Royal Sussex; 13 in total inc for Captain Grisewood
and G Grisewood
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-13
6c
Please send us some smokes; advert drawing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-13
6f
The men on the spot; accounts of trench life & needs of 2 men
Bognor Observer
1915-01-13
3e
Billeting: Interesting Report; under column Arundel's Active Mayor
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-01-13
3e
Very Strict Economy;includes reducing street lighting highway costs etc in Arundel
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1915-01-13
3e
Arundel's Active Mayor.
His Bold Bid for Billeting.
Billeting: Interesting Report
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1915-01-13
5c
(Bognor Urban District Council)
Billetting of Troups
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-01-13
8e
Former Bognor Post Office Employee's Letter.
From the Thick of The Fight.
Holy Communion Under Fire
Bognor Regis
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Place
Bognor Observer
1915-01-13
5a
School Boys' Gift to Soldiers; also mentions surplus of cigarettes need more sweet
stuff and Royal Sussex active as any at front
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-13
5a
Chichester Territorials' Christmas; Based at Newhaven workhouse
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-13
5ab
Chichester Territorials' Christmas
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-13
5c
Queen's Work for Women Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-13
5a
School Boys' Gift to Soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-13
2f
Chichester Sailor's Story.
"Glasgow's" Fight off Chile. The Terror of South America.
(Extracts from a letter)
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-13
7b
H.M.S. "Glasgow's" Providential Escape.
Vivid Description by Petty Officer
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-13
7c
For the Belgian refugees; funds raised at a concert
East Preston
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-13
7g
Railwayman and the war; statistics of those serving and dead
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-13
6d
Belgian relief Fund; report of a concert; 1st report seen but may be regular
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-13
6g
Small shot; timetable for work by Volunteer Civil Guard
Worthing
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-13
6g
Small shot; timetable for work by Volunteer Civil Guard
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-14
5a
Billetting of troops
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-14
5a
Keeping jobs open to soldiers
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-14
11a
Allowance for Council employees serving in forces
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-14
3de
Diary of the work of Royal Sussex - 14 Aug to 15 Oct 1914 Battle of Aisne
River Aisne
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-14
3c
Recruit cyclists for 6th (Reserve Cyclist) Battalion Royal Sussex REgiment
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-14
12g
Car returns from front with 27 bullet marks
West Dean
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-15
9e
Farmers Sale for the War
Chichester
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
8C
Our London Letter. Preident Wilson U.S.A
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
5B
Who owns the railways in war
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
2F
Request for motor drivers from Scotland Yard
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Place
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
5A
Dispute over sons enlisted allowance
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
3C
The Navy and Zeppelins account of contract
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
5A
Deception of loan money
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
8D
Terrible Turks
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
2F
Canadian nurses
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-01-16
7c
Capture of RAMC Personell
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
8F
Belgian relief fund
Balcombe
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
5B
Christmas Storey
Blindley Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
1915-01-16
3e
3D
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
3D
WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE LOW
Arrival of Indian medical staff
BRIGHTON
Brighton
Visit to hospital by King & Queen list of dignitaries also included
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Place
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
6e
Sussex territorial force
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
3D
Belgian refugees entertainment
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
8A
home defence , invasionthreat mothods discussued
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
5A
Struck off for failing to register for enlisting
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
4B/E
Spoof ad. for holiday in Germany in ilk of Wipers Times. Similar adverts each week
in adverts section of paper
East grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
8E
gifts for wounded
East Grinstead
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-01-16
8b
Lecture by Hilaire Belloc on "The Strategy of the War"
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
2F
Lewes man his experiences in the trenches
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
8E
lingfield recruiting campaing
lingfield
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
6C
German ship captured
Plymouth
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Place
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-16
4F
The pains of France,storey of life in France
Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Times
Times
Times
Times
Times
Times
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
3e
3e
5d
7g
5e
3b
BRIGHTON AND HOVE
KITCHENER'S HOSPITAL
LOCAL BELGIAN REFUGEES FUND
QUESTION OF INVASION
PRIVATE CHARLES PRATT
LETTER FROM A "FORMIDABLE" SURVIVOR
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Bognor Observer
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-19
1915-01-20
8d
8f
5a
8f
2e
5e
5b
2d
THE VTC
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES FOR THE FLEET
HAYWARDS HEATH MAN AND THE FRENCH MUD
OFF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
INVASION OF THE PARISH
LIFE IN THE TRENCHES
MOUTH ORGANS
Farm Work for Boys; indirectly suggests more boys being released from school to do
farm work
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
5a
Comforts for the Royal Sussex Regiment; mentions gloves but also all re-iforcements
for 2nd Batt RSA sent out from 3rd Batt based at Dover
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
4c
Preparing for Possibilities; Maroon to warn of invasion at Bognor, test on day of
publication
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
5d
New laid Eggs for Wounded Soldiers; Chichester Depot to be Opened today; part of a
National Egg Collection for War Office
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
5a
Invalided Home; 43 men to Depot Hospital
Chichester
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BRIGHTON
BURGESS HILL
DITCHLING
DITCHLING
DITCHLING AND
HASSOCKS
HAYWARDS HEATH
HAYWARDS HEATH
HAYWARDS HEATH
HAYWARDS HEATH
HURSTPIERPOINT
HURSTPIERPOINT
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1915-01-20
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The Lighting of the City; Both streetlamps lighting reduction and asking for pivate
outside lighting to be removed
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
3f
War Service Badges for Boy Scouts; extract, doing police and coastguard work.
Badges for the police work
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
5c
Concert at Chichester;For Mayor's War Relief Fund;Regular events this an example
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-20
5d
New Laid Eggs for Wounded Soldiers.
Who will Help?
Chichester Depot to be Opened Today
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-20
7e
Findon; fund-raising concert for War Aid Society
Findon
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-20
7b
Lancing; details of military billeting and training, plus fund-raising concert
Lancing
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
5c
Littlehampton Watermen join Mercantile Marine; see previous included as were
fishermen could also go under employment war work
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
3e
South Terrace, Littlehampton;The Lights Go Out; Lights already dim painted black on
3 sides
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
4f
Traffic in the Dark; Motorists forbidden to use headlights along the front;the need to
take care
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
4f
Lights Out along South Terrace, Littlehampton; editorial saying this makes way to
Portsmouth less obvious
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
4f
Littlehampton Fishermen Leaving; Going to deep sea (Merchant?) fleet; Shipping
Federation recruited by Capt W Wiseman
Littlehampton
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Place
Chichester Observer
1915-01-20
4f
Littlehampton Fishermen Leaving
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-01-20
5b
Littlehampton Cricketer Killed; RP Davies; Exceptional batsman for Littlehamton and
Arundel, played several sports, last lived at West Dean
Littlehampton; West
Dean
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-20
5d
Soldier dies in hospital; 1st death at Cecils, Red Cross Hospital
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-20
6ce
Two local relief funds; meeting of local War Relief Committee; follows monthly
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-20
2a
An appeal to the women of Worthing; asks them to pressure their sons & husbands
to join up
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-20
6cd
Red Cross Hospital at West Worthing
Worthing, West
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
4cd
W Sussex Gazette War Special - The weeks position. Regular Article
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
4bc
Royal Sussex Regiment require gloves
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
7c
Eggs for wounded soldiers
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
7b
War Service badges to Scouts
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
7bc
War Fund Concert
Chichester
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Place
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
7b
Distinquished Conduct Medal
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
7h
National Relief Fund
Sullington
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
7g
Worthing and the war - reduced relief and Red Cross Hospital
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-21
8g
Worthing War Relief Comitee
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
3D
Souvenirs for wounded Indians
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
3F
Recruited in Canada
Canada
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
3E
Canadian artillery
Devizes
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
2A
Patriotic concert
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
5C
Concert for artists
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
3E
Local atheletes vounteer force
Hastings
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Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
3e
Local atheletes in trenches
Haywards Heath
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-01-23
4g
Royal Fuselliers marching locally (from Roffey Camp ??) to Mannings Heath &
Warnham
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
3D
Hove invasion measures.Several individuals mentioned
Hove
Sussex and Surrey
courier
1915-01-23
3AB
Old Saefordians at the front
Seaford
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Bognor Observer
1915-01-26
1915-01-26
1915-01-26
1915-01-26
1915-01-26
1915-01-26
1915-01-26
1915-01-26
1915-01-27
3f
5d
1g
8a
8c
8fg
4f
3c
4e
WAR'S HEAVY TOLL
THE AIR RAID ON THE EAST COAST
STREET LIGHTS TO BE EXTINGUISHED
PLENTY OF MUD
AN INTERESTING WEDDING
LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE
BILLETING ARRANGEMENTS
WITH THE 20TH HUSSARS
All Lights Out; After 5pm in Sussex; Important Order Just Issued; Not clear but
looks like showing no domestic internal lights as in WW2
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-27
5g
Worthing soldiers; how they spent Christmas; positive account of a soldier's
experience
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-27
6f
Removing the wounded under fire; details of life with Field Ambulance
Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
2b
Special Constables for Bognor; Complete list of names (Names not on snapshot)To
be used as a civil guard in case of emergency, see Chichester extract below
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COAST
HAYWARDS HEATH
HAYWARDS HEATH
HAYWARDS HEATH
HAYWARDS HEATH
SUSSEX
WIVELSEFIELD
Bognor
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Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
7f
A Motorist's Headlights; An Arundel Councillor's Offence at Bognor; details of interest
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
4a
Still from film (propaganda) German Officer Shoots at Defenceless Peasantry. Shown
at Pier Theatre
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-01-27
5e
Successful Bognor Concert.
Large Audience at the Queen's Hall.
Belgian Relief Fund Helped
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-01-27
2c
Special Constables for Bognor.
Complete List of Names.
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-01-27
5ab
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
7d
Red Cross Society.
Work of the Bognor Branch.
Distribution of Certificates.
Whist Drive
New Laid Eggs for Wounded Soldiers; 1st Week, likely to be regular updates on eggs
contributed, see last week
Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
2c
Chichester's Special Constables: 850 sworn in; practically all the members of the
Civil Guard of which Alderman Gibbings is CO
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
4f
A Dangerous Spot; An example of problems encountered with reduced street lighting
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
5f
What to Do in Case of Attack by Hostile Aircraft; Mayor of Chichester's Official Notice
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-01-27
2de
Chichester's Special Constables.
Inspection by the Chief Constable.
A Complete List of Names.
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1915-01-27
8e
(The War.)
Story of the Falklands Battle
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
3d
Extract fom 5th Annversary event for Minister of Littlehampton Baptist Church;
Churches and the war and servicemen
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-01-27
7d
Soldiers Wife Found Dead in Bed; Husband Sergt Major Thomas Palmer with service
back to Zulu War - extract
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-27
7a
A Pastor’s Anniversary… Littlehampton Baptist Church’s review of 1914 & views on
war
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-27
7c
Licencee & Taxation; letter urging beer drinking to support war effort!
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-01-27
24c
All Lights Out.
After 5.O'clock in Sussex.
Important Order Just Issued
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-27
6f
Visit of Wounded Indians; residents’ splendid reception
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-27
6c
Drastic lighting restrictions; total blackout reported
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-01-27
5d
Union of Women Workers; 1st meeting
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-28
4d
Parcels for Sailors and soldiers
Arundel
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Place
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-28
4e
Volunteers busy drilling
Barnham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-28
10a
Queen accepts copy of Marching song
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-28
12c
Entertaining the Soldiers
Steyning
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-28
12g
Worthing Football team
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-01-28
10b
Socks : A Tale from the Sussex Trenches
Worthing
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-01-30
5d
40 2nd Batallion West Sx Reg KIA so far. 700 casualties in all
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-01-30
5g
Lecture on the 3 types of Sea war..Royal Navy, Merchant & Fishing
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-02
1915-02-02
1915-02-02
1915-02-02
3ab
4b
2d
8a
BRIGHTON HOME PROTECTION BRIGADE
RECRUITING
THE ROAR OF THE GUNS
PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE FRONT
BRIGHTON
BRIGHTON
HAYWARDS HEATH
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Bognor Observer
1915-02-02
1915-02-02
1915-02-02
1915-02-03
8g
3a
2e-g
4e
HURST MAN HOME WITH FROZEN FEET
NEW COMPANY OF THE HOME PROTECTION BRIGADE
LIFE WITH THE RED CROSS IN WAR TIME
When The War is Over; Reference to Colonel Lowther's proposals for looking after
men at the end of the war.
HURSTPIERPOINT
KEYMER
LINDFIELD
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Bognor Observer
1915-02-03
4e
Darkness and Light; Reversal of the night time lighting restrictions of the previous
week
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-02-03
5c
(The War.)
Volunteer Training Corps
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-03
6c
Lighting Restrictions; modified
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-03
6e
Billetting Arrangements; Council debate motion criticizing arrangements
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-03
5d
At the Winter Hall; war propaganda films
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-03
6c
Drawing of soldier at front; tobacco fund appeal
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-03
2d
Sorting Subscribers’ letters in London: Gazette Tobacco Fund [drawing]
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-04
10e
2nd Sussex and Shrapnell
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-04
3ef
Sussex Volunteer Training Corp Scheme
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-04
4b
Men of Sussex concert in London
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-04
9e
Thanks for gifts sent to RSR
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Place
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-04
9e
Gloves and socks still required by RSR
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-04
5g
Visit of 50 men from 155th Battery
Graffham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-04
3e
Sussex Regiment recruits
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-04
12g
Worthing wounded men
Worthing
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-02-06
5d
4th Btn West Sx Reg visit by Col Radcliffe
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-09
3e
OUR WOUNDED INDIANS
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-09
3e
A GENEROUS GIFT
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-09
3b
THE SHORTAGE OF LABOUR ON FARMS
LEWES
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-09
1f
STAPLEFIELD AND DISTRICT VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS WOMEN AND FARM
WORK
STAPLEFIELD
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
6cd
Fighting at La Bassee; details of Royal Sussex actions & casualties
Bognor Observer
1915-02-10
2e
Arundel Council: The Surveyor and the Street Lamps; extract, Surveyor climbed
posts to see if they could be seen from the sea
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Chichester Observer
1915-02-10
5a
Farmers' Jumble Sale.
£277 Realised at Barnham Market
Barnham
Bognor Observer
1915-02-10
5f
Correspondence;From a local businessman involved with the Belgian Relief Fund but
with a German sounding name
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-02-10
8e
(The War.)
A Bosham Man's Letter
Bosham
Bognor Observer
1915-02-10
3d
Farmers and Shortage of Labour: NFU Meeting at Chichester; with govt
representative explaining proposed policy
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-02-10
4c
(Chichester)
Church Army Rally
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-02-10
8e
(The War.)
A Plea for Bags.
(Needed for wounded men's personal possessions)
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
7d
Women’s Aid in War; Women’s War Aid Society report; espec. comforts sent
Findon
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
7d
Wiping Off a Deficit; Littlehampton Hospital report on 1914
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-02-10
5b
Darkned Windows; At Church in Selsey
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
7a
Lancing Flying Fatality; Canadian pilot killed; info on RFC, Shoreham
Shoreham
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Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
7a
Lancing Flying Fatality; Canadian pilot killed; info on RFC, Shoreham
Shoreham
Chichester Observer
1915-02-10
8ef
(The War.)
A Shripney Chauffeur's Letter
Shripney
Bognor Observer
1915-02-10
8e
Singleton Concert; To raise money for the Singleton and District Defense Force
uniforms and rifle range
Singleton
Chichester Observer
1915-02-10
3d
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-02-10
8e
Farmers and Shortness of Labour.
N.F.U Meeting at Chichester.
The Use of Labour Exchanges.
A Suggestion to Females.
(The War.)
Motor Cyclists' Battalion
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
7b
Police & the War; report by Chief Constable,
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
3b
Foods tested for adulteration over last year
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
6c
Food price rise
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
4g
Long editorial on sums paid for billeting in town
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
6e
Billetting of the troops; statistics & info on extra allowances
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
3b
At St James Cinema; propaganda film ‘Defenders of Empire’
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
3bc
A Gift of Smokes Will Cheer Him in the face of Death! Tobacco Fund ad
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-10
6g
Work of the Refuge; review of year’s work; good stuff on problems re. women &
soldiers
Worthing & area
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-11
10h
7th National reserve 4th battalion RSR review
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-11
12b
Training of Rifle Brigade
Petworth
West Sussex
Gazette
1915-02-11
12e
Report on sums raised
Pulborough
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-11
12h
Billeting has relieved distress
Worthing
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-02-13
5b
Letter home from George White ref Transporting wounded soldiers to dressing
stations & hospitals.
Faygate
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-02-13
3e
Letter to WSCT Re Billetting allowance of only 2/3d per day
Horsham
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-02-13
3d
German declaration on War on shipping.. Oriole sunk without trace off Rye
Rye
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
3e
AN AIRSHIP
BRIGHTON
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
7d
BURGESS HILLIANS LETTER
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
5e
HOME PROTECTION BRIGADE
HASSOCKS
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
7ab
THE QUESTION OF BOY LABOUR
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
7f
HELL LET LOOSE
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
7g
NEARLY BURIED ALIVE
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
7f
LINDFIELD SCHOOLMASTERS TRENCH EXPERIENCE
LINDFIELD
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
4f
12 YEAR OLDS WORKING ON FARMS
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
8g
THE FARMERS UNION AND CHILD EMPLOYMENT
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
8g
WOMEN AND FARM WORK
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-16
8g
THE POSITION OF WOMEN DURING THE WAR
SUSSEX
Bognor Observer
1915-02-17
3b
West Sussex Education Committee;Teachers with the Colours; Apparently about
being paid still but minus military pay as with other staff also
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Bognor Observer
1915-02-17
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Promotions at Newhaven; Result of Machine Gun Training
Bognor Observer
1915-02-17
4f
The Price of Wheat; Some Interesting Comparisons; Noted because of high price due
to the war
Ashling
Bognor Observer
1915-02-17
5d
Public Lighting; At Bognor, increase in gas price and need to reduce; therefore
Bognor Council descision to cut all lighting
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-02-17
4c
(Chichester.)
St John Ambulance Brigade
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-02-17
3f
New Laid Eggs for Wounded Soldiers.
Another Chichester Increase
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-17
7d
Littlehampton Red Cross Hospital report & Red Cross Society gifts
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-17
7e
Patriotic Concert; in aid of local Belgian Refugee Fund; other similar events reported
regularly from now on
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-02-17
4d
(The War.)
Littlehampton Footballer's Letter
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-02-17
3f
North Bersted; A Proud Record
North Bersted
Chichester Observer
1915-02-17
3b
(West Sussex Education Committee.)
Teachers With The Colours.
(Financial hardship)
West Sussex
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Worthing Gazette
1915-02-17
6c&g
Bread price rises
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-17
5d
Civil Guard statistics
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-17
5d
Belgian refugee statistics & Committee
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-17
3cd
For Tommy in the Trenches; appeal for Tobacco Fund; advert
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-18
4e
Sussex Volunteer Corps
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-18
4e
Holland Bags required to store soldiers possesions in the "Front" hospitals
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-18
10e
Red Cross keep hospital open
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-18
10h
Billeting in Petworth
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-18
4e
Storrington urging soldiers to billet in the village
Storrington
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-02-20
8b
Navy casualty statistics viz 348 Officers & 5812 men killed
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-02-20
5e
Mr & Mrs Chatten from Horsham have 5 sons in the army
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
3e
YET ANOTHER MILITARY HOSPITAL
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
1g
IN CASE OF INVASION
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
3d
WANTED MORE LIGHT
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
4g-5a
FARM LABOUR
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
8c
SUSSEX AND THE ARMY
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
3f
THE SUSSEX REGIMENT
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
8e
NEW TESTAMENTS FOR THE 4TH SUSSEX
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
8e
WOMEN AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-02-23
5b
NEWS FROM A POW
TWINEHAM
Bognor Observer
1915-02-24
5a
Tribute to a Sussex Soldier
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Bognor Observer
1915-02-24
5a
"Well Done Sussex"; Report of action from Canadian Officer in Royal Sussex
Regiment
Bognor Observer
1915-02-24
5b
Reduction in hight and chest size for acceptance in Royal Sussex Regiment
Bognor Observer
1915-02-24
5a
Local Footballers at Folkstone; 2 Privates from 7th Battalion did well
Bognor Observer
1915-02-24
5b
Mentioned in Dispatches; 12 Officers and men from 2nd Battalion
Chichester Observer
1915-02-24
5a
(The War.)
Bognorian's Letter from the Front
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-02-24
3ef
The Lighting Orders; Conflitcing Authorities; Further court case on where no cycle
lights should be used. Resolved by Colonel Johnson, case dismissed
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-24
7e
Flying Men at Shoreham; aerodrome flooded
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-24
5d
Battalion of First Reserve Motorcyclists being formed across Sussex etc
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-24
5c
Looking at every sixpence; Worthing Hospital report, wounded soldiers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-24
6f
Brotherhood & the Belgians; Brotherhood relief work approved by Mayor
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-24
5e
At St James’s Cinema; film showing ‘Kitchener’s Army’
Worthing
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1915-02-24
7cd
Tobacco Fund advert; shows collecting book
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-24
6cde
Educating the New Army; classes etc being taken by troops in area
Worthing & area
Worthing Gazette
1915-02-24
5a
Changes in the Railway Service; reduced timetable
Worthing & area
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-25
9e
Fairy Godmother - Miss Cochrane uses her house as convalescent home
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-25
11f
Testaments for 4th Battalion RSR
Cowfold
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-25
10b
3500 billeted in town
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-25
10b
Fancy dress ball in aid of refugee fune
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-25
4c
Sussex Territorials inspected by Lord Lieutenant
Newhaven
West Sussex Gazette
1915-02-25
12b
Kings Royal Rifles leave Petworth
Petworth
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-02-27
8a
Billetting 3500 troops from various Regiments overnight in Schools & The Causeway
Horsham
Horsham
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-02-27
5b
Private Tugwelkl of Horsham In Belper Hospital suffering Frost Bite. Came from
Horsham
Horsham
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
5a
BOY SCOUTS
BALCOMBE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
3e
THE COUNTY HOSPITAL
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
3e
MORE LIGHT
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
5d
BELGIAN REFUGEES HOME
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
5b
AIDING THE BELGIANS
CUCKFIELD
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
4f
EGGS FOR THE TROOPS
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
8a
LETTER FROM LANCE CORPORAL GREEN
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
3a
CORPORAL H CORDERY
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
8b
CARE OF HORSES IN WAR TIME
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
5c
AN ISOLATION HOSPITAL
LINDFIELD
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
8c
THE SCARCITY OF FARM HANDS
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-02
7f
ASC MEN FROM SUSSEX AT THE FRONT
SUSSEX
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
5c & 6de
Photo of Worthing men in India; Territorials of
Artillery of 1st Home Counties Brigade
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
5c
Letter describing good morale of 5th Royal Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-03-03
8e
List of Royal Sussex casualties
Bognor Observer
1915-03-03
5cd
Photograph of men of 1st Battalion in India
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-03-03
8e
Letter on police checking on householder's firearms; to prevent civilians fireing them
in case of invasion
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-03-03
8f
(The War.)
Bognorian's Letters from the Front
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-03-03
5f
The Lighting Orders; Tougher restrictions now largely frgotten; Chichester Baracks
being lit when everywhere else dark
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-03
8e
(The War.)
Pillows for Wounded Soldiers
Chichester
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Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
7a
Free Churches Council annual meeting; comments of effects of war; GOOD FEATURE
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-03-03
4d
(Littlehampton.)
On the March.
(Civil Guard)
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-03-03
8f
Littlehampton Harbour.
Developments Afoot
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
7b
District Nurses’ Activities; annual review; DETAILED
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
7d
Rising County rates; E. Preston Union complaints of rising WSCC spending
Littlehampton area
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
5a
Sussex tourist industry benefitting from war; less foreign holidays
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
6g
In Case of Air Raids; advice
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
3a
Bank notes replace some coins & issue of adverts on them
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
6cde
Women’s roles in the war & Suffragettes’ position; IMPORTANT FEATURE
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
6f
Local Red Cross Work; IMPORTANT FEATURE on work of RC Society & Voluntary Aid
Detchament
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
3d
Less electricity generated; over 20% cut due to blackout
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
2a
Roll of Honour; large no. of different units mentioned [nearly 100]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
6e
Belgian Refugees & Rates; decision to charge rates on houses
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-03
5e
At The Kursaal; new war features & photo programme described
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-04
2f
Red Cross Report of annual meeting
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-04
9b
1st Reserve Motor Cyclist Barrlion
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-04
11a
Kensington Battalion Royal Fusiliers to move into Roffey
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-04
11a
Men rejected for defective teeth have good chance of being accepted
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-04
12g
Red Cross Society at full strength
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-04
12g
9th RSR play 13th Fusiliers at football
Worthing
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-03-06
8a
Lawrence family of Horsham with 4 sons in the army
Horsham
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-03-06
5g
Roffey Camp to be occupied at last
Roffey
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COUNTY TIMES
1915-03-06
8b
First Slinfold man to be KIA Edward Blunden Corp Reg
Slinfold
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-09
3c
THE TRANSFORMED PAVILLION
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-09
7g
A LITTLE BIT OF FUN
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-09
7g
A VERY LUCKY REGIMENT
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-09
3e
CUCKFIELD FOOTBALLER'S LIFE IN FRANCE
CUCKFIELD
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-09
2f
A WARM SHOP
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-09
8d
PRIVATE BARRINGTON BOWERS
LINDFIELD
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-09
8d
SCHOOLMASTERS BRAVERY
NEWICK
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
6e
Sussex Soldiers at the Front; heavy losses for Royal Sussex; nearly 1000 dead or
wounded in recent months
Bognor Observer
1915-03-10
7c
Alien Friends at Bognor; A Swiss man and Spanish lady caught out by aliens
legislation affecting coastal areas; full column
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1915-03-10
3d
Bognorian's Narrow Escape; Not from RSR but has written several letters from front
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-03-10
5c
Well Done Bosham; 10% of Bosham now in Army or Navy
Bosham
Bognor Observer
1915-03-10
4c
Lancashire Regiment at Chichester
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-03-10
5c
Women Patrols; movement to Protect Young Women at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-10
5c
Women Patrols.
Movement to Protect Young Girls at Chichester
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
5c
A Vicar’s Living Wage; complaint that some vicars in financial difficulties
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
3cd
Slander case: Schweder v Lord Leconfield
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
3a
Stories of good & bad behaviour by billeted troops across Sussex
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
3a
Comparison of rates paid across County; some decreases, Worthing area [EPreston
Union] increases [see WG1915JantoMar079]
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
3b
War & drinking; letter claiming drunkenness has decreased
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
6g
Making the Most of the Land; letter re. increasing veg growing
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
6de
Church-goers & the war
Review of attendances [falling]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
6f
‘Psychology of National Hate’; talk on anti German sentiments
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
6cde
Teaching soldiers saddlers’ work; classes for those billeted
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
3e
Worthing Building Society annual review; small loss made
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
5a
Worthing Building Society loss; comment in editorial
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
6e
Guild of Housecraft; contribution of women to war effort
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-10
6f
The Woman at the Front
YWCA lecture re. women’s role at Home Front; DETAILED
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-11
4d
British Farmers Red Cross Fund
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-11
6b
Sister Susie knitting socks for Soldiers - Poem
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-11
4d
Wanted for Sussex men at the Front
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-11
10fg
Manoeuvres of Royal Fusiliers
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1915-03-11
11a
War Song
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-11
10f
Isolation Hospital
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-11
10f
Kensington Battalion looses Major
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-11
12f
Distribution of New Testaments
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-16
3e
OUR WOUNDED INDIANS
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-16
8a
BACK IN THE TRENCHES
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-16
5de
BROTHERHOOD AND THE WAR
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-16
3g
A SUSSEX ASYLUM AS A MILITARY HOSPITAL
CHICHESTER
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-16
4g
NOTES AND COMMENTS
HAYWARDS HEATH
Bognor Observer
1915-03-17
5a
Billeting of Troops: Clerk of WSCC asking if lodging houses could be used
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Chichester Observer
1915-03-17
5a
Bognor Council.
Billeting of Troops.
(Meeting of Urban Council)
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-03-17
3de
Chichester Committee and Farm Work; Allowing children of 12 years to work in
agriculture rather than go to school
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-03-17
5f
Graylingwell Hospital for Wounded Soldiers; First Batch Expected Next Month;
Existing patients being moved away to accommodate this
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-17
3de
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-17
3f
Education in West Sussex.
Employment of Boys on Farms.
A Chichester Resolution.
Chichester Committee and Farm Work
A Cicestrian J.P. in Canada.
An Interesting Letter.
Local Reminiscences and References to the War
Chichester Observer
1915-03-17
5f
Graylingwell Hospital for Wounded Soldiers.
First Batch Expected Next Month
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-17
5e
Chichester Civil Guard.
(Letter)
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
7e
A Gas Company’s Position; Littlehampton GC war effects
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
7e
No Summer Excursions; Littlehampton UDC objects to LBSCR re. wartime restrictions
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
5d
Wounded Indians visit Worthing
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
6g
Proposed Red Cross ambulance; scheme to buy
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
6a
Lighting blackout; confusion over regulations
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
6de
Rifle Club in wartime; & help for Civil Guard
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
6g
Letter appealing for sensible implementation of blackout
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
6cd
Local Relief Funds; details plus info about Belgian refugees
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
5d
Sandell’s builders have difficulty with Midhurst school due to materials & labour price
rises etc
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
6b
Criticism of those who promise money for war relief but don’t deliver
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-17
6f
Made in Worthing; work for women in Patriotic Toy Association
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-18
5e
Donation to Farmers Red Cross Fund
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-18
6a
Graylingwell Hospital to be a military hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-18
11a
Detailed arrangements for Graylingwell Hospital
Chichester
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-18
11e
RSR move to Surrey for guard duty
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-18
12f
Kings Royal Rifles and Rifle Brigade stay in Petworth
Petworth
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-20
5b
THE "HERITAGE" CRAFT SCHOOL
CHAILEY
WEST SUSSEX
COUNTY TIMES
1915-03-20
7b
Horsham Man Experiences in the trenches
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
3f
MORE WOUNDED
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
1g
THE BISHOP OF LONDON AT BURGESS HILL
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
5d
NIGHT ATTACK
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
8d
WE CAME OUT VICTORIOUS
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
8a
ASYLUM
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
8e
HUNS ARE CATCHING IT
HAYWARDS HEATH
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
4g
VTC
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
4g
4TH BATTLION ROYALSUSSEX REG
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-23
4f
WOMEN TO "ENLIST"
SUSSEX
Bognor Observer
1915-03-24
7cd
Court Cases on showing "powerful Lights" within 3 miles of the coast in Bognor and
Chichester; a considerable number of these on cars and bicycles
Bognor Observer
1915-03-24
2cd
Volunteer Training Corps; Vote to affiliate the current Civil Guard; discussion of
differences and Govt. policy
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1915-03-24
2de
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-03-24
4f
Volunteer Training Corps.
Public Meeting at Arundel.
Speeches by the Duke of Norfolk and Admiral Holland.
Civil Guard and Affiliation
The Lighting Order; Continuing problems due to its vauge nature
Bognor Observer
1915-03-24
5a
Letters section; Worth taking note of as part of the lighting debate; sensible
comment
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-03-24
4d
Southdowns' Band at Bognor; Interesting background, including going to the
Grisewoods' house; 11th Battalion
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-03-24
5a
Bognor Season Band: A Protest.
(Letter about lighting)
Bognor
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Bognor Observer
1915-03-24
2b
A Thousand Injured Soldiers for Chichester; Conversion of Graylingwell to Red Cross
Hospital; Lists where current patients will be moved to
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-24
2c
A Thousand Wounded Soldiers for Chichester.
Conversion of Graylingwell into a Red Cross Hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-24
8f
(The War.)
Motor Cyclists' Section Formed
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
3a
Soldiers training on Downs
Downs
Bognor Observer
1915-03-24
5e
Selsey War Casualties: 1st casualty from Selsey parish - Upper Norton;
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
3b
Storrington highest proportion of recruits in any Sussex place? 1 in 7 joined up
Storrington
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
5c
Graylingwell As a Military Hospital; relocation of patients, details
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6c
Comforts for Sussex soldiers; appeal for specific items now winter over
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
5f
Salvation Army Visitor; includes SA statement on war
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6a
Editorial on poster circulated re. how to act in air raid or invasion
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6c
Volunteer Training Corps; meeting & possibility of it replacing Civil Guard
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
5d
Goodbye! Soldiers on the Point of Departure; town regrets departure of billeted
troops
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6e
The Care of the Horse; training class in town for billeted troops
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6g
Nearing the End; praise for billeted troops helping with concerts, organised by
Women’s Union of CofE Temperance Soc.
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6g
At the Winter Hall; film ‘A Daughter of Belgium’, anti-German propaganda
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6d
Tobacco Fund Appeal; image plus more text, with postcards
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
3b
District Nurses’ Busy Year; some detail of co-op. with Red Cross to treat wounded
men
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6f
Patriotic Club Established for Women; by National Union of Women Workers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
6g
Nearing the End; praise for billeted troops helping with concerts, organised by
Women’s Union of CofE Temperance Soc.
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-24
3d
Trinitarian Bible Society, Work Among Belgian Refugees & at the Camps
Worthing area
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-25
4f
St Wilfrid Convent converted to hospital receives first patients
Arundel
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-25
3a
Red Cross annual meeting and report
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-25
8d
Sussex Regiment Recruits - defective teeth
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-25
4b
New Testament for Sussex Territorials
Cowfold
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-25
11e
Civil Guard meet Fittleworth Civil Guard for practise drill and march
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-25
10e
Two brothers meet on battlefield after 3 years apart
Slindon
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-25
11f
Shiling Fund to provide motot ambulance for Red Cross
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-03-25
11f
Soldiers (72nd Brigade) move next week
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-30
3c
FOR OUR WOUNDED
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-30
7d
FARMERS AND BOY LABOUR
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-30
4g
HAYWARDS HEATH VTC
HAYWARDS HEATH
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-30
5c
THE SUSSEX VOLUNTEER CORPS
HURSTPIERPOINT
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-30
5a
VTC
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-30
7e
IN CASE OF INVASION
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-03-30
7fg
FROM CAIRO TO ISMALIA
WARNINGLID
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
5f
Decrease in Crime; Less crime and vagrancy, figures from prisons
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
5f
Federation of Holiday Resorts; Duke of Norfolk as Chairman; Inability to advertise
and no rail holiday specials (also covered elsewhere)
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
5b
Interned in Germany. Two Royal Sussex soldiers, location not now known
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
8f
Promotions at Newhaven; 4th Battalion
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
8f
DSO for Lieut Colonel Green
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
4c
Pony and Dog show to raise money for Blue Cross fund for war horses
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Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
5f
Early Closing in Chichester; Due to utilizing older staff or women; More on this,
interesting that shop hours longer than in Europe not shorter as now
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
4ab
Advert reflecting descision noted in several articles for shops to close earlier than in
peace time (still late by modern standards)
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
5c
Serbian Relief Fund; Generous aid from Chichester; First mention of this particular
relief fund; Red Cross medical supplies to be sent/already sent
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-31
7f
Chichester Guardians.
Transfer of Patients from Graylingwell.
The Increased Cost of Living
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-31
8f
The War.
The Human Pepper Box: Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-31
4c
Concert for the Soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-31
5c
Serbian Relief Fund.
Generous Aid from Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-03-31
8e
The Penny a Week Collection.
To be Discontinued at Chichester.
Great Success of Work for Women Fund
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-03-31
5b
Littlehampton Harbour Development; A Futile Strike; Harbour being upgraded for
wartime purposes though this noted in earlier editions/weeks; first local reference to
labour disputes related to wartime situation
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
7b
The Wesley Guild, Gratifying Success of its Work at Littlehampton; winter activities
Littlehampton
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Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
7c
Littlehampton UDC turn down workmen’s plea for higher wages
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
7e
Motorists and the War; formation of 1st Reserve Motor Cyclists Battalion; units at
Arundel, Chichester, Horsham, Littlehampton & ESx.
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
3a
Editorial reflecting on changing & important role of women on Home Front;
DETAILED
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
4g
Volunteer Training Corps welcomed as replacement for Civil Guard
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
6def
Ready for Home Defence; Volunteer Training Corps replaces Civil Guard [DETAILED]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
4g & 5a
Editorial praising relations between billeted troops & town
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
6a
Editorial praising billeted troops for helping with domestic jobs in homes
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
6fg
Worthing and the Troops; mutual congratulations on successful billeting
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
3d
Proposed New Schools; Worthing Education Committee decide to stop building any
new schools till war over
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
5cd
The New Rates; criticism of County Council’s rate increases on Borough
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
6a
Editorial criticising teachers’ pay increases
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
3fg
Tobacco Fund Appeal; image plus more text, battlefield map etc
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
6f
Held Captive By The Enemy; experiences of 3 Worthing men held in Germany
[DETAILED]
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-03-31
3b
Ladies as Gymnasts; display to raise money for Red Cross hospital
Worthing
Bognor Observer
1915-04-02
8d
Bognor man wounded
Bognor
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5b
Starving Out;
German submarine activity in the Channel & North Sea
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
7d
Winnipeg's Gift To Belgium;
Subscriptions to the Belgian relief Fund reach £20,000. Winnipeg to exceed this
amount
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
8f
Our London Letter;
Sinking of shipping;
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
4f
Easter with a difference;
Effect of the war on the Easter festival
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
6ef
German Defiance Of Treaty Rights;
The Hague Convention and the German refusal to adhere
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
2d
4th Sussex Battery R.F.A.;
Article on the Army in India;
The various races making up the army
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5a
An Army order on Saturday;
War voluntary allotments to relatives of soldiers serving in India
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5e
Crawley Territorials;
Transfers from Newhaven to the Royal Sussex Regiment
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5f
Ashurst Wood;
Letter from Gunner Holmwood Royal Field Artillery;
Ashurst Wood
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
8b
Sacred concert; to raise funds for presents for local lads at the front
Broadbridge Heath
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
6d
Heritage Colony requesting support for recently established military wards
Chailey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5e
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
3ab
Roll of Honour;
Crawley and District Men
Corrections;
Repeatedly regularly
Local Roll Of Honour;
Lists Crawley and District Men;
Serving King and Country;
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5c
Volunteer Defence Corps;
Appointments to 0ffice; opening of rifle range and other events
Crawley Newhaven
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
8e
East Grinstead Volunteer Defence Corps Orders for the week;
Repeated weekly
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5f
National Egg Collection for our Wounded; Collecting and delivering new laid eggs to
the wounded
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5a
My Note Book;
Letter from a Sapper in the Royal Engineers
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
5f
National Egg Collection for our Wounded; Collecting and delivering new laid eggs to
the wounded
Eat Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-03
2b
Roll of Honour
Forest Row & Ashurst Wood;
Serving King and Country
Forest Row
Ashurst Wood
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
5d
Horsham Cottage Hospital; training of Red Cross members in preparation for war
casualties
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
5c
Sequel to the billeting; poor conduct of East Surrey Regt troops billeted locally
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
8d
Horsham VTC Field Day; description of first field day of Horsham Company
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
8b
More recruits required at Horsham: 3-4th Btn to be raised with HQ in Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
8fg
Royal of Honour of Horsham Men. Repeated weekly
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
7f
Concert for Belgian Relief & Refugees Fund
Hove
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
8d
Awful sights at the front; letter describing shelled village
Mannings Heath
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-03
2a
An appeal to patriotic employers: to encourage employees to enlist. Repeated
weekly
West Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-06
1g
Your Country Needs You:
request for recruits to Royal Sussex Regiment and clothing donations
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-06
3de
St Saviour's School, Ardingly
Roll of Honour
List of 'Old Boys' serving in the forces - weekly feature
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-06
5d
Report on Home Protection Brigade ( Burgess Hill 'F' Company) and thanks for
donations towards equipment
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-06
5c
Concert in aid of Belgian Refugees: Post Office Rifles
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-06
5g
National Egg Collection for the Wounded:Thanks for local support and donations
Haywards
Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-06
7ab
Death of a National Reservist:
Inqest at Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-06
1fg
Learning to Shoot: Lindfield presented with a rifle range by Miss M Savill
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-06
6a-i
Roll of Honour: North Mid-Sussex Men:
whole page - regular weekly feature
Mid -Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-04-07
7d
Sisters & Nurses abroad Cameras to be sent home
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
3c
Riots at Singapore: 1st hand account of Pathan mutiny in Singapore
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
7ef
Archdeacon Southwell's Letter from the Front: Details of army chaplain's life in the
trenches.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
7d
Army Sisters' Cameras: Military hospitals abroad - censorship.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
5f
Eggs for Wounded Soldiers: Totals by place. Continues in subsequent issues.
. Chichester District
Bognor Observer
1915-04-07
3d
Four Thousand Soldiers
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-04-07
4a
Belgian Fund
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
4e
Bognor: Girls’ Club Concert and Men’s Brotherhood [NB similar articles on events or
meetings weekly for B. & Littlehampton Brotherhood
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
5e
Chichester County Sessions: More Powerful Lights at Bognor; several cases infringing
blackout rules
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
4e
Bognor: A Football Annual; butchers v railway workers match raises £4 for Royal
WSx Hospital
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
4e
Bognor: Girls’ Club Concert and Men’s Brotherhood
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
5e
An Ambulance for the Military: Sick reservist stopped for bright lamp.
Bognor
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1915-04-07
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Belgian relief fund: concert
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
7d
Comforts for the 2nd Royal Sussex
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-04-07
3D
Graylingwell Military Hospital, Moving Patients
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-04-07
5d
Military Sports
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-04-07
5f
New laid Eggs for Wounded Soldiers continues
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
3d
Graylingwell Military Hospital: 800 patients moved from West Sussex County Asylum
[Graylingwell] to enable military to take over hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
5d
Military Sports at Chichester; Hants 9th battalion at Priory Park; also at Selsey
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
5d
Military Sports at Chichester; Hants 9th battalion at Priory Park
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
7c
Early Closing; Chichester shops close early to save energy
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
5d
Military Sports at Chichester: 9th Battalion Hants Regiment sports day.
Chichester
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1915-04-07
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Lieutenant Henry Talbot: Wounded Chichester man in Lille Hospital.
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-0407
The Soldiers: Billeting of the New Army
Findon
Bognor Observer
1915-04-07
4f
L/Hampton Civil Guard
L/Hampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-0407
3e
Confirmation at Bungalow Town
Lancing
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
4d
Littlehampton: The Free Churches; Non-Conformist churches hold joint service plus
other non-conf. events
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
4d
Littlehampton: The Civil Guard; votes to affiliate with National Volunteer Guard
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
4d
Littlehampton: Visit of Opitimists and Easter at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
4d
Littlehampton: Visit of Opitimists and Easter at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
4d
The Civil Guard: Littlehampton guard vote to affiliate to National Guard
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
4d
Easter at Littlehampton: National Volunteer Guard maneouvres / mock battles
Littlehampton
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Observer
1915-04-07
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Serbian relief fund: Making garments
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-04-07
6
Roll of Honour Continues
Local
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
5d
Selsey: Easter at the Parish Church; record congregation though 1914 had more
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
5f
Eggs For Wounded Soldiers: The Latest Total 3,588; [list of over 40 places & totals;
continues weekly]
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
5f
Eggs For Wounded Soldiers: The Latest Total 3,588; [list of over 40 places & totals;
continues weekly]
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
5f
Eggs For Wounded Soldiers: The Latest Total 3,588; [list of over 40 places & totals;
continues weekly]
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-07
5f
Eggs For Wounded Soldiers: The Latest Total 3,588; [list of over 40 places & totals;
continues weekly]
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
3d
Graylingwell Military Hospital: Conversion of hospital to military use.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-07
3e
Next Door to Hell: Appeal for Belgian relief fund.
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-04-07
The War: Wrapping Paper
Contribution from the Worthing Gazette Weekly advert
Worthing
1d
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1915-0407
Worthing Gazette
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Place
Our Empire's Mighty Defenders: Be Patriotic and buy as mementoes postcards
Worthing Gazette
Worthing
6cd
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund: A Californian Donation
Worthing
1915-0407
4d
The Victory in the North Sea: Splendid Picture Postcards
Worthing Gazette
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0407
6e
Goodbye to the Troops:
Worthing Railway Station
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
6d
How Goes The Fight?;
Review of the week at the fronts
Repeated weekly
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
4f
Formation of an additional unit of the 4th Battalion Royal Sussex;
Preparation for reinforcements; further details in another column
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
3d
Bank Holiday and the Absence of trippers;
Effect on Brighton due to the prohibition of cheap excursion trains
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-10
3e
Woman appointed as teacher at Grammar School due to dearth of male teachers
Brighton & Hove
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
8e
The V.A.D. Hospital;
Full of wounded
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
2b-e
Local Roll Of Honour;
Lists Crawley Down; Turners Hill, West Hoathly, Three Bridges and Rowfant, Men;
Serving King and Country;
Crawley Down
Turners Hill
West Hoathly
Three Bridges
Rowfant
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Courier
1915-04-10
3e
Volunteer training corps of East Grinstead and district;
Instructive field day in Felbridge Park
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
8d
East Grinstead Volunteer Defence Corps;
Orders for week
Repeated weekly
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
4f
Bombardier Herbert Bell, Royal Horse Artillery writes;
Also requests a razor
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
8b
First Experiences Under Fire;
R. Diamond Driver Royal Horse Artillery; an interesting letter
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
6ef
Sensational Eastbourne case;
Walter Kirby Soldier indicted for theft; Just been released from South African prison,
changed name and enlisted in the Middlesex Yeomanry
Eastbourne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
8d
4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment;
Another battalion to be raised; Formation for the training of men to fill up the first
and second line units
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-10
8b
Belgium Refugee Fund; list of donations
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-10
8de
Education and the War; public address to teachers' meeting
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
3e
Murder On The High Seas;
Innocent Merchant Ship Torpedoed;
Account of incident from inquest
Newhaven Beachy
Head
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
10a
Noisy Soldiers;
Frederick Prouten, Royal Horse Artillery stationed at Plawhatch
Plawhatch
East Grinstead
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1915-04-10
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The YMCA & the Soldiers; Lantern show for Royal Fusiliers and 4th Royal Sussex
Reserve Territorials
Roffey
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-10
8b
West Hoathly Cadet Corps;
Orders for the week;
Repeated weekly
West Hoathly
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
7d
2/7Territorials 'A1' in a brillian review :Helping regimental funds
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
3f
Concert in aid of Belgian refugees ; report on concert and outline of support for
cause
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
8g
Vegetable Products Committee: supplies from Haywards Heath branch to navy
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
8cd
For Charity's Sweet Sake:
Concert in aid of Cottage Hospital and role of hospital in treatment of servicemen
during war.
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
4g
5a
Notes and Comments: Opportunity - Volunteer Training Corps to join National
Reserve: donations appeal -uniforms
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
4g
Notes and Comments: New Battalion of 3/4 Batt.RSR:
invitation to enlist
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
8g
Your Country Needs You:
Advertisement for recruits 3rd Batt. RSR+ record of clothing donation
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
5f
Concert Hurstpierpoint for equipment fund Hurst Platoon Home Prot. Brig. Hassocks
Comp.
Hurstpierpoint
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
1g
Defence of the Realm:
Secretary of State Order on street lights
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-13
6
Roll of Honour: South Mid-Sussex Men: see Image 007
Mid-Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-04-14
3c
Women's Emergency Corps
Chichester Observer
1915-04-14
5ef
Made in Bognor: Exhibition of Local Toy Products; B.Home Industries Association
urges more small businesses to be set up
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-04-14
5ab
Bognor Council: Lighting the Town; blackout measures introduced to lampposts
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-14
5bc
Bognor Council, Public Lighting: Discussion of blackout requirements.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-14
4e
Sandbag Day: Selling primroses to buy sandbags for soldiers in the trenches.
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-04-14
8e
Graylinwell Hosp. Preparing to receive wounded soldiers
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-04-14
5a
Flying Red Cross in case of Invasion/Bombardment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-14
8e
Graylingwell Military Hospital: Preparing for the Wounded; almost complete, detailed
review
Chichester
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Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6c
The Billeting of soldiers for the Volunteer Training Corps
Findon
Bognor Observer
1915-04-14
4f
Billeting of Troops
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-04-14
4f
Billeting of Troops
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-04-14
3d
Littlehampton Vestry Meeting: Gratifying Financial Position; lists gifts to various war
funds
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
7e
The Making of Modern Germany:
An instructive lecture
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
7f
Assisting Belgian Refugees
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-14
5d
Golf for the War fund.
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-04-14
7f
New Rgt to be formed for RSR
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-14
7e
More Recruits Wanted: New unit (3-4th Battalion) of the Royal Sussex Regiment.
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-14
7f
The War: More Recruits Wanted; new RSR battalion to be set up: 3-4th
West Sussex
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Observer
1915-04-14
16d
Grayingwell Military Hospital: Preparing for the Wounded - update to previous article.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-14
3e
Westhampnett Rural Council: Releasing council workers to farms due to labour
shortage.
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6c
Concerning the New Force:
Have you joined the Volunteers?
- Notice
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
7c
The Billeting of Troops:
(The Duke of Norfolk)
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6c
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund:
A further Advance
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6f
Disgusted With The Home Strikers:
What the Soldiers think.
Graphic Description of Work in the Trenches
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6f
Another New Lighting Order:
Covering Northumberland to Dorset
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
7e
How you can befriend some soldier in the trenches
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6f
Egypt and the Nile:
Mr. Malden's Lecture
(Colonial Forces encamped in the shadow of the pyramids
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6cd
The Volunteer Corps:
Its active operations. An appeal to the manhood of the town
Worthing
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1915-0414
3e
At the Winter Hall
Sons of the Sea
Lads in training for the British Navy
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6f
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
4g
The Man On The Spot:
What they say.
If the Germans only knew -?
Social comment
From Our Standpoint
The New Training Corps:
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
5c
The War:
(A continuation of the above article)
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
5c
'Gazette' Letter-Box:
Rejected Services
The question of a distinguishing badge for ex-servicemen
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0414
6f
Good Work Among The Horses:
A Soldier's Tribute
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
8e
Women's work in war time;
the war as it affects women
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
3f
More Canadian Nurses for Europe;
Company sponsors Red Cross Organisation to send nurses to Europe
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
6f
Sussex Territorial Forces;
Compulsory Service;
Representations to the war office
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
4f
From East To West;
Admiralty says that some ports might be closed
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
8b
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
5a
With the army in India;
Interesting letter from a local man;
Private Skinner, Queen's Royal West Surrey regiment.
Further letters also published
My note book;
Increasing strength of Sussex Regiment
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
6f
Sussex Territorial Forces;
Cadet Corps and National reserve;
Recommendation for affiliation with 4th battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
5a
My note book;
Appointments and honours
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
6f
Need for medical women;
The need for women doctors is urgent
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-17
3f
County News; funding to convert workhouse into hospital for Indian troops
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
5e
Volunteer Training Corps;
The fund for purchase of uniforms and equipments now amounts to £81 18s 6d.
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
8e
Help for Serbia;
Plea for medical aid / Help for Serbia;
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
5e
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
8e
A Military Wedding;
A wedding of interest;
Corp. A. Soper;
Guard of honour
The V.A.D. Hospital;
Acknowledgement of gifts
Repeatedly weekly
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Times
1915-04-17
8e
An Interesting Dietary; details of a week's diet sheet
Downs
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
5c
Wounded at the Brewery House;
Fitted as hospital for wounded
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
2a
The Rifle Range;
Volunteer Defence Committee thanks for establishing a rifle range in the swimming
bath
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
5a
My note book;
East Grinstead emergency committee;
Presents to the front
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
8a
Help For Serbia;
£15 17s. 6d. Donated for nurses to go to Serbia
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
4cd
Adverts;
Tailors of military uniforms
Forest Row
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
5d
Killed in action;
Thomas Simmons, 3rd battalion Royal Sussex
Groombridge
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
5ef
Advert;
4th battalion Royal Sussex Regiment;
Formation of the 3rd line depot
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-17
8c
West Sussex Education Committee; billeting of soldiers in school
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-17
8b
Horsham Urban District Council; release of men for munitions manufacture
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-17
5fg
The 4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment; recruitment poster
Horsham
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1915-04-17
5f
War Service for Women; formation of Horsham Women's Emergency Corps
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-17
8a
Ducks In Camp;
Private Peter Allingham, Royal Fusiliers stationed at Roffey Camp;
stealing two ducks
Roffey
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-17
8e
King's Pledge Sunday; temperance message
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-17
6b
Cycling and Motoring; recruiting for NCU Batt. of 6th Royal Sussex Regt
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-17
5b
Appeal for the Royal Sussex Regt
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-17
8d
West Sussex Education Committee; classes for troops
West Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
5f
Caring for the Wounded:
Collection of eggs for hospital treatments of wounded soldiers
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
5f
Balcombe Volunteer Defence Corps
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
1b
Bolney Territorial at the Front: suggestion of free trips to France
Bolney
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
7ab
Chaplain's lecture in Burgess Hill - treatment of Red Cross in Belgium
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
1b
Sussex and the War: 50,000 men of recruitable age in the County: report - Duke of
Norfolk speaks at meeting to encourage Sussex recruits
Eastbourne
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1915-04-20
8f
Fruit and Veg for Sailors:
Vegetable Products Committee report on donations
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
8f
Your Country Needs You:
recruitment advert
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
3f
Royal Sussex Regiment: Will You Join? Appeal for recruits
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
8f
Royal Sussex Regiment: report -letter re: food gifts by individual
Petworth
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-20
7fg
The 4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment: invitation to recruit
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
8d
Huns Handbook
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
8e
The Call a poem
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-21
2c
Lecture on Germany: Rise of the Hohenzollens. Probably a touch of propaganda.
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
7d
Comforts for troops
Aldwick
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
5d
Bognor Council: the Annual Meeting; gas prices rise
Bognor
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Observer
1915-04-21
7c
Local Precautions Against Zepplins:Lights cut off in Bognor & Chichester.
Bognor & Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6g
The Roll of Honour:
How it strikes former Worthing people in Canada
Canada
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
7c
Precautions against Zeppelin raids
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
8d
Chichester Constables at Front
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
4e
Military wedding
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
8d
Cicestrian from New Zealand
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
5f
Women's work in the War
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
5cd
Work For Women Fund: Two Chichester Photographs; toy making workshops shown
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
3ef
Women’s Emergency Corps: How a Great Work Is Being Accomplished; Chichester
meeting; plus editorial on p5
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
5cd
Work For Women Fund: Two Chichester Photographs; toy making workshops shown
Chichester
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Observer
1915-04-21
3ef
Women's Emergency Corps: Lecture & appeal. Good description of the work of the
corps.
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
7a
A Concert to raise funds for Littlehampton Hospital
East Preston
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
4c
Recruitment for 4th Bttn.RSR
Horsham
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
2g
The 4th Battalion
Royal Sussex Regiment:
Formation of the 3rd Line Depot at Horsham
Horsham
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Fourth Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment:
A recruiting reward of a shilling
Horsham
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Royal Sussex Regiment:
Recruits for the new Third Line Depot
Age – Height – Chest measurement
Horsham
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
4ef
Littlehampton Cricket Club: A Gratifying Year; annual review including discussions of
war’s effects
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
7a
Whist Drive for Charity:
Successful Function
Helping the Hospital and Nursing Association
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
5f
Sorting Subscribers' Letters in London:
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund
London
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
7e
The War Budget:
Published by the Daily Chronicle
London
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Issue Date
Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Fourth Sussex: Waiting at Newhaven for deployment to the Front
Newhaven
Bognor Observer
1915-04-21
8d
Cake for RSR
Petworth
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Soldiers billeted in town
Shoreham
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
7c
Local Precautions Against Zeppelins: Lights Out at Bognor and Chichester; false
alarm but detail of measures
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
5f
Notes and Comments: The Shortage of Teachers; in Sussex & Chi example shown
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
7c
Education in West Sussex: Left For Farm Work; 327 boys around 12 sent to date
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-21
4ab
4th Royal Sussex Regiment ….Recruits Are Urgently Required; advert
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-21
5f
The Shortage of Teachers:
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6cde
Official Precautions Promptly Taken:
An Enemy Aircraft That Did Not Arrive!
- Notice
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6e
Country's Call to Arms:
Corporation Response
More men now available for armament work
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Volunteer Training Corps: Orders
Worthing
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6d
Recruits Still Coming In:
Good Local Record
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6d
Drilling the Local Police:
New Arrangement
Fifty per cent of the Force joined the Colours
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6e
Instructions for the Soldiers: Popular Classes
An Official Statement of the Operations
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Official Recruiting Notice
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Warships out at sea
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Royal Naval Flying Corps visit the theatre
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6d
Red Cross Hospital Funds: Further Contributions
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6d
Freemasons and War Funds: Generous Contributors
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6g
War Relief Fund:
Contribution from Municipal Officials
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
7d
A Crimean Veteran send some smokes to his old Regiment
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-0421
6cd
Recent Aircraft Visit:
Local Precautions
Worthing
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Place
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
6c
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund:
A letter from the King to Mrs. Mercer
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Small Shots:
Conduct of a soldier of the Royal Field Artillery
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
5a
Pictorial Postcards:
(Depicting scenes from the various services)
Worthing Gazette
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
6f
Some Exciting Times at the Front:
Germans dislike bayonets
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
6f
Real Happiness in the Trenches:
Those Welcome Smokes!
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0421
6g
Central News Telegram: British Advance in the neighbourhood of Ypres
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-24
4f
A tribute has been paid by the army council to the work accomplished by public
health authorities in looking after the troops.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-24
8d
Alexandria Palace a war prison;
German prisoners to be interned
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-24
5b
An Engineers Experience;
Sapper Watford of the Royal Engineers
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-24
2g
With the Royal Sussex; letter - life under fire in trenches
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-24
5e
In Aid of the Belgian relief Fund;
Recital etc. raises £9
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-24
2d
East Grinstead Naval Officer in the Dardanelles;
Description of the forcing of the Strait;
March 9th letter
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-24
2de
East Grinstead Naval Officer in the Dardanelles;
Description of the forcing of the Strait;
2nd letter
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-04-24
8d
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-24
3c
Horsham Police Court;
4 Royal Fusiliers summoned;
Stationed at Horsham;
Fined 2s 6d
Munitions of War; identification of council workers for munition work
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-24
5c
Letter re Billeting Payments
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-24
5g
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps; request for funds
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-24
5d
Third line depot at Horsham; Royal Sussex Regt training
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-04-24
8b
Appeal for the Royal Sussex Regt
West Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-27
4a
Haywards Heath VTC: List of subscribers
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-27
2g
Recruit appeal letter: Staplefield VTC Staplefield
Staplefield
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Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-27
4a
Staplefield VTC: List of Subscribers
Staplefield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-04-27
7e
War-Time Emergencies:
Use of child pall bearers to 'avoid taking men from work'
West Thorney
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
4ab
An Appeal from the Fighting Line: Parliamentary question on munitions supply.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
5a
Blind Soldiers and Sailors: Letter re. St Dunstans hospital for blind servicemen
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
4b
War Films at Olympia: Various war films shown at local cinema.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
5a
Horses on the Battlefield: Letter re. arrangements for sick & wounded horses.
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
3a
Potatoes issued by the Admiralty as a regular feature of the rations
Barnham and
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
5e&5f
Bognor Cricket Club: The Question of Carrying On; matches cancelled but will
continue to maintain ground
Bognor
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6c
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund:
Our Friends Abroad
Another welcome gift from Canada
Canada
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
4f
War Films Olypia Cinema
Chichester
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Place
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
7d
Chichester High School
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
5d
Cicestreians at St.Eloi
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
4b
Chichester: Chichester Toys Ltd; new company offers shares; plus 5/5 article all
shares bought
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
8def
Royal West Sussex Hospital: The Report for 1914; detailed mentions wounded troops
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
7d
Chichester High School: St George’s Day Celebrations; address about girls’ wartime
responsibilities etc [detailed]
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
5d
Cicestrian at St Eloi: Interesting Narrative From the Front; set of detailed letters
describing [RSR] experiences
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
5ab
The War: Chocolate From Chichester; letter from 2nd RSR thanks for comfort plus
comments on war experience
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
7d
Chichester High School: St George’s Day Celebrations; address about girls’ wartime
responsibilities etc
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
5e
Honour for a Chichester Family: Letter from the king to a family with 7 serving.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
5d
Cicestrian at St Eloi: Letter from the front with details of battle.
Chichester
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Place
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
7f
Military in the Cricket Field:
The Royal Field Artillery
Findon
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
4e
In aid of L/hmpt Hosp.
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
2e
L/Hampton Lifeboats
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
7b
A productive Whist Drive on behalf of the Hospital and Nursing Association
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
5a
Blinded servicemen
National
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
5a
Wounded Horse
National
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
5a
4th Btn RSR on the move
Newhaven
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
5d
Fourth Sussex:
Depart from Newhaven
Newhaven
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
3a
Scottish Rifles:
Soldier appears before the Steyning Bench
Steyning
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
5b
RSR. Wounded
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
5a
YMCA Territorial Camps
Various
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Place
Bognor Observer
1915-04-28
2f
Thanks for Eggs
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
3bc
The Bishop of Chichester’s Fund; 1914 review of scheme to put CofE on better
financial footing [detailed, many stats]
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
5a
The War: From Newhaven to –Elsewhere; 4th RSR leave for other duties; plus ‘YMCA
Territorial Camps’ appeal for help
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
2e
Westhampnett Guardians: the Annual Meeting: County Council Expenditure; also
following article: ‘The Rising County Council Rates and the Rising Indignation’
Protests over WSCC rates [a local Overseer resigns]; also in 9/6/1915p.3
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
7c
West Sussex Police: Inspection at Chichester; annual drill [& review]
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-04-28
5a
The War: From Newhaven to –Elsewhere; 4th RSR leave for other duties; plus ‘YMCA
Territorial Camps’ appeal for help
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
5a
YMCA Territorial Camps: Request for helpers in training camps.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
5f
Cricket in 1915: Argument for cotinuing local cricket matches despite war.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-04-28
5a
From Newhaven to Elsewhere: Departure of 4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Rgt.
West Sussex
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
5c
Tabacco Fund:
Contributor
West Tarring
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1915-0428
6a
Name bestowed on a local baby:
John Albert
Suggested by the Admiral of the North Sea and the King of the Belgians
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
3a
Fresh fruit and vegetables for the Fleet!
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
3b
Work of the Lifeboats:
Royal Commendation
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
4cd
To Fight the Fumes!
War Office Appeal for Respirators.
Advert: Walter Bros.
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6c
A new order relating to the registration of aliens
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6c
The Alien Peril:
All over fourteen years of age must now be registered
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6g
'Gazette' Letter-Box:
Red Cross Motor Ambulance
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
5c
Tabacco Fund:
Contributor
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
5e
At The Picturedrome:
The British Navy
First Installment of an absorbing series
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6c
Borough of Worthing:
WARNING
In the event of enemy aircraft
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0428
5c
Chippingdale Cricket Club: Contribution to fighting forces
Fourteen members have placed themselves at the service of their country
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6a
Name bestowed on local baby:
Jackie
Suggested by the First Sea Lord
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6e
Tabacco-Day-at-the-Front:
Soldiers lined up to receive their gifts
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6f
The Men on the Spot:
What they say.
Some Gramophone Records wanted at the Front
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6f
Hot work in South-West Africa:
Captured Germans' Pianos
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
6g
Caring for Soldiers' Graves:
Thoughtful Attentions
- Neuve Chapelle
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
5c
Small Shots:
'The Iron Regiment'
Royal Sussex Regiment
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
5c
Cyclists' Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment in town
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0428
4e
The Women's Emergency Corps:
A Meeting
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
4f
The Health Of A Soldier;
Hospitals are full of wounded, but number of amputations are small
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
5b
Bill has been laid before parliament, to remove the Territorial Officers transfer
restrictions of the Act of 1907
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
8b
Personal;
Promotions, deaths, marriages;
Repeated weekly
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
8d
Appeal For Respirators;
War office appeals to the public;
Importance of using absorbent wool
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-01
3fg
At the Front; advert for Oliver typewriters
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
5e
A Concert At The Front;
Letter from S.F.Stamford transport driver A.S.C. Ammunition part
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
2ef
Local Roll Of Honour;
Lists Crawley and District Men;
Serving King and Country;
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
8b
Appointments - Lord Lieutenant of Sussex appointments;
Volunteer Training Corps
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
2c
Charged with being an absentee;
Norman Stringer 2nd City of London Field ambulance stationed at East Grinstead;
Not guilty as couldn't keep up with battery
East grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
4f
The Relief of Distress occasioned by the war;
Further subscriptions urgently needed
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
5d
Startling Accident;
Gunner Green R.F.A. plucky action
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
5d
Major H Musgrave, D.S.O. married in Westminster
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
2d
An Officer's Life In The Trenches;
Description of the front by East Grinstead resident
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
5c
Volunteer Training Corps;
120 strong doing exercises.
East Grinsterad
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
2a
Royal Sussex Regiment;
24th battalion Royal Sussex Regiment left Horsham for Newhaven
Horsham
Newhaven
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-01
5a
Thousands of sandbags urgently needed at once
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-01
3e
Horsted Keynes;
Volunteer Training Corps;
1st church parade
Horsted Keynes
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-01
5g
Horsham and District Jottings; donations to Roffey Camp
Roffey
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-01
6b
Another beginning with recruits; 3rd Line Depot for RSR
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-04
7e
How Burgess Hillians Can Help in the War: Overview and invitation to join Volunteer
Corps
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-04
5a
Your Country Needs You:
recruitment advert
Haywards
Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-04
3f
Vegetable Products Committee: Report of various projects to provide for troops
Haywards Heath
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Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
8e
The War: Life in the Trenches; letter home with vivid detail & moving thoughts of
home; plus another re. Ypres from 26/5/95
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
5cd
Our Limbless Sailors and Soldiers; national appeal for proper medical help [letter]
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8c
Sea Excursions
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Saved from HMS Irresistible
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Commission for Bognorian
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Hill 60
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
5c
Our Limbless Sailors and Soldiers: Letter & appeal re. setting up specialist centre.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
8f
Graylingwell Military Hospital Ready for Patients.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Saved from the "Irresistible" : Letter from sailor rescued from vessel sunk in the
Dardenelles.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
8e
The Fight at Hill 60: Letter about the battle, brief.
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Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
3a
Brothers meet on the battlefield:
West Surrey Regiment
British Expeditionary Force
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
5f
Volunteer Corps
BO-Chi.
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Letter from serving soldier "Laggards in Bognor"
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Local soldier promoted
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8e
Commission for Bognarian
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
5f
Notes and Comments: Volunteers Training Corps [editorial pressing Bognor & Chi
Civil Guard to affiliate
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
8ef
The War: An Appeal for old Shirts; troops prefer to throw away old filthy ones
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
8d
The War: To The Laggards of Bognor; letter from RSR 7th soldier urging those left to
join
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
4f
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8f
Hospital Charity Ball
Chichester
Graylingwell ready for 500 patients
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Local soldier promoted
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
8f
Graylingwell Military Hospital: Ready for 500 Patients Tomorrow: An Appeal for Gifts
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
5f
Notes and Comments: Volunteers Training Corps [editorial pressing Bognor & Chi
Civil Guard to affiliate
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
5f
Volunteer Training Corps: Editorial about Chichester & Bognor affiliating to VTC
Chichester
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Church buildings in camps at Seaford & Shoreham
E/w Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
5a
Courts, Lights showing
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
3cd
Volunteer Training Corps… Littlehampton To Become Affiliated; L.Civil Guard become
detachment of Sussex Volunteer Training Corps [v. detailed]
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
5a
Littlehampton Petty Sessions: Nine Summonses for Unobscured Lights [in previous
month]
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
5a
Littlehampton Petty Sessions: Nine Summonses for Unobscured Lights [in previous
month]
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
7e
Littlehampton Motor Boat Club: Annual General Meeting; suspends all races
Littlehampton
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
5a
Unobscured Lights: Prosecution for ignoring the blackout. [More examples in later
editions.]
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
3cd
Volunteer Training Camps: Speech by Duke of Norfolk re. affiliation of Littlehampton
Civil Guard.
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
7g
Window Blinds Badly Drawn:
Court Case
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
7d
Volunteer Training Corps:
Littlehampton's Participation
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
7f
Motor Boats in War Times:
The Littlehampton Club
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
5c
Letter Setting out Plight of Permanently disabled servicemen
National
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Camp Churches in Sussex: Letter from Bp of Chichester re. setting up of churches in
camps.
Seaford
Shoreham
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8c
Smoking Concert for troops in Selsey
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
8d
The War: Camp Churches in Sussex
Shoreham
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
3a
Second Lieutenant Lord Hugh Cecil in Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps
Shoreham
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Place
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Vegetables for the Fleet
West Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-05
8f
Council Employees on active service
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-05
8d
The War: Vegetables for the Fleet; appeal & details of how & what to donate
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
8d
Vegetables for the Fleet: Appeal for fresh vegetables to be donated to the fleet.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
8f
County Council Employees at War: Details of allowances paid to employees on active
service.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-05
8e
Sea Excursions in War Time: Admiralty instructions about use of yachts and pleasure
boats.
West Sussex
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
6cd
The Red Cross Hospital: Helping the Funds
two performances of Choral Society
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
3a
Civil Guard to be absorbed in the newer force
- Volunteer Training Corps
Worthing and
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
6f
Cafe and Exhibition for the provision of pure water for the Belgian Soldiers
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
6f
Respirators for the soldiers at the Front
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0505
6f
The Territorial Artillery:
To be sent tabacco in next consignment
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
5b
Sending parcels to soldiers abroad
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
5fg
On the Pier:
Military Concert
Members of the Sixth Sussex as Entertainers
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
6f
Soldiers Killed in Action:
Memorials at the Cemetery
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
6f
Small Shots:
Billeting of the Cyclist Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0505
6d
Women's Work in War Time:
The Emergency Corps
Its comprehensive operations described
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
4f-5a
National Reservists will be enlisted in the Territorial Force
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
4ef
Dardanelles;
Naval operations explained
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
6b
Prisoners Left To Drown;
An account of a destroyer action
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
8b
Lieutenant J.A.C. Croft killed in action near Ypres;
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
8d
Misreading of a French communique led to a misleading accounts of actions in the
press; These communiqués now explained properly.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
2de
Red Cross Work;
An encouraging report
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-08
5g
The War Office and the Asylum; conversion of Graylingwell Asylum into war hospital
Chichester
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
8e
Sandbags For The Troops;
An appeal from the front and how to make
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
5e
An experience at sea;
Officer Orderly Snelling R.E.A. writing home to his parents
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
5a
My Note Book;
Drivers Weller & Sloman Royal Field Artillery;
a joint letter
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
5d
Killed at the war;
Lance Corpl Robinson Cornwall's Light Infantry
Handcross
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-08
8b
Letter re Billeting Allowance in Horsham
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
5a
Major C. Jarrett Royal Munster Fusiliers. One of four soldier sons
Imberbourne
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-08
2a
Mount Noddy Allotments;
Council to surrender right of ways
Mount Noddy
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-08
8b
Horsham and District Jottings; Departure of 4th Btn RSR to France
Newhaven
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-08
8b
Horsham and District Jottings; Recruiting returns for Sussex
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-09
8f
Motor Trips for Wounded Soldiers
Chichester
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-11
2g
Farmers Sale: Auction for Belgian Relief Fund
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-11
1b
Fruit and Vegetables for Our Sailors - report on response to appeal
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-11
3f
War and Horticulture: Haywards Heath gardeners meeting and outing
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-11
8c
From Private to Sergeant: Military training classes
Haywards Heath
Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
8e
The War: Who Will Make Bandages? letter from soldier requesting tail bandages
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
7c
Alien at Bognor
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
4d
Prisoners of War
Bognor
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8e
Cast off shirts needed
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
4d
Bognorian Killed at Ypres
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8d
Military Wedding
Boxgrove
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
New War Tax stamps now in use in Canada
Canada
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6c
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund:
Another Canadian Contribution
Revival of Public Interest in the Movement
Canada
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
5e
Asylum as Military Hospital
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
5f
Arrival of Wounded
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
5b
9 Hants Thanks
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8e
Military Sports
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8e
Who will make bandages
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
4e
Chichester Will
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8e
Chichester Sergeant Killed
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
3ef
The Price of Bread: Local Bakers in Council; annual meeting of Chi Bakers Assoc
discusses bread price rises
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
5ef
Arrival of Wounded Soldiers at Chichester; plus ‘Graylingwell Military Hospital: Many
Generous Gifts’ plus West Sussex County Council: The Asylum As A Military Hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
3ef
The Price of Bread: Local Bakers in Council; annual meeting of Chi Bakers Assoc
discusses bread price rises
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-12
3ef
The Price of Bread: Local bakers council debate reasons for large rise in bread prices.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-12
5f
Arrival of Wounded Soldiers at Chichester: 1st batch for Graylingwell.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-12
5b
The 9th Hants Thanks: Mayor of Chichester receives letter of gratitude from
Battalion.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-12
8e
Military Sports at Chichester: Sports Day of 11th Battalion, Royal Lancs.
Chichester
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
7c
Departure of the Artillerymen:
Royal Field Artillery
Findon
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Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6f
Soldier's Alleged Misbehavior:
A Lancing Incident
Man to be dealt with by the Military Authorities
Lancing
Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
4d
Littlehampton: Training Corps Officers; first meeting attracts over 100
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8f
Recruitment Meeting
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
8f
Selsey: A Recruiting Meeting; NB cinema used – photo of this could illustrate book
Selsey
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
3c
Re-Building of Norfolk Bridge
Shoreham
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
5e
Ladies Orchestra:
Performed at No.2 Hut at the Camp at Shoreham
Shoreham
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8e
Sussex Casualties
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8e
Casualties RSR
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-12
8e
Life in the trenches
Various
Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
8f
West Sussex Teachers: The Child Labour Question; annual meeting reveals 400
schoolboys on farms
West Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
3e
The King’s Appeal; Bishop of Chi backs temperance appeal
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-12
3e
The King's Appeal: Letter from Bp of Chichester supporting call to give up alcohol.
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-12
2d
Westhampnett Rural District Council: Precautions Against Invasion; agreement to
help with road traffic
Westhampnett
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-12
2d
Precautions Against Invasion: Letter re. release of surveyors in case of invasion
threat.
Westhampnett
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6c
The Volunteer Training Corps:
Special Appeal to those above 38 years of age
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6cd
One of the Belgium's Great Needs:
Water for the Soldiers
Worthing endeavors to assist the movement
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6de
Abstinence During War Time:
Follow the King!
Representative Meeting at the Literary Institution
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
Legislation as will enable Borough and other councils to contribute to equipment in
regard to the Volunteer Training Corps
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
5f
The Alien Order:
Court Case concerning Warne's Hotel
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
Watch out for Aliens!
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0512
6g
'The Buffs' under Colonel Romer 'comprise some magnificent fighting material
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
Royal Field Artillery:
Mistreatment of a horse
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6f
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
Recruit Contributions in the past month:
103 – Worthing
353 – Brighton
107 - Horsham
Major E Hill Organising Officer of the Battalion of National Reserve recruitment
record:
52 Men Regular Army
113 Men – Territorial Forces
1 Man – Red Cross Hospital
15 Men failed the medical
Recruiting: Promise of employment after the War
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps from Brighton arrive in Worthing
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6f
Relatives lost on the 'Lusitania'
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6f
Belgian boy:
His father is fighting in Flanders
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
War Office notice:
concerning passports for passengers between England and France
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0512
5f
Important Intimation as to Lights:
Mayor interviews Naval Commander at Portsmouth
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
7d
Smokes for our Ypres Heroes:
Advert for 'Gazette' Tabacco Fund
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
3f
Teachers in West Sussex: Teachers at the Front
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
5e
Union Jack will be displayed at newspaper offices when latest telegraphic and
telephonic news comes through
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6f
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6f
The Men on the Spot:
What they say.
Pitiful sights seen by an Artilleryman
Refugee's Plight
Small Shots:
Postcards written to contributors of the 'Gazette' Tabacco Fund
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
A quote from a letter from a soldier in the Second Royal Sussex to a contributor of
the 'Gazette' Tabacco Fund
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
Royal Sussex Regiment losses:
50 Officers
1,077 Men
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0512
6g
Court Case:
A member of the Cyclist Battalion
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
6f
Allotments Committee;
Letting vacant allotments
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
3e
Canadian Horses for the Allies;
Canadian breeders disposed of £1,400,00 worth of horses for the war
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
5b
Royal Automobile Association and Alien Enemies;
No person of German, Austrian, Hungarian or Turkish birth can be members,
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
2d
Plum Duff in Internment;
Letter saying thanks to the Church Army for a parcel
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
3d
Gifts to the Church Army;
For the Church Army War Hospital in France
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
6f
The 4th Sussex in India;
Letters from correspondent;
Repeated weekly
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
8c
In the trenches;
Private Horton Territorials writes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
2f
4th Sussex Battery in India;
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
8f
Copthorne Roll Of Honour;
Serving their King and country
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
5d
Military Absentee;
Lance-Corpl C Francis libery pass expired due to sick wife. Police rewarded for arrest
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
8b
Recruiting At Crawley;
Appeal for recruits for the Royal Sussex Regiment
Crawley
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
5d
Wounded at the war;
Mr Knowles Royal Sussex Regiment
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
8f
Wounded;
Crawley Men wounded in hospital
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
8b
East Grinstead Volunteer Training Corps;
Appeal for more men
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
5b
With the flying corps in France;
Experiences of an East Grinstead lad
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
5c
With the R.A.M.C. - Corporal Parsons;
A letter home
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
5c
Germans and Poison Gas;
A member of HM Forces writes to friends about Ypres
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
5c
Sapper AT Smith Royal Engineers wounded at Ypres
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
8b
An appeal from Major Hodgson;
Appeal for recruits for the Royal Sussex Regiment
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-15
8d
Sandbags Urgently Wanted; letter
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-15
8d
An appeal for recruits; for 4Btn RSR
Horsham
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-15
5f
Presentation;
In recognition of services to Volunteer gtraining Corp
Horssham
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-18
5a
Eggs for the Wounded:
Letters of thanks to organisation
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-18
3g
Burgess Hill War Relief Committee: support for families of soldiers and sailors
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-18
Rifle Match: Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath volunteers
Burgess Hill Haywards
Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-18
7f
Patriotic Farmers in their Elements - Sale in aid of Red Cross and Belgian Relief
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-18
8g
Letter to MST: virtues of Volunteer Training Corps: Mid-Sussex Batt
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-18
1f
The Royal Sussex Regiment
"The men were all heroes"
Account from the front
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-18
4g
Aliens and Registration - importance of awareness of alien individuals in community
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
2f
Canon Southwell At The Front: Another Interesting Letter; vivid descriptions of life at
Front & effectiveness of church [*Diocesan Gazette]
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
3ef
Fighting The Germans In Africa: a Bognor Chaplain’s Interesting Letter
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Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
8e
The War: Sandbags Appreciated; appeal by RSR soldier for more
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
3bcd
A Chichester R.E. At The Front: His Letters Home; vivid and very detailed
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
3ef
Fighting The Germans In Africa: a Bognor Chaplain’s Interesting Letter
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
8e
The War: Sussex Regiment’s Heavy Casualties; vivid, short description [book ill.]
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
8e
The War: The Sussex Regiment First; letter appealing for men to join
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
2f
Canon Southwell at the Front: Letter from the canon re. life at the front.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
2d
Should Teachers Pay for the War: Discussion re. freeze of teachers pay increments.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
8e
Sandbags Appreciated: Letter from soldier thanking people for sending sandbags.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
8f
Motor Cyclist's Battalion: First Reserve MCB maneouvres.
Arundel
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6e
Small Shots:
Fourth Sussex called out to help in suppression of anti-German riot
Bedford
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
3d
Bognor Lady Matron at Duke of Richmond Red Cross Hosp.
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
8e
Bognor Men Serving with Indian Expeditionary Force
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
5b
Bognor Council: Princess Mary’s Home; offered as hospital for disabled Belgian
soldiers
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
7d
Alien’s Visit to Bognor: Arrested On Arrival; example of measures controlling
movement of foreigners
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
7cd
Alien's Visit to Bognor: Polish professor arrested on visit to Bognor.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
3e
The Duke of Richmond's Red Cross Hospital: Matron from Bognor.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
5b
Princess Mary's Home: House offered as home for disabled Begian soldiers - request
for rate relief.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
3ef
Fighting the Germans in Africa: Letter from a Bognor chaplain.
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
2f
Cannon Southill at Front
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
2c
Eggs for wounded soldiers Continues
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
7e
Wounded Soldiers at Chichester
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
8e
Recruitment Letter
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
8f
Motorcycle Bttn.
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
8d
Anti-German Riots
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
7ef
Wounded Soldiers at Chichester: Another 230 Arrive At Midnight…The Arrangements
at Graylingwell; also staff details; plus article on p.8f
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
4d
In The Dark About The Lights; Littlehampton solicitor speaks at Chi cinema interval
to clarify the blackout law which confuses people
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
4c
Chichester: Military At The Cathedral; stirring para re. Service involving RSR & North
Lancs Regiment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
4c
Chichester: Military At The Cathedral; stirring para re. service involving RSR & North
Lancs Regiment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
4d
Chichester: Whist Drive at the Barracks; £ raised for Miss MacCartie’s POW fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
4d
Chichester: Whist Drive at the Barracks; £ raised for Miss MacCartie’s POW fund
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
7de
The Training of Troops: Problems with crops being damaged during training.
Chichester
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Observer
1915-05-19
8d
The Anti-German Riots: Chichester mistakenly identified as scene of anti-German
attack.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
7ef
Wounded Soldiers at Chichester: Another 230 arrive for Graylingwell.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
8f
Motor Trips for Wounded Heroes: Committee formed to arrange days out for
Graylingwell inmates.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
4de
In the Dark about the Lights: Discussion of the law re. blackout.
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
2f
Cannon Southwell from the Front
Lewes
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
4ab
For Patriotic Reasons…Wear Cotton Underwear [Hansford advert]
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6f
Davenport Nursing Home: Royal Visit by Princess Henry of Battenberg
Ryde
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
4e
Boxing Contest
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
4d
Selsey: Boxing Contests; between troops & also a local lad
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
8e
Sandbags appreciated RSR
Sussex
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
8e
RSR Heavy casualties
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-19
3d
Teachers War Salaries
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
2c
Eggs for Wounded Soldiers; weekly total & Graylingwell asks for 1500 a week
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
7de
Farmers’ Union: Interesting Meeting at Chichester: The Training of Troops; system
for compensation for crop etc damage
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
2c
Eggs for Wounded Soldiers; weekly total & Graylingwell asks for 1500 a week
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
8f
The War: Motor Cyclists’ Battalion; first training exercise for Chi section [Arundel,
Bognor, Littlehampton, Selsey areas]
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
2de
Business As Usual Or Not? [WSCC] annual meeting of Education Committee; salary
increase & painting approved; 359 schoolboys on farms
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
3bcd
Roads Damaged By Military Traffic; a reproduction of an AA map; plus explanation
p.8
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-19
2c
Eggs for Wounded Soldiers; weekly total & Graylingwell asks for 1500 a week
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
8a
Notice to Mariners: Rules re. pleasure craft. [Repeated in later issues.]
West Sussex
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Observer
1915-05-19
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Roads Damaged by Military Traffic: Map showing damaged areas.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
8e
Roads Damaged by Military Traffic: Paragraph to accompany map on page 51.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-19
8e
Sussex Regiment's Heavy Casualties: Letter re. heavy losses in 2nd Batt, Royal
Sussex Regiment.
West Sussex
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
5f
The Alien Order:
Various Court Cases
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6e
Respect paid to Indian servicemen
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6f
Food Shortages:
Reports from the Fourth Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6f
Young boy is greeted by Indian Soldiers
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6de
'Gazette' Letter-Box:
More Men Wanted!
Request for Recruits for the Fourth Sussex
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
3b
At the Winter Hall:
The 'Lusitania'
Pictorial Reminder of Germany's Foulest Crime
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
7cd
Roads Damaged by Military Traffic:
- A Map
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0519
7d
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6c
Insurance in West Sussex:
Another Committee Meeting
Questions concerning a Worthing Case
Position of Returned Soldiers
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund:
Now exceeds £230!
Many more sixpences still required
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6c
The Home Protection Brigade:
Interesting Visit
Brighton Members march to Worthing
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6c
Looking forward to the 'Gazette' Cigarettes:
Grateful Soldiers
- Letter
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6d
Dying for a Smoke:
- Advert
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6d
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6e
Packs of Cards and Mouth Organs!
Who will supply them?
'The Worthing Lads'
First Brigade of the Ammunition Column
Equipping the Training Corps:
A Mayoral Appeal
The town asked to raise £400
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6e
Razors!
Another Urgent Demand from the Front
- Letter
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
6f
'On Active Service' Letters
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0519
5f
On the Pier:
Military Entertainers
Pleasing Performances by Cyclist Soldiers of the Royal Sussex Regiment
Worthing
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
6d
Radius of Action by German Submarines;
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
7d
Railways Company's Roll of Honour;
1,078 joined the fighting forces; 35 died; 13 POW
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5a
War Offices announces recruitment age increased to 40 and height reduced to 5ft
2in.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5a
History of the emblems on the badge of the Royal Sussex Regiment;
Appeal for men
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5e
Volunteer Training Corps;
Local detachment go into camp for weekend;
40 to 60 attending and are wearing new uniforms
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5f
Sergt. Sprake wounded in action now in a London hospital
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
8a
An Appeal For Our Sailors;
Vegetable Products Committee supplies warships with fresh fruit and vegetables;
Appeal for supplies
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
8f
Soldiers Entertained at East Grinstead;
4th London Howitzer Company prior to departure
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5a
My Note Book;
2nd Lieut. Monro Northant Regt. Succumbed to his wounds
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
3a
With the British in Africa;
Soldier in the Kaffrarian Rifles; an account of operations against the Germans in
Africa
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
3c
The work of the R.A.M.C. in France;
Private Creasey
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5b
2nd Lieut.Cochrane Post Office Rifles wounded in the face and is in hospital.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
2b-e
Roll of Honour
Forest Row & Ashurst Wood;
Serving King and Country
Forest Row
Ashurst Wood
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
2e
A Mothers Unfavourable Testimony;
Mother said son was worthless etc.
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5f
Lieut. Juckes Royal Sussex Regiment is missing believed killed
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5f
Death in Flanders;
2nd Lieut. Lintott killed by a shell
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-22
5e
Conference on War Babies
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-22
3d
Horsham bed for Serbia; 6month subscription to Scottish Women's Hospital.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-22
5f
Sussex by the Sea; Sussex flautists in trenches
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-22
5e
Slightly Wounded Sergt. Butcher Mediterranean Expeditionary Force writes
Ifield
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-22
5e
West Sussex Constabulary Pay; war bonuses for police
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-05-22
5d
West Sussex Insurance Committee; TB sanatorium for discharged soldiers.
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-25
5e
Burgess Hill VTC Whitsuntide Camp: Training report
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-25
5g
Letter from Trenches: "The Lullaby of the Guns"
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-05-25
1a
Fruit and Vegetables for the Fleet in the North Sea:
Haywards Heath Veg Products Committee
Haywards Heath
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7d
Men of Sussex and the Royal Sussex Regiment; summary of comforts sent to RSR
battalions [detailed]
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3b
A Bognor Constable at the Front: Interesting Letters From of PC Standing [2nd RSR]
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3e
What They Think at the Front: The Sussex Regiment Busy [Pte Green of 2nd
describes heavy losses]
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7d
Men of Sussex and the Royal Sussex Regiment; summary of comforts sent to RSR
battalions [detailed]
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
7cd
Views from across the Atlantic
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
2c
Comforts for Soldiers
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
7d
Limbless Sailors and Soldiers
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
2d
Families of Interned Aliens: Local government contribution .
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
7d
Our Limbless Sailors and Soldiers: Follow up to previous letter of appeal.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
2c
The Song of Truth: Poem - from the maidens of GB to Kitchener's Army.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
2ef
Around Ypres: Letter from front re. battle of Ypres.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
2d
The Queen and Women Doctors: The queen contributes to cost of medical training
for women.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
8f
Women's Hospital for Serbia: British women doctors & nurses help out in Malta on
way to Serbia.
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
7b
HMS Kent, Lines from a Bognor Man
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
5c
Disclaimer. Germans in Bognor
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
3cd
Bognor Members Signal Troop
Bognor
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
3f
Belgian Refugees
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5c
Germans in Bognor: A Disclaimer; letter from shopkeeper rumoured to be of German
descent
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3f
Belgian Refugees at Bognor: Appeal for Support [from Bognor UDC]
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
4e
Bognor: Mr J. Weekes’ Benefit; 700 enjoy interesting variety of entertainment at
Kursaal: netball on skates, boxing, singing & dancing!
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
4f
Whitsuntide at Bognor: Plenty of Amusements; interesting variety: mixed bathing
leading to a “certain liveliness”, films & open-air concerts enjoyed by many visitors
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
4e
Bognor: Helping the Wounded; Red Cross Men’s Voluntary Aid Detachment helps
transfer wounded to Graylingwell
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
4e
Bognor: Smokes For The Royal Sussex; thank you letters from RSR troops
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3c-e
Bognor Members of Signal Troop; photo of Signal Troop of South Easter Mounted
Brigade, all from Bognor
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7f
The War: An Appeal to Bognor; appeal for recruits for 4th RSR [none from Bognor]
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
4e
Bognor: Smokes For The Royal Sussex; thank you letters from RSR troops
Bognor
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
5c
Germans in Bognor: Letter from Bognor trader disclaiming German ancestry.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
4e
Helping the Wounded: Bognor Red Cross Group help Graylingwell wounded.
Bognor
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
3c-e
Bognor Members of Signal Troop: Picture of South-Eastern Mounted Brigade.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
7b
HMS "Kent": Poem by Bognor sailor re. naval battle.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
4e
Smokes for the Royal Sussex: Thanks from soldiers for donations of cigarettes and
tobacco.
Bognor
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
7d
Work for Women
Brighton
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
3c
More Wounded Soldiers at Chichester
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
4f
Helping the wounded
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
5b
Graylingwell, Hints to visitors
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
4c
National Service for Non-Combatants
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
4f
Local Wedding
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
7e
Chichester Tradesman's Son Killed
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
3e
At the Front RSR Busy
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3e
More Wounded Soldiers: Another 120 Arrive at Chichester [some to Graylingwell &
RSxH]
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5b
Graylingwell War Hospital: A Hint To Would-Be Visitors; huge nos. of visitors to the
700 wounded causing issues
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
4d
Chichester: The Holiday; comment on glorious weather but subdued holiday & fewer
visitors due to war [but NB see.084 below]
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
7cd
Through American Eyes: Letter received in Chichester giving American view.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
5b
Graylingwell War Hospital: Suggestions for visitors.
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5f
A New Rector for Selsey: Rev. Wilson Appointed to Cuckfield: Rev. MacDermott To
Be His Successor; long article praising Wilson [portrait
Cuckfield
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3c
Goodwood Abandoned: Duke of Richmond’s Decision
Goodwood
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Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6f
Troop train collision:
The Royal Scots involved
Gretna
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
4de
Military Funeral at L/Hampton
L/Hampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
7e
Possibility of Air Raids:
Precautions at Lancing
Lancing
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
7f
Ambulance Work at L/Hmton
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
4d
Funeral at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7f
The War: Ambulance Work at Littlehampton; summary of local St John’s Ambulance
Brigade war effort to date & appeal for funding
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7b
Littlehampton Notes: The Suspended excursions. Also advert for Selsey Tramway
cheap day return tickets pm
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7f
The War: Ambulance Work at Littlehampton; summary of local St John’s Ambulance
Brigade war effort to date & appeal for funding
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
7b
Amazing Gaiety: Editorial comment on cheerfulness of returning soldiers.
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
7f
Ambulance Work at Littlehampton: Need to replace St John's Ambulance group.
Littlehampton
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
8f
Women's Hospital for Serbia
National
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5f
A New Rector for Selsey: Rev. Wilson Appointed to Cuckfield: Rev. MacDermott To
Be His Successor; long article praising Wilson [portrait
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5c
Selsey: For Those Over Age and West Wittering Volunteer Guard; 2 articles about
their formation
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7b
Littlehampton Notes: The Suspended excursions. Also advert for Selsey Tramway
cheap day return tickets pm
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5e
Singleton: Rifle Range Opened; to train local Volunteer Training Corps
Singleton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
5e
Singleton: Opening of rifle range in connection with Singleton & District Volunterr
training Corps.
Singleton
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
7E
BRIGHTON RAILMEN at the Front
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
3e
What they think of the Front RSR
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
4c
Smokes for the RSR
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
7d
Men of Sussex AND THE RSR
SUSSEX
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Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
2c
Poem from "Maidens of GB to Kitcheners Army
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3d
Eggs For Wounded Soldiers; Another Record 4,266; list of places contributing and
local hospitals in receipt
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5a
A Question of Principle: The C.D.P.A.; good discussion on grant application by
Chichester Diocesan Purity Association [tbc]; plus comment in 2/6/1915 p7;
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3d
Eggs For Wounded Soldiers; Another Record 4,266; list of places contributing and
local hospitals in receipt
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7d
Correspondence: Our Limbless sailors and Soldiers; appeal for funds for first
[London] hospitals set up
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5a
A Question of Principle: The C.D.P.A.; good discussion on grant application by
Chichester Diocesan Purity Association [tbc];
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5f
West Sussex police: The Increased Cost of Living; article in journal from serving
policeman claiming he can’t maintain his family on wages
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
3d
Eggs For Wounded Soldiers; Another Record 4,266; list of places contributing and
local hospitals in receipt
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5a
A Question of Principle: The C.D.P.A.; good discussion on grant application by
Chichester Diocesan Purity Association [tbc];
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
8f
The War: The Need for Sand Bags; instructions to women on how to make them
West Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
7d
Correspondence: Our Limbless sailors and Soldiers; appeal for funds for first
[London] hospitals set up
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
7ef
All Hands to Fight the Gas Foe: Appeal for funds to provide Belgian soldiers with gas
masks.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-05-26
5c
West Wittering Volunteer Guard: Route march with aim of recruitment.
West Wittering
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
2d
Families of Interred Aliens
Westampnett
Bognor Observer
1915-05-26
2c
Chairman's Bereavement
Westampnett
Chichester Observer
1915-05-26
5c
Selsey: For Those Over Age and West Wittering Volunteer Guard; 2 articles about
their formation
Witterings, West
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6de
Cycling Soldiers' Sports:
Bank Holiday Programme
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
5d
Boy Labour in War Time
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
5f
Italian Residents:
The Alien Registration Order
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6f
At the Theatre:
Another Review
A representation of the Gordon Highlanders arouses enthusiasm
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0526
5e
Accidents at Holiday Time:
Motor Vehicle in Collision
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6f
'Kitchener wants you!'
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
3d
Harrison's Nursery Pomade
- Advert
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6c
The Power of the Pence:
A Red Cross Collection
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6d
Celebration of Empire Day:
The Mayor's Address
Sussex-road Boys who have fallen in the War
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6b
A Postcard from a member of Fifth Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6c
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6f
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund:
Appeals from the Front
What two Tasmanian children have done
Letter from Royal Army Medical Corps
'Gazette' Tabacco Fund:
Currency at the Front
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6f
Censorship at the Front
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0526
6f
Work for Women
Worthing
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
2f
Home Office Order; Soldiers discharged as unfit for further service;
Pension rates
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
5a
Letter from the front;
Condemnation on shirkers
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
4f
British Red Cross & St John's Ambulance;
Term of service for members of Voluntary Aid Detachments (women) reduced to 6
months
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
8f
Wounded Soldiers at the Cottage Hospital;
Invalid soldiers arrival
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
8e
Volunteer Training Corps in camp;
44 members
Account of weekend
Crawley
Ifield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
8f
Highlanders at Crawley;
200 members of Scottish Regiments billeted in town
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
2ef
Volunteer Training Corps [Field day and instructive operations
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
5a
Conspicuous bravery at Ypres;
Rifleman Rice Rifle Brigade
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
2a-ef
Roll of Honour
East Grinstead;
Serving King and Country
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-05-29
8c
Local Losses At The War;
Prvt. Ballam Royal Sussex Regiment
Horsham
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1915-06-01
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Women and the War:
Noble Work to Alleviate Suffering: account of Women's Suffrage meeting
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-01
7d
Women and Farm Work:
National Farmers Union meeting
Lewes
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-01
1g
Patriotic Lindfield: 7fgVTC Inspection
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-01
2g
Splendid but Helpless: How the 5th Sussex fought on May 9th (Letter)
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
5bc
Crystal Palace in Wartime: Deport of Royal Naval Volunteers: Need For Recruits;
detailed feature & appeal
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
5f
Lord Edmund Talbot’s Appointment in the New Ministry; becomes a Parliamentary
Secretary to the Treasury in new Coalition
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
8d
The War: From A Chichester Drummer Boy; letter about training & frustration at not
being sent to Front
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
3f
Women Doctors After The War; general article, mentions were in hospitals before
war
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
3c-e
Chats with the Wounded: Stories from some of the men at Graylingwell.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
4a
The Admiralty: News of changes.
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1915-06-02
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Crystal Palace in War Time: Now the home of the Royal Naval Volunteers.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
3f
To the Last Ounce: Entrance of Italy into the war.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
3b
Women's Occupations: Male objections to women moving into new areas of work.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
3f
Women Doctors After the War: Talk.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
8d
Women's Military Hospital in London:
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
4d
Girls of Thirteen: Letter about girls taking place of errand boys.
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6g
War Fever – Volunteer Defence Battalion cause riots
– Letter from soldier in Fourth Sussex
Bedford
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
8e
Military Sports at Bognor
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
7cd
The Lighting Order: More Bognor & Selsey People Fined; 14 summoned at Chi Petty
Sessions for breaching blackout restrictions
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
8e
Military Sports at Bognor: Sports dau of 2/9th Hants Cyclists.
Bognor
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1915-06-02
2e
An Optimistic Artilleryman: Letter from front re. big battle.
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
3cd
Chats with wounded Heroes. Maimed but happy
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
4b
Helping Wounded at Chichester
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
8d
Gratitude for Cigarettes
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
8d
Just like Wittering!
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
7f
Canadian Soldier’s Theft at Chichester; details of his war posting too
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
3c-e
Chats With the Wounded: A Visit to Graylingwell War Hospital; very detailed feature
including details of patients & staff and first hand accounts of fighting
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
8f
Graylingwell War Hospital: Joy Rides For The Wounded: Local Ladies Who Help…
feature
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
4b
Chichester: The Ladies Linen League; short report on AGM
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
7ef
Canadian Soldier's Theft at Chichester: Stolen bicycle.
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
8d
Littlehampton Man Wounded
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
4b
Littlehampton: The Fair; critical report on scale compared to previous years; plus
adverse comment on p.5
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
4f
Littlehampton Harbour: Railway Cross-Channel Service Inaugurated
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
8f
Memorial Service at Selsey Church
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
8f
Police Constable for Army
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
7cd
The Lighting Order: More Bognor & Selsey People Fined; 14 summoned at Chi Petty
Sessions for breaching blackout restrictions
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
3d
Officers Servant from Sussex
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
8d
Comforts for RSR
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
8d
The War: Comforts for Sussex Regiment; appeal for specific items for 2nd RSR
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
3b
Women’s Occupations; excellent summary of the issues raised by women taking
men’s jobs [detailed]
West Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1915-06-02
8d
The War: Comforts for Sussex Regiment; appeal for specific items for 2nd RSR
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
4b
No Sunday Schoold Treats This Year:
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
2f
National Service Organised by the Constituency: Call for men over service age to
offer their skills.
West Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-06-02
8d
Westbourne Workhouse for Wounded
Westbourne
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-02
8d
Westbourne Workhouse for Wounded: Committee to consider using worhouse as
military hospital.
Westbourne
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6f
Men of the West Sussex Constabulary who have entered military service
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6f
Khaki New Testaments handed out to the Cycle Corps of the Royal Sussex
Regiment
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6g
Three-mile limit on Fishing
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6d
Hairdressers and the War
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
5f
The Aliens' Order:
Court Case concerning people from France
Worthing
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1915-0602
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Another Recruiting Effort:
To-Night's Meeting
Duke of Norfolk and Mr. Crooks MP as Speakers
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
7e
What the Postcard Said-:
Tabacco and Cigarettes needed for Hospitals
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6d
Naval and Military Patrols:
The Lighting Order
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6f
'The Buffs' marching to Worthing from Shoreham
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6g
Wounded Indian Servicemen recovering in Military Hospitals in Brighton visit
Worthing
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6cd
The Call to Arms:
A National Duty
How every man may do his part in the Great Crisis
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
5a
Lantern Slides:
In Aid of Queen Alexandra's Field-Force Fund
- Advert
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
5b
A Startling Street Incident:
An Officer's journey from Brighton to Portsmouth
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6f
Men on the Spot:
What they say.
Artilleryman's Stirring Experiences in Flanders
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0602
6f
An Appeal for Hospital Bed Jackets
- A letter
Worthing
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Courier
1915-06-05
3e
Manhood Service;
Territorial Force Association;
A resolution for conscription
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
2f
With the British Forces in Africa;
Writing from Garub
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
5a
A Comforting letter from France about death of brother
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
3e
Absentee;
Ralph Arnold Royal Sussex Regiment stationed at Cooden
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
2cd
Roll of Honour
Crawley and District;
Serving King and Country
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
5a
Son landed from Canada;
SapperSignal Company Canadian Royal Engineers
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
2b
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps.
East Grinstead Battalion;
Whit Sunday Manoeuvres
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
5a
R.N.L.I. - Role in war
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
5c
Local Soldiers Wounded;
Several severly wounded soldiers;
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-05
5c
Local Soldiers Wounded;
Several severly wounded soldiers;
East Grinstead
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1915-06-05
5d
Discharged soliders with tuberculosis; need for specialist facility
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-05
5g
Fusiliers' Farewell Concert; 22 Btn Royal Fusiliers
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-05
5d
Horsham Cricket Club; reduced membership rates for soldiers
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-05
5e
Sandbags; letter re sandbags made
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-05
5f
Horsham and District Jottings; recruitment into 3-4 Btn RSR
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-05
5c
Women's Emergency Corps; report on local meeting
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-05
3g
Restricted lighting; infringement of lighting order
Hove
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
5d
St John's parish Church Army: news from pulpit on work done at Front and support
for families
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
8g
Registration of Aliens - Burgess Hill: Report of individual case
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
5d
Burgess Hill VTC - victory at shooting
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
5g
Band plays to wounded soldiers (Chailey Heritage)
Chailey
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1915-06-08
3g
Haywards Heath Vegetable Products Committee - donation to Fleet via Harwich
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
7g
A Platoon of only Five Men: Letter reporting battle at Ypres
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
1g
Rifle Range opening at Horsted Keynes: local donation for VTC
Horsted Keynes
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
2g
Keymer Council: Home Protection Brigade & Fire Brigade: call for volunteers
Keymer
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
8f
Letter of appeal by VTC Company Commander for volunteers for Staplefield
Company.
Staplefield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-08
2f
Letter from St Maj. Luckett - Indian Expeditionary Force
Wivelsfield
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
8e
Machine Gun Batteries Full
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-09
8e
Machine Gun Batteries Full Up:
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-09
7c
The Burial of Victims of the War:
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-09
7c
A Proposed Memorial:
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1915-06-09
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War Scenes: Letter from front - refugees fleeing ruined towns.
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
2e
In Case of Invasion
Arundel
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-09
2e
In Case of Invasion: Road surveyors to help Emergency Committee in case of
invasion.
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
8e
Returned Heroes
Barnham
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
4c
Bognorian Killed
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
5a
Vote of Sympathy
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
8e
Bognor Family Fine Record
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-09
5cd
Bognor Council: Isolation Hospital; request approved to receive infectious wounded
troops at hospital
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-09
8e
The War: Bognor Family’s Fine Record; and Six Sons in the King’s Service: Drayton
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-09
8e
Bognor Family's Fine Record: Six brothers serving in army.
Bognor
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Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
6f
Military Funeral at Broadwater: Alarming Incident
Cyclists of the 6th Battalion of Royal Sussex Regiment
Broadwater
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
8e
More wounded for Graylingwell
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
7c
Chichester Council. Burial of Victims of the War
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
7c
Proposed Memorial in Cemetery
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-09
3d
Royal West Sussex Hospital Rates; The Lancet criticises high rates being paid
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-09
4e
Graylingwell War Hospital: Entertainments and Motor Drives
Chichester
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
6f
'Gazette' Letter-Box:
Graylingwell Hospital
An Appeal for comforts for the Wounded Soldiers
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
8e
Six Sons in the Kings Service
Drayton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-09
8e
The War: Bognor Family’s Fine Record; and Six Sons in the King’s Service: Drayton
Drayton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-09
8e
Six Sons in the King's Service: Five servicemen and one postman.
Drayton
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1915-06-09
4d
Naval Funeral
Felpham
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
4d
Naval Funeral
Felpham
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
4e
Motorboat Trip for Wounded
L/Hampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-09
8e
The War: First Lavant Man Killed; Pte Peskett from 2nd RSR
Lavant
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-09
8e
First Lavant Man Killed:
Lavant
Chichester Observer
1915-06-09
4d
Littlehampton: Motor Boat Trip For Wounded
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-09
4d
Motor Boat Trip for Wounded: Littlehampton Motor Boat Club takes 50 men to South
Woods.
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
7b
An Interesting River Trip:
Motor Boat Club entertains wounded soldiers
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
8f
Stretcher Bearer Classes
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-06-09
8f
Voluntary Aid Detachment
Selsey
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1915-06-09
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Selsey: Voluntary Aid Detachment; 1st meeting of VAD of Red Cross Society leads to
men’s & women’s sections
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-06-09
3c
Westhampnett Guardians: For Our Soldiers; agreed to Brighton request for W.
Isolation Hospital to be used for infectious wounded
Westhampnett
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5f
The Alien Order:
Court Case
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5e
Comment:
Defence of the Realm Act
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5e
Lighting and the Defence of the Realm Act
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
6def
Another Recruiting Rally:
Humorous and Persuasive Speech by Mr. W. Crooks MP.
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
4g
The Official Register of Aliens:
Sold by the 'Gazette'
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
4fg
Alexandra Day:
Red Cross Hospital Appeal - Advert
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
3f
Piermaster's Missing Bicycle:
Police Court Sequel
Member of Royal Field Artillery under remand
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5d
Military Camp at Golf Course
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0609
5e
Indian Soldiers visit Worthing from Brighton
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5d
Windsor House School:
Telegram from Lord Kitchener
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5e
Steyne School and the Sugarless Brigade
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
6fg
Gifts for Sussex Soldiers:
What the British Temperance Women have sent them
Royal Sussex Regiment
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
7d
Heavenly Comforts in the Trenches
- Advert
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5d
In the Service of their Country
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5d
In the Service of their Country
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5e
A letter from a Bombardier from the Royal Field Artillery
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
5d
Servicemen from the Royal Sussex Regiment killed
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0609
3f
Women and Agricultural Work in War Time:
An Important Movement
- Letter
Worthing
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Courier
1915-06-12
7c
Another Alleged Spy;
Arrrest of German spy
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
8f
National Motor Volunteers;
An appeal to Sussex motorists
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
6ab
My First Week as a Recruit;
A Private in the Army Ordance Corps first week
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
6f
Bread for Prisoners of War - In Germany;
War Office special care of preparation and packaging of bread directive
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
5f
Cyclists Wanted - 30 cyclists required to bring 6th (Reserve cyclist) Royal Sussex
Regiment to full strength-
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
3e
Local Men at the Front;
Driver Hartfield and Sapper Friend
Ashust Wood
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
5d
Off to the Front;
Men of the Surrey Yoemanry
posted for service to the front
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
5d
Military Absentees - 2 more arrested.
Police monetary reward
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
5e
Reported missing;
Missing since May after 3rd time at front
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
2b-e
Roll of Honour
Crawley Down, Turners Hill, West Hoathly, Three Bridges and Rowfant;
Serving King and Country
Crawley Down
Turners Hill
West Hoathly
Three Bridges
Rowfant
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
3c
Failing to Register;
A Belgian failed to register
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
3a
Home for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors;
Now open
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
3c
Artilleryman Summoned;
Frank Smith RFA;
Didn't need a license as in Army!
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
8e
Serving His Country;
Dr. Eschwege given leave of absence to join R.A.M.C.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
5c
Presentation - Company Sergeant Major L. Raven Volunteer training Corps leaving to
re-join the army.
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-12
8a
Horsham and District Jottings; May's recruitment figures
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-12
2e
Horsted Keynes VTC;
A rifle range for members
Horsted Keynes
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-15
5c
Opening of Balcombe Red Cross Hospital
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-15
3b
Cuckfield Council: Labour shortage and air raid precautions
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-15
3f
Cuckfieldian's Adventures with the Australians
Pte T E Boarer
Cuckfield
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-15
3f
Hassocks Farmers' Sale for War Relief
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-15
8f
Absentee charged at Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
Lady Smith Dorrien:
Providing bags for letters to wounded soldiers
Berkhamstead
Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
4c
Sunday School Treats and the War
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
7d
Terrible Gas
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-16
4ef
Intercession Service at Bognor; v. detailed account of fortnightly service, includes
full transcript of sermon
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-16
4ef
Intercession Service at Bognor: Details of sermon.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-16
8f
In Praise of Hants Regiment: Letter from Bognor man serving in Hants Regiment.
Bognor
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
North Country Territorials:
The Range at Cissbury
Burgess Hill
Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
8f
Graylingwell Praise
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
8f
Old Prebendal Boy Killed Chichester
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
7c
Chichester Soldiers in Trouble
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-16
8e
Graylingwell War Hospital: Motor Drives and Entertainments
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-16
5f
Cricket at Chichester Barracks; Depot Club v. a ‘Sergeants’ 11; typical of sports;
leagues abandoned but military fun matches
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-16
4a
Chichester: Respirators For The Royal Sussex; women made & sent 235 in a day in
response to urgent need
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-16
7bc
Bicycle Thief Who Fought at Mons: Fishbourne Man Sentenced at Chichester;
probable ‘shell-shock’ – won’t return to Front
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-16
5f
Cricket at Chichester Barracks:
Chichester
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5f
East Coast Raid
East Coast
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5f
A Field Artilleryman home from the Front
East Preston
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
7d
Good Collection for the Red Cross
Lancing
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Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
3e
Billeting of Troops
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-16
3e
The Billeting of Troops: No troops currently billeted in Littlehamton.
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
7b
Helping the Ambulance Brigade
- St John's Ambulance
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
7c
St John's Ambulance Division
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
7c
On the Watch:
Volunteer Training Corps
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
7ab
In the Council Chamber:
Littlehampton Affairs
The War and the cost of living
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
7b
Message from the Trenches
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
The Queen's march through the town
Shoreham
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
6f
Red Cross Hospital:
A sale of a kitten
Tarring
Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
2ef
Education Committee. Bad Precedent
West Chiltington
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Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
2e
Education committee. Boys for farm Work
West Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-06-16
4d
National Service organised by the Constabulary
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-16
4a
Respirators for Royal Sussex: Women make respirators to send to troops.
West Sussex
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
6f
Another Urgent call for Cigarettes!
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
Mayor's Relief Fund:
British Prisoners in Germany
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
Letter sent to Miss R Bingham, Headmistress of Holy Trinity Infants School
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
6f
Advertising for a driver:
Must be ineligible for military service
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
6ef
English Prisoners in Germany
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5d
Alexandra Day:
Appeal to the public to buy the wild roses
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
Post Office Rifles
A London Regiment
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0616
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The World's Greatest War: Mr. Garrison's Lecture
- Recruitment
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
7e
Colonel Fitzgeorge:
Special Train travels down from London - Auction
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
3e
The Man on the Spot:
Don't Forget His Tabacco - Advert
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
A letter from a Soldier from the Army Service Corps: 'Gazette' Tabacco Fund
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
War Relief Committee
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5f
The Artilleryman and the stolen bicycle
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
6f
The Attack on the Dardanelles:
A memorable sight
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
5e
Royal Sussex Regiment Official Returns
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0616
6f
More local soldiers killed in action
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
3a
Shortage of agricultural labour for the hay harvest;
Soldiers of New Armies and Territorial Force to be given furloughs
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
5a
An army order dealing with Kit allowance
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
5ab
Report of the Board of Education;
Many women have returned to tho profession
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
8ab
Women's Work In War Time;
League of honour meeting
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-19
7b
British Red Cross Society appeal for walking sticks for the wounded
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
2de
Roll of Honour
Crawley and District;
Serving King and Country
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
5b
Lance-Corpl Spencer Sussex Yoemanry obtained his ambition "leading mechanic in
photography" Royal Naval Air Service
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
5c
Privt. CE Pearson Civil Service Rifles succumbed to his wounds received in France
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
6d
he Hon. Gerard Freeman-Thomas;
Court Orders Death To be Presumed
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
5b
Alec A Johnson
Left Sandhust and gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant;
Eat Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
2c
Absentee from the Sussex Yeomanry;
Alfred Tuppen fed up
Haywards Heath
Maresfield
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Times
1915-06-19
8a
Invasion of Horsham; Arrival of the Royal Horse Artillery
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-19
5d
Eggs for the Wounded; letter re egg collection
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-19
5G
Amusing letter from the Front; life behind the Lines
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-19
5f
Killed in action;
Private William Comber Royal Sussex Regiment attempting to capture a German
position.
West Hoalthly
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-22
1a
War Horticultural Relief Fund - Flower Show proposals
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-22
1b
Ignorance of Alien Regulations: Haywards Heath individual case
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-22
7b
The Wounded at Malta: Lindfield man's story of their arrival
Lindfield
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
8d
The Munitions Bill: Editorial.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
5a
A Littlehampton Theft: Canadian soldier steals bicycle. [seems to be a rash of these.]
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-06-23
4b
Recent Recruits
Bognor
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Bognor Observer
1915-06-23
8e
Said to be Wounded
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
4e
Bognor’s Egg Record; town contributed 1,404 eggs last week helping push Chi area
to 3rd out of 920 depots in GB
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
5ef
Bognor Congregational Church: Sale of Work; series of events through day
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
4ef
Bognor: Reopening of Kursaal, Cricket Club, Pierroland, Olympian Garden, Tonight’s
Carnival, Pier Pictures & Pastoral Play; review of summer entertainment
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
5d
Correspondence: Bognor & Pagham Beach Decoration; litter complaint
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
4e
Bognor’s Egg Record; town contributed 1,404 eggs last week helping push Chi area
to 3rd out of 920 depots in GB
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
4e
Recruiting at Bognor; appeal for RSR 10th recruits
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
5d
Military at Cricket: Matxh between RAMC and Cyclists Battalion, Hants Regiment.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
4e
Recruiting at Bognor: Visit by recruiting party.
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
8e
Gratitude for Shirts: Letter from front sending thanks for clean shirts.
Bognor
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1915-06-23
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Another Convoy for Graylingwell
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-23
4e
Brother in Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
7bc
A Canadian Drum Major at Graylingwell; letter praising hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
8a
Australians in Chichester; appeal for them to visit comrades at Graylingwell [advert]
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
3ef
Chichester Brotherhood: Half Yearly Book Distribution; review of last 6 months
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
4b
Chichester: Wounded Soldiers Outing; motor trip from Graylingwell to Wittering
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
7bc
A Canadian Drum Major at Graylingwell; letter praising hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
8f
Graylingwell War Hospital: Another Convoy of Wounded; 101 arrive, many from
Dardanelles
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
4b
Chichester: A Good Example; Shippam’s employees forego their annual outing &
donate instead to hospitals
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
5b
Another Bicycle Theft: Canadian soldier steals bicycle.
Chichester
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Observer
1915-06-23
7bc
A Canadian Drum Major at Graylingwell: Letter of thanks to Chichester.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
8a
Australians in Chichester: Request for visits and comforts for wounded Australians.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
92b
A good Example: Employees of C. Shippham Ltd. donate their outing money to
military hospitals.
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
5ab
‘A Littlehampton Theft’ & ‘Another Bicycle Theft’; 2 Canadian soldiers guilty
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
5ab
‘A Littlehampton Theft’ & ‘Another Bicycle Theft’; 2 Canadian soldiers guilty
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
5b
The New Uniform: The Littlehampton Volunteer Training Corps.
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
7c
Canadian Dragoon Charged:
- Stolen Bicycle
Littlehampton
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
7b
Volunteer Training Corps:
Uniforms ordered for the members
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
3b
A West Sussex Tragedy: Terrible Discovery At A Farm; Result of Depression By The
War; suicide of Thomas Dare
Poling
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
3b
A West Sussex Tragedy: Terrible Discovery At A Farm; Result of Depression By The
War; suicide of Thomas Dare
Poling
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Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
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‘A Littlehampton Theft’ & ‘Another Bicycle Theft’; 2 Canadian soldiers guilty
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
5ab
‘A Littlehampton Theft’ & ‘Another Bicycle Theft’; 2 Canadian soldiers guilty
Selsey
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
6f
National Reserve as Cricketers
- Fourth Royal Sussex Regiment
Staplehurst
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
7c
An Aeroplane Mishap:
Royal Flying Corps
Storrington
Bognor Observer
1915-06-23
8e
Recent Recruiting Figures
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
8e
The War: Recent Recruiting Figures; nos from Sussex towns in May
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
2d
A Chichester Barracks Tragedy: Invalid Recruit’s Sad End [suicide]; illustrates
tremendous pressure to enlist
Washington
Chichester Observer
1915-06-23
8a
Final Visit: To Every Good Driver; appeal for drivers to transport troops to Front
[advert]
West Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-06-23
8e
LT Gill Wounded
West Wittering
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-23
4bc
Wounded Soldiers' Outing: 33 wounded taken for tea at Wittering.
Wittering
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Gazette
1915-0623
5f
Library for the Trenches and the Training Camps
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
6f
Women in Agriculture
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
7c
Workhouse food in war time
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
6a
Maxim Machine Gun
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
4g
Wounded Soldiers:
Grange Convalescent Home
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
5f
Service at The Grange Convalescent Home
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
3ef
Working Men's Institute:
Sixteen members join up
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
5f
Recruiting tactics at the theatre
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
6d
The Call for Recruits:
Patriotic Addresses at the Picturedrome
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
3fg
At the Picturedrome:
- Royal Naval Division
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0623
5e
Publications from the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee now at the Library
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
3b
Wild Roses in Demand!
- Celebrating Alexandra Day
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
6de
The Volunteer Equipment Fund
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
6ef
More Local Men Among the Fallen
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
5e
The War:
- A snapshot of the battlefield
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
5e
Value of the Smoke Helmet
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
5e
What is being done in the Dardanelles:
- Graphic Narrative
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
5e
Letter from a Hussar
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
7e
Soldiers look like Burglars!
- Letter from Third King' Royal Rifles
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
3a
Royal Sussex Solider
Worthing
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Gazette
1915-0623
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A Royal Sussex Soldier and his exploits
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
5e
Cyclist Battalion indulging in the 'noble art'
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
5fg
Cyclist Soldiers on Screen
- Sussex Territorial Cyclists
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
6b
Women working in local Nurseries
Women joining the ATS
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0623
6cd
Hospital Work in France:
Suffrage Societies' Gifts
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
5a
Chief Rabbi's Visit to the Front;
Chief Rabbi is paying a visit to Sir John french and the troops at the front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
5e
1st Battalion Motor Cyclist Volunteers "B" Company (West Sussex);
Appeal for volunteers
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
6b
When a twelve-inch shell strikes the water
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
4f
New War Loan available subscribe through Post Office;
"Scrip vouchers" from P.O.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
8d
Honours for Sussex Soldiers;
Men recommended in despatches for galant and distinguished services
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
6d
Custard with a fork;
Meal time difficulties in the army
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
4f
War Office has authorised another company of cyclists with Royal Sussex Regiment
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
8e
Roll of Honour;
Additions and corrections
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
2b
Military Motor Cyclist and His License;
Military had not renewed his license
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
2b
Belgian Refugees and the Prohibited Area;
summoned for bein gin restricted area. (county)
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
4f
Four East Grinstead Lads accepted as 2nd Air Mechanics Royal Flying Corps.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
4f 5a
Sergt Lamkin writing to friends
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
5c
The Death of Private Edward Godfred Martin
killed in action at Richebourg
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
5c
The Death of Private Edward Godfred Martin
killed in action at Richebourg
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
4f
Lieut. Whidborne Coldsteam Guards mentioned in despatchesi
Hammerwood
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
2e
Military Jurisdiction;
Fredk. Cox Royal Sussex Regiment
Horsham
Bognor Observer
1915-06-26
5b
New Uniform For VTC
L/Hampton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
3e
A Lieutenant Summoned;
Allan Stewart Royal Sussex Regiment
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
5a
Lieut. Fisher-Rowe Grenadier Guards mentioned in despatches was wounded at
Neuve Chapelle. His brother died in the same action.
Rowfont
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
8c
Fatal Aeroplane Accident;
Lieuetenant Merkill East Yorshire Regiment died in hospital
Shoreham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-06-26
5d
Three Bridges Lad's Experience at the front.
Three Bridges
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-29
5fg
Bolney and the VTC : Address by Maj. Lister
Bolney
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-29
8g
Burgess Hill's Gift for Field Use in Belgium
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-06-29
2d-f
Caring for the Wounded at Haywards Heath: Cottage Hospital report
Haywards Heath
West Sussex County
Times
1915-06-29
5g
The Fusiliers' Farewell, A hearty send off; their departure for Nottingham
Horsham
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Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
5c
Partisan Suffragism and the National Crisis; anti suffragist letter [detailed]
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
4a
The Winning Factor: Editorial on British endurance.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
4e
Married Men in the Army: Numbers of married men & requirement for support of
widows.
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
5c
Partisan Suffragism and The National Crisis: Polemic from the Treasurer of the
National League for Opposing Women Suffrage.
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
3d
Cafe Chantant:
Choral Society raise money for the Red Cross Hospital
Angmering
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
4f
Bognor Appeal for our Soldiers
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
4c
War Munitions Bureau
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
3b
Empire Day Celebrated at Bognor: Large Congregations at the Churches
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
3b
Empire Day Celebrated at Bognor: Large Congregations at the Churches
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
2e
Bognor Dairyman and his Wife: A Charge of Assault; case of domestic violence
Bognor
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Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
4e
The War: Bognor Appeal For Our Soldiers; new comforts committee set up
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
4e
A Bognor Appeal for Our Soldiers: Committee formed to supply urgent goods.
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
4f
Garden Party for Wounded Soldiers
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
4d
Soldiers at Cricket
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
4e
Gratitude for Chichester's Help
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
4b
Chichester: The Church Army; Pioneer Helpers’ League give up annual picnic to raise
£ for CA Red Cross
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
4c
Chichester: Garden Party For Wounded Soldiers; Graylingwell outing
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
5de
Graylingwell: List of Subscriptions [all donors named] plus various events
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
5ab
Alexandra Day at Chichester …A Total of £408 11s 4d For Royal West Sussex
Hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
5ab
Alexandra Day at Chichester …A Total of £408 11s 4d For Royal West Sussex
Hospital
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
4c
Garden Party for Wounded Soldiers: 150 soldiers at Cawley Priory.
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
4e
Gratitude for Chichester's Help: Thanks from doctor at front for supplies sent.
Chichester
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
5b
The New War Loan
Findon
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
2e
Littlehampton Footballer at Front
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
4d
Littlehampton: Training Corps Activity
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
4d
Littlehampton Notes: The Visitors; tourist numbers holding up
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
4d
Littlehampton: The Affairs of Miss Onion; laundry business goes bankrupt part due to
war
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
3de
Littlehampton Sailors’ Institute: Annual Meeting of the Society: War Work [detailed]
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
2ef
Littlehampton Footballer At The Front; letter describing experiences of LCpl Harry
Sturt in RSR 7th
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
3d
War Work: Involvement of Littlehampton Sailors Institute in caring for wounded.
Littlehampton
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1915-06-30
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Training Corps Activity: Update on Littlehampton Volunteer Training Corps.
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
2ef
Littlehampton Footballer at Front: Letter from front.
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
4e
Married Men in the Army
National
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
8f
Holidays and the War
National
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
4e
Selsey War Heroes
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
5f
Death of a Selsey Soldier
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
4e
The War: Selsey and War Heroes; whole football team have joined up bar one
Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
4e
Selsey and War Heroes: Selsey Football Club - all but one joined up.
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
5d
Frederick John Littlechild Killed in Action
South Bersted
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
2c
Sussex Vicar Death at the Front
Walberton
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1915-06-30
2d
Sussex Vicar’s Death at the Front: Rev P.J.T.Blakeway, Vicar of Walberton [of
sunstroke]
Walberton
Bognor Observer
1915-06-30
4e
Kings Birthday Honours
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
2f
Another 5,000 Eggs: For Our Wounded Soldiers; Chichester Depot contribute 2nd
highest total out of over 900 GB depots
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
2f
Another 5,000 Eggs: For Our Wounded Soldiers; Chichester Depot contribute 2nd
highest total out of over 900 GB depots
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
8b
Notice to Mariners: More detailed regulations for trading, fishing, pleasure cruising
and boating.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
8f
The Lighting Order: Editorial comment on people showing lights.
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-06-30
8f
Holidays and the War: Editorial comment on whether people should still take
holidays.
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-06-30
4e
The War: The Camps’ Library; Midhurst [Woolbeding] rep. of this project explains
scheme to send books to men a Front
Woolbeding
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
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Gas mantles made in Germany
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
6f
An alien's furniture
Worthing
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Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
6de
Wounded soldiers from the front
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
6b
Arrival of the Band: Yorkshire Hussars
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
5c
Money for charities
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
5e
Steyne School Cadets
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
5f
Garments for soldiers
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
6cd
Patriotic working society
Worthing
Worthing
Gazette
1915-0630
5c
New College for the troops
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
9bc
Coastwise Lights; Court cases of people showing lights
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
3e
News From Sussex Vicar's Sons
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
6h
Two Pictures; Poem from West Sussex soldier
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
11e
Somewhere In France; Poem from Sussex solider mentioning Arundel
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1915-07-01
5b
Conviction of enemy alien and English landlord
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
5b
Contribution to Belgian Soldiers on the Front Line
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
9b
Royal West Sussex Hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
9a
Wounded soliders outing and local contributions to the wounded
Chichester and District
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
9c
Account of Private Bradley at Cottage Hospital
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
9c
Henfield; letter from Major-General Sir John Ramsay
Henfield
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
9d
Troops, including Royal Sussex Regiment, from Shoreham Camp visiting Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
9f
Volunteer Traning Corps Formed
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
12d
Honour For Private J Ellis; Letter to parents
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
9de
Good-Bye To The Fusiliers; departure of 22nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers from Roffey
Camp
Roffey
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
12g
Hotel-Keepers And Aliens; court case of hotel owner failing to register foreign guests
Worthing
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
12h
County Court And The War Conditions; court case involving German national
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
12g
Fundraising and war contributions
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-01
12g
Obituary for local Officer
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
4f
The Munitions Lightning Campaign
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
8b
Fruit and Vegtables for the Fleet.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
4f
Court-Matial on Navy Spy.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
2b
Farmer's Sons and Enlistment
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
2b
Removal of Germans to Camps
Birmingham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
2b
The Career of a Bicycle
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
2f
Lance Corpl. Patching with the Hon. Artillery Company
East Grinstead
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
4e
Call for munitions workers
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
5f
Belgian Refugees aid
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
4e
Advert for Soldiers insignia etc
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
4e
French Relief Fund
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
4e
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
5b
Letter from Front
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
5b
Appeal to Slackers, letter from front
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
5d
9th Sussex march in Horsham
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
6b
The 4th Sussex Battery in India
India
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
8d
Pease Pottage, military camp movement
Pease Pottage
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-03
3e
Danger to Ceral Crops by Incendiary Bombs
Sussex
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
8b
London teachers volunteer for agricultural work
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
8b
Roehampton Hospital for amputees
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
2a
Call to Arms,
repeated weekly
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
1b
Coupon for National Relief Fund,
repeated weekly
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-03
3g
Call for letters from the Front,
repeated weekly
West Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-06
3e
Theft of Military Uniform
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-06
2f
A Patriotic Action
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-06
2d
Letter from a Haywards Heath Cleric at Gallipoli
Gallipoli
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-06
3g
Recruits wanted for Royal Sussex Regt
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-06
1b
Lighting Offences
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-06
6a-g
Roll of Honour Men of Mid-Sussex South
Mid-Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-06
8f
Sussex Casualties Biographical Notes
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-07-07
2b
The Teachers Holiday; An Offer to Work in the Country; From London teachers farm
work for the war effort
Bognor Observer
1915-07-07
8f
News of Lieutenant Talbot; Regiment not mentioned; Prisoner at Munich: aircraft
dropped english paper
Bognor Observer
1915-07-07
8f
Royal Sussex Casualties: from official list
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
8f
Chichester Runner at the Front
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
3e
Bognorian at the Front; letter with transcript of The Song of the Tigers, 1st Hants
Regt.
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
5f
A Selsey Soldier's Experiences; letter from soldier serving with RFA
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
8f
Bognor Man In Egypt
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
8f
News of Lieutenant Talbot; PoW in Munich
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-07
6e
Nursing Work in France
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Bognor Observer
1915-07-07
3b
2,000 Eggs; On going reports on eggs for wounded soldiers scheme; this report
details where eggs sent locally recently
Bognor
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1915-07-07
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Bognorian at the Front; More Praise for the Hampshire's
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-07-07
2e
Bosham; A War Memorial Service
Bosham
Bognor Observer
1915-07-07
8f
More Wounded Arrive at Chichester; Mr Shippam passes out cigarettes; Presumably
to go to Graylingwell?
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-07-07
1f
Graylingwell War Hospital; 1st page advert for useful food and other items
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-07-07
8f
Chichester Runner at the Front
Chichester
1915-07-07
1f
Graylingwell War Hospital; appeal for donated items; repeated each week;
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
8f
More Wounded Arrive at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
5d
Mayoress of Chichester's Serbian Relief Fund. Another Good Work Accomplished;
contribution summarised in letter of thanks from Secretary of the Fund in London
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
7de
A Total of 5,574. Chichester and District Depot's Egg Contribution; monthly totals
and distribution
Chichester
Chichester Observer
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Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
4ab
Roll of Honour; lists Donnington, Funtington, serving, missing and dead; repeated
weekly until 11 August
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
6a-f
Roll of Honour; lists Chichester, Lavant, The Ambulance Brigade, Boxgrove, Earnley,
Bosham, Selsey & District, West Wittering, Sidlesham, Birdham, Lavant, Eartham;
repeated weekly until 11 August
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
4d
Cricket at the Barracks; Depot C.C. and the Sergeants; Depot C.C. and 2/9th Hants
Regiment
Chichester
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1915-07-07
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Chichester & District's Depot Egg Contribution; a total of 5574
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-07
5d
Graylingwell War Hospital; More enjoyable concerts
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-07
5d
Mayoress of Chichester's Serbian Relief Fund
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-07
8f
THE WAR; More Wounded arrive at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
8b
Notice to Mariners. Regulation of Trading, Fishing, Pleasure Cruising & Boating;
Restrictions issued by Admiral of the Fleet; REPEATED***
Coast
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-07
4e
Recruiting in June; official return for Sussex
East & West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
8ef
Sussex Volunteers' Field Day; exercise involving Eastergate, Barnham and District
unit of Sussex Volunteer Training Corps and Chichester section of 1st Volunteer
Motor Cyclists' Battalion
Eastergate
Barnham
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1915-07-07
8f
THE WAR; Bognor Man Wounded in Egypt Private Cecil Smith's letter
Egypt
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
4f
Military Concert
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-07-07
5e
The Sunday School Treats. The Railway Company; Sunday School outings cancelled
+ plea for patience
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-07
2b
The Teachers'Holiday;An offer to work in the country
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-07
4a-c
Local Roll of Honour; lists Donnington, Funtington
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-07
6a-f
Local Roll of Honour; lists Littlehampton, Wick & Lyminster,Angmering, East Preston,
Arundel
Littlehampton
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1915-07-07
5f
A Selsey Soldier's Experiences;letter from R.F.A soldier
Selsey
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-07
8ef
THE WAR; Sussex Volunteers Field Day;1st Volunteer Motorcyclists Battalion
Slindon
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-07
8b
Notice to Mariners; Regulation of Trading, Fishing, Pleasure Cruising & Boating
South Coast of
England
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-07
7d
Eggs for Wounded Soldiers
Storrington
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1915-07-07
8f
THE WAR;Royal Sussex Casualties
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-07
5f
The Alien Order
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-07
6c
"Gazette " Tobacco Fund
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-07
6c
The Great War Loan
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-07
6de
Work for Women and Girls
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-07
6e
What it is Hoped to Accomplish : letter from Nat.Union of Women Workers; Worthing
branch
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
12c
A Clever Dodge Against A Training Corps; militart exercise by Eastergate Volunteer
Training Corps
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
9g
Christ's Hospital; details of effect of War on staffing and students called up to service
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
4f
Lowther's Lambs
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
11f
Women And Agriculture
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
12g
Worthing Women And French Hospital
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
4e
For King And Country Local Men For The Front; list of men of the Parish who have
enlisted with details of killed, wounded and prisoners; repeated for parishes in most
issues
Angmering
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
5b
Ardingly College students summond to court for not registering as aliens
Ardingly
West Susssex Gazette
1915-07-08
4e
For King And Country Local Men For The Front; includes details on one family with 6
members at War
Clymping
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
5f
Jarrett family losses
East Grinstead
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
3b
Men Of Sussex A Patriotic Effort
Edgware
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
4e
For King and Country Local Men For The Front
Ferring
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
4ef
For King and Country Local Men For The Front
Goring
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
9g
Concert by Royal Fusiliers of Roffey Camp at Horsham YMCA Hut
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
9g
Memorial Service to fallen soliders
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
10d
The VTC Satisfactory Progress
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
12c
Return of under-age recruit
Pulborough
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1915-07-08
12f
Hotel owner fined for failing to register foreign guests
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-08
12f
Court case of Hotel Owner failing to register foreign guests
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-10
2f
In the Trenches
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-10
7c
Indian V.C at Royal Pavilion
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-10
5e
Sandbags; Crawley ladies making sandbags for the front
Crawley
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
5b
Military Hospital gifts N.B. regular feature each week
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
5b
War Hospital Supply Depot
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
4e
Naval display and recruiting meeting announcement
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
5b
Naval display and recruiting meeting details
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
8g
Staff problems at Christ's Hospital
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
5f
Strength of Sussex 3/4th Bn. of RSR
Horsham
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-10
4e
Lingfield Recruiting
Lingfireld
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-10
7f
Fatal Accident at Newick; Canadian Solidier killed in a road accident
Newick
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
4a
Small add for possible female gardener
Rudgwick
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
8d
Eating of new potatoes
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
8c
Call for home-made sandbags
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-10
5f
June recruitment nos. to RSR
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-13
5c
French Flag
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-13
9f
Lighting Offences
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-13
2c
Slaughter of Calves
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-13
6a-g
Roll of Honour Men of Mid-Sussex North
Mid-Sussex
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1915-07-13
8f
Mid-Sussex Casualties
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-13
4f
Wounded Soldiers in Mid- Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-13
7g
Our British Regulars
UK
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
8b
Notice to Mariners; Regulation of Trading; Fishing, Pleasure Cruising and Boating,
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
2b
Licensed Vitcuallers; Snippet on billeting horses at pubs and fee for this
Chichester Observer
1915-07-14
8e
From a Chichester Private
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
5a
Workman's War Bonus (Bognor Council); Extra as a result of increasing prices
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
7f
Further light cases; Included to show scale of problem
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
4c
Sand Bags for the Front; Made by Women's Emergency Corps
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-07-14
7b,c
Military music at Bognor; question raised whether military bands should be hired to
play in public. Debate continues in subsequent weeks
Bognor
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1915-07-14
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Workmen's War Bonus;Finance Cmtee decision to pay 2s. wk extra
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
2c
Slaughter of Calves and the Milk Supply; Impact of government order Board of
Agriculture - discussion
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
5f
Military at Cricket; YMCA Chichester v Band Royal Sussex Regiment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-14
8e
More wounded arrive at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-14
2c
Eggs for wounded soldiers. Last weeks total: 4,800; Weekly tally of eggs
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-14
5f
Military at Cricket
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-14
2b
Chichester & District's Depot Egg Contribution; a total of 4800
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-14
8e
THE WAR;More Wounded arrive at Chichester
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-14
2c
Licensed Victuallers Meeting; Drinking by Soldiers Wives;Bishops involvement
Chichester,Arundel,Bo
gnor, Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-14
2c
Licensed Victuallers Meeting; effect of billeting of horses on National Trade Defence
Association
Chichester,Arundel,Bo
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Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
5d
Examples of further housing and vehicular breaches of lighting orders; Felpham and
Clymping / Littlehampton
Felpham
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-14
5g
Findon A New War Loan Club
Findon
Chichester Observer
1915-07-14
5d
Unobscured Light: "Tiresome Visitors." One of many prosecutions
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-14
5f
French Day at Littlehampton;collection of £100 for French Red Cross
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-14
4a
Roll of Honour; Donnington & Funtington
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-14
6a-f
Roll of Honour;Littlehampton, Wick &Lyminster,Angmering,East Preston and Arundel
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
7e
A Danish Maid's Registration; example of need to register aliens in the coastal area;
Also Light showing - same person
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1915-07-14
3f
Selsey; For King and Country; News of several men, says 7th Battalion Royal Sussex
Regiment now gone out
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1915-07-14
8ef
More Recruits Wanted
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-14
5e
Misadventures of a Swiss Chauffeur
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-07-14
6cd
Our Volunteer training Corps
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-14
6f
Miss Stack wishes to thank…;sandbags
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-14
5g
Tickets Please!
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
6b
Village Parsons And The Register
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
3d
If The Germans Came Sussex And Invasion Precautions; details of question asked in
Parliament
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
10e
Seaplane loss in Channel off Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
4d
Balcombe resident fined for failing to register foreign guests
Balcombe
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
10b
Court case of hotel owner failing to register foreign guests
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
6h
Graylingwell War Hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
5a
The Volunteer Training Corps Inspection
Fittleworth
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
9h
1st Battalion Sussex Home Protection Volunteer Brigade camp at Hassocks
Hassocks
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
4e
Burgess Hill resident summond for being a foreign alien in a prohibited area
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
4c
A Turk On Holiday; court case of a Turkish man failing to register as an enemy alien
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-15
10c
Memorial Service to fallen soliders
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-17
8a
English Prisoners in Germany
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-17
5a
Communication from the war office; asking for rejected men to be rexamined
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-17
5b
3/4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment Formed
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
3d
Banning of German music
Bexhill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-17
3d
Recent visit of the secretary for India
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
5e
Taxi rides for wounded soldiers
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
2d
Register of Alien
Cowfold
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Times
1915-07-17
5c
War Hospital Supply Working Guild
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
6b
Emergency drill by Training Corps
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
4e
Advert for Naval Display
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
5g
Letter from disgruntled territorial
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
8e
Roffey Camp social evening
Roffey
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
3g
Appeal from traders short of men
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
3e
Recruiting rules relaxed
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-17
3f
More Territorial recruits wanted
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
3e
Wounded Soldiers
Brighton
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
7d
French Flag Day
Burgess Hill
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
7f
Letter. Some experiences of fighting the Turks
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
1b
Appeal for Recruits
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
2c
Women's Right to serve
London
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
2f
Crawley & Horsham Hunt
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex South
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
1f
Sussex Casualties. Biographical Notes
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
5e
The Penny Fund for Sick and Wounded
UK
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
4f
Eligibility for War Service
UK
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-20
4f
War Pensions
UK
Bognor Observer
1915-07-21
2b
Train Service Alterations; Mentions that all cheap fares (some exceptions) are
suspended
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Bognor Observer
1915-07-21
7e
Letter from a Chichester Man; On trip out to the front; Private A Cooper 7th Batt RSR
Chichester Observer
1915-07-21
7e
The new Armies; How They are Introduced to Modern Warfare; letter from the front
(7th Sussex)
Bognor Observer
1915-07-21
5c
Waterplane Wrecked off the Coast; Airmen picked up by G and E Ragless, fishermen
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-07-21
5c
Waterplane wrecked off the coast
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-07-21
5c,d
Toy making at Bognor
Bognor
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1915-07-21
5c
Waterplane Wrecked off the coast; naval pilot & rescued by Bognor fishermen
Bognor
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-21
8f
THE WAR; Munitions from Sussex; Duke of Norfolk arranges meeting
Brighton
Chichester Observer
1915-07-21
4d
The Bishop and Marriage of Aliens
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-21
5e
Graylingwell War Hospital; More concerts and motor drives; update on activities
provided and supported by local people. Patient numbers. Repeated weekly
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-21
4e
Two Khaki Men Astray; absent from regiment; Percy Watkins (alias Skinner) and
Thomas Burke)
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-21
5a
Cricket. Depot R.S.R. v. Rev. Leveson-Gower's XI
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1915-07-21
8f
Sandbags for the 4th Sussex;Mayoress organised local women to make 102 sandbags
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-21
5a
Chichester &District Depot Egg Collection; 4860
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-21
5e
Graylingwell War Hospital;the gift fund
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-21
7e
The New Armies; How they are introduced to modern warfare;letter from a
Chichester man
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-07-21
8f
Sandbags for the 4th Sussex; Sent out by a group of ladies as Battalion sent to
Dardanelles
Chichester; Cowfold
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-21
7c
War Work at Durrington Women's Part
Durrington
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1915-07-21
8f
THE WAR; Sandbags for the 4th Sussex
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-21
4g
Wounded Soldiers at the Grange Convalescent Home
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-21
6ef
Gas Mantles made in Germany
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-21
6g
Small Shot; Worthing Territorials leave for foreign posting
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-21
3cd
At the Ticket Barrier
Worthing
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-22
10e
Marraiges Of Aliens Warning By The Bishop Of Chichester; letter warning against
approving marriages to Germansor Austrians
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-22
3b
Preparing The National Register Westhampnett Rural Council And Guardians;
preparations for National Register of adult males not in armed forces
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-22
10g
Story From The Front Fighting In The Dardanelles; letter from Private Powell of
Lindfiled to a Haywards Heath Resident
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-22
5a
For Our Defenders; appeal for gifts to soldiers and seamen
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-22
4b
Arundel Evensong 1915; poem mentioning War and Arundel
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-22
10a
A Soldiers' Concert; concert by Royal Fusiliers at Roffet Camp
Roffey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-24
7c
Indians and Whiskey; Man fined for giving whiskey to a man against orders
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
2f
German woman whose son fought and died for the British
Eastbourne
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
5g
Billeting at Council School
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
5a
Call for volunteers to manage National Registration
Horsham
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
5a
Low crime due to war
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
5e
Impact of War on local Hunt
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
4d&e
Advert for tobacco etc to be packed for the front
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
8g
Life in the trenches not so bad ?
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
5d
Proposal to increase size of Roffey camp
Roffey
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-24
5b
Appeal for mouth organs
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-27
1b
Defence of the Realm-Lighting Offences
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-27
3g
Letter from Haywards Heath Soldier
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-27
2f
1/4 Royal Sussex Regt
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-27
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex North
Mid Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-27
5g
Women's Services
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-07-27
8g
Claims for damage to Property by the Military
UK
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
5e
Sussex County Huts; Funds wanted to maintain these at Red Cross Hospital, Netley
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
7c
Treatment of returning Soldiers with tuberculosis, insured or otherwise. (West
Sussex County Council)
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
5e
The National Registration Act; Volunteer enumerators wanted plus other info
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
5f
More Lighting Order Cases; Useful to guage level of observance
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
4e
War Anniversary Meetings on 4th August promoted by Duke of Norfolk
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
8f
7th Batt. RSR Casualties
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
3b
Young Boxgrovian Overseas. An Interesting letter
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
4e
A Word for the Slackers; letter from trenches
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-28
6e
Men on the Spot News from men in 7th batt RSR
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Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
8e
Arundel; Arrangements for National Registration locally
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
2e
Scouts at Arundel Castle. A Delightful Entertainment
Arundel
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1915-07-28
5e
National Registration Act; Duke of Norfolk's request for volunteers
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
4d
Bognor Amusements; Town reported as full of visitors, possibly most ever
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
7b
Music at Bognor; A Voice from the Trenches; Saw paper at front, not happy with
councillors debate; suggests using wounded men for band
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
7b
Music at Bognor. A Voice from the Trenches. Bognor Private's Scathing and Pathetic
Comment
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
2c
Farmers and the Harvest; Assistance from the military, effect of Slaughter of Animals
Order 1915; Farmers Union meeting
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
5b-d
Picture of Matron, nurses and rooms inc patients at Graylingwell Military Hospital
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
8e
Graylingwell War Hospital; One of a series of regular events, but this one a large
party of wounded men (40) visiting Goodwood House etc by car
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
3f
New Laid Eggs for Wounded Soldiers; Example of update with parishes providing and
hospitals receiving; Chichester Depot in this case
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
4b
5b-d
Graylingwell Military Hospital; set of 3 photographs; associated text
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
8e
Graylingwell War Hospital; short note on performance since becoming war hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
2f
Soldiers Who Lied. Troublesome Couple Handed over to Escorts at Chichester; story
continues of 2 soldiers absent from regiment
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-07-28
5b-d
Graylingwell Military Hospital; 3 photos
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
4b
Goodwood Week; cancelled this year as war time
Goodwood
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
5e
The Anniversary of the War; patriotic call to support 'righteous war'
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-07-28
4f
THE WAR; 7th Batt RSR Casualites
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
8f
Singleton Bereavements; Contrast between unlucky accidents and causalties from
the front
Singleton
Bognor Observer
1915-07-28
4c
In Memory of the Fallen; Servces in South Bersted; For the 9 local men so far killed
South Bersted
Chichester Observer
1915-07-28
2d
The Sale of Hay, Corn, etc.
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-07-28
6b
Twixt You and Me; women taking over men's jobs
Sussex
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1915-07-28
7c
Discharged Soldiers & Tuberculosis; Insurance and provision of care
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-29
8b
How Bombardier Duley Gained The DCM; detailed account of action
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-29
7c
Lance Corporal J H Chevis's Adventures At The Front
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-29
7c
Women's Emergeny Corps "At Home" At Cowdray Park
Easebourne
West Sussex Gazette
1915-07-29
8g
Enemy Alien living in prohibited area
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-31
8b
Comforts for the 4th Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-31
5f
Year of War; Letter from the front
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-31
8c
'The Anti-German Union'
Billingshurst
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-31
8e
Ban on German parts
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-31
5c
Sandbags; more sandbags sent to the front
Crawley
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-31
8b
Sandbag Campaign
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-31
6d
Recalled to service from the altar
Harlesden
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-31
5g
Christs Hospital pupils working in munitions
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-31
8c
Letter from PoW
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-31
3e
Appeal for donations towards Sussex Huts
Netley
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-31
5e
Work of YMCA
Roffey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-07-31
3c
Memorial Window at Southwark
Southwark
West Sussex County
Times
1915-07-31
3e
Letter from Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle promoting war anniversary meetings
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-01
3d
From the Old Maid's Point of View
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-03
3a
Wounded Soldiers at Chailey
Chailey
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-03
1f
Military Sports Meeting
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-03
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex South
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-03
8f
Soldiers for farm work
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-03
5e
Sussex Casualties
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-04
5d
Worthing Soldiers in the Trenches
Bognor Observer
1915-08-04
8b
Bognor Urban District Council: The National Register; Registration details and
information required; more details than might be expected
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-08-04
8f
Five Sons in the Army; Bognor; 3 RSR
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-08-04
2f
Military Funeral at Bognor. The Late Sergeant J. J. May
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-08-04
8f
Five Sons in the Army: Bognor
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-08-04
3b
Chichester Guardians; Zeppelin Attacks; insurance against damage etc to workhouse
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1915-08-04
5ab
Dean of Chichester on the War;
Chichester
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1915-08-04
2c
Chichester & District's Depot Egg Contribution; a total of 20,000 in a month
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-08-04
8f
Comforts for 4th Battalion RSR; Appeal by Mrs Campion of Danny; wife of
Commanding Officer
Hassocks
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-04
7b
Volunteer Training Corps
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-08-04
4d
National Committee for Relief in Belgium;
Sussex
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-08-04
5d
The War Seal Foundation;scheme for disabled servicemen
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-04
6f
Open Air Intercession Service; marking 1st anniversary of start of War
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-04
7c-f
The "Gazette" and its Tobacco Fund
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-05
8d
The Eggshell Message Unexpected Thanks; letters from front in response to egg
donations
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-05
6h
Unveiling of memorial to Captain Boxall
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1915-08-05
8b
Naval Display And Recruiting Meeting
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-05
8g
Replacement of 'objectionable' German manufactured stones in Worthing church
objects
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-07
8f
Sandbags
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-07
5c
Wedding at Wesleyan Church
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-07
5g
Church Lads Brigade prevented from holding camp
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-07
5f
Loose Billetting arrangements
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-07
5b
Letter from front, thanks for Clarionet
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-07
5g
British PoW
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-07
5g
RSR move out of Horsham
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-07
5b
Marriage of Lieutenant Colonel Rigdon
Knightsbridge
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-07
6f
Belgian Refugees assisted in Lingfield District
Lingfield
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-07
5f
Wesleyan sandbags
Southwater
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-10
1915-08-10
1915-08-10
1g
3f
3b
Life in France
Restricted Licensing Hours
Your Country needs You
Cuckfield
Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-10
1a
Unobscured Lights
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-10
1a-e
Anniversary of start of War
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-10
1915-08-10
4g
6a-g
Registration under the Registration Act
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex North
Mid Sussex
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-10
7c
The Fighting men of Sussex
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-10
7g
Sussex Casualties- Biographical Notes
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
7ef
What Economy Means - hints by War Savings Committee; compiled from national
documents on food savings and nutrition
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
3ef
Government Insurance against German Air Raids or Bombardment; Advert puts
comment in to context
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Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
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Royal Sussex Casualties;
Chichester Observer
1915-08-11
8e
Letters from a Cicestrian
Chichester Observer
1915-08-11
8ef
Chichester Drummer on the Ocean; letter
Chichester Observer
1915-08-11
8f
A Bognor Man in the Trenches
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-11
6f
The Men on the Spot
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
5f
Correspondance' Music In Bognor; Notes the problems Bognor would have as a
seaside resort if suffered as East Coast
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
5c
Chichester County Petty Sessions; Many More Light Cases; Visitors in Boarding
Houses not aware of regulations
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
5f
Lights; Clarification of requirements at boarding houses
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
8f
A Bognor Man in the Trenches; Letter from the Front; Correcting home view that
major action for RSR has happened plus other info
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-08-11
2ef
Declaration Day at Bognor. The Vicar on the War. Large Congregation at the Parish
Church
Bognor
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1915-08-11
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THE WAR; A Bognor Man in the Trenches
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
3b
Chichester Council; Against Air Craft etc. (insurance); and National Registation,
enumeration areas in Chichester; all property to be insured
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
8e
Letter from the Front; Survives burying by German mine - Not RSR however, but
interesting
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-08-11
5f
Aid for the Royal Sussex; A ? first request for funds to help lower ranks and their
families
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-08-11
4ef
Chichester and the War Anniversary. One of several articles over 2 weeks to
promote the righteousness of the British
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-08-11
4c
Absent from his Regiment; William Smart
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-08-11
5ab
Graylingwell War Hospital;Arrival of More Wounded
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-08-11
8e
THE WAR; Letters from a Cicestrian; news from the front
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-11
7d
Lancing and its Postwoman
Lancing
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-08-11
2ef
Advertisement;How you can invest in the War Loan;through the Post Office
Littlehampton
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Worthing Gazette
1915-08-11
7c
Sompting and the Services; first casualty list
Sompting
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-11
5c
Re-naming the Kursaal
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-11
3cd
Preparing the National Register
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-12
4g
Formation of Anti-German Union
Billingshurst
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-12
10a
Billeting arrangements for soliders
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-12
10a
Farewell To The 3/4th Royal Sussex Regiment
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-12
12b
The 9th KRR's; news of Battalion formerly billeted at Petworth
Petworth
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-14
8b
a Copthorne lad's experiences at war
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-14
2f
4th Sussex Battery R F A in India
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-14
4e
News from the front
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-14
5c
Boys at work on farms
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-14
5g
Demand for and cost of sandbags
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-14
8a
Account of capture of German wireless station in Africa
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-14
8b
Account of German attack on trenches
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-14
8d
'An Interesting Letter from the Front'
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-14
2g
Deserted to get to the Front sooner
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-14
8a
Recruiting in the Carfax
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-14
8b
Formation of miniature rifle club
Warnham
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
5d
Recruiting March
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
7e (1)
Red Cross Society. Penny Fund
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
1g
Horticultural War Relief Fund
Haywards Heath
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
4g (1)
Your Country needs You
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
8c
VTC Men & Licensing Restrictions
Mid Sussex
1915-08-17
2ef
Mid Sussex Men who died for the Empire
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex South
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
1f
Sussex Casualties-Biographical Notes
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
4g (2)
Sick and Wounded in France
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-17
7e(2)
Disability Pensions for Soldiers
UK
Bognor Observer
1915-08-18
3e
West Sussex Education Committee - Boys for Farm Work; latest numbers under 14
allowed to not attend school
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-18
6e
Men on the Spot What they say
Bognor Observer
1915-08-18
3c
Southdown Sheep Rams 60 sent to France on request of French Authorities
Mid-Sussex Times
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Bognor Observer
1915-08-18
5d
Unobscured Lights: Governor of Pentonville Prison failed to observe restrictions while
at Felpham
Felpham
Bognor Observer
1915-08-18
6a
Littlehampton: Postal Facilities; Post Office under staffing pressure so afternoon
delivery remains later
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-08-18
2ef
Advertisement; Government Insurance Against German Air Raids or Bombardments
UK
Chichester Observer
1915-08-18
3e
Boys for Farm Work
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-19
3f
Sussex Sea Fisheries; restrictions on coastal waters
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-19
11d
Arundel Men Home From The Front
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-19
3c
Proud Village Record Chiddingfold's Two DCM's
Chiddingfold
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-21
3c
Arrival of wounded soldiers
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-21
5d
Council view of 'Saving in War Time' document issed by govt.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-21
5c
Postponement of Council elections
Horsham
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-21
5f
War Hospital Supply Depot report
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-21
5f
Account of being bombed in trenches - includes mention of 'nervous breakdowns'
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-21
5g
WSR in action in Dardanelles
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-24
3e
Taxi trips for the Wounded
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-24
4g
Your Country needs You
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-24
5d
A Million Eggs
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-24
2c
Mid Sussex Men who died for the Empire
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-24
2d
Mid Sussex Men who died for the Empire (cont)
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-24
5b
Royal Sussex Pioneers
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-24
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex North
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-24
1ab
Sussex Casualties. Biographical Notes
Sussex
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Bognor Observer
1915-08-25
8a
Notice to Mariners; Amendments to restrictions for fishing craft amoungst others
Bognor Observer
1915-08-25
6f
Royal Sussex Casualties; latest
Chichester Observer
1915-08-25
3d
The Strikers; a poem by Gunner F. J. Brookes, R.F.A (of Bognor)
Chichester Observer
1915-08-25
6f
Shelling a Hospital; letter about Ypres
Chichester Observer
1915-08-25
7b
Written in the Trenches. Bognor Man's Letter on the War
Chichester Observer
1915-08-25
7d
The Men of Sussex; poem by F.J. Brooks, R.F.A. (of Bognor)
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-25
6c
Worthing Men in Action in the Dardanelles
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-25
6ef
Men on the spot
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-08-25
4d
Help for Belgium;Duke of Norfolk's committee raising money for food
Belgium
Bognor Observer
1915-08-25
4c
Naval Seaplanes Off Bognor; This is an account also seen elsewhere of a forced
landing and rescue by local fishermen
Bognor
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Bognor Observer
1915-08-25
4c
Toymaking at Bognor; More details on products premises and development of the
scheme
Bognor
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-08-25
7b
Written in the Trenches; Bognor man's letter
Bognor
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-08-25
6f
THE WAR; Shelling of Hospital at Ypres; letter from Bognor man
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-08-25
8def
List of Local Enumerators; Also has info on what was done; Bognor and Chichester
etc. May be to small to read on digital image but of interest
Bognor/ Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-08-25
5f
Graylingwell War Hospital - A few of the 4th Sussex: Wounded from Gallipoli
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-08-25
5e
National Egg Week; Chichester Depot collection;Over 8,000 Eggs
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-08-25
6f
THE WAR; A grateful patient at Graylingwell; letter from wounded soldier
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-08-25
8a
Notice to Mariners; amendments to regulations; repeated the following week
Coast
Worthing Gazette
1915-08-25
5e
In the Board Room A Question of Insurance
East Preston
Bognor Observer
1915-08-25
3b
Two Officers of 4th Battalion in Near East wounded; (No significant details)
Littlehampton
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LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-08-25
3cd
How We Can Save;Special words for women
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-08-25
6c
Farmers and Recruiting; possible Farmers' Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-08-25
6e
War Office and a Farmers' Battalion
Sussex
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-08-25
7d
Poem; Men of Sussex
Sussex
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-08-25
6e
West Sussex Farmers' Union; Women for Farm Work
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-26
3b
From German South West Africa To Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-26
3e
Failure to report foreign aliens as tenants
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-26
7e
The Rise Of The Brookes; 14 members of the family serving
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-26
8cd
Graylingwell War Hospital Nature's Weapons; experiences of wounded soldiers of 4th
Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-26
7gh
Soldier Songs; Concert by 27th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
Horsham
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-08-26
8g
Change of name from The Kursaal to The Dome
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-28
5c
National Egg Collection
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-28
5c
20 yards from the Germans
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-28
2b
Military funeral at Forest Row; Sergt J. Jupp
Forest Row
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-08-28
3c
Eggs for the wounded
Framfield
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-28
5b
Shops closing for lunch
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-28
8b
Flag day for Russian wounded
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-28
8e
Food relief for Belgium
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-28
8a
WSR in Dardanelles
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-08-28
2f
Farming work for injured servicemen
West Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-31
3a
Royal Sussex Pioneers. Life in France
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-31
2c
4th Sussex in action against the Turks
Dardanelles
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-31
2e
The Watch on the North Sea
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-31
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex South
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-31
1ab
Sussex Casualties- Biographical Notes
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-08-31
7a
Help for Wounded Men
UK
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-01
6d
Caring for the Wounded ; Sidney Walter's visit to France
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
6c
No Cheap Trains at Present; Rail Companies still not providing cheaper fares due to
the war
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
6cd
Red Lights required on bicycles; As required by Defence of the Realm Act of April,
but now being enforced; two articles saved
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
6c
Local Elections cancelled for a year due to the war by Local Government Board.
Assumed to save money
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Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
3e
4th Royal Sussex in Action: interviews with wounded at Graylingwell; Home villages
given; Some info on first days at Suvla
Chichester Observer
1915-09-01
5cd
Bognor Lance Corporal Wounded; letter from Gallipoli
Chichester Observer
1915-09-01
3e
4th Royal Sussex in Action; long article listing wounded at the Dardanelles now at
Graylingwell War Hospital and their accounts of the fighting
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-01
5c
Good example for the Lazy Ones at Home!
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-01
5c
Gazette Letter box
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-01
6c
"In considering the part the local Territorials have just played..";in the Dardanelles
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-01
6cd
Gallant Fourth Sussex;in Gallipoli
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
5f
Lighting regulations; prosecution - includes different way to alter car lighting
variation in Portsmouth previously
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
5cd
Letter from Bognor man wounded at Gallipoli - 4th RSR
Bognor
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-09-01
5c
THE WAR; Letter from French Soldier in Cavalry Regiment, conditions for men and
horses
Bognor
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1915-09-01
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THE WAR; Letter from Soldier wounded in hospital in Malta
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
5a
Motor Drives for Graylingwell wounded; This has continued from the beginning of the
year and remains a regular thing
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
5c
Letters from French Soldier to Chichester friends; significant and important;
description of how bad things were while carrying on
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
7c
Military at Cricket; Scores Graylingwell V Depot; Lots of these events - an example
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-01
8e
Lord E Talbot & Conscription; Not Subject for Controversy; motion moved that every
man do his duty
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-01
5c
THE WAR;More Wounded for Chichester; Great Western Hospital train brings
seriously wounded soldiers from Western Front
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-01
3e
4th Royal Sussex in Action; Fighting at the Dardanelles
Chichester;Bognor;Aru
ndel
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
5c
Is it the War? Less vagrants - has been noted before in Observer that this is due to
the war
East Preston
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-01
7a
Volunteer Training Corps Lancing Interested
Lancing
Bognor Observer
1915-09-01
4f
Flag Day at Littlehampton for entertainments at the Front
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-09-01
2f
The Censorship
UK
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West Sussex Gazetee
1915-09-02
3c
Help For Belgium Influential Sussex County Committee Formed
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-04
2c
Letter from the front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-04
5f
4th Royal Sussex in Action
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-04
8f
Comforts for the 4th Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-04
5b
Fund for legal claim to recover billetting arrears
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-04
5e
Account of landing and fighting in Gallipoli
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-04
8g
Strain on War Workers
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
7b
Virtues of the Regulars
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
7de
VCT Supper and Concert
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
2c
The Lighting Order
Mid Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
1ab
Sussex Casualties- Biographical Notes
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
1f
Sussex Casualties-Biographical Notes (cont)
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex
North
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
8g
The Royal Sussex Regiment
A Provisional Battalion
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
2e
Nurses & Military Hospitals
UK
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-07
2f
Revised Rates for Billeting
UK
Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
8a
Amendment to fishing ban for powered boats over 30 foot
Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
2f
New Billeting Rates; National but relevant to Bognor as holiday resort
Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
2e
Wake Up Single Men; A letter from an RSR Lance Corp from the front plus German
Letter to troops
Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
5e
Officers comments on 4th Sussex action; Brief plus numbers of casualties
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Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
5f
Promotions and casualties in Royal Sussex Regiment
Chichester Observer
1915-09-08
2e
Wake Up, Single Men! Chichester Soldier's Plea From the Front; Letter about life in
trenches and appeal for single men to volunteer
Chichester Observer
1915-09-08
2f
Worse Than Hell. Bognor Man's Letter From the Front.
Chichester Observer
1915-09-08
5e
4th Sussex Casualties
Chichester Observer
1915-09-08
5e
Cicestrian's Life Saved by a Penny; letter from Gallipoli front
Chichester Observer
1915-09-08
5f
Cicestrian's Letter from the Dardanelles.
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-08
5c
An Absent Soldier's Thought for the Hospital
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-08
5c
Gazette Letter Box
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-08
5c
Rat Killing as Sport in the Trenches
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-08
7c
Sussex Men at the front
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Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
4e
Banham fat stock sale; These and other sales at Chichester etc reported regularly;
Prices frequently seem to be high perhaps due to War
Barnham
Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
4c
Wounded Soldiers Entertained; At Queens Hall Bognor (now Picturedrome), taken
out by Car and Charabanc from Graylingwell; Regular similar events
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
7 a-f
Mr Horatio Bottomley at Bognor; Plain Speaking About the War; Whole page; Well
known it seems; too big to save but might be of interest
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
2f
Letter from Front from Bognor Man (Not RSR)
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-09-08
7c-f
Mr. Horatio Bottomley at Bognor. Plain Speaking About the War; Editor of 'John Bull'
addressed large audience
Bognor
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-09-08
2f
Worse than Hell; Bognor man's letter from the Front
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
6c
Concerts for our wounded; Large audiences at both large Hospitals
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-08
5e
THE WAR; Soldier Boy at Graylingwell; 17 yr old son of bandmaster of 7th West
Riding Regiment
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-08
5e
THE WAR; Cicestrian's life saved by a penny
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
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1915-09-08
2e
Wake Up Single Men; letter from the front; plea to relieve married men; cotton
production in France; German propoganda letter
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1915-09-08
4f
Captain Basil Constable; Some details of his death at Dardanelles
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-08
2f
Over a Million Eggs; result of Alexandra Week
UK
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-08
2f
New Billetting Rates; Army Order
UK
Chichester Observer
1915-09-08
4c
Well Done, Wick; 3 sons of Mills family, Littlehampton serving
Wick
West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-09
3f
At Sea At Night; fishing boat restrictions at Shoreham
Shoreham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-11
8a
Crawley and the War; letter from the front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-11
2e
In Event of Invasion
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-11
3e
Military Wedding
Framfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
3e
Memorial Service for Cuckfield Heroes
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
3f
Memorial Service for Cuckfield Heroes
Cuckfield
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
7e
Wounded Soldiers at Cricket
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
4b
Recruits wanted for Sussex Yeomanry
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
1ab
Sussex Casualties and Biographical Notes
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
1f
The Sussex Boys and the German Host
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
2g
Marvellous conduct of the Sussex Pioneers
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex Men-South
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
4b
Hay and straw wanted for H.M. Forces
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
5g
Letter from CO 1/4 Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-14
7f
Men of Sussex at Gallipoli
Turkey
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-15
6f
Men on the Spot
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Bognor Observer
1915-09-15
7b
Coal and the Crisis; All local authorities must have had this; Coal price fixed at pit
head but not retail price; Bognor and other councils asked to deal with the issue
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-09-15
4f
Beach Photography Banned. Enforcing the Defence of the Realm Act prohibition
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-09-15
3f
Fire Brigade Drill Fees; Payment of firemen away on active service
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-15
2e
List of wounded soldiers arriving at Graylingwell and Royal West Sussex Hospitals;
To become a regular feature; full list not attached here
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-15
5c
Too Much Illumination; A standard case but more restricion (new) on reflected light
mentioned
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-15
3e
The Registration Workers; See list of those that wre involved with National
Registration; are lists for the main towns
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-15
5e
Voluntary Helpers Wanted; Parlimentary Recruiting Committee - going though
national registration lists
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-15
3de
Chichester Corporation property listed and re-evaluated for insurance purposes; to
include air raid damage;
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-09-15
2f
Wounded Soldiers at Chichester. Recent Arrivals at Graylingwell and the Royal
Hospitals; first time a complete list of all names published. Repeated following week
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-09-15
4c
Recruiting for the R.N.D.
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1915-09-15
4c
War Work in Chichester
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-15
2f
Wounded Soldiers at Chichester;recent arrivals at Graylingwell & Royal Hospt
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-15
4c
Recruiting for the RND; Royal Naval Division
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-15
4c
War Work in Chichester; Depot for War Work set up
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-15
6d
Registration in Littlehampton; Surpisingly few pink forms (men of military age not
already signed up)
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-15
5e
Official Figures Relating to Volunteering
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-15
5d
The Dependents of Soldiers
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-16
5e
Nurses Long For Water; Letter home from nurse on situation in French hospitals
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-18
6f
Sussex men are the right stuff
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-18
5e
Crawley town bandmaster rejoins army
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-18
6b
Military Wedding at Rodmell
Rodmell
West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-18
2g
Naval Honours for Sussex men
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-18
8b
Turks apologise for hitting hospital
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-21
8c
Funeral of a Ditchling Soldier
Ditchling
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-21
7e
Military Funeral at Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-21
8e
Early Closing of Public Houses
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-21
1ab
Sussex Casualties Biographical Notes
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-21
6a-g
Roll of Honour Men of Mid Sussex North
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-21
3a
The War: Work for All
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-21
3b
The War; Work for All (cont)
Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-21
3g
Sussex Territorial Forces Association
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
7d
Dearer Milk (West Sussex Farmers Union meeting); Does not say why but mentions
Southdowns Sheep arrived OK in France (request by French Farmers - see earlier)
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
5c
Amateur Photographers; How to cheer our men at the Front; From YMCA nationally
Chichester Observer
1915-09-22
4e
A Lance-Corporal Wounded; 1 of 5 brothers in the services; Robinson family from
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-09-22
8e
From Two "Chi-Chi" Lads
Chichester Observer
1915-09-22
8e
A Bognor Man in Gallipoli
Chichester Observer
1915-09-22
8e
A Letter from Mr. Bert Rands: Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-22
7c
With the Fourth Sussex
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
4f
An Aeroplane Fatality; Aircraft crashed at Bignor Park; Observer Sub-Lieutenant
William Croucher died at Graylingwell Pilot OK; Assume RNAS not RFC
Bignor
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
8e
A Bognor Man in Gallipoli;
Bognor
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1915-09-22
8e
A Bognor Man in Gallipoli; letter about hospital treatment
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
4f
Mayoress' Relief Fund; Paying out to women and girls thrown out of work by the war
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
8f
Graylingwel War Hospital; The Motor Drives; Still a regular (twice weekly) event
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
8e
Two Chi Chi Lads; Short letter from Front; Shelling German farmers
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
5a
Further cases of unobscured lights and vehicle lighting incidents as examples
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
4e
Private George Tandy interiewed by Observer about his 13 months at the Front;
Gloucester Regiment Not RSR
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-22
7e
Sussex Territorial Force Association; letter appealing for comfort supplies by ViceChairman
Sussex
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-22
5c
For Amateur Photographers; How to Cheer our Men at the Front; appeal by WMCA
UK
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
5b
Military Cross For Lieut K C Gill; Cambridgeshire Regiment not RSR; Father vicar of
West Wittering; Photo
West Wittering
Chichester Observer
1915-09-22
5b
Military Cross for Lieut. K.C. Gill
West Wittering
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1915-09-22
5b
Military Cross for Lieut K C Gill; gallantry rewarded
West Wittering
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
4a
Recruiting for Southdowns; Reserve battalion being formed for 11th 12th and 13th
Worthing
Bognor Observer
1915-09-22
8f
Worthing Football Captain Killed; Of wounds at Alexandria Hospital
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-23
2c
Royal Sussex Memorial Service; Memorial service at St Pauls Cathedral
West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-23
5a
Aeroplane Smash At Bignor Park
Bignor Park
West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-23
5de
For King And Country; Recruitment drive in Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-23
3d
198th Infantry Brigade Sports Long Programme At Pease Pottage Camp
Pease Pottage
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-25
2c
Letter from the Front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-25
5e
Mrs andMrs J Alderson of west street; Letter from the front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-25
8c
Letters from Crawley Soldiers
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-09-25
8e
An East Grinstead sergeant in the Dardanelles
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-25
5a
Military and air display
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-25
5f
Account of tunneling casualties
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-25
5d
Detailed account of Anafarta landing and failed offensive
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-09-25
2g
Temporary allotments on Duke of Devonshire Estate
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-28
3b
`Impressive Memorial Service
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-28
7a
A Letter from the Trenches
France
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-28
1fg
Sussex Casualties- Biographical Notes
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-28
2de
Mid Sussex Men who died for the Empire
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-28
4f
8th Royal Sussex Pioneers
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-28
6a-g
Roll of Honour Mid Sussex Men- South
Mid Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-28
7b
How to increase the nation's food supply
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-09-28
5a
A new opening for Women's Employment
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-09-29
8e
Interesting Letter from Co. Q.M.S. Willis: Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-29
6ef
Medical Men and the War
Bognor Observer
1915-09-29
4c
Bognor Soldier Promoted;Sergeant F Ede; Bravery in the field
Bognor
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-29
5def
Advertisement; Useful Gift for Men on Active Service; by gentlemen's outfitter
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-09-29
5e
Two big Convoys of Wounded; A Total of 439 in two days; From Gallipoli and new
offensive at the Front
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-29
7ef
Interesting point for Cyclists; When does a cycle travel? Red rear light needed if
pushing? Article not saved digitally summary above
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-29
4f
Airmans Surprise Visit; R Lillywhite of RFC visits mother at Portfield by aeroplane;
Nephew of famous cricketer
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-29
4f
THe Cahedral in War Time; Changes to times when bells will be rung
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1915-09-29
8e
Snapshots From Home; S Bastow collecting photos of soldiers homes/family as
suggested by Mr. Yapp of YMCA
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-09-29
8e
Interesting Letter from CO QMS Willis of Chichester; Gallipoli major action
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-09-29
4cd
The War Supply Depot.
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-29
8e
THE WAR; A Tommy's Thanks; letter from Cheshire man to Graylingwell Hospital and
chichester lady
Chichester
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-29
8e
THE WAR; Interesting letter from Co Q.M.S.Willis
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-09-29
5b
Littlehampton V.T.C. A Recruiting March
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-29
5b
Littlehampton Volunteer Training Corp; recruiting march to Rustington
Rustington
Chichester Observer
1915-09-29
4bc
Airman's Surprise Visit
Westhampnett
LITTLEHAMPTON
OBSERVER
1915-09-29
2e
Investment in War Loan; Westhampnett Finance Committee decision
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1915-09-29
7e
For the Soldiers' Sake
Worthing
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-30
11a
Whose Pigeon?; Military Carrier Pigeon found in house
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-30
11a
Women's Winter War Work
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-09-30
12c
Chief Constable's Action Criticised; foreign alien court case at Haywards Heath
Slaugham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-02
8c
Vegetables for the fleet
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-02
8c
Prisoner of war; appeal for packing cases to send to prisoners
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-02
6b
4th Sussex Battery R.F.A in India
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-02
6c
Communications from Crawley Soldiers
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
2ab
GOD SAVE THE KING! Army recruitment advert. RECURRING.
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
8a
Horsham Roll of Honour.
Death of Capt. A T Bostock
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
8fg
GR 1915. Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
8c
The Great War. Horsham and District Jottings. RECURRING.
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
8b
The Fourth Sussex in Action. Recurring.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-02
3d
Barcombe Men Enlist
Barcombe
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-02
3d
Arrival of Wounded Soldiers
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
5f
War Hospital Supply Depot
Report on activities. RECURRING
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
2f
To-day's Recruiting Rally. Details of troop march through Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
5e
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps. Company Orders.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
6fg
Roll of Honour Various regiments - Recurring
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
5f
Royal Fusiliers' Anniversary
Roffey
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-02
5f
Royal Fusiliers' Anniversary.
DCM presented to Horsham man also Cross of St George conferred by Tzar of
Russia.
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
5g
POLICEMAN'S COMMENDABLE ACT
Bolney
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
5d
FOR THE FLEET
Burgess Hill
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
8c
NATIONAL EGG COLLECTION FOR THE WOUNDED
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
7c
WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
5c
8th ROYAL SUSSEX PIONEERS MITTENS AND SOCKS REQUIRED
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
5h
ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Handcross
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
8h
REQUEST FROM 9TH ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT-HAIR CUTTING TOOLS & RAZORS
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
8d
HEALTH OF THE NATION IN WARTIME-MODERN HOUSING AND MODERN FUELS
London
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
2g
A RARE GAME, BURGESS HILL FOOTBALLER'S LETTERS OF THE WAR
St David's Hospital,
Malta
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
1g
LATEST WAR NEW
Vermulles-Hulluch road
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
2a-c
IMPORTANT RESULTS FROM THE FRONT
Western and Eastern
Fronts
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-05
5d
THE GOOD OLD LINCOLNS, Private A W Gregory, brother of the late Bombardier M I
Gregory, 5th Seige Battery, writing to a brother at home
Western Front
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Observer
1915-10-06
2c
A Call to Arms; The Recruiting Rally; article from Daily Express discussing option
between voluntary system or conscription
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
3f
Last week's Egg Collection;
Summary, continues in subsequent issues
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
5f
Sussex Yeomanry; appeal from Countess of March
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
7f
Graylingwell War Hospital; more wounded arrive
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
2g
A Bognor Fisherman at the Front
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
2c
A Call to Arms;
recruiting Rally
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
6f
The War; Sussex Casualties, repeats weekly
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
4a
All Together
Bognor Observer
1915-10-06
2f
Bognor Fisherman at the Front
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
3f
Last Week's Egg Collection: Bognot drops to second place! (continued in subsequent
editions)
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
8e
Local Officers Killed and Wounded: Lieutenant Gordon, dies of wounds
Bognor
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Observer
1915-10-06
8e
Local Officers Killed and Wounded: Lieutenant the HonMaurice H Nelson Hood
R.N.V.R, killed in action
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
8e
Local Officers Killed and Wounded: 2nd Lieutenant W Ireland, killed in action
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
2f
A Bognor Fisherman at the Front: Letter from Corporal W J Wellfare; Bognor prawns
in the trenches
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
4c
The Earl of March: illness on eve of departure for service in Mediterranean
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
4c
Sussex Officer Honoured: Temporary Lieutenant Eric Guy Sutton, RSR, awarded the
Military Cross
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
8e
Local Officers Killed and Wounded: Captain Ward, Chichester, killed in action
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
1f
Graylingwell War Hospital;
Articles needed, repeats weekly with different items
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
4b
Cyclist Volunteer Company for Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
4b
Our Church Windows;
Blackout recipe
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
5b
Notes and Comments Lighting Restrictions and Early Closing
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
4c
A Recruiting Rally
Chichester
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Observer
1915-10-06
4c
Ambulance Enlistments: 8 members of St John's Ambulance Brigade enlist in the
RAMC, accorded a rousing send-off
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
5ef
Littlehampton Notes: What Grandpa did! A strange article.
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
5a,b
Littlehampton Petty Sessions: More unobscured light cases; The Watchful Police;
continued in subsequent editions
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
4c
Ambulance Enlistments
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
4c
War Supply Depot
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-10-06
4c
Saturday's Rally; V T C and V A D
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-06
2e
West Wittering Men in India: Letter from Harold Petter; includes reference to RSR in
Peshawar
West Wittering
worthing Gazette
1915-10-06
6e
Church condemns Strikes
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-06
6d
Latest Recruiting Drive
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-06
6c
West Lake Sergeant Major
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-06
6f
Journey to the Dardenelles
Worthing
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-07
3d
St Michael's School Prizegiving
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-07
6f
Lady March appeals for the Sussex Yeomanry
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-07
11f
The Magnificant Men
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-07
12f
Westbourne - Matron of the workhouse resigns, should workhouse now be closed?
Westbourne
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-07
11a
Worthing's recruiting rally
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-09
8e
Gifts to prisoners of war
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-09
8f
Letters from Crawley
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
5c
Belgian Refugees. List of donations.
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
8a
Horsham Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
8c
The Roll of Honour: Susssex Officers
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
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GR 1915 Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
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Times
1915-10-09
5d
The Great War - Horsham and district jotttings
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
5d
An Aeriel Battle - account by Horsham soldier Pt V L J Collins
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
5d
A Horsham Soldier's Gallantry - on Isle of Lemnos.
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
8b
The Great Advance. Letters from the front.
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
8f
The Fourth Sussex in Action
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-09
3d
Arrival of Wounded Indians
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-09
8b
East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-09
8f
Recruiting Ralley
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
5g
War Hospital Supply Depot
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
2f
Park Programme Abandoned at Horsham. March, Royal Sussex band. Volunteer
Training Corp.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
5c
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - Parades for the week
Horsham
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Times
1915-10-09
5f
Memorial Service at Horsham-Sub-Lietenant WM Lintott killed at Gallipoli
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
6fg
Roll of Honour
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
5c
The Call of Our Allies. Horsham Suffrage Society. Women's Hospital Work in France
and Serbia.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-09
8c
LOXWOOD-Lantern lecture by Imperial Maratime League on duty to contribute to war
Loxwood
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-09
2e
Sea Defence Works
Rottingdean and
Saltdean
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
3b
MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED-MR JOHN KIPLING
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
5g
'A HOT TIME OF IT' ARDINGLY SOLDIER WRITING HOME, THE 9TH ROYAL SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
7b
BRITISH CHEERS GIVE THE GERMANS A FRIGHT-ENEMY WASTED AMMUNITION ON
A PHANTOM CHARGE-A BURGESS HILLIAN'S LETTER
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
7e
WONDERFUL CHARGE BY THE BRITISH LADS, 'THE GERMANS RAN LIKE SHEEP'
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
1h
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1915-10-12
4c
HAY & STRAW WANTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES-ADVERT IN BURGESS HILL
PAPER
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
4d
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S FUND OWN PATRIOTIC SONG-TITLED 'THE HOMES THEY
LEAVE BEHIND THE'
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
4fg
MST EDITORIAL NOTES AND COMMENTS
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
8g
THE BIBLE SOCIETY-BRITISH AHD FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY HAS SUPPLIED 3
MILLION TESTAMENTS, GOSPELS AND PSALTERS FOR TROOPS PF ALL
NATIONALITIES
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
3f
FIRDT BRITISH FIELD HOSPITAL FOR SERBIA-APPEAL FOR £5000
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-12
3g
A PRISONER OF WAR, BOOK BY AUTHOR Rev B G O'Rorke
LONDON
worthing Gazette
1915-10-13
7d
Angmering and the war
Angmering
Bognor Observer
1915-10-13
5b
Comforts for the 4th
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-10-13
5f
Bognor Red Cross Ambulance for the Front
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-13
2c
Killed after receiving Commission: Popular Bognor Officer's Gallantry; Letters
following death of 2nd Lieutenant W Ireland
Bognor
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1915-10-13
5f
Bognor Red Cross Ambulance for the Front
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-10-13
4e
Recruiting Rally
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-13
6a-f and 7ad
Divisional Synod at Chichester: Excerpts from large article that relate to the War
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-13
4e
Recruiting Rally: Appeal for recruits to join 4th Battalion, Sussex Regiment
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-13
4c
Collections for the War Funds: Open letter from the Mayor of Chichester, setting up
weekly house-to-house collections for the "The Mayor of Chichester's Weekly War
Fund"
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-13
4d
Cicestrians as Conscripts: three French "Cicestrians" join the British Army
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-13
4e
An Army Chaplain's Coolness: article about the Rev. Pierpont Edwards, former
master at Chichester Prebendal School
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-13
4c
Public Lighting & Zeppelins
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-13
4e
Recruitment Rally
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-13
4c
Collections for the War Funds; start of the Mayor of Chichester's Weekly War Fund
Chichester
worthing Gazette
1915-10-13
6c
Extensions to the Grange
Worthing
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1915-10-13
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Grange convalescence Home
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-13
6c
Tobacco Fund
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-13
6c
Territorials Private Herbert Richardson and Private artur Guiel
worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-14
2f
Graylingwell War Hospital donations
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-14
3c
Sussex recruiting
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
8g
Rudgwick - Deathof Sec. Lieut Wm Ireland of 2nd Batt Royal Sussex.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-16
8c
Appeal for the Armenians
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-16
6d
Prisoners of War Fund
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-16
3f
Letter from local R.M.A.C man
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-16
5a
The Fighting Parson
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-16
6c
4th Sussex (Eastbourne) Battery Royal Field Artillery in India
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1915-10-16
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Royal Engineers - Recruits Urgently Wanted. Recurs.
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
5e
A Horsham Man's Gallantry-Pte W H Charman-Order of St George
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
5g
Horsham Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
6fg
Roll Of Honour
West Sussex County
TimesWest
1915-10-16
8a
Sussex Sergeant's Feat - Sgt J King, 5th Royal Sussex, awarded DCM
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
8fg
Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
5e
The Great War
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
8c
The Fourth Sussex in Action
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-16
8c
Vegtables for the fleet
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-16
5f
Military Funeral; Private Henry Eason
Horsham
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Times
1915-10-16
5f
The Teachings of the Great War
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
5g
A Postponed Apppeal - Red Cross appeal to raise funds for war wounded
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
8b
War Hospital Supply Depot - report on activities
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
5g
The Volunteer Training Corps - Letter to the editor re "chipping" and sarcasm
towards corps
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
8a
Sussex Volunteer Corps - parade times
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
5c
Military Funeral at Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-16
5g
YMCA Hut at Roffey - troop entertainment.
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
8e
'WE HOLD THE WHIP HAND' LETTER TO A BRIGHTON RESIDENT FRO FRANCE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
1g
LATEST WAR NEWS-BULGARIANS CHECKED-cont'd from page 2
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
3e
A NEW HOSPITAL FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS AT 14 ROYAL CRESCENT, BRIGHTON
OPENED
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1915-10-19
3g
WANTED RECRUITS FOR THE SUSSEX YEOMANRY, PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NOT
REQUIRED
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
3f
LIGHTS OUT, LETTER TO THE EDITOR COMPLAINING OF OTHER RESIDENTS FAILING
TO COMPLY
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
5d
FORWARD THE V.T.C.-BURGESS HILL COMPANY 2ND [HOVE] BATTALION
RECRUITMENT
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
5e
WOMEN AND THE WAR- TALK TO BURGESS HILL WOMEN'S LIBERAL ASSOCIATION
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
5f
V.T.C. RIFLE MATCH BETWEEN BURGES HILL AND HASSOCKS
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
3g
WITH THE HASSOCKS V.T.C.-NIGHT ATTACK NEAR WOLSTONBURY-TRAINING
EXERCISE
HASSOCKS
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
8b
A SPECIAL MATINEE FOR 'OUR DAY' CELEBRATIONS AT HAYWARD HEATH THEATRE
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
3f
COTTAGE HOSPITAL POUND DAY, LETTER THANKING PEOPLE FOR MONEY
DONATIONS TO THE CAUSE
HAYWARS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
5f
BRITISH FARMERS RED CROSS FUND- NATIONAL APPEAL DETAILS
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
2a-c
NEWS FROM THE BALKANS
LONDON PRESS
OFFICE
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1915-10-19
2d
HOME DEFENCE-INSPECTION OF THE STAPLEFIELD COMPANY V.T.C.
STAPLEFIELD
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
4G
LAND LABOUR SHORTAGES ARMY GIVES PERMISSION TO USE A LIMITED NUMBER
OF SOLDIERS NOT EXCEEDING FOUR WEEKS
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-19
7e
FEEDING THE FLEET-COLLECTION OF FRUIT AND VEG IN WEST SUSSEX
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1915-10-20
3b
The Hospital Blue
Poem
Chichester Observer
1915-10-20
7d
For Some Mother's Boy
1st Royal Dragoons letter from the Front
Chichester Observer
1915-10-20
8de
War Economy and Imports
Chichester Observer
1915-10-20
4d
Recruiting at the Pier Theatre
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-10-20
6e
Comforts for the 4th, another letter!`
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
7c,d
War and Religion: Stirring speeches at Chichester;"Pain and suffering broughy about
by our own foolishness"
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
6e
Chichester Council: Precaution against aircraft; public lamps to be extinguished at
10.30 (decided at meeting of 15th Oct 1915)
Chichester
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Observer
1915-10-20
4b
A Military Funeral: Lance Corporal Walter Gordon Irish
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
8e
A Cicestrian's Letter from Rouen: letter from Private Eric Moore
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
8e,f
Chichester man in Gallipoli: letter from Private W E Bonner
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
3b
"My Happiest Day": poems by a Chichester Soldier, Private Tom Sanders, 2nd RSR
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-20
5e
Graylingwell War Hospital
Wounded from the Dardanelles
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-20
6e
Lights out at 10.30
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-20
8e
Six Sons in the Navy
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
7d
For Some Mother's Boy:A good turn by a Felpham Dragoon; interesting letter from
Mr Frank Wood
Felpham
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
3e
Littlehampton Urban Council: War and the Economy: No radiators for new Isolation
Hospital; Comforts for Troops
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
3e
Littlehampton Urban Council: War and the Economy: Comforts for Troops
Littlehampton
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Observer
1915-10-20
4b
Back from Germany: account of Private Frederick Kewell
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
4c
A Welcome Home: Rousing reception at Littlehampton for Corp J Mills, DCM
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
7b
Military whist Drive littlehampton
littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-20
2c
On the North West Frontier; Another letter from a West Wittering Artilleryman (Percy
Petter)
West Wittering
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
6d
Concert at Grange convalescent home
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
2a
Lord Derby recruitment drive
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
5a
War memorial
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
4g-5a
Worthing and the toy industry
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
6c
Grand S J Private
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
6c
Death of more Worthing soldiers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
6f
Private Linfield
Worthing
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1915-10-20
7a
Succumbs to his wounds Private Beeching
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
5c
West Kents underfire
Worthing
worthing Gazette
1915-10-20
5c
Photos on the battlefeild
Wotrhing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-21
5a
Amberley soldiers entertained
Amberley
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-21
9c
The egg list - numbers of eggs going to Chichester and district hospitals
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-21
11f
Graylingwell war hospital report
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-21
9g
Hurstperpoint speech day
Hurst, Lewes
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-21
1e
Hay and wheat straw wanted for HM Services
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-21
3cd
Worthing School Boys and Farm Work
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-21
4e
Toys and toymaking a new Sussex industry
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-23
7d
"Good News from the Front"
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Courier
1915-10-23
8c
Letters from Crawley Soldiers
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
4g
Horsham Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
5c
Horsham Roll of Honour - Death of Pte James Sturt, Horsham Goalkeeper
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
8b
The Roll of Honour - Sussex Officers
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
8fg
Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
5c
Letters From The Front
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
8b
The Great War
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
8c
Letter from Quetta, India, from Private M E Hayes
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
8c
The Fourth Sussex in Action
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
5a
War Hospital Supply Depot - letter re sourcing materials
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Times
1915-10-23
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War Hospital Supply Depot - report on activities
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
8a
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - parade details
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-23
2f
The Early Closing of Shops - letter re this measure as air raid precaution
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-23
7c
Another Spy Shot at the Tower
London
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-23
5e
Khaki Wedding
Turners Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-26
1g
LATEST WAR NEWS-GREAT AUSTRIAN LOSSES
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-26
2a-c
THE DARKEST MOMENT-THE STERNEST RESOLVE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-26
2g
WHAT A CHARGE IS LIKE-A CURE FOR CURIOSITY
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-26
5c
'JACKS THE BOY' LETTER FROM FRANCE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-26
2e
NATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYMEN- SATISFIED FOR THE PRESENT
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1915-10-26
4f
NOTES AND COMMENTS-THE BUGLE CALL HAS SOUNDED FOR SINGLE MEN TO PUT
ON THE KING'S UNIFORM
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-26
5g
THE RED CROSS-BURGESS HILL'S FINE WORK FOR THE SOCIETY
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-10-26
8f
'THE ALLIED CAUSE' THE MEN WHO DARED TO STAND FOR RIGHT
BURGESS HILL
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
4a
The Working of the Plan: Lord Derby's Recruitment Plan explained
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
6b,c
Lord Derby's recruiting Scheme: The Local Arrangements; Volunteer Canvassers
Wanted; a letter from Lord Derby
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
6c
The Married Man's Position: a letter from E Marshall Hall, MP (advocate at Chichester
Quarter Sessions)
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
6c,d
To My People: An Appeal from King George V
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
6c
Teachers and Recruiting Work: the role of teachers as canvassers in the recruiting
campaign
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
2d,e
Regulating Voluntary Work: A scheme for The United Kingdom; Letter from the Duke
of Norfolk as Lord Lieutenant of Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
8ef
Wounded and Afterwards;
paralysed soldier needs housing; follow up 8e 1915-11-10
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1915-10-27
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Lord Derby's Recruiting Scheme
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
6cd
To My People;
the King's Appeal for volunteers
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
4a
The Working of the Plan; Lord Derby's Plan
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
5f
The Recruiting Campaign
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
7d
The Fortunes of War
Angmering
Bognor Observer
1915-10-27
7a-b
Christmas fund appeal
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
5a
A Cry from the Trenches: Drawing Room Meeting at Bognor; plan to raise and equip
field kitchens at dressing staions
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
8e
Bognor Soldier's Story: article about Private Cecil J H Smith
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
8e
Bognor man and Torpedoed Troopship: a letter from Private R Pullinger, 4th RSR
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
5a
A Cry from the Trenches;
canteen facilities wanted
Bognor
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1915-10-27
8e
Bognor Man and Torpedoed Troop Ship
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1915-10-27
7c
Chichester Egg Depot, totals of egg collected, reported weekly
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
8f
Chichester Quarter-Master-Sergeant's Sacrifice: Two sons killed and a third
wounded; tragedy for the Cleare family
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
4d
Graylingwell War Hospital
Wounded from France & Flanders
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
7a-b
Observer Christmas Gift Fund; continues weekly
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
7 e-f
Boy Scouts
Appeal for another Ambulance; continues weekly
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
8f
Chichester Quarter-Master Sergeant's Sacrifice;
2 sons killed, 1 wounded
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
7a
Prisoner of War
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
7b
A soldiers sad case
Salvington
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
7e
A call to the colours
Storrington
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Observer
1915-10-27
5f
The Recruiting Campaign: comments on Lord Derby's Plan
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-10-27
2e
V T C Section Formed
West Dean
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
3b
The Chief Constable's Return to the Army: the financial implications resulting in a
saving to the county
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-10-27
8e
The War: A West Sussex Constable's Optimism; a letter from Sergeant S E Holmes,
from hospital in Rouen
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
6e
Food production
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
6f
Urgent needs of new Hospital
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
6c
Local Recruitment arrangements
worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
6G
Appeasl for conforts for the troops
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-10-27
6f
Photos claimed
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-10-28
9b
Recruiting campaign in Sussex - Royal Sussex Regiment
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
7b
A Trench Song - letter from former WSCT employee providing trench song lyrics
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-30
5c
Prisoners of War in Germany
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-10-30
3d
Local Soldiers narrow escape
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8f
The Great Recruiting Scheme - letter urging support for scheme
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8fg
Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8b
The Great War
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8c
A Horsham Man's Letter - news re 7th Royal Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8c
Snipers in the Dardanelles - account of fighting by Horsham man
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
5f
Some Narrow Escapes - Lance-Corp H Gibson account of wounds and hosp.
treatment
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
5d
War Hospital Supply Depot - report on activities
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Place
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8b
Lord Derby's Recruiting Scheme - meeting at Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8f
Slackers - letter accusing man of "slacking" and response from accused man
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8a
Patriotic Housekeeping - lecture on housekeeping in war time - Albion Hall, Horsham
- recurs
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
5a
An Appeal - For Horsham Men. Appeal for funds for Cigs, choc, tobacco for 4th Royal
Sussex
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-10-30
8fg
Jam Collection for Brighton War Hospitals - letter listing donations from Horsham and
villages
Horsham and
surrounding villages
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
2ab
THE VALIANT SERBIANS-ALLIES SEND THOUSANDS OF TROOPS TO HELP THEM
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
3e
EXIT HOME TRAINING-CLOSING OF THE MUNICIPAL HOME TRAING SCHOOL FOR
THE DURATION OF THE WAR
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
7b
ROYAL ENGINEERS-A HINT TO WOULD-BE RECRUITS
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
7e
EX-SERGT-MAJOR OLDER MILITARY FUNERAL
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
3b
FOR OUR SAILORS-CHRISTMAS PUDDING AND CAKES
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
8f
LETTER FROM ROUEN
HAYWARDS HEATH
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1915-11-02
3c
ANOTHER COMMITTEE-THE HOME SECRETARY TO CONSIDER THE CONDITIONS OF
CLERICAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN IN PLACE OF MEN
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
1g
LATEST WAR NEWS-THE LOOS FIGHTING. SEVERE GERMAN LOSSES
LOOS
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
4d
HUNTING APPOINMENTS- THE SOUTHDOWN FOXHOUNDS CALENDAR OF MEETS
SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-02
7b
CREEPING ON ALL FOURS ACROSS MR NO MAN'S LAND ON THE WESTERN FRONT
WESTERN FRONT
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
2c
War Pensions: details issued in the form of a White Paper
Bognor Observer
1915-11-03
2c
War Pensions
Chichester Observer
1915-11-03
2b
War Pensions
Bognor Observer
1915-11-03
8e
A Yeomanry Soldiers Death; first casualty
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
8e
A Yeomanry Sergeant's Death: death of Sergeant Albert Wilson, believed to be the
first casualty in the Sussex Yeomanry
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-11-03
4c
Cinema Ambulance Day; donation of ticket sales
Bognor
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Place
Bognor Observer
1915-11-03
5e
Graylingwell Hospital; convoy of wounded
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
2d
Immorality and the White Slave Traffic: excerpt from a speech given by the Bishop
of Chichester (Right Rev. Dr. Ridgeway) to the National Vigilance Association at the
Bishop's Palace
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
5b,c
Friendly Societies' Demonstration: extracts from the sermon by the Dean of
Chichester Cathedral on "Our Duty In The Present Crisis"
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
5a
In memory of Miss Edith Cavell: Impressive Service in Chichester cathedral
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-03
5e
Graylingwell War Hospital;
wounded from Gallipoli
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-03
4b
For Relief in Belgium
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-03
5a
In Memory of Miss Edith Cavell; appeal for a Cavell Cross for heroic women
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-03
2f
Women and their Work; new careers for women exhibition
Knightsbridge
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
8e
A Littlehampton Man's Letter: letter from Private G W Spencer in the Dardanelles
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
3e,f
Nonconformity and Re-Union: God and the War; address at Littlehampton
Congregational Church (excerpt)
Littlehampton
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
7a
Prisoner in German Hands
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-11-03
8e
A Littlehampton Man's letter
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1915-11-03
6e
Three Soldiers arrested in bed; RSR soldiers desserted
Poling
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
6e
Three Soldiers Arrested in Bed: deserters from RSR arrested "in bed"
Poling
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
7c
Local Cricketer killed
Rustington
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-03
8f
Selsey Sailors Killed:two Selsey men killed while on patrol duty
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
7c
Sompting and the services
Sompting
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
7a
News of Wick soldier
Wick
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
6f
Momory of the Dead
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
6f
Call of King and country
Worthing
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
6c
Local Recruitment scheme
Worthing
Worthing Gazetteg
1915-11-03
5e
An officer as a derserter
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
6e
Missing Soldier
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
6e
Shot by a German sniper
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-03
6f
4th Sussex in Gallipoli
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-04
10a
Graylingwell war hospital report
Chichester
7est Sussex Gazette
1915-11-04
2c
Clergymen and the war - Bishop of Chichester says clergy already occupied
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-04
2c
Sussex Yeomanry Ashore in the East
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-04
2c
Preparing for winter - gifts wanted for Sussex soldiers
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-04
10d
News of the Sussex Yeomanry
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-04
10g
Never Saw Such Sights
Sussex
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-06
5c
Lance-Sergt. Jenks; writes from the front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-06
5d
A Narrow Escape
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-06
5e
A Cheery Word from the front
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
8c
Vegetable Products Committee - appeal for produce for the fleet
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
5b
War Hospital Supply Depot - report on activities
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
8c
Cigarettes for the wounded - appeal letter - recurs
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
3d
Officers' Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
8fg
Roll of honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
5f
Useful Work at the Front - letter from Horsham Driver in Army Service Corps
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
5g
The Great War
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
8b
Roffey - Letter from Pte L Hills, 8th Royal Sussex, to former employer
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-06
6d
Birling Gap; old precautions recalled
Birling Gap
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-06
5e
The East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
5c
Horsham Urban District Council - special meeting re recruitment
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
8d
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - Company orders
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
5d
Horsham Rural District Council - cost of Roffey Camp road
Roffey
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-06
8a
Royal Fussiliers at Roffey - troops leaving Roffey area
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
2c
A DEATH-SCREAMING SHELL-WHICH MAKES YOU THINK OF NO 1
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
3f
'WHEN THE GREAT DAY COMES' SPECIAL RECRUITING APPEAL
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Headline or Summary
Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
3e
ARRIVAL OF MORE WOUNDED BRITISH SOLDIERS
BROGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
5d
FOOTBALL MATCH- FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS FROM RED CROSS HOSPITAL,
DITCHLING
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
6g
IF THE GERMANS WON THE WAR-LETTER FROM PROFESSOR SADLER
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
1b
THE 4TH ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT-RECRUITS URGENTLY NEEDED TO MAKE UP THE
NUMBERS
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
1b
YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU-FOR 4TH ROYAL SUSSEX BATTALION-STANDARD
HEIGHT 5FT
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
2f
A RECRUITING MATTER
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
2g
'IN SIGHT OF THE PYRAMIDS'-LETTERS FROM A BURGESS HILLIAN IN EGYPT
EGYPT
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
3a
THE DEVASTATED AREAS OF FRANCE-BRITISH AID FOR THE RUINED PEASANTS
FRANCE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
7a
TEACHERS AND THE CRISIS-QUESTION OF ENLISTMENT
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
4g
FOR THE FLEET-A TON-AND-A HALF OF FRUIT & VEG LAST WEEK
HAYWARDS HEATH
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
2a-e
WAR NEWS-LORD KITCHENERS VISIT TO THE EASTERN THEATRE OF WAR
LONDON
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Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
8g
LATEST WAR NEWS-GERMAN CRUISER & BRITISH ARMED STEAMER SUNK
OFF SWEDEN &
EASTERN MED
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-09
3f
LOCAL RECRUITING TRIBUNAL-LORD DERBY'S SCHEME
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
6f
Recruits' Insurance: Liabilities of Employers; changes to NI rules for soldiers who
work while on leave
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
7d
The Enemy Alien Danger; letter requesting information about acts in support of the
enemy and funds to increase number of Secret Service Agents
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
5b
Comments from a "Derby" canvasser in South London; interesting views of the
middle classes to Lord Derby's plan for conscription
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
5b
Problems in an engineering company making munitions equipment: men being
harassed by recruiting officers
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
6f
War Workers' Armlets: Scheme for Khaki Tokens; to apply to "starred" workers
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
8e
Recruiting Tribunals: Their Functions and Duties; a letter from the President of the
Local Governing Board explaining the how the tribunals will work
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
5c
The Decisive Factor: A Comment On The War And How We Stand; editorial comment
expecting the War to reach its conclusion early in 1916
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
5d
The War Seal Foundation: How to Help Disabled Wounded; sale and use of War Seals
(to seal letters) as a means of raising funds for homes for returning disabled soldiers
Bognor Observer
1915-11-10
2d-e
A Day at the Front; bognor soldiers account in Mechanical Transport
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Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
7d
Another Churchman's Battalion
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
5c
The Decisive Factor; the war and how we stand
Bognor Observer
1915-11-10
3d
Recruiting Tribunal appointed
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1915-11-10
4b
Recruitment ad for RSR; repeated in further issues
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
5f
Bognor and District Voluntary Work Organizations; response to request of the Duke
of Norfolk (see doc 032 above)
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
2d,e
A Day at The Front: With the Mechanical Transport; interesting story by a
Bognorian, Albert Dell
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
2d
A Day at the Front with the Mechanical Transport
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
8f
The War; Recruiting at Bognor
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
5c
A New Ambulance Train: The Brighton Railway Company's Provision For The
Wounded
Brighton
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
5c
A New Ambulance Train;
repeats following week
Brighton
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Bognor Observer
1915-11-10
5f
Recruiting Tribunal appointed
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-11-10
7d
The Royal Sussex Regiment; Christmas Box appeal
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-11-10
7e
Chichester Officer honoured; miltary cross awarded
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-11-10
7d
Another Churchmans Battalion; an appeal
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
5a
Chichester Recruiting Tribunal: editorial comment on the integrity of those chosen to
serve on the tribunal
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
7e
A Chichester Officer Honoured: Captain Denys Huntingford Hammonds awarded
Military Cross
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
7e
Sergeant-Major Graham's Death; more information about death of very popular
member of Sussex Yeomanry
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
5d
The War Seal Foundation;
help for disabled soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
5a
Chichester Recruiting Tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
6b
Chips of News; SS British Prince grounded; total loss
German SW Africa
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
3e,f
Religion and the Working Man: Littlehampton Brotherhood's 25th Anniversary; Effect
of the War
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
4c
Recruiting Tribunal Appointed: Are the working classes being sufficiently
represented?
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
6b
Drinking among women in the East End of London
London
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
7f
The "White Feather"; letter from invalided soldier who received a White Feather
through the post
Portfield
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
7f
The "White Feather"
Portfield
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
7d,e
Local Recruiting: The Work in Progress; South-West Sussex first area in county to
implement Lord Derby's Recruitment Scheme
South-West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-11-10
7d
Enemy Alien Danger
Strand WC
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
7d
The Royal Sussex Regiment; appeal for items for Christmas Boxes to be sent to 2nd
battalion RSR in France
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
7e,f
A Bognor Yeoman's Letter; letter from Trooper Frank J Jenkins of the Sussex
Yeomanry, with a reference to death of Sergeant-Major Graham
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
7d
Another Churchman's Battalion; letter proposing the formation of a second battalion
of the Church Lads' Brigaed of the King's Royal Rifle Corps
Sussex ?
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-10
6c,d
Westhampnett Rural District Council: Soldier's Help Wanted; help sought with rolling
roads
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-10
5c
Ambulance Train
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-10
6e
Second Red cross Hospital
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-10
6d
More recruits depart
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-10
6e
Cinema day collection
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-10
6e
Promising career cut short
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-10
6f
Excellent Family record
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-10
6c
Nursing Work in France
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-11
5f
Emsworth - recruits signing up
Emsworth
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-11
10f
Stories from the front
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-11
11e
Lancing - letting boys leave school at 13 to work on the land
Lancing
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-11
3b
The Red Cross Train
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-13
5e
Private Stanley Terry; writing from the front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-13
2e
The Commanding officer of the 4th Royal Sussex on the doings of his men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
7a
Sussex Chess Association - "foolish" to let Association "slumber" through duration of
war
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
8a
The Fourth Sussex - Tobacco and Cigarettes Acknowledged
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
5b
Horsham Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
6fg
Roll of honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
8fg
Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
8a
Sussex Yeomanary on the Peninsula
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
8b
The Great War
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
8b
On Special Work - letter re gifts sent to servicemen
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
8d
Patriotic Housekeeping - war time cookery lessons in Horsham - recurs
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
8e
Vegetable Products Committee - report on activities
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
8e
The Price of Milk in Horsham - letter re increased cost and profit margins
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
5d
War Hospital Supply Depot - account of activities
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
5g
Sussex Volunteer training Corps - Company orders
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
5a
Serbian Relief Fund - A Serbia day in Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
5e
West Sussex Education Committee - the war and economy - schools and farm work
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-13
5c
Horsham Urban District Council - Comforts for troops, Voluntary war work etc
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-13
5b
Military cross for a Lewes Officer
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-13
3e
Local soldier commented for gallantry
Uckfield
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
1b
LATEST WAR NEWS-GREECE AND BULGARIA-SITUATION IN PERSIA
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
3e
MORE SICK AND WOUNDED -FURTHER CONTINGENT INTO BRIGHTON
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
1b
700 MEN REQUUIRED-YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
3c
THE 4TH ROYAL SUSSEX- DOINGS AT THE DARDANELLES
DARDANELLES
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
8b
HOME LIFE IN FRANCE-STIRRING LETTER FROM PTE E KNIGHT
FRANCE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
7b
PLEA FOR ARMISTICES-RED CROSS COMMITTEE'S LETTER
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
2a-c
YOUNG MEN NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY-MR CHURCHILL RESIGNS FROM THE
CABINET
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
3f
WAR CLASSES FOR WOMEN-TRAINING FOR OFFICE WORK
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
1g
MID-SUSSEX WATER BOARD-THE AIRCRAFT RISK QUESTION
MID SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
2c
MANSIONS AS FARMHOUSES
VARIOUS
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
3a
WOMEN'S HOSPITALS IN FRANCE AND SERBIA
VARIOUS
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
2f
TOY MAKING IN CANADA-WORK FOR MAIMED SOLDIERS
VARIOUS
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
7d
FARM HANDS AND RECRUITING-ADVICE FOR EMPLOYERS
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
3b
MAJOR LANG AND WAR SERVICE
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-16
8e
'WIPERS' G K CHESTERTON
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
7c
Mr Churchill Resigns: Desires to join his regiment; former First Lord of the Admiralty
resigns from Coalition Government
Chichester Observer
1915-11-17
7c
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
3f
The King's Congratulations: To Aldingbourne Father Who Has Five Sons Serving;
article about the Squires family
Aldingbourne
Chichester Observer
1915-11-17
3f
The King's Congratulations;
5 brothers serving
Aldingbourne
Bognor Observer
1915-11-17
2d
Boys for Farm work
Bognor
Mr Churchill Resigns
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
6f
The New Ambulance Train: Exhibition at Bognor on Thursday; new ambulance train
constructed by London, Brighton & South Coast Railway for use of our troops in
France
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
6e
With the Sussex Yeomanry: Bognor Trooper's Letter from Gallipoli; letter from
Trooper C W Greenwood
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
4e,f
Bognor and Chichester Men at Gallipoli: request for cigarettes and tobacco "to
counteract the presence of so many flies"
Bognor and Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-17
4ef
Bognor & Chichester Men at Gallipoli
Bognor Chichester
Bognor Observer
1915-11-17
7e
The 4th Sussex at Gallipol; news from fronti
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
5f
The Purity of Our Girls; a letter responding to comments made by the Bishop of
Chichester (see doc 046 above) in defense of English/Chichester women
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
5e
The Recruitment Campaign; a plea for more canvassers in Chichester
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
6f
Death of Ex-Sergeant G Keates of the Old Chichester Police Force; had five sons
serving in the Army, two of whom attended the funeral
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
7e
The 4th Sussex at Gallipoli: Letters from CQMS W G Willis: A Taste of German Bread
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-17
8f
Graylingwell War Hospital;
wounded from France and Dardanelles
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1915-11-17
7a
Absent Defenders Beware;
23 more lighting cases
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-17
7e
The 4th Sussex at Gallipoli
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-17
5e
The Recruiting Campaign
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
3e
The Concert Party and the War; item discussed at Littlehampton Urban Council
meeting
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
4b
"Citizen Sunday"; speech by Chairman of Littlehampton Urban Council (Mr W
Harwood, JP) at meeting of the Littlehampton Brotherhood on "Citizenship" and the
duty of everyone "to do whatever was required of them by the Government"
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
5e
Notes and Comments: "Keep to the Right"; suggestion that pedestrians should
always keep to the right when walking
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
3e
A Word for the Gas Company; letter from Ministry of Munitions of War read at
Littlehampton Urban Council meeting regarding the impact of the extraction of
benzol and toluol for manufacture of explosives
Littlehampton /
General
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
4e
The War: Sidlesham Soldier Killed; report of Private Edward Charles Hutchings killed
in action in France
Sidlesham
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
7c
Sompting men on Service amended
Sompting
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
4b,c
War Recruiting in South-West Sussex; an update reports a "splendid response" from
men past military age
South-West Sussex
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Place
Chichester Observer
1915-11-17
4bc
War Recruiting Campaign in South West Sussex
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
2f
The Indispensable Farm hands: Farmers discuss problem at Chichester; West Sussex
Farmers' Union discuss problems of enlistment of farm skilled workers and increases
in taxes on farms
West Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-17
2de
The War and Education; extracts from a report of West Sussex Education
Committee's monthly meeting, with items relating to the impact of the War on
education in the county
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
4f
Grange convalescent Home
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
6a
Twixt you and me
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
6d
Great Military Hospital scheme
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
7e
Employing boys in Wartime
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
5b
Sale of War Horses
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
6d
Prisoners of War in Germany
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
7fg
Tobacco fund
Worthing
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
7a
Sussex men in London
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
3f
The Late Colonell Morse
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
6e
Killed in the great advance
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
4ef
The Pillar box stores
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
6f
Sussex man and the rotten weather
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
6f
Local Yoeman at Gallipoli
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-17
6ef
Experiences of a Tarring pioneer
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-18
3d
Bognor urban council- women and war work
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-18
3c
Bognor urban council - possible new military hospital in Bognor
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-18
11g
Defence of the realm act prosecution
Seaford
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-18
4b
Unauthorised boy labour
Shoreham
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Place
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-18
11ef
Life with the Yeomanry at Gallipoli
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-18
2c
The Sussex Coast and wounded soldiers
Sussex coast
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-18
2e
West Sussex Farmers union recruitment of farm hands
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-18
5a
Poultry for cottagers and smallholders
West Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-20
5e
Sandbags
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
8fg
Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
8a
The Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
8b
The Great War
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
8c
Up Guards and at Them - account of Horsham Grenadier Guardsman's injuries in
France
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Place
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-20
8a
Recruiting at Crawley
Crawley
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
8b
Faygate - concert in aid of Xmas comforts for troops
Faygate
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
8c
The Price of Milk in Horsham - Draymen's Association letter responding to earlier
letter
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
8c
War Hospital Supply Depot - weekly report
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-20
5c
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - orders for week
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
3e
WOUNDED ANZACS ARRIVE IN BRIGHTON
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
3e
A SOLDIERS' RECREATION ROOM, LEWES RAOD BRIGHTON
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
8g
INFORMATION ON SEARCHLIGHTS
BRIGHTON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
7e
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUSSA'S DAY-HOUSE-TO-HOUSE COLLECTIONS,SALE OF
FLAGS
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
1f
BRAVERY OF THE AUSTRALIANS-DARDANELLES
DARDANELLES
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
1a
LATEST WAR NEWS-BRITISH ARTILLERY'S ORGANISED BOMBARDMENT
FRANCE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
1g
RUINED FARMERS FUND-FRENCH FARMERS ACTIONS
FRANCE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
3g
INQUIRIES FOR PRISONERS IN GERMANY-A NEW SYSTEM
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
2f
SUSSEX COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY-NO SHOW IN 1916
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
2e
THE ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT-CHRISTMAS BOXES FOR THE TROOPS
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
3c
VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENTS-THE OFFICIAL UNIFORM
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-23
2ab
GREECE'S DILEMMA- WESTERN FRONT
WESTERN FRONT
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
6f
An Appeal To The Shirkers: a poem composed by Corporal E Starling of Blatchington
Camp, Seaford, Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
7f
Editorial comment on the resignation of Winston Churchill from the cabinet and goes
to the trenches
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
8e,f
A Felpham Voice From The Trenches: a letter from Lance-Corporal J Beer, 2nd
Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
8e
The War: A Prisoner of War Appeals for Help; letter from Rifleman A Records, a
native of Chichester, seeking food and underclothing
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
5e
Chichester Civil Guard: Dissolution Decided Upon; official notice that Chichester Civil
Guard has been dissolved
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
6c
"Two Crosses": a poem by Private Tom Sanders
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
7d
A Soldier's Bad Record; soldier sent to prison for theft of table cloths
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
8e
Chichester PC's Fine Record: fine record of military service in the Grender family, 5
sons of military age all "doing their bit"
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-24
8f
A Special Appeal for Christmas; Graylingwell Hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-24
5e
Chichester Civil Guard; dissolution
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-11-24
8e
Christmas Boxes for the 2nd Royal Sussex; continues weekly
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
8d
With the Sussex Territorials: Gift From "Observer" Readers; appeal for contributions
for Christmas gifts for local Territorials and Yeomanry at the Dardanelles
Chichester, etc.
Chichester Observer
1915-11-24
8e
Ruined Farmers' Fund
France
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
4d
Prisoners of War in Germany: Food urgently needed during Winter; advert for
donations of food
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
4c
A Military Wedding; a Private from the RAMC was best man and two out of three of
the bride's serving brothers and a serving cousin were also present
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-11-24
4d
Prisoners of War in Germany; food needed
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-11-24
7f
Notes on News;
London
Chichester Observer
1915-11-24
7f
Notes on News;
1st despatch from front giving unit numbers
Mediterranean
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-11-24
8e
Comforts for the Sussex Regiment: an appeal for comforts for men of the Royal
Sussex Regiment
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1915-11-24
8e
The Sussex Yeomanry Fund
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
3d
Tramps of Military age
Thakeham
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
3d
Agriculture and the War
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
5g
War work from the church army
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
5g
Extension at the Grange
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
7fg
Worthing Hospital
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
5e
Drawing the slackers in to the army
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
6c
Gazette Tobacco fund
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
6d
Local help in the war work
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
6c
Distinction for local officer
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
6d
Another excellent family record
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
5e
Merry and Bright Boys from Worthing
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
6d
How the VC was won
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
6e
Drowned in the Medditeranean
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
7g
An artillery mans experience
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-11-24
6e
A golden oppurtunity
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-25
11f
Graylingwell war hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-25
10e
Rogate Red Cross flag day
Rogate
West Sussex Gazette
1915-11-25
12e
West Marden enlistment
West Marden
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
5b
No more clerks needed for entry in the Royal Navy
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
8c
An Uckfield Officer's Narrow Escape from Drowning
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
8c
Letter from an Uckfield Soldier
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
8e
Thanks from the East Grinstead men in the Dardanelles
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
8d
Christmas in the Trenches
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5b
Patriotic Housekeeping
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5g
Supernumeracy Co 2/4 Batt Royal Sussex Regiment - details of a concert
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
8fg
Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5a
Experiences in Serbia
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5f
Field Artilliary and German Aeroplanes - account of attack
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
8c
Valorous Sussex Men - DCM's for Royal Sussex Regiment
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
8b
Work Amongst the Wounded - account by Horsham RAMC man
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
5e
Disabled War Service
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
5e
Recruiting
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
8e
Recruiting at Crawley
Crawley
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
8b
War Hospital Supply Depot - report on activities
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5g
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - company orders
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5e
The Belgian Refugees - details of arrangements in Horsham for refugee families
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5d
Horsham Urban District Council- incl Recriting Appeals and GP joining RAMC
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5g
Serbian Relief Fund - account of flag day etc
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
8a
The Roll of Honour - Military funeral at Horsham of Private Alfred Mitchell 2/4th Royal
Sussex
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
8c
The Great War - incl 10 guns for Siege School at Roffey Camp
Horsham/Roffey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-11-27
2f
Completion of convoy of 50 ambulances
London
West Sussex County
Times
1915-11-27
5g
Roffey Friends of the 4th Sussex - letter re fund raising
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
5b
WAR WORK
CUCKFIELD
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
3c
'A JOYFUL EXPERIENCE-HAYWARDS HEATH A.O.C. MANS LETTER
FRANCE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
5f
THE LADS THAT HAVE GONE-LETTER TO PARENT IN HAYWARDS HEATH
FRANCE
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
8f
ACRICULTURE AND RECRUITING
HOUSE OF LORDS
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
8g
AGRICULTURAL RELIEF OF ALLIES COMMITTEE-£30,000 FOR FRENCH FARMERS
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
2ab
WAR NEWS-POSITION OF THE SERBIANS-ANOTHER NOTE TO GREECE
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
1a
LATEST WAR NEWS-BRUTISH AIRMAN DESTROYS A GERMAN SUBMARINE
OFF FRENCH COAST
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
2a
A LETTER FROM ANZAC TO HAYWARDS HEATH
TURKEY
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
2f
'WHAT WAR IS LIKE' 4TH SUSSEX BOYS WENT FOR THE TURKS
TURKEY
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
8g
GIFTS FOR THE FLEET-PLUM PUDDINGS ASKED FOR
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-11-30
2b
THE ROYAL NAVY-'NON-COMBATANTS' NOT NEEDED
WHITEHALL
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
8e
The “Non-Combatants”: no more clerks needed by the Royal Navy but the Navy
needs stokers and seamen
Chichester Observer
1915-12-01
8f
Rest Huts for Soldiers
Chichester Observer
1915-12-01
8e
The "Non Combatants"
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
8f
Bognor Boys in Germany; appeal for food and warm clothing
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
8b
Men of Bognor: Rally Round the 4th Royal Sussex Regiment; a call for volunteers
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
8e
Royal Message to Bognor Family: Letter in recognition of 5 sons and one son-in-law
all serving their country (Squires family)
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-12-01
8b
Men of Bognor;
Rally to 4th Royal Sussex
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
8f
Naval Man's Funeral at Bosham; first Bosham man to volunteer for patrol service,
Gregory Hayman Major, lost at sea. Buried with military honours
Bosham
Chichester Observer
1915-12-01
8f
Naval Man's Funeral at Bosham; 1st Bosham man to volunteer for patrol service
Bosham
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
8e
A Chichester Prisoner of War: a letter from Corporal A Norman, 9th Battalion Royal
Sussex Regiment
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
4c
Chichester Yeoman Killed in Action: Lance-Corporal Cyril Howard: Tributes from
Officer and Chaplain
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
8f
Commissions for three Cicestrians: M C Henderson, C B Tompkins become temporary
Lieutenants in the Royal Navy, and R W T Thorogood promoted to Sergeant in Royal
Sussex Regiment
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
8e
Lance-Corporal A Cooper, Chichester: safe after fears that he had drown following
the sinking of the hospital ship, HMS "Anglia", just off the Kent Coast
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-12-01
3f
Chichester Girl Guides;
1st performance
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
7c
Instructive war lecture
Findon
Chichester Observer
1915-12-01
4d
Farewell and Welcome;
6th Sussex (Cyclists) leave
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
6b
For Russian Prisoners of War: Appeal by Lady Leconfield and Mrs Ridgeway (wife of
Bishop of Chichester); appeal for funds
Sussex
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-01
4a
A Remarkable Coincidence: a nice story about a boy called Pankhurst, an egg and a
soldier in hospital
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
3f
Women and Agriculture
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6g
Protestant reformation address
worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
5a
Worthing and the Military Hospital
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
5c
The Grange and its activities
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6c
War hospital supply depot
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6d
Red Cross hospital at Cecils
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6d
Ambulance train on view
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6e
Extension at the Grange
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6c
Royal Naval division
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
3c
Staffing of schools
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6c
Tobacco fund
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
5d
Varied adventures of a young soldier
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6e
Sussex soldiers request
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
7c
The War a breif survey
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-01
6c
Local recruiting scheme
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-02
4d
Bognor war hospital
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-02
12b
Musical blind boys
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-02
10d
Graylingwell war hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-02
12g
West Dean switching on shells
West Dean
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-02
12f
The Grange convalescent home
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-04
8f
Thanks from the Front
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-04
8e
Assistant Master Awarded D.C.M
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-04
2c
4th Sussex (Eastbourne) Battery R.F.A in India
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-04
8a
British Operations in Africa
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-04
5e
Turkey in the Trenches
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
8d
Patriotic Housekeeping
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
8b
Hospital Comforts - letter re donations to hospital
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
6a
Rice Bros' Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
8b
For the Belgian soldiers in the trenches - letter re warm clothing for troops
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
8ef
The Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
2f
A Souvenir Postcard - letter to the paper with verses from soldier at the front
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
6b
Horsham Lads Meet at Cairo - news from troops abroad
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
8a
The Great War
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
7a
Sussex Lance-Sergt. Wins DCM - award to 9th Royal Sussex man
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-04
5d
Wedding
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-04
5d
Christmas "Boxes" for Soldiers
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-04
8f
East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
5d
War Hospital Supply Depot - report
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
5b
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - orders
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
5a
Exhibition of an ambulance train - fundraiser for Railway Troops
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
5g
Ambulance Train at Horsham - details of fund raising event
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
5d
British Red Cross Society - selection board in Horsham for staff for military hospitals
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-04
5g
Horsham Rural District Council - ref to Roffey Camp and Medical Officer joining army
Horsham/Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-07
5g
DITCHLING 'AFTER THE WAR'
DITCHLING
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-07
2g
CHILD LABOUR ON THE LAND-LORD SELBOURNE'S STATEMENT
LONDON
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-07
2a-c
'A SUPREME EFFORT' REQUIRED IN RECRUITING-PEACE TALK OF THE ENEMY
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-07
1g
LATEST WAR NEWS-BRITISH SUBMARINE'S FINE EXPLOITS
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-07
1g
NO CHRISTMAS GRATUITIES-DECISION OF LOCAL TRADERS
WEST SUSSEX
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
7e
Wounded while helping a comrade
Angmering
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
8e
Bognor's New Postal Arrangements: Three Deliveries instead of Four; changes
"owing to the war"
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
5c
The War: Wounded and a Prisoner of War; grim news in sad letter to Mother from
Bognor soldier, Private Herbert Allen
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
3c
HMS "Anglia": a poem written by "Private News" following the sinking of the HMS
"Anglia"
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
5c,d
Commission for a Bognor Yeoman: Sergeant-Major Frederick William Bannock
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
5c
Two Bognor Men Killed; deaths reported of Private LS Knapton and Lance-Corporal
WG Gregory, both previously employed by Messrs. Hawkes & Son, grocers, of
Bognor
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-12-08
3b
HMS Anglia; poem
Bognor
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
6cd
The Bible and The War: "Approaching the End of the Age": Addresses at Bognor and
Chichester
Bognor, Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
4d
A Captired Gun For Chichester: Mayor attempts to secure a captured enemy gun for
the city
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
5c
Colonel Kilgour's Death: death in Egypt of former Commanding Officer of 35th
Regimental District in Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-12-08
4d
A Captured Gun for Chichester; request
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-12-08
8c
Public Notices; employment of women
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
7e
The Late Lieutenant wyatt
Findon
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
7e
On duty in Eygypt
Findon
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
5d
Littlehampton Recruiting Tribunal: The Committee ready To Hear Appeals: What
Indispensable Men and Employers Must Do
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
4e
Young Soldier Drowned: Littlehampton soldier drowned while training with Royal
Field Artillery in High Wycombe
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
7e
The wars effect
Littlehampton
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Chichester Observer
1915-12-08
5d
Littlehampton Recruiting Tribunal; ready for appeals
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
5g
YMCA hut at Shoreham Camp
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
7e
Tramps and the Military service
Thakeham
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-08
7c,d
Westhampnett Recruiting Tribunal: Two More Names Added: Agricultural Element
Too Strong: Mr S S Marshall Champions Other Sections
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
5c
Great Hospital Scheme
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
6c
New Red Cross Hospital
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
5e
Cyclist battalion Royal Sussex
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
6c
Appeal by the Mayor
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
5d
Distinguished conduct medal
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-08
5d
The Mayoress and Sussex soldiers
Worthing
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-09
8e
Arundel work depot
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-09
8f
Chichester cattle market
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-09
7g
Farm workers and the army
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-09
8b
Petworth egg collection
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-09
3c
Westhampnett recruiting tribunal
Westhampnett
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
5ab
Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
5g
The Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
8b
YMCA work in France - report from localman in France
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
8c
The Great War - news from the front
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
8c
Humour from the trenches - letter from the front
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
8b
Patriotic Housekeeping - last talk delivered
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
8b
War Hospital Supply Depot - report
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
5d
Horsham Urban District Council - recruiting difficulties etc
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
8c
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - orders
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
5a
Notice - Horsham war aids commission - meeting
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
5c
Miniature Rifle Shooting - Horsham VTC's competition results
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
6b
Ambulance Train at Horsham - account of funraiser
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-11
7b
Horsham Petty Sessions - Driver of military HQ vehicle fined for no lights
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-14
2ab
WAR NEWS-DERBY DAY-OUR MANHOODS MESSAGE TO THE ENEMY
LONDON
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-14
5f
NEWICK-A PATRIOTIC FAMILY-FIVE SONS IN ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENTS
NEWICK
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Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-14
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LATEST WAR NEWS-TURKISH ATTACKS REPULSED
TURKEY
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-14
1g
SHOW CONSIDERATION TO TRADESMAN
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-14
8c
CERTIFICATES-NOT PRIZES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN
WEST SUSSEX
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
8f
Sergeant-Major Baker Killed: death announced of officer from Sussex Yeomanry
from Barnham
Barnham
Chichester Observer
1915-12-15
7a
No Bognor Hospital
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
3d
Mr F D Acland, MP At Chichester: The War and Agriculture: A Splendid Meeting at the
Corn Exchange; "Things are very much more serious than … a year ago"
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
2c
Clerical Work for Women: Proposed Classes at Chichester
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
8e
Regt. Sergt-Major J W Graham, 1/1 Sussex Yeomanry: An Appreciation from
Lieutenant-Colonel, the Earl of March; a glowing tribute
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
8f
DSM for Chichester Bandsman: Shipwright William Shepherd
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
8f
Private HLJ Penfold Killed: Chichester man dies of wounds received in action at Loos
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1915-12-15
3d
Mr F D Acland MP at Chichester; current state of the war and agriculture
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-12-15
2b
Clerical Work for Women
Chichester
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-15
5e
Recruiting at Crawley
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-15
5b
War Agricultural Committee
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-15
8f
National Egg Collection for the wounded
East Grinstead
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
6c
Littlehampton Urban Council: The Recruiting Rush: The Rush to Attest;
"Littlehampton would have every reason to congratulate itself on the result of the
canvass"
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
4f
Killed at Loos; report of death of Corporal Henry Harris of Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
8f
Littlehampton Footballer's Death: death reported of Corporal R Whitburn, 4th RSR
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-12-15
6cd
No Military Hospital
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-12-15
6c
The Rush to Attest
Littlehampton
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Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
5e
The War
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
3a
Lancing Colleg
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
7fg
Boys and War work
Sompting
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-15
5e
The Wedding of Lance-Corpl Rylance
Three Bridges
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-15
3bc
West Sussex Education Committee: Teachers and Enlistment; extract from report of
monthly meeting
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
6d
A History of the War
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
6e
Winter Hall and wounded soldiers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
6f
Helping the Grange funds
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
6g
Gifts solicited for the Grange
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
6e
Final Rush of recruits
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
7c
Success of the recruiting cavass
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
6e
Mayoress and the troops
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
6f
The Men on the spot
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-15
6cd
Womens work in the War time
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-16
2d
Agriculture and boy labour
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-16
2c
West Sussex education committee cutting down campaign
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-16
2d
Clerical work for women
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
2f
Experience of the Great Advance
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
5g
Col Bostock at Summerdown camp - account of local soldier's activities
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
6a
Bombing at Gallipoli - A Horsham Yeoman's Letter
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
6a
A Letter from Alexandria - war news from soldier
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
8b
The Great War - local "jottings"
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
5d
Memorial service at Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
5c
Plea for Sterner England - the harbouring of traitors - sermon at St Mark's Church
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
5d
War Hospital Supply Depot - report
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
8c
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - orders
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
8ef
Roll of Honour of Horsham Men
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
5c
Heathfield House - an "At Home" to raise funds for Horshm Hospital Munitions Depot
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
5c
Vegetable Produce Committee - appeal for Xmas Puds for fleet
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
8a
Miniature Rifle Shooting - VTC competition.
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
8c
Licensed Victuallers' Protest - re licencing hours
Horsham
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-18
8b
For the Belgian soldiers - details of local clothing contributions
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-21
1b
UNOBSCURED-CUCKFIELD AND BUREGESS HILL CASES
BURGESS HILL
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-21
3b
WOMEN WARTIME WORKERS
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-21
7f
ROADMEN AND WAR SERVICE
WEST SUSSEX
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-21
1g
LATEST WAR NEWS-SUVLA AND ANZAC
WESTERN FRONT
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-21
2a-c
GAS ATTACK AGAINST THE BRITISH FAILS
WESTERN FRONT
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-22
5e
The War: The Crew of the "Anglia"; a letter in praise of actions of the crew of sunk
hospital ship, HMS "Anglia"
Chichester Observer
1915-12-22
5e
The Crew of the "Anglia"
the working of a hospital ship
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-22
5e,f
Bognor Family Honoured; letter containing the King's congratulations to the Thorne
family from Bognor; 5 sons and a son-in-law
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1915-12-22
5d
Graylingwell War Hospital;
only passing interest in convoys now
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-22
8d
Littlehampton Soldier’s Death: Details of a Drowning Tragedy;"Accidental Death"
verdict
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
7d
On the watch
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
4f
The Gas industry and the war
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
6c
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
6fg
Comforts for our soldiers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
5d
Frank Sandell and sons
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
6g
Corporation employees and enlistment
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
7f
Tribute to a dead soldier
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
6g
Gas company and the War
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
5e
A seasonable greeting from the trenches
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-22
6g
Distinction for a Worthing soldier
Worthing
Gazette Tobacco fund
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West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-23
9a
A word for Graylingwell
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-23
5e
Easebourne - Lady Cowdray Christmas gifts for children
Easebourne
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-23
9b
Littlehampton - 3 women added to postal staff
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-23
2c
Prize day at Midhurst Grammar School
Midhurst
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-25
8e
Sandbags
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1915-12-25
6cd
Women on Farms
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
6fg
Roll of Honour
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
5f
The Great War
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
5d
War Hospital Supply Depot - report
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
5e
Lord Derby's Recruiting Scheme - letter re scheme
Horsham
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West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
8a
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps - orders
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
8ef
Roll of Honour of horsham Men
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
5b
Licenced Victuallers' Association - meeting and protest re licencing hours
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
5d
Vegetable Production Committee - letter re 1cwt of Xmas puds sent to fleet
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
5e
Horsham Billeting Scheme - letter re scheme
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1915-12-25
6a
Horsham Petty sessions - troops in court - motoring offences
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-28
2ab
ARTILLERY DUELS IN THE WEST- OUR LOSSES IN THE DARDANELLES
Mid-Sussex Times
1915-12-28
4g
'THE GOAL DRAWS NEARER' OUR KINGS MESSAGE
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-29
5a
Wounded Soldiers and Intoxicants: Fresh Regulations;
Chichester Observer
1915-12-29
5a
Wounded Soldiers and Intoxicants
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1915-12-29
7cd
Isolation Hospital;
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-29
2e,f
A Monologue: "When My Old Man Donned The Khaki" or "The Street Urchin's Story",
a poem by the late W Lindsley Marsh of Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-12-29
6a
Farmers and the Local Tribunals
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1915-12-29
5cd
Christmas at Graylingwell War Hospital
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-29
4f
Littlehampton Man's Letter: extracts from a letter written by Mr G W Spencer, Motor
Boat Section, A.S.C.
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-12-29
8e
Red Cross; Christmas at Belgrave House
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1915-12-29
8e
V T C Activities; at Arundel with other units
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-29
6b
Christmas at Shoreham camp
Shoreham
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-29
6f
Soldiers at Christmas
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-29
6e
Soldiers and licensed houses
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1915-12-29
3d
What 1 shilling does through our tobacco fund
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1915-12-29
6g
Prisoners of war
worthing
Littlehampton
Observer
1915-12-29
2d
Yapton Family Honoured by The King: Another Fine Record of Service; the Hother
family, four sons serving King and Country, and another killed in action
Yapton
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-30
3d
Christmas at Graylingwell war hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-30
8f
Graylingwell war hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1915-12-30
8g
Singleton - a move ahead in food production
Singleton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
5a
Jockeys and Enlistment; revised rules of National Hunt Committee for licencing
jockeys
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
3fg
Advert; The King's Call'
Make good these sacrifices;
Appeal for men
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
8a
Disaster to HMS Natal;
Blown up in port
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
2ab
Advert: Joint the Army
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
3g
In the Dardanelles;
How our men are "sticking it"
Appeal for warm clothes
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
5b
Recruiting in Crawley and Ifield; higher than average recruitment rate achieved
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
8a
Arma Virumque Cano; Letter of thanks from a Recruiting Officer
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
3c
100 Per Cent Crawley; Letter complaining about prices being charged by shops in
Crawley
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
2e
Billy Lamkin to his East Grinstead Friends; Christmas greetings from the Front
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
5e
Lance-Sergeant W J Fielder at the Front: News from 7th Battalion, RSR
Hartfield
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
5c
Bishop of Chichester Pastoral Letter;
The War and The Call of God
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
5b
Military Station Hospital;
Gifts recived
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
8d
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
5f
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps;
Horsham & Worthing Battalion;
Wekly orders;
Repeated weekly
War Hospital Supply Depot;
Exhibition at Horsham;
A report of exhibition
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
5b
Death of Horsham teacher
Private James a brief history;
Horsham
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Times
1916-01-01
5b
The Late Corporal E Adams;
Wounded by shrapnel and died in hospital;
A brief history
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
5g
Splendid work at Malta;
Private J A Morris writes;
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
6fg
Roll of Honour;
Soldiers and Sailors who have given their lives for the country;
Repeated weekly
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
8b
The Worst of Journeys;
Gunner Jack Scott writes
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
8c
Christmas night in the trenches;
Verses from Private Dinnage
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
8c
A Dardanelles Storm;
Private Petersfield writes
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-01
5f
Christmas at Roffey Camp;
YMCA invited all to tea and enterrtainment; A report
Roffey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
2f
The Bishop of Chichester and The War; Pastoral Letter to the People of His Diocese
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
2f
Sussex Clergy and War Service
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-01
4e
Warning of cancellation of services by the London Brighton & South Coast Railway
Company due to demands of military authorities
Sussex
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MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-04
8f
A touching narrative: Private Siffleet of Haywards Heath relates his experiences at
the Dardanelles
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-04
8g
For the Fleet : over a ton of produce from Haywards Heath last week; collected for
HM Fleet.
HAYWARDS HEATH
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
2f
A Bognor Soldier in Germany
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
4f
National Egg Collection: Bognor Depot; continues in subsequent editions
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
2b
"Wait and ……"; Poem by Private Nemo
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
5a-b
Graylingwell War Hospital; arrivals, entertainments, continues weekly
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
8b
Armlets
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
4d
The Old Year and the New; Somerstown Fife & Drum band - only 1 fife left
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
8f
A Cicestrians Narrow Escape
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
4e
Concerts for the Blind
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
4e
A VTC Company for Chichester
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
3c
Eggs for the Wounded; Eggs donated and sent to Chichester Deport for wounded
soldiers: continues in subsequent editions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
5cd
A Thought for the New Year; Sermon by the Rector of Whyke
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
6ef
The Dean of Chichester and the War; Aservice of United Prayer and Thanks giving
(Extract)
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
5a
Graylingwell War Hospital, Arrival of More Wounded; Christmas Presents: continues
in subsequent editions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
4d
A VTC Company for Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
8f
The War; Have you your Armlet?
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
8f
A Cicestrian's Narrow Escape
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
4f
On a Hospital Ship
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
4e
Littlehampton Soldier Honoured; Rifleman Arthur M Wingfield
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
4e
On a Hospital Ship; Letter from Private George F Parsons
Littlemapton
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
2e
The Earl of March
Molecomb
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Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
3d
Military Entertained at Selsey
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
3d
Military entertained at Selsey
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
5d
Found Drowned at Selsey; An Unidentified Sailor
Selsey
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
3c
Eggs for the Wounded; continues weekly
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
3b
Honours for Sussex Officers and Men
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-01-05
3b
Honours for Sussex Officers and Men
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1916-01-05
3f
Appeal to Derby Recruits
Western Manhood
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-05
6f
War Hospital Supply Depot
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-05
4e
No Conscription
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-05
6d
Volunteer Training Core
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-05
3a
Parcels to POW's
Worthing
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Worthing Gazette
1916-01-05
3b
At the Winter Hall The Kindly (?) Hun
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
3fgh
Cheers all the way for the Brave Boys and Pears; advert
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
10H
Stories from the Front; "If you were out here!"
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
10H
Stories from the Front; A smack at the Turks
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
9d
Graylingwell War Hospital; soldiers returning from eastern Mediterranean
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
4c
At Cooden Camp; the King's Message to Troops now in Sussex
Cooden;Bexhill
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
9f
Christ's Hospital Boys' War Work
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
2h
National Registration; Preservation of Certificates
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
2g
New Year's Message to volunteers; Central Association
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
6f
A New Year's address to Britain's Men in the Trenches
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
4e
Women and Agriculture
Sussex
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-06
1f
Public Notice; Armlets
Various places Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
3b
Women and Agricultural Work; Suggested Canvass and Roll of Honour
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
4f
Carrier pigeons used for naval and military purposes being killed
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
4e
The "Persia"; Details of the sinking of the P&O liner in the Mediterranean
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
7b
Blockade of Germany;
Fruits of Sea Power;
Explanation of the blockade
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
8fg
Naval Recruiiting:
Possible changes to the system
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
7d
A Barcombe Man's Act of Bravery: story of Sergaent William Hawkins, 9th Battalion.
RSR
Barcombe
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
5f
Death of soldier coming in contact with live wire while on duty
Billinghurst
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
5f
Lance-Corpl Downer unifficially killed in action;
Captain of Burgess Hill Working Men's Cricket Club
Burgess Hill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
7d
"One of the lucky ones": story of Private Bristow from Chailey, injured at the Front
Chailey
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
5c
Home from the Dardanelles; news of men from Copthorne
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
5d
War Office Scheme for Co-ordinating and Regulating Voluntary Work; local
committees formed
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
6f
"Sister, Let Us Sleep": Report of visit by Lady Randolph Churchill to the American
Women's War Hospital, Paignton, South Devon
England
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
7d
Framfield: Eggs for wounded soldiers; similar entries in subsequent editions
Framfield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
5c
A Horsham Soldier's Presentation: Private W H Charman presented with the Cross of
the Russian Order of St George, conferred by Emperor of Russia
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
8a
Canadian's Funeral at Horsham;
Corporal Wood based at Roffey account of funeral
Horsham
Roffey
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
5c
Belgian Relief Fund;
Receipts in connection with Christmas Collection
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
5b
War Hospital Supply Depot;
Report of contributions received amd evemts;
Repeated in later issues
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
5b
Royal Fusiliers in France;
Lieutenant Russell writes
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-08
5b
Thanks for the Christmas Puddings;
F C Schofied writes from HMS Maidstine
Horsham
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Times
1916-01-08
8b
Horsham's Man Gallantry;
Holder of DCM Receives Russian Cross
Private Charman an account
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-08
6d,e
East Sussex Education Committee: Closure of Agricultural College, Uckfield
Uckfield
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-11
7e
Under the circumstances : Mid-Sussexians in France; Description of Christmas
festivities.
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-11
5f
Red Cross workers entertained; at Red Cross hospital in Balcombe
BALCOMBE
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-11
8b
Enlivening the soldiers at the cottage hospital; Entertainment evening for the
patients
HAYWARDS HEATH
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-11
3a
Haywards Heath Work Guild; Report of work done and accounts.
HAYWARDS HEATH
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-11
8a
Entertainment at the VAD hosptial
HAYWARDS HEATH
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
2e
National Registration Certificates
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
2c
Naval Recruiting
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
2f
The Compulsion Bill; Text of the Measure
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Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
3f
Lose rank on re-joining
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
2f
Enemy's 7,400,000 Losses
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
2f
The Lusitania; reported German disavowal
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
2f
German Desire for Peace; with Russia and Japan
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
6e
Numbers Will Tell; interest in the Darby scheme at the front
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
3f
Contemporary chat; The Prince's appointment
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
5e
Ladies Column; women in Scotland Yard, the Office of Public Trustee, etc.
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
6b
Topic of the Hour; the ladies who work for show
Chichester Observer
1916-01-12
4c
Trooper Fred Toop Killed
Aldingbourne
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
6e
Well done Arundel; a remarkable recruiting report
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1916-01-12
6e
Well Done Arundel; Remarkable Recruiting Report
Arundel
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1916-01-12
7a
More Bognor Light Cases; continues weekly
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
7b
Rest Huts for Soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-12
7b
Rest Huts for Soldiers; proposed "Chichester C.E.M.S. Hut"; continues in subsequent
editions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-12
2c
The VTC; Central Association's New Year's Message: A branch for Chichester?
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-12
2c
Naval Recruiting
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-12
4c
Eigth-Seven Half Crowns; novel way of raising money for local War Funds
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
3f
Joining up; pre-empting compulsion
London
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
5c
Christmas Gifts to the 2nd Sussex
Petworth
Chichester Observer
1916-01-12
8b
Recruits urgently required
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-01-12
8e
The War; Sussex Yeomanry Casualties
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1916-01-12
2c
VTC; New Year Message & past achievements
SW Sussex
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Worthing Gazette
1916-01-12
5b
Wounded Soldiers at the Grange Convalescent Home, 6 Heene Parade
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-12
5d
On the Pier -A Soldier Singer's Welcome appearance
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-12
5e
At the Dome- The Martyred Nurse. A Film that reveals a German Crime
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-13
3e
Graylingwell War Hospital
Chichester
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
2d
Finding the Range: How some clever English soldiers locateda hostile German
battery
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
3d
St Luke's-Terrace School as Military Hospital
Brighton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
8a
Begging at Crawley: reaction to appeals from Clergy for funds (letter)
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
2b
East Grinstead Urban District Council: An Absent Member; interesting comments of
council member and Chairman
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
8b
Christmas Gifts for the Navy: Letters of appreciation for Christmas Gifts
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
2c
How they amused themselves in Gallipoli: letter from Mr C Wing, attached to
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
8e
East Sussex War Agricultural Committee: The District Sub-Committees: Mr Haviland
explains The Scheme (letter)
East Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
5d
Hartfield: Prvt W Muddle; letter from a wounded war prisoner
Hartfield
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-15
5f
Filled in action;
Killed in the battle of Loos an account
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-15
5f
Death of Billinghurst Engineer;
Letter from the Chaplin
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
8a
Jeering a Hero: wounded soldier jeered by those who assumed he had not enlisted
(letter)
Lingfield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-15
8c
2nd Royal Sussex Regiment: Christmas Gifts received and appreciated (letter)
Petworth
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-18
2g
Johnny Turk and Sussex Boys' bullets; Burges Hill footballer of the Sussex
Yeomanry, among the "Whiz-Bangs"
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-18
1b
What nationality?: Burgess Hill; Summons of an alien coming into a prohibited area
without permission. Case continued in MST1916JantoMar014
BURGESS HILL
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-18
1f
No register; Prosecution of a keeper of apartments failing to keep a register of
aliens.
HAYWARDS HEATH
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-18
8d
4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment ; urgent
requirement for woollen helmets and socks
HAYWARDS HEATH
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Worthing Gazette
1916-01-19
3a
Sinking of the Brighton Queen
At Sea near Ostend
Bognor Observer
1916-01-19
5d
Bognor Fireman dies at the Front
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-01-19
5d
Bognor Fireman killed at the Front; Glowing tribute in letter to sister
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-01-19
*e
Bognor Mother Loses Two Sons
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-01-19
2b
The Training of Women
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-19
8e
The War, News after four months; One of four serving sons is a prisoner in Bulgaria
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-19
4e
Seaplane Ashore
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1916-01-19
7c
Our Blinded Soldiers and Sailors
London
Chichester Observer
1916-01-19
8e
Sussex War Honours
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1916-01-19
5e
A Sussex Lad; 14 year olds return from the Front
Toddington
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1916-01-19
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A Suusex Lad; Fourteen-year-old fights for his country; Sent home
Toddington
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-19
7a
Wick School Welcome to gallant young soldier
Wick
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-19
6f
Christmas Gifts to the Second Sussex
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-20
2fgh
Foresight; Sunlight soap advert
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-20
11e
We Keep Smiling; Letter from Private George Wells of Sussex Yeomanry
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-20
11f
Lost in the Desert; Adventures after Ctespihion
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-20
11e
A Canadian Troopers Letter
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-22
5b
My Note Book: editorial views of the responsibilities of the local Recruiting Tribunals
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-22
4g
Advert; Save all tin, lead etc.
for ammunition
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-22
5c
Death of Corporal Blatch:Glowing tributes following death of popular East Grinstead
man
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-22
5c
Salvation Army: Captain Leal, office in charge of East Grinstead Corps, leaves for
France for work in the King's Army
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-22
3f
Military Horses for Loan: Important Notice to Farmers; military horses available for
use on local farms
East Sussex
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-22
8b
From the Belgian Soldiers in the Trenches;
Thank you ;letters for socks and warmn clothing
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-22
8c
Sailors' Chritmas Puddings;
Letters to Horsham Lads'
Received by lads attending East Parade School
Horshma
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-01-25
1f
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation; Completion of official order for 500
mufflers and 170 pairs of mitten - dispatched to a base at Calais.
MID-SUSSEX
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
2f
Country Home Life Today; Society's War Time Work
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-26
6f
The Men on The Spot- Rough Times,Rough Weather and Tight Corners
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
6f
The Officers' Mess and Keeping down the cost
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
2f
Warning to Navigators
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
4a-b
Farewell to "Hans & Fritz Ltd"
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
2f
A Sign of Enemy Weakness; Failure to attack at Salonica
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1916-01-26
2f
Country Home Life Today; Society's Wartime Work
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
3f
Topics of the Hour; women serving in Russian and Austrian armies
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
5a-b
How the Brave Die
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
5ab
How the brave die; Letter from Regimental Sergeant-Major Dunworth of Arundel
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
5d
Derby Recruiting; 'special' medicals
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
8f
Bognor Soldier's Impressions of the Front
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
5d
Derby Recruiting; Letter from a Willing Derby Recruit; recruits passed as 'unfit'
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
4f
For the Troops; donation of clothing
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
8f
Bognor Soldier's Impression of the War; from Mons onward without a scratch
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
8de
Military Cross for Lieut. Somerset
Castle Goring
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Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
4b
The Derby Recruits
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
5c
C E M S Rest Huts; appeal for funds
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
3b
Farmers and Enlistment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
6d
West Sussex Farmers' Union; Light draught horses; horses not required by Army fit
for light work on farms
Chichester
Chichester Observeri
1916-01-26
6e
West Sussex Farmers' Union; Helping the enemy; ban on export of sulphate of
ammonia
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
4b
The Derby Recruits; Boom in recruitment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
4c
To the unattested young men; urgent appeal from the Mayor
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
3d
Female Labour on Farms; West Sussex Farmers and School Girls; Continued in
subsequent editions
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
8d
To the Real Slacker
Eastergate
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
8d
The War; To the Real Slacker
Eastergate
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
5a
Selsey Soldier's Verses; The share of B/54 in their retreat from Servia
Selsey
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1916-01-26
8e
Lieut. Dudley M H Jewell Killed
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
8de
Casualities in the Sussex Yeomanry
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-01-26
8d
7th Susex Casualties
Sussex
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
6e
Helping the enemy; measures to prevent agricultural aid to the enemy
West Sussex
Bognor Observer
1916-01-26
3d
Female Labour on Farms
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-26
5f
At the Picturedome The Great War. Described in Picture and Story
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-26
6c
Demand for More Recruits
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-26
6c
Departure of Derby Recruits - A Silent Community
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-26
6f
Germans and Their Prisoners. Shocking Treatrment. Disclosurea made to Local
Audiences
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-26
7c
The Modern Nero- Germany's Ruler- Some Dead Sea Fruits of Teutonic Kultur
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-01-26
5c
Our Lengthening Roll of Honour
Worthing
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-27
5g
Miscellaneous Vacancies; Royal Marines
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-27
7cd
Women and Agriculture
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-27
2b
Cooden Camp
Cooden;Bexhill
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-27
4g
Easebourne Parish Council; debate on best means of improving food production in
parish
Easebourne
West Sussex Gazette
1916-01-27
2d
West Sussex Farmers Union;
Farmers and Military Service
West Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
8a
"Objections Conscientious": Satirical poem lamenting the budon of being a
conscientious objector
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-29
3a
Hints to Shoppers;
Appeal from traders who are short of men;
Cooperation asked from shoppers
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-29
8c
Missing Liner;
Liner Appam missing
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-29
8c
Voluntary War Organizations;
West Sussex County Collecting Centre;
New one opened an appeal for goods
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
5d
Sandbags: shipment of sandbags from Crawley results in news from soldier in
Greece (letter)
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
4f
East Sussex farmers "unenthusiastic" at proposed employment of women on the land
East Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
4f, 5a
Soldiers temporarily undertaking farm work to be paid more than skilled farm
labourers
East Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
8e
East Sussex War Agricultural Committee: Lengthy discussions on the employment of
women and soldiers on the land
East Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
8b
Volunteer Training Corps Orders: for Eastbourne, Copthorne and Lingfield; sample of
atricles appearing in various editions
Eastbourne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
6e,f
War Debate; Where Our Foes Are Mostly Friends; fascinating debate at Eastbourne
YMCA on the background to the War
Eastbourne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
6d
The Sinking of the "Persia": Graphic Story: a letter from a survivor, Lieutenant A C
Pegge from Eastbourne
Eastbourne
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-29
2f
Dangerous Motoring;
2nd Lieutenant Dickins 35 MPH
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-29
3b
Miis Burstow receives thanks for tin of jam sent to the soldiers
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-01-29
3b
Miss Peake receives thanks from soldiers for sweets and a mouth organ
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-01-29
6a
National Farmers' Union: East Sussex Executive Meeting: Recruiting and Agriculture
Lewes
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MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-01
8f
Haywards Heath Bench : "Caught Napping" - Sayers Common; Two deserters
caught.
SAYERS COMMON
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-02
6e
Private F Owens reporting on Royal Sussex dead
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-02
7c
Christmas With The Yeomanry
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
8f
Some Misapprehensions; Suitability for nursing
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
4b-c
On the Threshold; war summary to date
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
6b-c
Women in the Army; and motoring work
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-02
3a
Cooden Camp change of regiments
Bexhill
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
8e
A V T C for Bognor
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
2c
A Bognor Soldier's Dream
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
3b-c
Lessons of the War
Bognor
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Chichester Observer
1916-02-02
8e
A VTC for Bognor
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-02-02
2c
Bognor Soldier's Dream; Another Letter from Private Allen
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-02-02
3bc
Lessons of the War; Bognor Soldier's Letter
Bognor
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-02
4e
Sussex County Hospital, Brighton Pound Day- The Need is Great
Brighton
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
4f
The Derby Recruits;
lack of martial music send off
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
8a
Armlets; for men medically unfit to serve
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
5c
Chichester Volunteer Training Corps; Drills to commence
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-02
3a
Graylingwell Hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-02
4d
The Derby Recruits; lack of instruments to give recruits martial music send-off
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-02
5c
Chichester Volunteer Training Corps.; Drills to commence
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1916-02-02
7e
Absurdity of the White Feather
Chichester & Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-02-02
8d
DCM for Selsey Corporal
Selsey
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-02
6d
Worthing's Oldest Recruit
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-02
7cd
Trench Comforts- A Cigarette and a Pipe of tobacco
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-02
8g
Tommy's Joy day
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-03
2d
West Sussex Farmers' War Sale
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-03
3d
West Tarring Sappers; Letter from Sapper Lucas 8th Sussex
West Tarring
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
5a,b
Employment of soldiers on the land; more information following on from article 042
above
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-05
3f
Soldiers as Farm Workers;
Arrrangement made with Army Council for a limited number od soldiers to be given
furlough to work on land
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-05
6d
Public Clock and The War;
Chimes and striking clocks should be discontinued between sunset and sunrise
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-05
3e
Decorated by the Tsar;
Artificer-Engineer Asker decorated with St George's Cross for sinking German cruiser
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
8d
Dormansland: The War - the Vicar's Summary as printed in the Parish magazine
Dormansland
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
8e
The Zeppelin Raid: concerns of a resident of East Grinstead
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
8f
An Appeal: an appeal to men to volunteer, from "A School Boy"
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
8b
East Grinstead War Work Association Ltd: report on current activities: similar articles
appear in other editions
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
8f
A War Song: written by Sergeant H Merchant, formerly of East Grinstead
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
8a
What We Did In Gallipoli: News from Lance-Corpl. V Hounsome, an East Grinstead
soldier
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
3f
Sussex Congregational Union: Annual Meetings; "The Church and The War", speech
by Chairman
East Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
Sussex Public Officials: Association's Annual Meeting at Lewes: The War and Public
Health Work
East Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
5d
Hammerwood: Church Matters; plea for greater commitment from congregation
Hammerwood
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-05
8c
Hard fighting on the peninsula;
Trooper's letter
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-05
8b
Death of Mr Henry Burstow;
Famous bell ringer and songster. A history
Horsham
6d
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West Susex County
Times
1916-02-05
5f
Geath of Private Myson;
Brief hiatory and tribute from Lieutenant
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-05
5f
Killed by a sniper;
Letter from :Lieutenant
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
8b
An American Visits Jevington:
An American's observations of Jevington and some of it's inhabitants during the war
Jevington
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-05
3e
Lewes and District Teachers' Association: Annual Meeting: The War and Education
Lewes
Bognor Observer
1916-02-09
3f
Government Activity; release of news
Bognor Observer
1916-02-09
5b-c
Darby Recruits
Bognor Observer
1916-02-09
3f
Chaplain's All Night Task; bravery at the Front
Chichester Observer
1916-02-09
3e
The Late Sergt.-Major Percy Baker; Glowing tribute from his Captain
Chichester ?
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-09
7e
Return of Chinese Missionaries- An Anxious Voyage- Some Precautions in Wartime
Colombo
Bognor Observer
1916-02-09
3f
Dutch Boat Torpedoed
North Sea
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Worthing Gazette
1916-02-09
7d
Concert by Cycling Soldiers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-09
6c
Swimmers in War Time
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-09
7cd
Collecting Post Cards
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-09
6a
Women undertaking work previously done by men
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-10
8b
Art in Wartime
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-10
3cd
Horsham War Supply Depot General Meeting
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-12
5c
News of Copthorne Soldiers: some held as POWs, others the survivors of Gallipoli
Copthorne
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-12
5f
Death of Brigedier General Harvey;
Died of wounds in Mesopotamia - A history
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-12
6a
Horsham men at the front;
Letter from 4th Sussex in Egypt
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-12
6d
Advert; Zeppelins!!
War Risk Insurance
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-12
8d
Our London Letter: a regular column (found in every edition) reporting the latest
news from London, mostly on matters relating to the War
London
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Courier
1916-02-12
6e
The Recruiting Tribunal: Uckfield UDC appoints members of it's tribunal
Uckfield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-12
6c
Volunteer Training Corps: The Case For Official Recognition
UK
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-12
8d
Magazines for the Forces: appeal from the Postmaster-General
UK
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-15
3b
'Time to get a move on': rats council of war at the "same address"; Warninglid
gunner's account of life in the dugout.
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-15
1f
"The Camp Followers" :entertainments at Balcombe; Account of the dramatic and
concert party's concerts to troops at home and in France . Leader lives at Ditton
Place, Balcombe.
BALCOMBE
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-15
1a
Haywards Heath Bench : a Roumanian not a German; Continuation of case reported
in MST1916JantoMar008.doc
BURGESS HILL
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-15
1a
Haywards Heath Bench : a Lodging-House keepers responsibilities; Failure to keep a
register of aliens.
BURGESS HILL
Bognor Observer
1916-02-16
7f
Public Lights;
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-02-16
7d-f
Band Proposals;
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
5e
Blind Musicians Concert at Bognor; in aid of soldiers and sailors blinded in the War;
similar articles in previous and subsequent editions
Bognor
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Bognor Observer
1916-02-16
5c
Precautions against air raids
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-02-16
5e-f
New Lighting Order; first prosecution at Chichester; continues weekly
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-02-16
6b
Great Gift Sale at Chichester; funds raised for ruined farmers & Red Cross
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
6b
Great Gift Sale at Chichester; £1150 raised for ruined farmers and Red Cross
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
5c
Precautions Against Air Raids; discussions at Chichester Council meeting
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
5e
New Lighting Order; First prosecution at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
5a
Back from the Front; Chichester Guardians consider case of Mr Pennicott
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
5d
Chichester City Licensing Sessions; An Appeal to License Holders; do not serve any
wounded soldier with intoxicating liquor
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-02-16
3d
If the Zepps Come!
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1916-02-16
4e
"Hark! Zepps"
Littlehampton
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1916-02-16
6e
Lighting Restictions; keep to the right
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
3d
Littlehampton Council: If the Zepps Come!
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
4d
"Hark! Zepps"; how residents will be warned of 'proximity of hostile aircraft'
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-02-16
3d
The Appeal Tribunal; tribunal hears 35 appeals from attested men; continued in
subsequent editions
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-16
3d
Boy Labour in Wartime
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-16
6c
Military Service Act now in full operation
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-16
4de
Khaki Boxing Championships
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-16
6e
The Men On The Spot- What they say- A Soldier's Thanks for a kindly Gift
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-17
10bc
Down Among the "Landworms"; article on talk by Major Rev Hales on soldiers' life
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-17
2fg
Farmers and Service Certified Agricultural Occuptions re. Military Services Act
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-17
2c
Stories from the Front; 4 letters
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-17
3c
War work for Boys and Women
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-17
6a
To Charitable Organisations and War-aiding activities; Notice re. introduction of
paper import restrictions and charitiable advertisements
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-17
12f
1st' Tribunals convened under Military Services Act
Worthing Midhurst
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-19
5a,b
From East to West: a regular column often containing details of new instructions
issued from Government departments, eg. rules governing treatment of unattested
men, validity of exemption certificates, etc.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-19
8e
Barcombe: A Local Soldier Killed; death of Private W H Banks, killed in action
Barcombe
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-19
2a
East Grinstead UDC: National Farmers Union seeks to add 2 additional farmers to the
Recruitment Tribunal
East Grinstead
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-19
6d
Sergt.Major Snell writes in thanks for mouth organs
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-19
6d
Private Goacher Royal Sussex writes
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-19
8a
A Wesleyan Minister and The War: Sermon and Lecture at Lewes
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-19
3e,f
Lewes Volunteer Training Corps: First Annual Meeting; report on it's first year's
activities
Lewes
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Bognor Observer
1916-02-23
7c
War Curio Exhibition at Bognor; fund raiser for Red Cross, interesting items
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-02-23
3b
Bognor Yeoman in Cairo
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-02-23
3b
Bognor Yeoman in Cairo; Letter from Trooper Tregear
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-02-23
5f
Bognor Soldier in a Strange Land; compensations for serving King and country
Bognor
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-23
3a
Indian soldiers leaving Brighton
Brighton
Bognor Observer
1916-02-23
3e
Navy League Essay Competition
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-02-23
2f
Helping to win the war;
leather production
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-02-23
2c-e
Women and Farm Work
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-23
4c
Attesting Recruits; Last swearing in of recruits under the Derby Scheme
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-02-23
2f
Helping to Win the War; Chichester's production of Leather
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-02-23
2c-e
Women and Farm Work; The Call to Patriots
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-02-23
6b
Executed by Germans
Lille, France
Bognor Observer
1916-02-23
6d
To Help Recruiting; the result of one Zeppelin raid
Staffordshire
Worthing Gazette
1916-02-23
6f
Manufacture of High Explosives- The Necessity of Gas
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-24
2b
Indian Soldiers and Brighton Pavilion
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-24
1c
The Window Order of Patriotism West Sussex Gazette ad promoting display of
patriotism
West Susex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-02-24
2d
Letters to the Editor "Good old Sussex"; Letter from grateful wounded soldier
receiving the Gazette
West Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-26
6b
Damage by Zeppelins; No Government help for uninsured properties damaged by
Zeppelin raids
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-26
5e
The Military Service Act: Cases Before the Tribunal; first sitting of the East Grinstead
Recruitment Tribunal. Similar articles appear in subsequent editions.
East Grinstead
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-26
6b
Letter of thanks for cigarettes from Horsham lads in Egypt;
List of men
Horham
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Times
1916-02-26
5f
9th Sussex Regiment in action;
Horsham's man letter
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-26
6a
Death of Sergt. Butt;
A brief history
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-26
6b
Casualty List;
Names of Horsham men killed or wounded
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-26
6e
Experiences in France;
C.Q.M.S. Mills writes
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-26
5c
Women's War Work;
Helping on the land'
Meeting to promote war work
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-26
6a
National Farmers' Union:East Sussex Branch Meetings; attempts to mitigate the
impact of Military Service on the Union and farmers (extract)
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-26
7e,f
Americans and Registration; failure to register dismissed by Court
Plumstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-26
2d,e
A Seaford Soldier and his Sweetheart: Girl Sent to Prison: "A Very Serious Offence";
jail for girl who harboured an absentee
Seaford
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-26
6e
Variety at the front;
Private Laker writes
Southwater
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-02-26
2e,f
Inspection of the V.T.C. at Turners Hill; interesting comments on the role of
Volunteers versus joining the Army
Turners Hill
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Times
1916-02-26
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Warnham Man's Death;
Private Ottley killed in action a brief hisrory
Warnham
West Susex County
Times
1916-02-26
5f
2nd Lieutenan Hornung killed in action;
A history
West Grinstead
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-29
5C
A trip to "No Man's Land"; Hurstpierpoint man's venture between the German and
English trenches.
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-29
3f
Alleged attempted suicide at Balcombe : a chauffeur charged at Haywards Heath;
Previously a Red Cross ambulance driver in France.
BALCOMBE
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-29
8a
The local tribunal; Decisions on applications for exemption from military service
HAYWARDS HEATH
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-29
8e
Horsted Keynes : in the army; Two families in the parish with multiple sons serving
in the forces.
HORSTED KEYNES
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-29
8f
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation; Record of work done and areas
distributed to.
MID-SUSSEX
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-02-29
8e
Plumpton : a sensible decision; Summons dismissed against a "friendly alien" in a
prohibited area.
PLUMPTON
Bognor Observer
1916-03-01
5c
Recognition for Volunteers
Bognor Observer
1916-03-01
5c
Drastic Economies
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Bognor Observer
1916-03-01
2c
What did you do in the War
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-03-01
2f
Another Bognor Yeoman's letter; evactuation of Gallipoli
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-01
2c
"What did you do in the War?"; a poem by a Bognor Sergeant
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-01
2f
Another Bognor Yeoman's Letter; Evacuation of Gallipoli
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-03-01
3d
Too much light at Chichester; increased penalties
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-03-01
2e
Tableux Vivants at Chichester; money raiser
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-03-01
2d
Life at the Front; description of new trenches & shelters
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-01
8f
Bank Employees with the Colours; Employees of The Capital and Counties Bank
released for service
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-01
2d
Life at the Front; Letter from a Cicestrian
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-01
4c
A Soldier's French Leave; Private in RSR charged with being an absentee
Chichester
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Worthing Gazette
1916-03-01
5c
Conscientious Objector
East Preston
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-01
6f
Honours for Local Officers- French Decorations
London
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-01
5c
Cecils Red Cross Hospital to be closed
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-01
6f
War Hospital Supply Depot-Worthing Branch
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-02
4b
House of Commons announcement; reference VTC
National
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-02
4b
War Office announcement; reference the military rejected
National
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-02
2gh
Business at Local Appeal Tribunals
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
5a
From East to West: clarification on processing of applications for exemption under
the Military Services Act
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
3f
News in Brief: Teachers with the Colours; 11,400 men teachers serving, about 9,000
are Derby men
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
4f
The Volunteer Training Corps: Government announce that the VTC is to be
recognised as a military force solely for home defense
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Courier
1916-03-04
3f
The Greatest Gentleman in the Army: Character sketch of Sir Douglas Haig
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
5a
From East to West: Women who undertake work on the land to be awarded a
certificate
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
5e
A Military Absentee: Report of man brought before Magistrate charged with being an
absentee. Similar reports are found in almost every edition. This is included just as
an example
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
2a
East Grinstead Rural Deanery: The Members in Conference; the Church prepares for
returning soldiers
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
5b
An East Grinstead Soldier's Egyptian Experiences: letter from Sergeant J Brinkhurst
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
6d
Life at Summerdown Camp: A Newcomer's Impressions;a military convalescent
home near Eastbourne
Eastbourne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
5f
A Soldier's Wife Sent To Prison: jailed for being drunk in charge of a child under the
age of 7
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-04
5e
Sinking of the Maloja;
Horsham Gunner drowned
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
2b
Death of Major E Campion: Funeral at Hurstpierpoint
Hurstpierpoint
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-04
3f
Death of Major Edward Campion;
Succumbed to after effects of gas poisoningl
History of service
Hurstpierpoint
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
3e
Lewes Recruiting Tribunal: One Concientious Objector: Refusal to Fight or go Minesweeping; details of discussion, application declined
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
2e
Newhaven Board of Guardians: Medical Officers and Military Service: Medical Officers
to be made available to take a commission in Army or Navy
Newhaven
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-04
6f
Two Questions for The Kaiser: Mr Goulburn Lovell at Maresfield Park; a lecture on
the progress of the War
Uckfield
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-07
3f
A Royal gift : Band presented to the 9th Royal Sussex Regiment; News in a letter to
a Cuckfield man of the Regiment's success in driving back the Germans from what
are now named "The Sussex Craters" in official notices and maps.
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-07
8b
When our Big Guns talk; Letter from a Private with the Canadians in France about
casualties and the capturing of a "Hun"
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-07
3a
The League of Mercy : successful meeting at Balcombe; Success of the League in
grants to voluntary hospitals including those in Haywards Heath and Balcombe.
HAYWARDS HEATH.
BALCOMBE
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-07
8f-g
The local tribunals : proceedings at Haywards Heath and Cuckfield and Burgess Hill;
Accounts of applications for exemptions from military service.
MID-SUSSEX
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-07
8d
Before the tribunal; Farmer and bricklayer 's application to the Tribunal for
exemption for two emoployees. Includes comments on why women are either not
suitable or not available to do the work.
PLUMPTON
Bognor Observer
1916-03-08
8d
Bognor War Workers
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-08
8de
Bognor War Workers; Activity at The Clarence Road Depot' "The Women are
Splendid"
Bognor
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Worthing Gazette
1916-03-08
5g
Rules for Army pensioners applying to the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Chelsea
Chichester Observer
1916-03-08
5de
Chichester Recruiting Tribunal; including two concientious objectors
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-08
6e
Loan Exhibition at Chichester; The War Souvenirs; part of article about an exhibition
in aid of Belgiun and Serbian Relief Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-08
5f
The War; this article appears each week, usually on the back page. Interresting to
note that by now it is relegated to page 5 and is very short!
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-08
5b
A "Star" Removed; Littlehampton Picture Palace Case; electric engineer at picture
palace unstarred
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1916-03-08
3f
New Lighting Order
London
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-08
5e
Popular Concerts Heartily Enjoyed by Soldiers from Shoreham
Pier Pavilion
Bognor Observer
1916-03-08
5b
Red Cross Work in Sussex
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-08
3ab
Thirty Nine Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospitals opened in Sussex
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-03-08
3b-d
Westhampnett Recruiting Tribunal; breadth and variety of applications showing the
impact of conscription on local businesses and farmers
Westhampnett
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Chichester Observer
1916-03-08
3cd
A Conscientious Objector; Appeal at Westhampnett Recruiting Tribunal refused;
interesting to see how it was dealt with
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-09
10a
Graylingwell War Hospital; arival of wounded and sick men
Graylingwell
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-09
3g
Littlehampton Petty Sessions; Lighting Restrictions
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-09
10g
Petworth; Recruitment office open on last day of voluntary enlistment
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-09
12a
To Our Readers
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-09
2fg
Lord Kitchner to Civilians
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-09
3d
Voluntary War Work in Sussex
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
4f, 5a
The Moratorium Question: Call up of married men raises questions - who will look
after their homes and families?
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
5a
From East to West: details of call up of married men (see Item 088 above)
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
5f
The Capital and Counties Bank Ltd: 50% of pre war staff have been released to join
the Forces
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Times
1916-03-11
3f
British Produce for France;.
Seed oats and potatoes for the peasanr farms
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-11
6a
Regimental Sergeant-Major writes about the 9th Sussex actions
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
2a
East Grinstead Petty Sessions: Summonses against the Military; various soldiers
summonded for various offences, mostly driving offences
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
2f
Saving in War Time: Scheme Explained at East Grinstead; public meeting in support
of the National savings Committee's Scheme
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
5a
From East to West: War Time Economy; strange decisions taken by the East Sussex
Education Committee!
East Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
3c
A Friendly Alien: Mrs Almeric Paget's Governess: Mrs Paget fined for no registering
an alien. Mrs Paget was heavily involved with Summerdown Camp near Eastbourne
Eastbourne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
5d
A Pastoral Letter: Church roof insured against damage from air raids for £9
Hamerwood
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-11
5d
Horsham Rural Tribunal'
List of cases of men seeking exemption from service
Repeated in further issues
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-11
5e
Horsham Urban Tribunal'
List of cases of men seeking exemption from service
Repeated in further issues
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-11
6a
Private Jupp presumed killed
Horsham
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Times
1916-03-11
6a
Sergt. Hawkins wrote to Sergt. Oakes on leave concernig recpommendation for DCM
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
8c
Farmers and Military Service: Important meeting at Lewes; concern at impact on
farming of statement by Lord Derby about exemptions for single men under the age
of 31
Lewes
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
3d
"The Sussex Craters": news from the front about the exploits of the 9th ballalion RSR
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
8f
The Southdown Battalions: request for "1,000 mufflers and 1,000 pairs of mittens"
Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-11
5b
Turners Hill: A Khaki Wedding; a quick wedding before the groom goes off to the
Front
Turners Hill
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-14
3e-f
Searching questions to a conscientious objector : Burgess Hill tribunal; Verbatim
account of the tribunal.
BURGESS HILL
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-14
7g
The Heritage Schools, Chailey: educative convalescence for wounded military men;
An experiment at the school for disabled children with the men learning alongside
them in the use of new limbs and artificial apparatus in the workrooms.
CHAILEY
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-14
8a
The local tribunal; Meeting to consider exemptions from military service.
HAYWARDS HEATH
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-14
8b
Haywards Heath VTC orders; Timetable fo dates and times of drills.
HAYWARDS HEATH
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-14
5f-g
Farmers lament loss of hands; Cuckfield Rural District tribunal deals with 56 cases
many of which relate to farmhands
MID-SUSSEX
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Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
4c
The Paris Conference; impact of the War on British Trade policy; impact of German
control of metal industry on Australia
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
8e
Lieutenant Maxwell Stuart Killed; killed in action behind enemy lines
Arundel
Bognor Observer
1916-03-15
4e
Air Raid Warning; notice to consumers of gas and electricity
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
4f
A Military Hospital at Bognor; news of decision to build a new military hospital to
house 1200 wounded soldiers
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
4f
Air Raid Warning; Notice to consumers of gas and electricity; measures to be taken
by members of public in event of a warning
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
4f
Voluntary Workers' Organization; clothing made by Bognor women for soldiers and
sailors; similar articles appear in subsequent editions
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
8e
The War; Letter from wounded Bognor Prisoner
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
2de
Littlehampton Urban Council; Doctors and Military Service; see similar article above
headed "Westhampnett Guardians"
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1916-03-15
8e
Ran from the Sussex
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
8e
Ran from The Sussex; report of heroic action of Sussex soldiers
Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
5e
The Scandal of Exemption; A West Wittering Criticism; impact of War on this farming
community
West Wittering
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
2b
Westhampnett Guardians; Medical Men for Service; All available doctors, etc., to be
released to take commissions in Army or Navy
Westhampnett
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
2bc
Westhampnett Guardians; Soldiers' Allowances Discussed; discussion on the financial
plight of men returning from the War
Westhampnett
Chichester Observer
1916-03-15
2c
Westhampnett Guardians; The Commutation of Pensions; interesting discussion on
whether commutation of service pensions should be allowed
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-15
3a
Conscientious Objectors -various religious groups inc The Cokerers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-15
6fg
Helping to Win the War- The Need for Saving
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-15
7de
Always a Good Welcome-Tobacco Fund Advert
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-15
5a
Lecture from the War Zone-Three weeks in France with our women workers
Worthing
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-15
5d
The men on the Spot- Those at the Front and Zeppelin Raids
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
4f
My Note Book: extracts from this weeks column, relating to recruitment and
formation of the "Non-Combatant Corps"
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Courier
1916-03-18
6c
The Empire's Accession of Territory During The War: a letter from a British Consular
Agent explaining Britain's position of strength in the war due to the vast amount of
valuable territory Britain has gained
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
3d
Local soldier killed in action: death of Lance-Corporal Fred King, Barcombe
Barcombe
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
3d
Burgess Hill: Local Teacher killed in action: death of Private Ambrose Herbert Warne,
aged 22
Burgess Hill
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
2a,b
Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health to East Grinstead Rural District
Council: Military camps in the District; details of military camps in East Sussex
East Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
6b
The Conscientious Objector: Address by the Rev. David Barron to the Eastbourne
Free Church Brotherhood
Eastbourne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
6f
Conscientious Objectors: Congregational Minister's Caustic Criticism: "Long and
Grotesque Procession"; address by Rev. J G Henderson, president of the Eastbourne
and District Free Church Council
Eastbourne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
4f
Groombridge: A victim of the "Coquette"; Groombridge man missing after torpedo
destroyer was mined off the East Coast
Groombridge
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
5c
Death of a Handcross Soldier: the story of Bandsman William Fuller and report of his
funeral
Handcross
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
5c
Hartfield: a letter from the Front, from Private J Fielder
Hartfield
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
3f
Heathfield: An Ill-fated Transport: death of Private Cecil Curtis, Army Service Corps,
drowned when transport ship on its way to Valona struck a mine
Heathfield
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1916-03-18
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West Sussex Appeal Tribunal'
List of cases of men seeking exemption from service
Repeated in further issues
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-18
6c
2nd Lieutenant Bray reported killed in action;
a brief history of event
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
3f
Hurstpierpoint: Brothers killed in action: death of Privates A h and J Grover, both of
7th Battalion RSR
Hurstpierpoint
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-18
2f
Talkative Women: a letter from "An Experienced farmer" showing contempt for the
idea of women taking the place of men on farms
Sussex
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-21
2d
Critical condition of agriculture in Sussex; Meeting to consider the effect and
response that single men under 31 years of age should not be allowed to plead
exemption.
LEWES
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-21
8d
A "conscientious objector"; Application refused of a man who had a conscientious
objection to combatant service.
WIVELSFIELD
Chichester Observer
1916-03-22
4ab
Bluff; comments on the speech by Dr. Helfferich on the new German Budget - it's all
bluff!
Bognor Observer
1916-03-22
3e
Conscientious Objectors and the RAMC
Bognor Observer
1916-03-22
4c
Voluntary Workers' Organization
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-03-22
4f
Chichester War Hospital's Supply Depot; goods despatched
Chichester
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Bognor Observer
1916-03-22
5d
Sussex Volunteer Training Corps; week's orders
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-22
3e
Conscientious Objectors and the R.A.M.C.; A protest from France; COs not wanted in
the Corps (see article number 72 above)
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-22
6cd
Eight Chichester Conscripts; Charged with failure to attend at the barracks; report of
court case
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-03-22
7d
The Married Shirker; A letter; Why should single men be compelled to serve first?
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-22
6cd
Killed by an Exploding Shell-Loacl Men's End- First Casualties Among Lowthers
Lambs
France
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-22
6f
The Men on the Spot- Doings of the Eight Buffs
France
Chichester Observer
1916-03-22
5b
The Earl of March; transferred to the Territorial Force Reserve
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-03-22
5c
Correspondence; West Wittering and Exemption; a response to accusations of a lack
of patriotism (see article 86 above). Another letter appears on the following edition
West Wittering
Chichester Observer
1916-03-22
2b
Westhampnett Tribunal; The definition of Absolute Exemption; part of larger report
covering a wide range of appeals
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-23
Graylingwell Hospital; another convoy
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-23
Tribunal Happenings
Midhurst;Easebourne
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
4f, 5a
The Married Man: editorial comment on the grievance of married attested men at
being called up
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
5a,b
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
6d
My Note Book: extracts containing some interesting editorial comments on
Conscientous Objectors, criticisms of Lewes Recruiting Tribunal decisions, changes to
the list of reserved occupations, the release of agriculturalists for service and the
Non-Combatant Corps.
Chailey Rural District Tribunal; report of recent sitting at which 30 claims were
heard. Included here to show the types of claims being made, mostly from farmers.
These are typical of claims being made to tribunals across the county.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
8a
First Case Under The Military Service Act at East Grinstead: A Case of Nerves; report
of first case of a man being charged under the new act
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
5c
A Stupi Rumour: letter from Private W Grove refuting rumours circulating in East
Grinstead that he had committed suicide!
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
6c,d
National Farmers Union: East Sussex Branch and Female Labour; more interesting
discussion on the proposed use of women to replace men on farms
east Sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
6f
Hailsham Tribunal:An Applicant and his Conscience: Could not take the oath of
allegience; Another example of cases heard by tribunals
Hailsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-25
3c
Naval Recruitment at Horsham;
Lieut. Armitage appeal for recruits
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-25
6a
Horsham Lieutenant killed in action;
Lieutenant Kenyon's last letter home
Horsham
West Susex County
Times
1916-03-25
6b
Canadian's view of Horsham;
Letter from Roffey Camp
Roffey
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
5c
Death of Captain S C Bartley, of Shovelstrode, killed in action in France
Shovelstrode
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-03-25
5f
Talkative Women: a response from "A Woman Worker on the Land" to a letter in the
previous weeks edition (see Item 097 above)
Sussex
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-28
MID-SUSSEX TIMES
1916-03-28
5g
Chichester Observer
1916-03-29
4c
Unsparing Effort (Editorial); Commentary on present state of the war and the
German state of mind
Bognor Observer
1916-03-29
8f
Topics of the Hour; Old-fashioned fathers......
Bognor Observer
1916-03-29
7d
In the Trenches; letter from Bognor Dragoon
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-03-29
7d
RAMC Work in France
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-03-29
8d
With "Lowther's Lambs"
Bognor
Local Roll of Honour. Lists of North Mid-Sussex men and South Mid-Sussex repeated
on alternate weeks. North Mid-Sussex - Ardingly, Balcombe, Cuckfield, Haywards
Heath, Horsted Keynes, Lindfield, Scaynes Hill, Slaugham, Staplefield, St. Saviour's
School, Ardingly. South Mid-Sussex - Albourne, Bolney, Burgess Hill, Ditchling,
Hassocks and neighbourhood, Hurstpierpoint, Newtimber, Pyecombe, Sayers
Common, Twineham, Westmeston and Streat, Wivelsfield, St. John's College,
Hurstpierpoint.
Love and war; Ditchling man, on conscientious grounds, granted exemption from
combatant service only.
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Chichester Observer
1916-03-29
7d
In the Trenches; Letter from a Bognor Dragoon
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-29
7d
R.A.M.C. work in France; A Bognor Man's Letter
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-29
8d
With "Lowther's Lambs"; letters from Private R Daughtrey, Private Victor Allen,
Corporal J A Allen
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-03-29
8d
Lance-Corpl. E L Hall: Chichester; Praise for 7th Battalion
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-29
2b
A Sussex Soldier's suggestion for conscientious objectors
France
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-29
6cd
Photos of four fallen men from Southdown Battalion, Sussex Regiment
France
Worthing Gazette
1916-03-29
6ef
Women's War Work In France-Soldier's Canteens
France
Chichester Observer
1916-03-29
5e
Littlehampton Captain Killed; Noble act which cost him his life; glowing tributes to
RSR Captain killed in action
Littlehampton
Bognor Observer
1916-03-29
8d
The War; For Conscientious Objectors; a noose
Streatham
Bognor Observer
1916-03-29
8d
Heavy Casualties in 7th Sussex
Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1916-03-29
8d
Heavy Casualties in 7th Sussex; 22 killed, 110 wounded, 18 shell-shocked
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-03-29
2e
A Conscientious Objector; Walberton Man's Appeal Dismissed
Walberton
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-30
2d
No Knock from Kaiser Bill; Letter from soldier in Egypt
West Sussex Gazette
1916-03-30
2c
The Southdown Battalions; Feedback from Trenches
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-01
5a
Gipsies and recruitment
Ashdown Forest
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-01
5e
Crawley and Ifield YMCA
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-01
8d
War Saving in Crawley
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-01
4e
Lecture on 'The Army at the Dardanelles'
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-01
8f
East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-01
3c
Sussex Oats at Verdun
France
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-01
5e
Aeroplane landing at Hoggs Hill
Hoggs Hill
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West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-01
4a
Waiting to be fetched
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-01
6b
Belgian Refugees
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-01
5b
Troops entertained 21st time
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-01
5e
War Hospital Supply Depot regular and ongoing
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-01
5b
Comfort for Troops
Horsham & District
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
2a-b
Series of Air raids on England
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
3b
The Navy - a call to attested men
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
2b
British Aviators Gallant fight
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
5f
Letter from Egypt
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
6&7
Roll of Honour lists Albourne, Bolney, Burgess Hill,Cuckfield, Horsted Keynes,
Slaugham, Haywards Heath, Sayers Common, Pyecombe, Hassocks, Newtimber,
Wivelsfield, Ditchling, Westmeston & Streat, Hurstpierpoint & Lindfield. Details of
men serving in Army & Navy, serving and dead. Repeated weekly.
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
5g
Teachers attested for military service
East Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
1g
Latest war news - capture of crater and POWs. This headline repeated weekly.
GB
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
1b
4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment thanking public for knitted goods
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
7
St Johns College Hurstpierpoint list of Masters serving the empire
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
5g
Interesting news from Salonica
Keymer
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
3d
Womens employment on the land
Lewes
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
3f
Mid Sussex voluntarywork organization
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
4f-g & 5a
Notes and comments - editorial about war related issues. Continued weekly
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-04
1g
More produce required for sailors
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-04-05
6e
Advert for Dolphin Soap
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Chichester Observer
1916-04-05
5f
Honours for the 9th Sussex
reporting of VC for Temporary Lieutenant Eric Archibald McNair
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
8e
Bognor Tribunal - report on yesterday's cases
Continues weekly
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
2e
Farmers and the War - Report on West Sussex Farmers Union Executive Committee
meeting
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
5c
Grayingwell War Hospital - Two convoys of Wounded
Continues regularly
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
2bc
The County Appeal Tribunal - Bognor & Littlehampton Cases
Continues weekly
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
5a
Chichester Appeal Tribunal - report of weekly meeting
Continues weekly
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
6bcd
Married Men's Grievance - Report of Westhampnett Tribunal
Continues weekly
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
5e
The War - Report on members of the Royal Sussex Regiment and a report from a
Sergeant from Chichester now in the Army Veterinary Corps
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-04-05
2e
Farmers and the War
Skilled men and the colors
farm produce for the forces
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-04-05
4a
Avert Sharp Garland change of opening hours due to staff shortages
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-04-05
1g
Advert Articles needed for wounded soldiers Graylingwell War Hospital
Chichester
Chichester observer
1916-04-05
5c
Graylingwell War Hospital
Two Convoys of wounded
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-05
3b
Sergeant Hards' Death
FINDON
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
2cd
Littlehampton Tribunal - report on last week's cases
Continues weekly
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-04-05
4d
The proposed war hospital
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-05
7a
Death of Captain G Woodhams
LITTLEHAMPTON
Wiorthing Gazette
1916-04-05
2ab
A Pulborough doctor's comments on caring for the wounded
PULBOROUGH
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
6d
The War and Bread - women urged to bake at home to counter shortage of bakers
West Sussex
Bognor Observer
1916-04-05
6e
Last Week's Eggs - list of donors and recipient hospitals of eggs for wounded soldiers
Continues regularly
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-05
2f
Wounded soldiers
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-05
5c
Local Intelligence: details of Sussex V.T.C
WORTHING
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Worthing Gazette
1916-04-05
5c
War Hospital Supply Depot: medical supplies sent to Middle East
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-05
5b
Deaths: Lance Corporal Harry Tier
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-05
5d
Small Shot: death of Harry Tier
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-05
5d
Request for a football from 6th Sussex Cyclists
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
7g
Graylingwell Hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
2gh
Littlehampton Petty Sessions 'lighting' offences
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
4ef
Silvering Pill No.8 details of the recent Budget
National
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
1g
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
8c
War hospital supply depot
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
1g
Letter about shortage of labour and abuse of exemption applications
Rural Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
2c
Fishermen along coast petition for licences
Shoreham
Letter - from Lady Leconfield on war hospital supply depot work
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
8g
Worthing fire brigade personnel shortage
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-06
8g
Town Council items: anti-German and -Austrian trading measures
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
3f-g
Conscientious Objectors
Article explaining history
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
2g
Salonique - poem from a soldier
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
6-7
Roll of Honour as before
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
7f-g
St Saviour's school Ardingly
Roll of Honour
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
8a
Cuckfield Rural District Tribunal hearing exemption applications
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
4c
Ditchling - details of military exemptions for agriculture
Ditchling
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
3c
Correspondence. National egg collection for the wounded. Special appeal
GB
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
1e-f
Latest War News - Eloi and Verdun. Repeated weekly
GB
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
2a-c
Gallant fights by our troops up the Tigris. General detail of the war at National level.
Repeated weekly.
GB
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
3c
Correspondence. Women and the land
Glynde
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
1b
Proposed Orange Day - fruit for the navy
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
8c
County appeal tribunal
Hearing exemption appeals
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
8d-e
Haywards Heath Tribunal
discussing exemption rule changes for married men
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
1a - b
Lights not obscured. Mid Sussex
Mid Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
2d-e
Mid Sussex men who died for the empire. Repeated weekly.
Mid Sussex.
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-11
3g
A farmers son - application for exemption from conscription
Plumpton
Bognor Observer
1916-04-12
5d
Chichester War Funds - £400 from house to house collection
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-04-12
3d
Cemetery and Recreation Ground Committee Memorial to Soldiers dying at
Grayingwell Hospital
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-04-12
5d
Chichester and the War Funds
£400 house to house collection
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-12
2a
Eastbourne is said to be suffering: details of German women in Eastbourne.
EASTBOURNE
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-12
7e
Goring-by-Sea: memorial service
GORING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-12
2b
Storrington: Red Cross work
STORRINGTON
Bognor Observer
1916-04-12
8e
The War- Report on soldiers from Royal Sussex Regiment
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-12
2e
Wounded Soldiers
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-12
4c
Death of Second Officer Lidbetter
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-12
3c
Roll of Honour
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-12
3cd
Invalided out of the service
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
4d
Arundel Town Council - air raid drill
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
9g
Womens canteens [in France]for soldiers - meeting to recruit help
Arundel
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
2d
Stories from the Font - Egypt and Gallipoli - letter home
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
2c
Graylingwell War Hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
4c
Red Cross work in Chichester Division
Chichester and district
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
2c
Farmers and the wages they pay
Cuckfield
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
2d
Stories from the Font - under fire - letter home
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
12e
West Sussex Nursing Association
Parham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-13
12f
Walberton - report of fund-raising
Walberton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-15
8e
National Egg Collection
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-15
5c
News from France
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-15
8e
Easter Monday Inspection of the VTC at Felbridge
Felbridge
West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-15
5b
World Champion Silver Foil Collector
Horsham
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West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-15
5b
Six sons at War
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
4a
200 recruits wanted immediately - for the Surrey Yeomanry
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
6g
Soldiers Savings - information about saving wages for men at the front
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
2a-c
The war and agriculture - Lord Selbourne's views. Long editorial about battle news
and views. Repeated weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
2d
One shot 2300 casualties
new gun details
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
6
Roll of Honour continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
7a-b
Mid Sussex men who died for the empire
Continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
1a-b
Lights Burgess Hill - court hearings for exposing lighted windows
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
5b
The Tribunal - application for a certified employment
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
7c
How British Farmers help the wounded
Hassocks
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
7f-g
St John's College
Roll of honour
Continued weekly
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-18
1g
Women and farm work - meeting in Lindfield to set up scheme
Lindfield
Bognor Observer
1916-04-19
4d
An Appeal to Bognor Women - letter urging local women to enrol for training for
agricultural work
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-04-19
4e
An Appeal to Bognor women
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-04-19
6c
West Sussex Education Committee - provision of housing and schooling for 300
Serbian children
Chicheseter
Bognor Observer
1916-04-19
6b
Boys for farm work - permission granted for boys and girls to leave school to work
on farms
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-04-19
5b
Boys for Farm Work
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-19
3d
Employment in Agriculture: boys leaving school early to work in agriculture
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-19
2f
Wounded soldiers at the Grange convalescent home. Repeated weekly
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-19
3a
Mayor's relief fund raised for Belgian refugees
WORTHING
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Worthing Gazette
1916-04-19
7c
Clothes for the Belgians
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-19
5a
Mouth organ for soldiers; request by Private E. Bard for mouth organs
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-20
3e
The war hospital see-saw
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-20
2d
Graylingwell War Hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-20
2d
A modest hero - Chiddingfold honours its DCM winner
Chiddingfold
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-20
7d
Ford - aviator in bombing of Constantinople
Ford
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-20
8d
The VTC Movement
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-20
8g
Worthing - British Empire Union
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-22
8e
War Hospital Supply Depot Open Day
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-22
8f
Crawley VTC
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-22
8d
What those in the trenches think of those at home
East Grinstead
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
West Sussex County
Times
1916-04-22
5g
7th Sussex Honours
France
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-22
5d
Soldier's Suicide at Newhaven
Newhaven
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-25
6a-7f
North Mid Sussex Roll of Honour
Continued Weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-25
1f
Latest War News
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-25
2a-c
Russian Troops in France
General War report
Continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-25
5f
VTC field day at East Grinstead
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-25
8c
Women who work on the land
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-25
3a
Women's National land service corps - report of meeting and discussions
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-04-25
3f
Soldiers and farm work
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-04-26
5c
Wounded Soldiers at Bosham day out from Graylingwell
Bosham
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Place
Bognor Observer
1916-04-26
3de
For Blinded Soldiers & Sailors - report on St. Dunstan's Hostel
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-04-26
7c
The War - requests for stretcher pillows and books for soldiers attached to X/2
Trench Mortar Battery
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-04-26
7c
A plea for books from Sergt Major A E Burgess RGA
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-26
5c
Derby Recruits and Training; voluntary training prior to call up
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-26
7a-d
The Gazette and its Tobacco Fund; details and photos of supplies being prepared
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-26
5a
From the Ranks; Frank Twine details of promotion
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-26
3de
Local Roll of Honour; all men who have died in service or been invalided out.
Repeated weekly
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-26
5e
Forget-me-not Day; fundraising for workshops for disabled servicemen
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-04-26
6e
Heene's Soldier Sidesmen;details of deaths of Cpl. Philip Dutch and John Jervis
WORTHING; HEENE
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-27
7e
Burgess Hill - exempted man called up
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-27
3c
Winning the DCM
Burgess Hill
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-27
7c
Chichester- ladies flag selling
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-04-27
8g
Pulborough - local man's story from the Front
Pulborough
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-29
2a
East Grinstead Volunteer Training Corps Inspection and Field Operations
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-04-29
2d
Women and work on the land
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-02
2
The Irish rebellion
Germans Gas themselves
Newspaper very ragged condition
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-02
8b
Decision of the Appeal Tribunal
Attestation applications
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-02
7d - f
Roll of honour
Continued weekly
Mid Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-03
7b
Angmering. Second Lieutenant L. W. Shepherdson
ANGMERING
Bognor Observer
1916-05-03
2c
Farmers & War Fund - money raised by West Sussex Farmers' Union and report on
Women on the Land
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-05-03
4c
The Registration of Aliens - Frenchman prosecuted for failing to notify change of
address
Chichester
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-03
2e
Soldier Postman's Death:Private Thomas Isaac Mockford Greet
LANCING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-03
6f
With a Gallant General at Kut. Major Basil Peel
LANCING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-03
5f
The Aliens' Register. Hotel; owner fined for not keeping accurate records
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-03
6e
Electric Light and Air Raids
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-03
5a
Death notice of Chief Gunner John Cassidy after HMS Russell sank.
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-03
6d
Loss of HMS Russell. Death of John Cassidy
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-03
6d
Memorial to a dead soldier.
Rifleman B.H. Godwin
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
7b
Death of Lieut. Edmund Maxwell Stuart
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
7d
The Housing of Aliens
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
3e
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
7c
Bognor - parish church unveils memorial window
Graylingwell Hospital - convoy of injured arrives
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Chichester
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Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
7c
Messrs. Stride and the Army
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
8ab
Military funeral
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
8b
Littlehampton - 3 brothers dead or wounded
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
8d
Petworth - RSR POW Comfort Fund
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-04
8f
Shoreham - award of DCM
Shoreham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-05-06
8a
Letter: Women and War Work
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-05-06
5d
Entertaining Wounded Soldiers
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-05-06
5d
A Soldiers Suicide
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-06
5d
Maimed Heroes at Horsham
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-06
5b
Militiary Funeral
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-06
5ce
Horsham Soldiers & Sailors
Horsham
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Issue Date
Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-06
5g
Soldiers Sucide at Horsham
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-09
1a
Latest War News
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-09
2a-d
Unprecedented German efforts at Verdun
War report continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-09
3a
Learn to save
Address to women at Ardingly
Ardingyl
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-09
6d
Lights - Central Sussex
Court hearings regarding lights
Central Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-09
1f
Cuckfield Rural District Tribunal
Attestation tribunal
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-09
8b
Haywards Heath Tribunal
Attestations Hearings
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-09
7d
Roll of Honour for Mid Sussex
Continues weekly
Mid Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-05-10
4e
The Food Supply use of spare ground
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-05-10
5d
Belgian Relief Fund - Annual Meeting reports that over £30,000 being subscribed
annually from Britain
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-05-10
5d
Belgian Relief Fund
Chichester
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
6d
Rest Huts for Soldiers: work of Diocese in fundraising for these huts in war areas.
CHICHESTER DIOCESE
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
7b
Wounded by a sniper.
Private Charles W Burchell a Littlehampton man serving in the Canadian army
LITTLEHAMPTON
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
5a
Lieutenant John Skelton Clarke King DCM
SHOREHAM AND
BRIGHTON
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
5f
Unregistered Alien: Louise Lagny fined.
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
5f
Absent from Shoreham Camp. 3 men awol.
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
6f
A visit of Canadian officers. Details of members of Expeditionary Force.
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
6e
For Disabled Soldiers and Sailors: Forget me not Day
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
5c
wedding: Lieutenant Arthur Henry Curtis. Details of medals and wounds.
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
6e
Local soldier dies from wounds: Private A Dennis
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-10
7b
Killed in Mesopotamia. Details of the Frisch family's 3 sons
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-11
3a
Letter - from Duke of Norfolk on forming a Motor Volunteer Corp in Sussex
Arundel
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Issue Date
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-11
3d
White elephant sale in aid of VTC
Arundel
46West Sussex
Gazette
1916-05-11
7d
Bognor - cultivating vacant land
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-11
7e
East Preston - the Tribunals and agriculture
East Preston
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-11
7f
Belgian holiday visit
Warnham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-11
7f
No jobs for con-obs
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-11
7f
Interned aliens' wives
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-11
8gh
Tribunal topics
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-11
8g
Canadian soldiers at Worthing
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-05-13
2e
Wounded Belgians Fined
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
7d-e
Roll of Honour
Continued weekly
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Column
Headline or Summary
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
1a
Latest War News
Continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
2a-c
Attacks on British trenches in the west
War report continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
3a-b
Burgess Hill Tribunal
Attestation hearings
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
5d
The East Sussex Appeal Tribunal
Attestation hearings
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
6e
Lights
Hearings
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
2d
Women and war service on the land
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
5e
Tribunal Applications
Ditchling & Chailey
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
3c
Patriotic Farmers
Red cross fund
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-16
5d
Lewes Local Tribunal
Lewes
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-17
6d
Broadwater Officer's End:
suicide of Capt. Guye Wellesley Lushington.
BROADWATER
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Bognor Observer
1916-05-17
6de
Alien Enemy at Bognor. English woman married to an Austrial prosecuted
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-17
5e
Unregistered Alien: Selma Hogstrom
FINDON
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-17
2b
Littlehampton: further details of Charles Burchell in Greylingwell Hospital.
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1916-05-17
2e
for farm Work children released from school
West Sussex Education
Committee
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-17
5d
Rifleman Charles Hill: awarded Czar's medal and DCM
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-17
3b
At the Dome: details of a film about Dardanelles Campaign
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-18
7d
County Bench - alien's English wife
Bognor
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-05-20
8e
War Work by the Mothers Union
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-05-20
8b
East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-20
4a
life at the front
France
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Newspaper Title
Issue Date
Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-20
5e
The Great War Jottings promotions/deaths
France
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-20
5e
Tin foil 13cwt in 13days
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-20
5g
Horsham Sailors & Soldiers
Overseas
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-23
7d-f
Mid Sussex Men who died for the empire - continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-23
1a
Latest War News
Retreat in mesopotamia
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-23
1a
Women and the land
Letter from Countess of Chichester
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-23
6e
Farm Work - a call to the women to help
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-23
2c
36 men released from military service
Chailey
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-23
3a-b
Cuckfield Rural District Tribunal - attestation hearing
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-23
6a
Haywards Heath local tribunal - attestation hearing
Haywards Heath
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-23
3f
Plumpton Tribunal Claims
Plumppton
Chichester Observer
1916-05-24
4e
Daylight Saving
Chichester Observer
1916-05-24
6e
Advert for Internationl Stores Lady Grocer
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-24
5e
Small Shot: wounding of Sgt. H. Stripp
Bognor Observer
1916-05-24
7c
The War - letter from former Police Constable serving in France
Bognor
Bognor Observer
1916-05-24
4ab
A National Duty - Care of Wounded Soldiers
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-24
5e
Small Shot: details of women delivering post
WORTHING, GORING
AND LANCING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-25
3e
Arundel - funeral of Volunteer
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-25
7c
Birdham helps the Belgians
Birdham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-25
7a
Letters - Lady March appeals for 'land girls'
Chichester
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Issue Date
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
West Sussex Gazette
1916-05-25
3b
Men of Sussex - est. of a Comforts Fund for Sussex men at the Front
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-27
6a
life at the front
France
West Sussex County
Times
1916-05-27
6a
life at the front
france
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-05-27
2d
Sussex VC decorated by the King
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
7d-f
Mid Sussex men who died for the empire
Roll of honour
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
1a
Latest war news
Continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
2a-c
Bulgarians Invade Greece
General war news continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
5a
Notes and comments
editorial remarks
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
6b
Burgess Hill School and it's war ecord
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
3d
A light - Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill
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Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
1f
Cuckfield's Soldier sons
Report of memorial service
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
2d
Cuckfield Rural District Tribunal
Attestation hearings
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
3a
Haywards Heath local Tribunal
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-05-30
6c-d
When the boys come home
Thoughts expressed
Lindfield
Chichester Observer
1916-05-31
5e
War Work for Women letter from Hilda March President Womens Agricultural
Committee West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-31
6de
Fate of Missing Soldier: Pte. Percy James Parsons
BROADWATER
Chichester Observer
1916-05-31
4b
The Farmers and Daylight saving
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-05-31
2c
Treatment of sick and wounded soldiers
Royal Sussex Hospital
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-05-31
5c
War Work for Women - letter seeking recruits from Women's Agricultural Committee
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-31
5c
Death: Alfred Martin of Royal Sussex Reg.
WORTHING
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Issue Date
Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-05-31
6d
Deaths of Two Local Soldiers:Alfred Martin and Pte. H. Lewis
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-01
3d
A Bognor V.T.C.
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-01
7d
City Bench - gipsy conscripts
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-01
8d
Littlehampton - Progress of V.T.C.
Littlehampton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-06-03
5d
War Work for Women
Ashurst Wood
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-03
5b
Horsham Soldiers & Sailors
france
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-03
6a
The Great War Jottings letters
france
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-06-03
2d
Failure to register an Alien Visitor
Shermanbury
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
7d-f
Mid Sussex men who died for the empire - Roll of Honour continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
2a-d
General War News
Continued weekly
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Column
Headline or Summary
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
8c
Latest War News
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
6e-f
Men and their claims - Burgess Hill Tribunal
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
2d
Wivelsfield - Chailey District Tribunal
Chailey
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
5a
Cuckfield Tribunal
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
5b
Womens work on the land
Womens National Land corps speaker
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
3c-d
Cuckfield Rural District Tribunal - exemption hearings
Cuckfield area
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
8a-b
The Appeal Tribunal
East Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-06
6a-b
The war and it's outcome
Sermon given
Haywards Heath
Chichester Observer
1916-06-07
2a
Convalescent soldier for farm and garden work
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-07
7a
Women Workers on the Land.
Men's disparaging attitude
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-07
6f
Broadwater Seaman's Experience: John Albert Dartnell's experience on HMS Warrior
when it was sunk
BROADWATER
Bognor Observer
1916-06-07
2a
Convalescent Soldiers for farm and garden work - letter from War Agricultural
Committee
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-06-07
4c
Special Appeal from the Mayoress to the Women of Chichester of all classes leeter
from Emily Garland
Chichester
Bognor Observer
1916-06-07
4e
The Great Sea Front - many local casualties
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-07
6ef
Great Naval Victory: how news of Jutland caused distress through inaccuracies
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-07
5e
An intimation: details of wounds to Leonard Slaughter of Royal Sussex Rgt.
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-07
6f
Death of Captain Prickett:flying accident
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-07
5d
Girls wanted for light munitions work.
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-08
3gh
Female labour on the land - meeting
Angmering
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-08
3e
Soldiers for the farms?
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-08
3e
Letter - Labour on Farms
Eartham
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Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-08
8d
Petworth - Chichester Diocesan War Savings
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-08
8g
Liquor Control Board
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-06-10
8b
East Grinstead War Work Association badges of recognition
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-10
5g
Horsham Urban District War dead stands at 73
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-10
5c
Horsham Sailors Funeral
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-10
5e
Horsham Soldiers & Sailors
Overseas
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-10
5g
The Great War Jottings letters/deaths
Overseas
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-10
5g
8 Horsham Sailors killed
overseas
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-13
7d-f
Mid Sussex Roll of Honour
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-13
2a-d
Smashing Russian Blows - various news of the war
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-13
5d
Latest War News
The Russian Advance
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-13
3d
Agricultural work for women
Report of meeting
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-13
8b
Haywards Heath Bench
Absentee under military act
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-13
6a-b
Cuckfield Rural District Tribunal
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-13
5b
Ditchling Tribunal
Ditchling
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-13
3a
Local Tribunal
Haywards Heath
Chichester Observer
1916-06-14
5c
Appeal for eggs for wounded soldiers from Mary Close of Shopwhyke house
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
3b
Under stress of circumstances. Employment of women as blacksmiths, chimney
sweeps and barbers.
EAST SUSSEX AND
HAYWARDS HEATH
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
7b
Army Chaplaincy for Vicar
LITTLEHAMPTON
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
7b
Naval Battle off Jutland
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
5a
Deaths of William Frederick Kent and Harry Edward Ward at Jutland, on HMS
Invincible
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
6bcd
Local deaths at sea
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
6cbd
For King and Country. Photos of Seamen Kent and Hosier, Stokers Dodd and Blake
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
5d
Pte. Percy Ayling Barnes killed in Mesopotamia
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
5f
Buried with Military Honours. Funeral of Capt. Lancelot Prickett
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-14
6cbd
For King and Country. Photos of ptes. Jago, Ward and Mercer and Seaman Tuck
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
3f
Our gallant sailor lads - four Arundel sailors
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
7b
Burgess HIll - shortage of men in VTC
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
7b
Solid Sussex 'Never bent or broken'
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
7f
Badges for war workers
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
3a
Women and farm work
Merstham
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
2d
Naval Officer's Obituaries - Commander L W Jones
Petersfield
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
8b
Petworth - Masters of Foxhounds flourish despite War
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
3e
Soldiers and farm labour
Rural Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
8f
Shoreham - War Hospital Supply Guild women get badges
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-15
8g
Worthing- men lost in the naval fight
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-06-17
5e
Death of a Crawley Soldier
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-06-17
5d
Sylvia Pankhurst at a Disorderly Meeting
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-17
5d
3 Horsham deaths
overseas
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
7d-f
Mid Sussex Men who died for the empire. Roll of honour continued weekly.
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
1f
Latest War News
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
2a-d
Victorious offensive of the Russians - war news continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
5d
Conditional Exemption
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
5a
Chailey Red Cross Hospital
Extension to Newick to provide more beds
Chailey
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
5b-c
Local Tribunal
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
6a-b
Cuckfield Tribunal
Military Medical Board at Chichester criticised
Continued weekly
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
3a-b
Tribunal Applications at Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
3d
East Sussex Appeal Tribunal
Hearing appeals against earlier decisions
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
5c
Pay time - report of court hearing where Canadian soldier ordered to pay
maintenance for child
Lewes
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
6f
Lindfield Council Schools
Letter from a ratepayer saying that Headmaster of local school should not be
conscripted
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
2d
Plumpton Tribunal
Plumpton
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-20
6e
The Army and cases of serious hardship - appointment of a commissioner in Sussex
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-06-21
8d
Essex Rd's Bit
Bognor
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
5e
Saved the Ship's Flag. Seaman John MacMahon saved flag of HMS Sparrowhawk
BROADWATER
Bognor Observer
1916-06-21
6e
The Alien Order - Cathedral Priest - Vicar summoned
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
2d
Goring-by-Sea. Stoker Charles Martin lost at sea
GORING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
5b
Deaths. Stanley Parsons and Charles Tuck killed when HMS Hampshire sank
RUSTINGTON AND
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
7b
STORRINGTON. Stoker Hills survivor of HMS Sparrowhawk
STORRINGTON
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
5e
Small shot, 4th article. Ineligible men to be Red Cross stretcher bearers
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
6cd
Cartoon to publicise Tobacco Fund
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
5de
Thrice Mentioned in Despatches. Major E F Villiers
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
5e
Local Soldier Killed. Pte. W J Hazell
WORTHING
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Worthing Gazette
1916-06-21
6a
Girl Guides collecting waste paper.
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-22
3f
Angmering - Red Cross Fete
Angmering
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-22
6f
VTC field day
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-22
4a
To our readers - paper shortages
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-22
7c
Chichester - memorial service to Kitchener in cathedral
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-22
7c
Chichester - Under the flag now - Norwegian fails to register as alien
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-22
7b
Chichester - Kimbell family deaths
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-22
7d
Felpham - memorial service
Felpham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-24
3b
Lord Kitchener Poster
Cowfold
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-06-24
5c
Lack of Farm Workers
East Grinstead
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West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-24
3b
hospital in Egypt
Egypt
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-24
3e
Gallant Royal Fusiliers
France
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-24
4b
The Action off Jutland
Jutland
West Sussex County
Times
1916-06-24
3b
Horsham Sailor now POW
overseas
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
2a-d
Russians occupy the whole of Bukovina
War news, continued weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
8d
Latest war news
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
5a
The local tribunal
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
7a
Cuckfield rural tribunal another long list - continued weekly
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
2f
Alleged statements likely to prejudice recruiting
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
8b-d
Haywards Heath local tribunal
Haywards Heath
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
8d
Soldier tries to escape from custody
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
2d
Horsted Keynes Gardener and the Military Service Act
Horsted Keynes
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
5f
Voluntary war workers - New Depot opened
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-06-27
7d-f
Mid Sussex men who died for the empire - continued weekly
Mid Sussex
Bognor Observer
1916-06-28
5d
War Savings Committee for Bognor
Bognor
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-28
6a
Local fruitgrowers shortage of labour
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-28
6b
Another Local Soldier Killed. Pte. E W Blunden
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-06-28
6d
Women and Agricultural Work.
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
3e
Women on the land - meetingto promote women workers
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
2c
Red Cross Society - report on war work in Sussex
Arundel
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
7b
Chichester - convoy of wounded arrive by train
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
7c
Chichester - hard line being taken by local Tribunals
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
7e
Hassocks -'Nearly mauled' - man arrested for prejudicing recruitment
Hassocks
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
2f
Unregistered Belgian refugee
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
2fg
Littlehampton Petty Sessions - non-registered aliens
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
7g
Midhurst - Tribunal gives exemption for VTC membership
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
2f
Just on his own - Canadian fines for motorcycle offence
Shoreham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
8g
Wothing - Soldiers on the land - employment of convalescent personnel
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-06-29
8g
Worthing - Women and Farm Work - many Sussex women register
Worthing
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-01
3d
Thanks for Comforts sent to the front
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-01
3bc
Canadian soldiers tried for using a drugged cigarette to steal
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West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-01
3d
Aliens Restriction Order: Belgian refugee taken to court for residing without permit
Rudgwick
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3f
The Hospital Chapel Incident; letter explaining banning of Non-Conformist troops
from hospital chapel; see previous issue; plus letters in these issues: 11/7, 18/7,
25/7, 1/8, 8/8, 15/8
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3b
The Guns Were Roaring; vivid account of Battle of Jutland in letter home
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
5c
Burgess Hill; detailed account of lecture by vicar at Shoreham Camp; see also
previous issue
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
6a
The Regular Forces and the Volunteers: Burgess Hill Tribunal Cases; detailed case of
chief fire officer – tribunal split; other examples of men exempted so long as joined
Volunteers
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
5d
Burgess Hill: Volunteers; many locals join BH Co. of 3rd battalion Sussex Volunteer
Regiment
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
1f
Burgess Hill School Managers; [NB all women bar one]
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3d
Girls’ Friendly Society: Gathering at Lindfield; urged to save for war effort
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
8e
Cuckfield: Jumble Sale; for branch of Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Soc. To raise
£ for patriotic exhibition
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3f
Collection of Waste Paper at Keymer & Hassocks; letter about new scheme
Hassocks
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Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
8a
Haywards Heath: VTC Orders; typical weekly activities of VTC plus appeal for more
volunteers [continues weekly]
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
7c
A Danny Fete and Sale: Visit of Wounded Soldiers; money raise for local military
hospitals etc
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
7c
A Danny Fete and Sale: Visit of Wounded Soldiers; money raise for local military
hospitals etc
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
5b
Lindfield; summary of work of village’s Voluntary War Work Association
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
5b
Lindfield; summary of work of village’s Voluntary War Work Association
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
4f
Notes & Comments; editorial on difficult role of military tribunals & criticism of Chi
Medical Board
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
4f & 5a
Notes & Comments; editorial about gypsies [travellers] attitudes to war & joining up
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3d
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation: Approved by the War Office; summary of
comforts made & distributed
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
2c
The Great Offensive by the British and French [Somme]
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3a
Hurst Ruri-Decanal Council: Meeting at Ditchling: War Memorials; debate about
nature of memorials in & around churches
Mid-Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3d
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation: Approved by the War Office; summary of
comforts made & distributed
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3f
The National Egg Collection for the Wounded and Dishes for Trying Times; 2 letters
appealing for more eggs & re. Economical cooking
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-04
3f
The National Egg Collection for the Wounded and Dishes for Trying Times; 2 letters
appealing for more eggs & re. Economical cooking
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
6b
A compliment to old men - taking labouring work out of the workhouse
?Midhurst
1916-07-05
5c
Exemptions re farmwork
Bordham, Oving,
Middleton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
7e
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
6cd
Enemy Aliens:Intern them all.
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
4b
Brotherhood Entertain the Wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
2e
Royal West SussexHosp weekly report wounded/discharged/died
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
6b
Medical men for the Army
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
4d
Nurses Association
Chichester
Chichester Observer
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
3d
Stray Notes:Zeppelin Raids
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
5d
Wicked Humbugs?
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
5d
Called up in Error
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
4c
The War and Education
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
8b
Oliver Whitby School Vacancies
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
6c
A Relieving Officer's salary
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
3c
Stray Notes:Slackers in petticoats
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
5c
Women will help
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
6b
Westhampnett Guardians rates indoor poor costs
Chichester area
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
5d
Conscience Hurdle Maker
East Dean
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6b
Comment re treatment of British prisoners of war (from Heene Parish Magazine
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Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6ef
Treatment of Prisoners - Rector of Heene's outspoken letter
HEENE
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
2ab
Concientious Objector: Exempted Men must attend VTC Drills
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
4d
Wartime on the farms
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-05
5d
Another 396 Men Wounded
Re France
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6a
Comment by "The Trifler" on the timing of closure of Cecils, Red Cross Hospital
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6d
Local War News including closure of Cecils Red Cross Hospital and Yeomanry Fund
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6ef
Closure of Cecils, Red Cross Hospital, details of services provided
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6e
Letter from Commandants of Cecils Red Cross Hospital re closure
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
5de
Trial of Violinist failing to report for duty
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6de
Magistrates Court hearing of dispute of nationality
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
5bc
Details of drills for Eighth Battalion Sussex VTC (Worthing Co.) Carried weekly.
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Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6f /5d
Wounded Soldiers entertained by Bowling Club in Homefield Park
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
5c
Trial of woman attempting suicide unable to cope with husband's absence
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6c
New headquarters for the Patriotic Working Society
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6d
Gazette Tobacco Fund - push required and details of contents of "shilling parcels"
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-05
6f
War Hospital Supply Depot - lists supplies sent to the Front
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
3c
Army takes 1916 Hay Crop
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
3c
Sussex Farmers' and Soldiers' labour
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
1f
Notice - failure to appear for service - repeated weekly
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
2fg
Nominal Roll - RSR injuries
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
2gh
Military Intellegence - RSR promotions
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
8d
Heavy fighting in France
(Cutting number 1)
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
8d
Heavy fighting in France
(Cutting number 2)
France
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
8d
Heavy fighting in France
(Cutting number 3)
France
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
8d
Latest Telegrams
France
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-06
1b
In memorium - Gratwicke
France
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
5e
Local War Items
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
5d
A Gunners' Death/The Toll of the war - details of casualties
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
5e
Local Cases at Military Tribunal
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
8f
Sussex Volunteer Regiment -Orders, recurs.
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-08
3e
Sussex Regiment during first day of offensive
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
8e
Copthorne-Tribunal case
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
2a-b
East Grinstesd Urban Tribunal
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
2f
County Appeal Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
8a
East Grinstead Military Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
2d
East Grinstead Police Court-Army Service Corp Driver charged with bigamy
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
2d
EG Police Court-The Aliens' Order-French Governess not registered.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
2e
Park, Baths and Cemetries Committee - labour difficulties War Work Association
asked for help
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
8e
War Savings - letter re activities of East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-08
3a
Bigamy by a soldier
Lewes
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-08
3e
Letter from Corp Lee of RSR from Queen Mary's hospital about artificial limbs
Roehampton
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-08
4a
Patriotic Entertainment at Roffey: girls at Victory-road schools perform for soldiers
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
8a
Haywards Heath: Liet.Col. Thicknesse Killed / Rose & Sweet Pea Show; contrast…1st
day of Somme casualty against life continuing at home
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
6d
Women Workers; 600,000 come forward nationally to date
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
7c
What Folks Are Saying; Balcombe VAD Hospital renovated & summary of last year
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
8f
Balcombe: The Temperance Cause; Women’s Total Abstinence Union event held
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
5c
Burgess Hill: Life’s Higher Values; detailed address by Rev Chisholm, includes
denouncing drink
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
5d
Burgess Hill: Not One Hesitated; account of Royal Sussex battle
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
6ef
British Women’s Gift to Our Disabled Heroes: a Song Recital at Wyberlye, Burgess
Hill
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
7b
Haywards Heath Work Guild; detailed summary of work over past 6 months
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-11
5d
Scaynes Hill; funds raised by SH War Workers Organisation
Scaynes Hill
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
7c
Concert
Arundel Castle
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
2b
Evening Speeches Churches
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5e
St Michael'sSchool Concert for the wounded
Bognor
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-12
6c
Restrictions on sale of liquor introduced
BRIGHTON
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5ab
Royal message for the wounded at Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
6e
Chichester Markets
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
2e
RWS Hosp
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
7ab
Chichester Tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
3a
Scholastic - Chichester High School for Girls
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
3e
Cinema Films Censorship
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
7d
Police pay
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
4e
Alexandra Day
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
6b
Nearly 5000 eggs for the wounded
Chichester area
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
6bc
War Pensions
Chichester Bognor
areas
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Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5c
Letter from Front with poem
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5c
Bognor man wounded
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5c
Prayers for the Dead
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5c
Mr Fleetwood's brother killed 1st July
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5bc
News of local men killed / casualties
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5c
A Cistertrian Wounded
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5c
Bognor Man killed
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5c
Police Officers killed with SouthdownsBattn
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
5cd
More local casualties
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
2d
More exemtions - grocers etc
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
8e
Littelhampton Police Court Two bright Lights / French Governess
Littlehampton
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
2c
Tribunal
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
6c
Interesting Statistics
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-12
7c
Roll of Honour erected in Parish Church
TARRING, WEST
Chichester Observer
1916-07-12
7bc
Westhampnett Tribunal
Westhampnett District
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-12
5f
Church Sunday School outing re-instated
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-12
6f
Local Tribunal hearing cases for exemption
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-12
6d
Sinking of the Monmouth - local connection
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-12
6d-e
Juveniles in Agriculture - report to Education Committee on boys released from
school to work in greenhouses
WORTHING, EAST
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-13
2c
Nominal Roll - RSR injuries
(Cutting number 1)
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-13
2c
Nominal Roll - RSR injuries
(Cutting number 2)
Bognor Observer
1916-07-14
6d
Bognor Council - increasing food production
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Newspaper Title
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Column
Headline or Summary
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
5c
Driver Albert White/Private Charles Alfred Owen - details of wounds.
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
5d
Copthorne - general war news including fund raising and wounded soldiers
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
8f
Military Act Tribunal
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
8e
Local war casualties
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
5d
Crawley Down - local man. Lieut Bradshaw, posted wounded and missing
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
2d
East Grinstead Urban Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
8a
East Grinstead Rural Tribunal
East grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
5e
For Disabled Soldiers and Sailors - Fund Raising for adapted homes.
East Grinstead
Sussex and surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
8f
Horsham - War Campaign with churches re "drink traffic".
Horsham
Sussex and surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
8f
Three Bridges - local man, George Sumner RSR, missing
Three Bridges
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-15
5e
West Hoathly - Children collecting eggs for wounded troops
West Hoathly
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Column
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
1a
Burgess Hill Soldiers and the Advance [Somme] [not RSR but good detail]
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
5c
Ardingly: Inspection of OTC; [St Saviour’s School Officer Training Corps; by an RSR
officer]
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
5e
Carnival Committee and Nursing Association; collection instead of carnival raises £53
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
6ab
The Mission of the Church: Looking Forward at Haywards Heath; anniversary of HH
Congregational Church
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
8b
Haywards Heath: Concert; in aid of VAD hospital
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
3e
The Collection of Waste Newspapers; recycling for Prince of Wales National Relief
Fund [2 letters]
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
5ab
Notes and Comments; egg collection total down on same period last year
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
6e
Haywards Heath War Fund: Appointment of a Committee.
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
8b
Haywards Heath: Concert; in aid of VAD hospital
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
3a
Sussex Volunteers’ Garden Party at Keymer: Pleasurable Affair Marred by Rain;
involved Sussex Volunteer Regiment, Lewes Battalion, D (Hassocks) Company
Keymer
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
8d
Lindfield: Parish Council Meeting; temporary firemen taken on to cover call-up of
most of village brigade; plus article on 25/7
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
1de
Southdown Motor Services; advert with bus, includes timetable & fares
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
7c
Voluntary War Work: Successful American Sale at Keymer; plus report of Mid-Sussex
Voluntary Work Organisation Jan-June 1916
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
3
Dress of the Day; series featuring dresses to make [very middle class: e.g.
golf/tennis wear!]; earlier & later articles captured
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
5e
Sussex Brotherhood Federation; quarterly meeting at Burgess Hill of brotherhoods &
sisterhoods of Sussex (Congregational church)
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-18
2ef
International Stores; advert featuring pic of woman assistant in uniform
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5e
Arundel casualties
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5c
Barnham Cattlemarket
Barnham
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
2b
Whitson Holiday grant to Bognor RC School
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5e
Kitchener Memorial Service
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
6b
Allowances for Soldiers
Bognor
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Issue Date
Page No. /
Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
4e
Bognor egg collection
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
4c
Chichester Cathedral Intercessions for the war
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
3d
Unregistered Swiss Cook
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
3cd
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
4c
Mme Karina, Ballet for Wounded Graylingwell Hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
4d
Message from the King
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5e
A chance for all
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
7abc
Chichester Tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
4c
Wounded Soldiers Entertained - Womens Temperence Association
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
6d
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
7d
France's Day
Chichester
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Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
4c
Wounded Soldiers Entertained - Womens Temperence Association
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5e
The war and doctors
East Preston
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5b
Death at Ypres
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5e
With the London Scottish
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5e
Mrs Cayzer
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5d
Chichester Liuetenant killed
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5d
News of Sgt A Russell - and others RSR+
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5e
2nd Lt Sadler RSR wounded
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5e
Cpl Tulett - Pte Scott
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5d
Pte Tom Sanders wounded
France Loos
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-19
7a
Visit by Sir Frederick Milner to wounded and convalescent soldiers at Belgrave House
(message from King and Queen)
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-19
7d
Voluntary Aid Detachment recognised and mobilised
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
4d
Russian Flag Day
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
5c
France's Day
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
4d
Military wedding
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
2a
Monthly Meeting - Schools and health
Littlehampton Bognor
+
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
8b
Notice to Mariners - fishing
Portsmouth
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-19
5e
War Bonus for Policemen agreed at Local Standing Committee
SUSSEX,WEST
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
2e
War Bonus for the Police
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-07-19
2b
Women and the Land
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-19
6d
Local celebrations of France Day
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-19
6d
Local reaction to establishment of Lord Kitchener Memorial Fund
WORTHING
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Headline or Summary
Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-19
6e
Appeal Tribunal's findings on exemption (similar articles are carried every week)
WORTHNG
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-20
2e
Badge for wounded
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-22
8e
Sussex Volunteer Regiment-Company Orders
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-22
4d
The Horsham Schools War Saving Association
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-22
4c
A Letter from Macedonia
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-22
5d
Crawley and Ifield - summary of local war news.
Crawley
Sussex and surrey
Courier
1916-07-22
2a
East Grinstead Police Court - man charged under Military Service Act.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-22
8a
East Grinstead Rural Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-22
8b
A Call For Volunters-letter from RSR company commander.
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-22
5d
The Sad News-East Grinstead men killed and injured.
East Grinstead
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Place
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-22
8d
Horsham - War Hospital Supply Depot news. Recurs.
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-22
2e
Handed Over to the Military-Rusper man, C W Webber, under Military Service Act.
Horshm/Rusper
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-25
5b
Cuckfield: Letters from Sergeant M. Anscombe; Somme action described & local pals
mentioned; possible RSR? plus another letter about same on p.8
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-25
8de
Balcombe: The VAD Hospital; re-opens after refurbishment
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-25
5d
Burgess Hill: Messrs E. Robins & Son Ltd; AGM of brewer? Mentions many women
workers drafted in
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-25
8a
Haywards Heath V.T.C. Orders; list of drills etc for the week, plus number of recruits
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-25
4f
Notes and Comments [editorial: Volunteers to get separation allowance if called on
to repel invasion etc; urged to join up]
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-25
6d
The Appeal Tribunal: Long Sitting at Haywards Heath; examples of tribunal getting
tougher, turning down most
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-25
3ab
C.M.S. Aims and Objects for 1916: Rev. Stuart Cox’s Address at Burgess Hill; Church
Missionary Society
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-07-25
3b
Licensed Victuallers and the New Order: Its Provisions Explained by an Official of the
Trade [new pub opening hours etc]; plus critical editorial on p.4
Sussex
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5e
Captain Hoffmeister South Wales Borderers of Bognor
?France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4e
Barnham Cattle Market
Barnham
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5cd
Private Blanks Royal Fusiliers killed Hill 60 June 16th
Belgium
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4d
For the French Red Cross
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
2e
Bosham Presentation
Bosham
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
3b
Farmers and their Wool
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
7b
ChichesterMarkets
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4c
Chichester Cathedral Intercession
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
2de
RWS Hosp Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
7d
Graylingwell War Hospital …entertain wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5d
Help those who have gone
Chichester
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Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
6c
A Chichester Conscientious Objector
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4c
Officers from the Blue Coat School
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4c
School children help the Belgians
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4c
Lord Kircheners Memorial Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
6de
…A Woman's work is never done drawing for advert
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5c
The War: local csualties in addition to reported elsewhere
Chichester / Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4c
Sunday School treat
Chichester to Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
2abc
County Appeal tribunal
Chichester/Bognor/We
sthampnett
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5c
Jacques Rochat killed
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5d
Staff Sargent HB Fleetwood of Chichester [RFA] dangerously injured
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5d
Lt Haviland killed France 11 July Royal Fusiliers
France
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Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5c
Letters from Sgt Isted RSR injured on 30 June 1916 in France
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5c
Bognor POW France
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5d
Supt Peel's son ijnured with RSR June 29 1916
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5d
Bognor RSR men injured
France
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4e
Royal Sussex Casualties for Chichester and Bognor
France - the 'big push'
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4d
The hospital x-ray room
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
7cd
Littlehampton Police Court - lights
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
8e
Russian Flag Day
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
8a
Notice to Mariners
Portsmouth
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
5a
Eggs for the Wounded
South West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
3de
W Sx Farmers Union Excess Profits Myth
West Sussex
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Page No. /
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Headline or Summary
Place
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4c
War Declaration Anniversary - churches
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
8e
Sussex newspapers and the war
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4c
No August Bank Holiday
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
4ab
In the right direction
West Sussex - info
from London traders
Chichester Observer
1916-07-26
7ab
Westhampnett Tribunal
Westhampnett
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-26
5e
Volunteer Training Corps sworn in
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-26
6f
Local Tribunal - report of proceedings
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-26
7c-d
Tobacco Fund Report
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-07-26
7c-d
Tobacco Fund information
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-07-27
3g
RSR prisoners of war
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-29
3fg
Advert: Dayfield Body Shield
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-29
8f
Crawley and Ifield-general war news including casualties,tribunals and socials
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-29
2a
County Appeal Tribunal-East grinstead and District cases
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-07-29
8b
East Grinstead Rural Tribunal
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1916-07-29
3c
Military Funeral at Horsham
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
3b
Farming in France; letter from soldier comparing French farming practices favourably
against British, plus advocates women ag labs
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
3ef
Bird’s Custard; advert mentioning custard makes fruit go further & saves on meat
bill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
5d
The Old Burgess Hill Fighting Spirit; letter by Pte Frank Verrall about death of his
friend Pte Seaman; RSR
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
5d
The Old Burgess Hill Fighting Spirit; letter by Pte Frank Verrall about death of his
friend Pte Seaman; RSR
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
8cd
The Good Old Boys of Sussex; account of Boar’s Head action on 30th June in letter
from Pte G.F.Sydenham plus another letter
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
3b
Farming in France; letter from soldier comparing French farming practices favourably
against British, plus advocates women ag labs
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
3ab
Heritage Crafts Schools, Chailey, Speech Day Last Saturday, War Tablets Unveiled;
attempt to find meaningful work for disabled
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Column
Headline or Summary
Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
5d
Burgess Hill: Youthful Holiday Folk; London Jewish children enjoy holiday at BH
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
8f
Mayor of Hove’s Visit to Burgess Hill: Queen Mary’s Workshop for Disabled Sussex
Soldiers; mention of various projects, most out of West Sussex
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
1a
Haywards Heath Bench: Licensees Called Up, Cuckfield; difficulty of running pubs
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
6ab
Ladies and the Vote: Garden Meeting at Cuckfield; detailed account of issues &
organisations
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
7b
Shifting Old Fritz! Ditchling Soldier Wounded; vivid account of lucky escape of RSR
man F.J.Mayston
Ditchling
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
7b
Shifting Old Fritz! Ditchling Soldier Wounded; vivid account of lucky escape of RSR
man F.J.Mayston
Ditchling
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
8b
Haywards Heath; Rev & Mrs Muray enjoy holiday in Scotland!
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
1a
Haywards Heath Bench: A Lucky Escape; case dismissed of man undermining
recruitment
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
4f
Notes and Comments; editorial on smell from gas works possibly due to benzol &
tolulol production used by Govt to make explosives
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
5f
The Co-op: Half-Yearly Meeting Held Last Evening; Haywards Heath Industrial Cooperative Society detailed & interesting report [shows range of activities]
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
6ef
Haywards Heath War Relief Fund: The Annual Meeting; detailed report covering
August 1914 to date
Haywards Heath
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Column
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Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
8b
Haywards Heath: Women Postmen; 5 taken on; “so far they have given
satisfaction”!
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
3c
Voluntary War Work; Garden Sale at Hurst; detailed account of [women’s] VWO
Voluntary Work Organisation
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
3c
Voluntary War Work; Garden Sale at Hurst; detailed account of [women’s] VWO
Voluntary Work Organisation
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
5b
Lindfield; LCpl Leonard Howell blinded in war and in hospital in London
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
3f
Women and Agriculture; letter appealing for more farmers willing to train women ag
labs
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
7c
War and Business: ….How Soldiers Aid Can Be Obtained; using wounded &
convalescent soldiers to work
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-01
7c
War and Business: ….How Soldiers Aid Can Be Obtained; using wounded &
convalescent soldiers to work
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4d
Wounded soldiers at Arundel Castle
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4e
Barnham Cattle market
Barnham
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
3bc
Licenced victuallers' association
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4e
Graylingwell War Hospital - arrival of Australians
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
5e
Arrival of Australians at Graylingwell Horspital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4c
Chichester Cathedral Intercessions on behalf of the forces
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
2a
Westhampnett Guardians:: Interned Aline's family
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
3de
RWSH report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4b
War hospitals' supply depot
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
2b
A Jibber Thrashed
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
2cde
Westergate Grievance
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4d
War Pensions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
5c
Treatment of Venereal Disease
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
6a
He laughs at corns
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
6b
Chichester Guardians - unregistered children
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
6d
Stray Notes - Military bands chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
8b
Notice: King's Regulations…debts of soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
2c
Westhampnett Rural District Council; Duke's appeal on behalf of wounded soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4b
£100 for French Red Cross
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
6e
Books and games wanted
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
6e
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4ab
A final decision - July 12th the PM
Chichester/london
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4d
The War: letters local injured in France
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4d
Angmering Bereavement
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4e
Deaths - killed in action france
France
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
6d
Stray Notes - rumours true of recent advance
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4d
Thye War: local casualties RSR
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4d
Sargent Major Peel
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4e
In Memoriam - killed 30 June in France
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
6c
Littelhampton Tribunal
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
4c
War wedding
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
5a
Royal visit to Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
6d
Stray Notes - Midhurst Grammar School
Midhurst
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
8b
Concert in aid of RWSH
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-08-02
2e
Sanitary Committee
Slindon Yapton
Madehurst
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-02
6e
Local Tribunal report
WORTHING
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-02
6f
Local Tribunal report
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-02
5b
Notice re soldiers' private debts
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-02
5e
Town Council decision on holding a public event to invigorate and maintain
confidence in the resolution of the war
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-02
6e
List of surgical requisites sent to the Front
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-08-03
2d
Gallantry medals awarded
West Sussex County
Times
1916-08-05
4a
Two Year Anniversary of the Outbreak of War: church service
West Sussex County
Times
1916-08-05
4b
Advertisement for International Stores mentioning employees away at war replaced
by women
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-05
2e
Supplying Soldiers After Hours - publican summoned re after hours drinking.
Faygate
West Sussex County
Times
1916-08-05
3a
Demonstration of the Temperance Society
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-08-05
4de
Gunners and the Stout. Petty session for publican for contravening Defence of the
Realm regulations for serving soldiers after 9pm
Horsham
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Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-08
8f
Lindfield: Country Air for London Children; more outings, but not all the kids enjoyed
the experience!
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-08
3a-d
War Anniversary Commemoration; various events across Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-08
6c
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation; detailed summary of work in July
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-08
4ef
Notes and Comments; tribute to women during the war
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-08
6c
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation; detailed summary of work in July
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-08
8b
Wivelsfield: A Patriotic Organisation; summary of Women’s Institute’s war work
Wivelsfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-08
8b
Wivelsfield: A Patriotic Organisation; summary of Women’s Institute’s war work
Wivelsfield
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4e
Bognor Boys RSR
633633
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
5cd
Colonel Mostyn VD JP funeral
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
8e
Ashling Miniature Rifle Club - increase in membership
Ashling, Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
5e
Farm tractor exhibition
Barnham
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
5c
Inspection of local volunteers in Bignor Park
BIGNOR
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
6de
Chi County petty Sessions - Milk prosecution
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
6b
Chichester Petty Sessions - a Japanese Valet
BOgnor
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
6b
Chi Petty Sessions - Light cases
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4b
Cattle Market
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
6de
Bird's custard drawing
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
7b
Chi Council - Barrows in the streets
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
7de
Picture drawing re keeping poultry
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4e
A cicestrian form Canada
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4c
War anniversary
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
5bc
Chichester and the War Anniversary - service at cathedral
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
2e
RWSH report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
2ab
Westhampnett Tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
2c
Lancastrian schools
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
2d
Battle of commenrce / the past term Boys school
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
5e
Local school successes
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
3d
Remarks on military bands
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4a
Kitchener memorial
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4ab
August bank holiday
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
7a
Chichester Council - criticism of the roads / canal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
7ab
Chi Council - more on the roads
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
7b
Chi Council - weeds in the canal / no dues
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
7b
Chi Council - Mayor / war anniversary
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
3c
Stray Notes - Flag Days when the war had ended
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4b
Children entertain wounded
CHichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4e
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
7a
Chi Council - seats for the wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
7b
Chi Council - For thew wounded soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4b
Cricket at the Barracks
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4e
Chichester man wpounde. With Australian forces
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4d
Cicestrian's letter from the front
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4e
South Bersted Man killed
France
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4e
Wounded in action
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4e
Wounded
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4c
Death / memorium RSR
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4d
The war casualties
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4e
Chichester man killed RSR
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
4c
In memory of the fallen
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
5d
Littlehampton petty sessions - school cases
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
5ab
Littlehampton War anniversary meeting
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
5bc
Royal visit to Littlehampton - picture
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
7c
War Savings Association formed
LITTLEHAMPTON
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
7a
Inspection of Volunteers in Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
5b
Littehampton anniv meeting - comments on women
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
8c
Selsey cinema - concert for RWSH
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-08-09
6b
Chi Petty Sessions - Irregularity at school
Selsey, Siddlesham,
Westbourne
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
5de
Local Tribunal cases
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
6cd
Local Tribunal on exemption of firefighters
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
6d
Local Tribunal on exemption of corporation workers
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
6e
Local Tribunal- various
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
5c
Event to mark second anniversary of start of hostilities
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
6f
Flag Day for Horses
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-09
7b-c
"A Smokey War" - Tobacco Fund update
WORTHING
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-12
2a
County Appeal Tribunal
West Sussex County
Times
1916-08-12
3f
Sussex Volunteers. 8th Battalion inspection at Bignor
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-12
5d
Copthorne - general war news
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-12
5d
Crawley Down - Fund Raisinf on behalf of East Grinstead War Work Association
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-12
2bc
East Grinstead Urban Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-12
5c
War Work Association
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-12
8f
Honours for East Grinstead Lad - Military Awards
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1916-08-12
3cd
Exhibition and Sale at South Lodge. Opened by Duchess of Norfolk. Fine collection of
war relics and sale of items made by wounded soldiers for Star and Garter Home and
Soldiers work fund
Lower Beeding
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
3ab
New Zealand Wants Domestic Servants; advert
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
1f
Our Sussex Boys: Souvenirs Collected Under Bomb and Bullet Showers; details of
the Somme campaign?
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
4f & 5a
Notes and Comments; first hand accounts of Somme & possibly Boar’s Head?
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
3ab
New Zealand Wants Domestic Servants; advert
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
8a
Haywards Heath: The Cottage Hospital; 21 wounded treated here
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
3ab
Haywards Heath Bench; 4 cases of failing to obscure a light in a week
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
3ab
Haywards Heath Bench; 4 cases of failing to obscure a light in a week
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
4f & 7ab
Notes and Comments; Scaynes Hill, summary of impressive war effort to date; plus
later detailed account
Scaynes Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
3e
The Crops in Sussex: Official Report for July
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-15
7c
2,000 Heroes; praise for women grocers of International Stores
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
4c
Arundel Castle opened - funds raised
Arundel
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
4b
Aeroplane
Birdham
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Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
4cd
Bognor Tribunal
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
7c
Employment of school chidren in Bognor
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
4d
Wounded entertained
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5a
Wounded soldiers entertained
Bosham
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
4d
A potato record? Allotment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5e
Australians in Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
2ab
Chichester Guardians - Internment or Interment?
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
7de
RWSH report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
6de
Chichester Tribunal - further exemptions
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
3a
Case of conscientious objector
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5d
Honour of Chichester Man (17 yrs old) by Norwegian Govt
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
7a
Chichester High School for Girls - proposed amendment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
7b
Paying teachers' salaries
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
7b
Schools as hospitals
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
2b
Soldiers and Sailors pensions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
6b
Insurance Committee
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
6c
Wounded soldiers entertained in Priory Park
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5a
War Pensions Committee
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
4b
Wedding - Pte Hobden back from front - mine and gassed
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
7bc
School attendance / permission to leave school
Chichester +
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
8e
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester +
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5d
Lance Corporal Cowley, of Chichester, with 2nd Canadians
France
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Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5e
Capt Benton - relatives in Chichester - wounded
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5d
The War - RSR casualties
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5d
Military Honours
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5e
Bognor Boys prisoner
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5d
Lt. Fleetwood POW in Germany
Germany
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
3d
Praise for Allotment Holders
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
4c
Final period of exemtion
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
7e
From some Chichester Boys - Motor Transport, Army
Salonica
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
8b
Selsey Cinema - concert in aid of funds for RWS Hospital
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5e
LIfeboats in the war
South coast
Chichester Observer
1916-08-16
5e
Lifeboats in the war
South coast
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Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
3d
Master farrier making shoes for mules granted exemption
STORRINGTON
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
5ef
Cases before Local Tribunal
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
6e
Future of War Relief Committee discussed
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
3e-f
Miles for Smiles - Tobacc\o Campaign latest
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
4f
Advertisement for Flag Day in aid of Kitchener Fund
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
5c
Money Raised for French Red Cross
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
5d
Plans for a Forget Me Not Day
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-16
6a
War Gardens
WORTHING
West Sussex County
Times
1916-08-19
3d
Letter from a Horsham man taken as POW
West Sussex County
Times
1916-08-19
4c
Womens Defence Relief Corps
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-19
2de
East Grinstead Urban Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-19
8a
East Grinstead Rural Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-19
2ef
East Grinstead Lads in "The Great Push"
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-19
8e
Casualties among East Grinstead Men
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-19
8a
Lingfield and district Tribunal Cases
Lingfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
7ab
Successful Sale of Work at Burgess Hill; review of vicar’s v. successful 15 years at St
Andrew’s & latest event
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
5a
Notes and Comments; national egg scheme collects over 22 million 1914-16
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
5bc
Lindfield: Home From France; interesting & balanced account of a soldier’s
experiences of fighting & enemy
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
6a
Haywards Heath Bench: Expired Leave; RSR man fails to return to barracks for a
week
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
8e
Military Service: Cuckfield Man [William Scott] Charged Today at Haywards Heath;
case of evading call-up by moving across county?
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
5e
Cuckfield: A Sign of the Times & Cuckfield Full of Visitors; 2 articles on closure of
King’s Head pub & booming tourist industry
Cuckfield
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
5a
Notes and Comments; new Congregational Church vicar welcomed [very middle
class]
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
7b
Wounded Soldiers at Cricket; match v VTCorps
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
3a
Haywards Heath Local Tribunal: Conditionally Exempted Man and the Volunteers;
new rules that those exempted from military service need to join volunteers
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
2e
The Price of Gas in Haywards Heath: A Few Facts Worthy of Consideration
[explanation of price rises]; plus HH UDC protest at profiteering on p8
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
8b
National Union of Railwaymen; local meeting votes to allow the NUR to take any
action to secure pay increase
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
7b
Wounded Soldiers at Cricket; match v VTCorps
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
4f
Notes and Comments; tourist industry strong in area
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
5f
Poynings: Friendly Societies at Church; annual parade & service
Poynings
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-22
3def
Poynings [& area] Flower Show: Helping the British Prisoners of War Fund
Poynings
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4d
Barnham CattleMarket
Barnham
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Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
3d
A Japanese Nurse - Alien Order
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
2cd
Too much light
Bognor/ Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
2a
The Farmers Union
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
7b
Chichester Cattle Markets
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
3e
RWSH report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4c
Hospitals Supply Depot
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4d
Seats for Wounded Soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4d
Savationists entertain wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
5b
Graylingwell Hospital - the gift fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
5e
Is he entitiled to exemption? Irishman
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
6b
Westhampnett Tribunal - Medical examinations
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
6bc
Westhampnett Tribunal - more
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4c
An Absentee
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
3c
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester +
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4c
Pte Bourne
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
5cd
The War - RSR casual;ties and others of Chichester area
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
3c
The Glorious Sussex - The Big 'Push'
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
3b
Stray Notes - 2 years ago BEF landed on French soil
France
Cihchester Observer
1916-08-23
7de
Littelhampton Police Court - lighting
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-23
7bc
Littlehampton Petty Sessions cases of non-observance of blackout
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
2b
Garden Fete - war supply depot assisted
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
7e
Littelhampton Police Court - Pte Bridger failing to maintain his wife
Littlehampton
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4c
A Half-Beaten Enemy - an American writer
Published Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4e
Selsey Concert
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
4e
Ladies and Canteen work
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
2e
Sussex at War - songs
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
3b
Aeroplanes
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-08-23
2de
West Sussex Appeal Tribunal
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-23
5c
Trial of conscientious objector
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-23
6cd
Appeal Tribunal re men passed for sedentary work
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-23
5d
Production and sale of War Post Cards
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-23
6e
Mayor's appeal for Lord Kitchener fund
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-08-24
1f
Sussex War Honours
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-26
2e
An Eeast Grinstead Lad's Experiences with the camel Corps
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-26
6c
Chailey Rural District tribunal
Chailey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-26
5e
Crawley and Ifield - gen. military news including casualties, awards and absentees
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-26
5e
Jumble sale - Fund raiser for War Work Assoc.
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-26
8a
East Grinstead Rural Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-08-26
5d
Casualties among local men
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
5d
Burgess Hill: A Letter from Jamaica; soldier stationed there describes idyllic life [not
RSR but worth mentioning?]
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
5b
Cuckfield: The Public Library; an appreciation of its role
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
2d
Produce for the Fleet; large consignment sent by HH Branch of Vegetable Products
Committee
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
4ef
Notes and Comments; welcome to new vicar of HH Congregational Church but
criticism of churches in general; plus article on p7
Haywards Heath
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
2d
Produce for the Fleet; large consignment sent by HH Branch of Vegetable Products
Committee
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
4f & 5a
Notes and Comments; criticism of hoarders of sugar
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
4f & 5a
Notes and Comments; criticism of hoarders of sugar
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
3a-f
[Whole page – 20% of news national or bought in – see this sample & whole issue]
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
1f
The Price of Milk; detailed explanation of high price by South of England Dairies Ltd
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-08-29
1f
The Price of Milk; detailed explanation of high price by South of England Dairies Ltd
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
4b
Price of sheep - may be of interest - 100 years ago. Is there info on 1916 costs?
Angmering
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
5a
Barnham Cattle Market
Barnham
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
8a
Bognor Tribunal
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
3bc
Sale of Southdowns - HM King a Prizewinner
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
2b
Internment of Aliens
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
2e
RWSH Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
4e
Graylingwell War Hospital - Gift Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
5b
A great flag day - for Graylingwell
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
7ab
Chichester Tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
8a
County Appeal tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
2b
Westhampnett Guardians - Service Pensions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
2e
David's Sketch Book - anti-Kaiser and advert
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
7c
Sussex at War booklet
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
7c
Provision of seats for the wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
4b
Presentation of war wrk badges
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
8a
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester area
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
4ab
Roumania's dramatic entry
Eastern Europe
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
3c-e
Letter from Cicestrian - Life in Egypt
Egypt
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
2a
Ambulance work in France in 'Big Push'
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
5cd
Further casualties
France
Chichester Observer
1916-08-30
5c
RSR casualties -and some R Warks / Fus from Chi area
France
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-30
2b
Lancing College Chef at Appeal Tribunal
STEYNING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-30
7c
Wounded Soldiers Entertained
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-30
6d
Report on Kitchener Memorial Day
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-08-30
6ef
5cd
Reports from Appeals Tribunal
WORTHING AND
CHICHESTER
West Sussex County
Times
1916-09-02
4a
Graylingwell War Hospital Flag Day
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-02
8a
Copthorne = gen news including Loos and medals
Copthorne
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-02
5ef
Crawley and field - gen news including war news re promotions/medals etc
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-02
2a
East Grinstead Urban Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-02
5d
East Grinstead - gen war news including casualties and promotoins
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-02
8a
East Grinstead Rural District Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-02
8b
East Ginstead Rural Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-02
8e
East Grinstead Cases - appeal tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-02
2b
Horsham Police Court - Military Absentee
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
5b
Notes and Comments; humorous poem from Front
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
6e
They Did Well: Australians’ Praise for Royal Sussex: Letter to Haywards Heath
[Somme]
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Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
6e
They Did Well: Australians’ Praise for Royal Sussex: Letter to Haywards Heath
[Somme]
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
8f
Hassocks: A Weekend Camp; 1st Sussex Volunteer Regiment at Friars Oak Hotel
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
8c
The Picture Theatre, Haywards Heath: ‘For the Empire’ and ‘For A Soldier and a
Man’; propaganda film welcomed & more sought
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
5a
Notes and Comments; detailed discussion of different business practices in MidSussex towns, closing times, credit etc
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
5a
Notes and Comments; detailed discussion of different business practices in MidSussex towns, closing times, credit etc
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
6f
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation; detailed report for August
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
6f
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation; detailed report for August
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-05
3def
Labour Wanted For Building Munition Factories; general advert
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
7cd
Alien Order
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
4e
Chidranes fete
Bognor
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
7c
Eighhteen light cases
Bognor and Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
2e
Chichester Market
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
6e
Wilful destruction of potatoes
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
4d
Chichester Cathedral intercessions on behalf of the serving forces
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
4e
Petrty Sessions - no light better than too much
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
5a
Chichester Tribunal - letter
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
6cde
Westhampnett Tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
2b
The War Trophies - wounded men. Fete in Priory Park
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
2a
Grand fete Priory Park
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
2de
Funds raised plus subscribers fete Priory Park
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
5c
Graylingwell War Hospital Flag Day
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
7b
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester area
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
7ab
The Salurte! Bird's Custard pic
Chichester obs
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
3e
TheWar - News of front Egypt
Egypt
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
3e
The War - casualties non RSR
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
3e
The War - RSR casualties
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
5b
The War - RSR casualties
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
3cd
Petty Sessions - lights
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
4e
Littelhampton - Screen that light!
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
3bc
Unauthorised photographs
Selsey and Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-09-06
7e
Women film censors
Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-06
4e
Mildmay Mission to the Jews
WORTHING
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-06
5e
Raid on places of entertainment in search of absentees
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-06
6f and 5d-e
Local Tribunal cases
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-06
5a and 5f
Advertisement for showing of film The Battle of the Somme
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-06
6e
British Empire Union local gathering including impassioned anti-German speech
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-06
3d
Thanks from the trenches
WORTHING
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-09
2b
With the Forces in Mesopotamia - letter re experiences of Royal Engineer
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-09
2f
The Sussex Territorials in India
West Sussex County
Times
1916-09-09
3a
Advert: Central Hall showing of the Great War Film - Battle of the Somme
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-09
2e
Chailey Rural Tribunal
Chailey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-09
5e
Crawley and Ifield - gen news including war news,
Crawley
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-09
8b
Corporal W Butcher - Awarded MM - with photo
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-09
2d
Military Absentees
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
3b
The Free Church Cause at Ardingly; Anniversary Gathering; review of
Congregationalists
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
2def
Fete and Gala For The Red Cross Society: Our Day Burgess Hill; “the event of the
year”; very detailed
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
2def
Fete and Gala For The Red Cross Society: Our Day Burgess Hill; “the event of the
year”; very detailed
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
5d
Burgess Hill: The Brownies; BH the only Guides troop to send girls from the new
‘Brownies’ to Worthing rally
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
5c
Cuckfield: The Local Tribunal; examples of men needed for work at home: slaughter
man and blacksmith
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
6c
Memorial Service at Cuckfield Church; packed church remembers 7 dead soldiers
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
4f
Notes and Comments; HH Conservative Club closes & assets sale benefits hospital
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
4f & 5a
Notes and Comments; Foresters annual church parade raises over £25 for RSx
County Hospital; but drunken rowdies criticised!
Haywards Heath
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Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
4f
Notes and Comments; HH Conservative Club closes & assets sale benefits hospital
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
3a
Pleasant Garden Fete at Haywards Heath: HH Work Guild allied to Mid-Sussex
Voluntary Work Organisation raises £61; plus review of membership & costs;
detailed
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
4f & 5a
Notes and Comments; Foresters annual church parade raises over £25 for RSx
County Hospital; but drunken rowdies criticised!
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
3a
Pleasant Garden Fete at Haywards Heath: HH Work Guild allied to Mid-Sussex
Voluntary Work Organisation raises £61; plus review of membership & costs;
detailed
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
3c
Red Cross Funds: Splendid Help From Horsted Keynes ‘Our Day’; raises £118; plus
article from 26/9
Horsted Keynes
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
3c
Red Cross Funds: Splendid Help From Horsted Keynes ‘Our Day’; raises £118; plus
article from 26/9
Horsted Keynes
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
3e
Hurst Hospital Parade: £55 15s Distributed; interesting list of organisations raising
money & those benefiting
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
3e
Hurst Hospital Parade: £55 15s Distributed; interesting list of organisations raising
money & those benefiting
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-12
4f
Notes and Comments; id-Sussex area bakers to close for one day per quarter to
relieve stress on staff
Mid-Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
5d
Death in action
?
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
5c
Disablements sub-committee
? Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
4e
Barnham Cattle Market
Barnham
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
3e
Police behind the scenes - actor charged being absentee
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
4d
An absentee
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
5d
Bishop of London
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
4ab
The kaiser's Last Card
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
2c
The big sheep sales
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
5d
Two columns of wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
6b
RWSH Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
7ab
Chichester Tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
3d
Stone throwing
Chichester
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
6b
Light case
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
7c
Registration of war charities
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
2de
Order against a Chichester Soldier
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
6b
Petty Sessions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
6b
Petty Sessions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
3b
Chichester Guardians - Military and mental cases
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
7b
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester area
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
6c-e
Roll of Honour South West Sussex RSR and others
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
6c-e
Roll of Honour South West Sussex RSR and others
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
8e
The War - RSR casuaties in the past week
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
5c
War Pensions
Horsham
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Place
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
4d
A raid - on theatre parties
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
5ab
Littlehampton Tribunal
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
5c
Littlehampton Tribunal - further issues
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
7c
Military Recruitment Raid
LITTLEHAMPTON
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
7ab
Littlehampton Miitary Tribunal
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
4d
Aeroplane on the Common
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
4d
Helping the wounded
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-13
8e
The War - wounded entertained
West Dean Park
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
6de
Local Tribunal cases
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
6e
Local Tribunal case to be re-heard
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
4cd
Advertisement for lectures on Allies Russia and Italy
WORTHING
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Place
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
4cd
Advertisement for showing of "Battle of the Somme" film
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
5f
Advertisement for "Chemico body shield" - body protectors for soldiers at the Front
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
6b
Reports of criticism at showing of Battle of the Somme film
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-13
6f and 5d
"Clearing out the Germans": Open Meeting of British Empire Union
WORTHING
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-16
5e
Crawley and Ifield - gen news including tribunals and deaths
Crawley
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
8de
Balcombe: Mr Keith Tulloch, RFC, Missing; vivid accounts of 2 RFC actions; plus 26/9
article saying he’s safe
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
8de
Balcombe: Mr Keith Tulloch, RFC, Missing; vivid accounts of 2 RFC actions; plus 26/9
article saying he’s safe
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
8b
Haywards Heath: Over the Parapet; letter from RSR soldier Pte Sydenham vividly
describing Somme battle
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
6cd
‘Our Day’ at Balcombe; event for Red Cross raises over £134; detailed article
Balcombe
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
6cd
‘Our Day’ at Balcombe; event for Red Cross raises over £134; detailed article
Balcombe
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1916-09-19
1f
The Earlier Closing of Shops; agreed by Burgess Hill traders to save energy; HH
traders decline however
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
8e
Ditchling: Open-Air Pig Keeping; people from all over world travel to see this
innovation
Ditchling
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
5c
Haywards Heath Cottage Hospital; HH Congregational Church donated £8 from
harvest festival proceeds
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
3ab
The Free Churches of Sussex: Federation Meetings Brighton; proposal for a United
Free Church of England & for Evangelical movement to become a uniting force for
local people
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-19
3cd
Benediction of Wivelsfield Church Hall: The Bishop of Lewes on the Lessons of the
War; new hall opened; comments on unifying effects of war
Wivelsfield
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
5d
Posted overboard
Australia
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
5e
Barnham cattle market
Barnham
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
3c
Mother-in-law's Protest
Bersted
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
6d
The lightoing order - more Bognor and Selsey cases
Bognor, Selsey,
Donnington
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
4ab
The Essential Fact
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
2b
Chichester Cattle Market
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
2c
Livestock imporvement
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
2c
Farmers' Union
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
4c
The National Mission
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
5b
Graylingwell hospital - more wounded from France
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
6e
RWSH Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
6d
The banned camera
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
3b-e
Wesdthampnett tribunal - 50 cases
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
8b
School of Art
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
4c
Bowlers entertain the wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
7bc
The Alien Order
Chichester and Bognor
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Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
7d
Eggs for the Wounded
Chichester area
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
7b
Have you got your card?
East Dean
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
5d
Earl Winterton in Cairo - a letter
Egypt
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
2b
Army medical Corps - another letter from the front
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
5d
From a choir boy
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
4e
Roll of Honour - deaths
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
5d
The War - RSR killed France
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
5d
Sussex family's good record
France +
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
6e
Funtington Farmer - sheep
Funtington
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
7c
Letter re attitude of Wesleyan Methodists to the War
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
4cd
Stronger measures necessary - lights
Littlehampton
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Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
6c
The light restrictions
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
7cd
Lights that shpould not be seen
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
4d
Littlehampton tribunal - Monday
Littlehampton
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
7b
Enforcing the Lighting Order
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1916-09-20
2b
County Appeal Tribunal
West Sussex
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
4a-b
Advertisement for Worthing branch of British Empire Union
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
2b
Farmers before the Tribunal
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
6cd
Appeal Tribunal at work
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
6e
Raising of age limit
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
3c
Showing of the film "The Battle of the Somme"
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
6ef and 5e
Work of British Empire Union
WORTHING
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Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
6d-e
Public presentation of Distinguished Conduct Medal
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-20
6f
Picturedrome shows Battle of the Somme film
WORTHNG
West Sussex Gazette
1916-09-21
4a
The Royal Sussex Regt at Guadeloupe
West Sussex Gazette
1916-09-21
2d
Sussex War Honours
West Sussex County
Times
1916-09-23
4e
Victoria crosses awarded to Sussex officers
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-23
2a
Chailey Rural District Tribunal
Chailey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-23
8f
Crawley and Ifield - news of awards, casualties and Jutland
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-23
5e
Crawley Down - casualties
Crawley Down
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-23
2a
East Grinstead Urban Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-23
2c
East Grinstead Cases Before the County Appeal tribunal
East Grinstead
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-23
2f
Horsham Police Courts - including absentees and failure to reort
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
7f
Non-Combatant Units: Excellent and Frequently Dangerous Work; letter from the
Front praising efforts of non-combatants
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
7f
Non-Combatant Units: Excellent and Frequently Dangerous Work; letter from the
Front praising efforts of non-combatants
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
1f
The Late Sergeant F. Jupp of Friar’s Oak; moving letter describing this RSR soldier’s
career & final actions
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
6c
Burgess Hill Tribunal; interesting case showing reluctance to employ women in place
of men needed for fighting
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
7ab
The Red Cross: Its Appeal at Hassocks; ‘Our Day’ event [amount should appear in
following MST issue]
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
7ab
The Red Cross: Its Appeal at Hassocks; ‘Our Day’ event [amount should appear in
following MST issue]
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
8a
Haywards Heath: Rev J. Millett Leaving; vicar of St Wilfrid’s joins up
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
6a
East Sussex Farmers’ Union: Women’s Work on the Land;
Letter from Women’s Defence Relief Corps reminding ESFU that they have many
women ready to work on land; lukewarm reception!
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-09-26
6a
East Sussex Farmers’ Union: Women’s Work on the Land;
Letter from Women’s Defence Relief Corps reminding ESFU that they have many
women ready to work on land; lukewarm reception!
Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
5e
DSM for brave act. Navy. Chchester man
At sea. Unstated
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
8e
Barnham market
Barnham
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
2c
Sale of Southdowns
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
4c
Cathedral services - intercessions on behalf of the Forces
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
5c
Another convoy of wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
5c
Entertainments at the hospital (Graylingwell)
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
7b
RWSH Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
5abc
Chichester Tribunal
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
4b
A school harvest festival - wounded soldiers - RWSH
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
4b
A school harvest festival - wounded soldiers - RWSH
Chichester
Cihchester Observer
1916-09-27
3de
Stray Notes - grumbling about military service tribunals
Chichester area
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Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
2c
Rural collections for war hospital
Chichester area
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
5de
Eggs for the wounded
Chichester area
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
4a
Article - the beaten Bully
Chichester Obs
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
6de
Drawing - Doan's bachache pills
Chichester Obs
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
4e
The Zepplin Raid - northern counties - Essex
Essex - Chi Obs report
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
4d
Hun message by balloon
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
8de
The War - RSR casualties etc
France
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
5e
Our Day - letter
From Arundel Castle
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
6c
Chichester Guardians - New porter - former Royal Marine
Lavant
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
6c
Chichester Guardians - New porter - former Royal Marine
Lavant
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
3c
A Wesleyan Centenary: Spiritual aspect of the War
Littlehampton
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Worthing Gazette
1916-09-27
7ab
Local Tribunal cases
LITTLEHAMPTON
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
8a
Notice - 7th Battn RSR
New Haven
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
5e
Juvenile effort for charity
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
7e
Walberton - For graylingwell hospital
Walberton
Chichester Observer
1916-09-27
8e
West Sussex County Appeals Tribunal
West Sussex
Chichester
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-27
6d
Tomatoes - a luxury? Local Tribunal deliberations
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-27
6c
Appeal for "comforts" for Sussex soldiers serving in India
WORTHING
Worthing Gazette
1916-09-27
6e
Letter re care of sick and wounded Army horses
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1916-09-28
2c
Sussex War Honours
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-30
5c
Life in a Convalescent Hospital - account from Alexandria from East Grinstead man
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-30
8f
Copthorne- Casualties
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-30
5ef
Crawley and Ifield - gen news including Zeppelin raid, casualties and tribunals
Crawley
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-30
2a
East Grinstead urban Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-30
8a
East Grinstead Rural Tribunal
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-30
5d
The Week's War Casualties
East Grinstead
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-09-30
8e
Another East Grinstead Man Wins Military Medal for Gallantry
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-10-03
2f
Voluntary work organisation
sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-10-03
3c
the call of the VAD
sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-10-03
6c
The future of wounded soldiers and sailors
sussexMM
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
3de
Bognor Man Awful Experience Letter PTE Sydney Carter
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
5e
Graylingwell War Hospital take 300 wounded from the East
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
5c
Chichester War Hospital Supply Depot Year Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
4b
Descent of Balloons Aeroplane Royal Flying Corp Test Purposes
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
6c
Amateur Photographers Summons in West Sussex
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
4ab
Early Closing Shops
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
2ab
Memorial Service
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
8de
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
4c
Zeppelin Descent in Flames near Potters Bar Mr A.E. Candlin
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
7c
Littlehampton Footballer killed J.B. Tatlow RSR
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
4e
1st Roll of Honour
South West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-10-04
3bc
Tribunal a special Medical Board - VTC Training
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-05
10b
Chichester; Details of returning wounded soldiers
Chichester
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-05
10b
Chichester; More attention is needed to covering lights in the blackout
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-05
11fg
Sussex Volunteer Regiment; Nine Battalions inspected at Tilgate Worth
Tilgate
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-05
12c
Worthing's glass Houses; Food grown is of national Importance
Worthing
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-07
4a
Fusiliers Sports in France; Athletics Sports Meeting of 22nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers
France
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-07
4c
A Football for the Front
France
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-07
2b
West Sussex County Collecting Centre VO; for 13th Royal Sussex Regiment (weekly)
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-07
4e
Sussex Volunteers at Worth; A Rally
Tilgate
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-10-10
8b
Church Parade
Slaugham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-10-10
5f
For the fleet
sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-10-10
6c
Trouble over lights
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
3e
VWO Centre asked to make 46 pairs socks for Royal Sussex Regiment
Bognor Regis
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Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
4e
Bognor Tribunal
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
5e
Bognor Red Cross Detachment War Effort
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
12a
The spread of daylight Evidence in the change of German people
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
6bcd
Unscreened Lights in Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
8c
Stray Notes Zeppelin wandered over. What was its intentions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
4b
Soldiers Motor Licence
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
8ab
Chichester Tribunal Military Pressing for Single Men
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
4b
The Bishop Economy for the National War Savings Committee
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
6d
For Old Age Pensioners During the War Allowance to Supplement their pensions
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
7d
A Trainer and His Lease The result of the War
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
7c
Inquest on wounded soldier who died under Aesthetic Private Thomas Bagnell
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
3b
Woman & War Workers in Agriculture
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
8de
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
2a
Bishop dedicates Window in Memory of Kitchener
Eastergate
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
3e
1st Whist Drive £6.10s handed to Royal West Sussex Hospital
Funtington
Chichester Observer
1916-10-11
5d
How about Selsey George as City of Berlin changed name to Kitchener
Selsey
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-10-11
6d
The Church and the War
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-10-11
6c
Gazette Tobacco Fund
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-12
9f
Chichester;Bishop's war Economy
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-12
9f
Chichester; Graylingwell Flag Day Figures
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-12
6a
Our Weekly Gossip; Memorial to Lord Kitchener probably the first in the country
Eastergate
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-12
11e
West Sussex Women's War Agricultural Committee; Being set up to organise women
to take the place of men on the land
West Sussex
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West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-14
3g
A Period of Respite; use of boys and women for milking
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-14
4bc
The War and Its Problems; social problems arising out of the war
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-14
4g
CETS Meeting; Church of England Temperance Society - problems caused by alcohol
on returning men and those unfit to fight
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-14
3c
Council Workmen; increased cost of living - war bonuses
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-14
3a
Horsham Schools War Savings Association
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-14
3b
War Hospital Supply Depot; Weekly collection
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-14
3ab
Battle of the Somme; screening of scenes at local cinemas
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-14
3d
Excerpt from letter from the front; tank service and use of petrol
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-10-17
6d
Bright Lights
Handcross
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
6b
Bognor Council Killed in Action A War Shrine
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
7cde
Bognor & Selsey Lighting Cases
Bognor Regis & Selsey
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Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
2ab
Agriculture After War
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
4c
The night of the Zeppelin Raid Mysterious flashes at night
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
5a
County Petty Sessions A Friendly Alien
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
4b
Our Day Concert Wounded soldiers among the performers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
4b
2 Conveys of wounded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
3bc
CDC The Workman's War Bonus The seats for the wounded Rate Collector
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
4d
Success of Sailors Day £57 9s 11d by house to house collections
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
6c
Registering War Charities
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
4d
The War Military Medal for Bravery William Hanley Royal Engineers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
8de
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor Regis
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
5d
Lights at Littlehampton
Littlehampton
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Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
7b
Littlehampton case sent to London
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-10-18
7c
Rustington War Memorial
Rustington
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
5c
Descent of an Aeroplane
Sidlesham
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
7b
Royal West Sussex Hospital Patients admitted & Discharged
West Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-10-18
2cde
Tribunal LGB & War Office still at variance
Westhampnett
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-10-18
6c
Our Tobacco Fund Exceeds
£500
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-10-18
6c
The Latest Casualty Lists
Worthing
West SWest Sussex
Gazetteussex Gazette
1916-10-19
3d
Bognor; Red Cross entertain wounded soldiers
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-19
2b
West Sussex Appeal tribunal; Cases heard for exemption for National Service
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-19
7d
Chichester;A Red Cross Concert
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-19
8b
Horsham;Sporting event of 18 months ago repeated at the front
Roffey
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West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-21
3fg
NUWSS Meeting at Horsham; Suffrage and hospital work
Horsham
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
7c
Sailors Day at Bognor The detailed Collection
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
5a
Volunteer Regiment for Bognor A Public Meeting
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
2de
City Petty Sessions Skylight from Hotel Billiard Room
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
2c
Graylingwell Flag Day
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
4c
Our Gift Day Chichester War Hospital Supply Depot
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
5e
Graylingwell War Hospital The Gift Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
7de
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report for the week
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
6e
Handed over to the Military Benjamin West Chichester Court
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
5b
Give the Boys in the Trenches One Bright Day
Chichester
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1916-10-25
5e
Wounded Soldiers entertained to tea by YWCA
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
8a
The Great Adventure The Official War Pictures The Battle of the Somme
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
8de
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
5d
Airman killed Frederick Richard Lucas Royal Flying Corp
Rustington
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
5b
Development of Selsey The Marine Road & Sea Defence
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1916-10-25
2c
Council War Effect on Road Repairs
Westhampnett
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-10-25
6c
"GAZETTE" Tobacco Fund
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-10-25
6c
Further Local Casualties
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
5d
Bognor;"Our Day" fundraising held in Bognor
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
12f
Graylingwell War Hospital; Entertainment for the wounded
Chichester
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
West Sussex Gazette
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Join the Volunteers; Recruiting for the Sussex Volunteers
Chichester
9d
Chichester;160 wounded arrive at Graylingwell
Chichester
1916-10-26
5e
Cowfold;"Our Day" raised about £21 for the War Effort
Cowfold
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
3c
1/1st Sussex Yeomanry ;Anniversary dinner September 23 1916 Report
specially sent from Egypt to the West Sussex Gazette
Egypt
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
10b
Haywards Heath;Details of funds raised for "Our Day"
Haywards Hearh
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
11b
Story from the front;A soldier writes home to his parents in Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
10d
Midhurst;Tribunal held for men applying for exemption from service
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
10de
Midhurst;Details of funds raised for "Our Day"
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
12b
Rustington;Inquest held for an airman
Rustington
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
1g
Shorham Camp;Teddy's Concert, details of a camp concert
Shorham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-10-26
12c
Storrington;details of funds raised for "Our Day"
Storrington
9e
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Times
1916-10-28
4a
Channel Tunnel; Reconsideration in light of the War
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-28
3b
The War and High Prices
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-28
4d
Women on the Land; Appointment of Registrars to organise willing workers
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-10-28
3b
Christ's Hospital Founders' Day; Commemorative Service for those lost in War
London
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
2d
A Belgium at Bognor, an alien order summons
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
6cde
Too much light
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
2b
Prospect of Invasion
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
4b
War Hospital Supply Depot
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
4c
Arrival of 165 Wounded Tommies of which 96 were cot cases
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
4c
40 Wounded soldiers entertained at the Institute and had tea
Chichester
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1916-11-01
5d
Graylingwell War Hospital
The Gift Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
5d
The Entertainment of 300 patients saw matinee of The Battle of The Somme
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
6b
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
7b
For the Chichester Hospital collection and Sunday Service
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
4c
A Cicestrian in Canada Poem for Valour acknowledged by Duke of Connaught
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
2ab
Volunteer Company for Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
3c
Army Grave Diggers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
4b
The Mayor's Weekly War Fund House to House Collection
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
4de
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
5c
Police Court More Obscured Lights
Littlehampton
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1916-11-01
7de
Seaman surrender to local police Mr Thomas King
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
4d
The War Military Medal for Bognor Bandsman Private Steve Paige
N Bersted
Chichester Observer
1916-11-01
3b
Westhampnett Tribunal
Westhampnett
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-11-01
6c
The Official Casualty Lisys
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-02
6f
Chichester; Details of the Mayor's War Weekly Collection
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-02
6g
Cowfold;Sale attended by wounded raises money for various wartime charities
Cowfold
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-11-04
5e
Socials for the Soldiers
Crawley Pease Pottage
West Sussex County
Times
1916-11-04
4a
Welcome to Capt Earl Winterton MP; Meeting of the Horsham Division
Horsham
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-11-06
6c
"Gazette" Tobacco Fund
Worthing
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
6C
Christmas Puddings for soldiers collection
Bosham
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1916-11-08
4e
Military Wedding at Changla Gali Mr Charles Lacey & Miss Dora Mussett
CHANGLA GALI
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
3d
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
8d
Graylingwell War Hospital 140 wounded from France
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
8a
Drivers wanted for ASC Mechanical Transport Chichester Barracks
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
4b
Sailors Rest Additional Accommodation
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
2ab
Priory Park saved for Chichester A war time disaster averted
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
4a
Parliament and the War
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
6e
Letter from General Bethune
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
4a
Public Presentation DCM Medal for Sergeant A.C. Riddett Rifle Brigade
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
4c
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
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1916-11-08
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Mentally deranged soldier
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-11-08
7c
Calling up the Men
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-11-08
7d
Royalty at Shoreham Camp
Shoreham
Chichester Observer
1916-11-08
6c
The King & Queen in Sussex visit Shoreham & Eastbourne Convalescent Camp
Shoreham &
Eastbourne
WORTHING GAZETTE
1916-11-08
6e
Combing out Single Men
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-09
4c
Bognor;A Gallant Family, a Bognor Mother loses two sons, another wounded and one
missing
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-09
9d
Chichester; Transport conditions for wounded men have been improved
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-09
9de
Chichester;Graylingwell War Hospital, Details of fund raising and entertainment
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-09
9d
Chichester;The City Guardians protest about the way the Poor Law is used for
Soldiers with mental difficulties
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-09
2d
King and Queen in Sussex;The Royals visit a convalescant home in Shorham-by-Sea
Shoreham-by-Sea
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-09
2c
Roll of Honour; Royal sussex regiment. NCOs and men Killed and wounded
West Sussex
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1916-11-09
12f
Worthing; Fruit growers and Military Service
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-11-11
3e
The Chestnut Potato
West Sussex County
Times
1916-11-11
3g
A Happy Battery; Letter from France
West Sussex County
Times
1916-11-11
4ef
The War and Its Problems; Demobilisation; Its dangers and problems
West Sussex County
Times
1916-11-11
4a
Home and National Economy; A lecture on the management of food
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1916-11-11
3c
Volunteers March in the Storm; Sussex Volunteers
Horsham
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
6e
Excessive Light
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
4e
The Volunteer Regiment Bognor Company's 1st Drill
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
7ce
Bognor Question War Memorial Bognor Official Shrine
Bognor Regis
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
3d
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
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1916-11-15
4d
For the Hospital's £6 2s was raised from selling 3 Amateur Angling programmes
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
5c
Graylingwell War Hospital The Gift Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
8a
Drivers & Mechanics wanted for ASC Mechanical Transport Chichester Barracks
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
3b
Volunteer Band's Visit London Rifles
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
4a
The Majors weekly War Fund Christmas Pudding Fund house to house collection
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
5c
War Pensions Meeting
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
6cde
A gallant Cicestrian DCM Sergeant A.C. Riddett Rifle Brigade
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
6d
Military Medal Sergeant Albert Bailey bravery as a bomber
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
6e
Military Medal Corporal Steve Paige Royal Sussex Regiment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-15
8de
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
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West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-16
1e
Farmhands and the Army
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-16
6ef
Chichester; Confusion on arrival of wounded soldiers
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-16
6e
Chichester; Money raised for comforts for the forces
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-16
6fg
Chichester;Our first DCM, public tribute to Sergnt A C Riddett
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-16
7c
Fernhurst; Funds raised at a whist drive for local boys at the front
Fernhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-16
2d
Shoreham Petty Sessions;A Lancing College Record, details of staff of military
service age
Lancing
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-16
1f
British Red Cross;Presentation to Colonel Wyndham
Norfolk House
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-11-18
8d
Germany from the inside young lady interned in Germany for 2 years returns to
England
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-11-18
West Sussex County
Times
1916-11-18
3b
Old woman in Lewes workhouse requests to see a cousin fighting in France
Lewes
Concert for Troops; Song about women's war work
Roffey
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Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
5c
Boys allowed to leave school to work on land
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
7c
Chichester City Petty Session More Lighting Cases
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
3e
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
5d
Graylingwell War Hospital The Gift Fund
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
5c
French vessel Rogalien sunk 4 men landed at Selsey 10 at Pagham
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
4a
The Major's weekly War Fund comforts for our men in Salonica Egypt & Mesopotania
£11 16s 10d
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
4b
The War Supply Depot Big orders for woollens, mittens & mufflers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
7de
Open letter to the Right Honourable D. Lloyd George MP
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
8e
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
4c
24 Wounded soldiers entertained at Barnham
Eastergate
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1916-11-22
2b
Westhampnett Council The Selsey Marine Road
Westhampnett
Chichester Observer
1916-11-22
2b
Westhampnett Council Roadmen wanted in France
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-23
4e
St Wilfrid's Hospital; Much appreciated by wounded servicemen
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-23
4e
Story of a discharged soldier
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-23
10a
Farmers and the Red Cross;Successful Gift sale at Pulbourough
Pulbourough
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-23
11g
Treyford; Officer awarded military cross for capturing 15 enemy prisoners
Treyford
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-23
1g
Children on the land
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-23
1f
The County Industry: Some Forward Moves; Women farmers, not very promising
West sussex
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-11-25
2c
The Big Push account of Buglar W Evershed RAMC collecting wounded on the Somme
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-11-25
8b
Crawley Down VAD Hospital
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Courier
1916-11-25
5c
War Relic Exhibition
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-11-28
7a
The Red Triangle
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
3b
More Lighting Cases
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
8d
Anglers Entertainment for Volunteer Regiment over £30 raised
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
5c
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
3a
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
5e
Graylingwell Hospital 130 wounded arrive from France
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
4ab
If we but try
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
7abc
Science after the War address by Mr E. Heron Allen
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
3a
Christmas Mail for Troops
Chichester
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1916-11-29
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Pension & Separation Allowances
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
4c
War Supply Depot ask to make mittens, mufflers & Helmets
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
4b
Sailors Day raised £47 10s
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
4c
The Major's weekly war fund raised £12 14s 1d in aid of 3rd & 13th Battalion
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
8a
The King with his armies on the Somme Front The Defence of Verdun
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
5c
Military Medal for Teacher
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
5d
Chichester Police at the Front
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
5a
New War Film The King at the Somme Front
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
5c
Christmas Parcels for the front
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-11-29
5b
Airman killed Captain R.J. Lillywhite
Chichester
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1916-11-29
6b
Brave Littlehampton lad wins the Military Medal Fighting at 17yrs
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-30
1a
A Bomb Fatality;Soldiers Funeral at Arundel
Arundal
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-30
7b
Burgess Hill; Enemy Alien summoned for travelling too far without a permit
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-30
6de
Captain Lillywhite Killed;A brave young Airman
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-11-30
6e
Our Volunteers at Bognor;Littlehampton Volnteers parade at Bognor
Littlehampton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-02
3e
Presentation of Military Medal to Corporal Frederick John Denton
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-02
8b
Roadmen for France West Sussex asked to provide workmen to work on roads in
France
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-02
4a
Whist Drive; Fundraising for Troops
Horsham
Chichester Observer
1916-12-06
4de
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-12-06
4b
Salvation Army Entertained 50 Wounded Soldiers
Chichester
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1916-12-06
5c
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-06
8d
Hospital Work In France
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-06
4a
The Major's Weekly War Fund £14 6s 6d House to House collection
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-06
4ab
The Volunteer Regiment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-06
4bc
The King at the Front Matinee Worth Seeing
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-06
7ab
Chichester Officers Funeral Captain R.J. Lillywhite
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-06
2cd
Mentally Afflicted Soldiers
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
9c
Arundel;War Hospital Supply depot, Over £40 raised at a Sale of work
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
9d
Two Brave brothers; two brothers killed on the same day
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
1g
Graylingwell War Hospital Entertainments;
Chichester
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1916-12-07
8f
Chichester; A convoy of wounded arrive at Graylingwell War Hospital
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
8f
Chichester; Our Day, details of monies raised in the Chichester Division
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
9d
Coldwaltham; Money raised at a whist drive for comforts for local servicemen
Coldwaltham
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
11d
Stories from the Front; A philosophic Officer writes from Salonika
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
10e
Petworth; Our Day, details of fund raising
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
10e
Petworth; news of local men killed and injured
Petworth
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-07
2c
Roll of Honour Royal Sussex Regiment;List of NCOs and men killed and wounded.
Repeated weekly
West sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-09
1bc
War Bread; an advert for a new recipe
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1916-12-12
8f
Marriage
Hurstpierpoint
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
3ab
Bognor Council Allowance for Active Servicemen £100 for Volunteers
Bognor
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1916-12-13
6d
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
8d
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
3d
War Food
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
7ab
A Record Fine for Unobscured Lights
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
6bc
Downs searched for soldiers Samuel Newland, J Wyman failing to report to
Chichester Barracks
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
6d
Additional Quarters for Blind Soldiers Needed
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
4c
Our Volunteers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
5b
Graylingwell War Hospital 2 Nurses decorated by the King with the Red Cross Nurse
Andre, Nurse Wallington
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-13
8e
A War Shrine Erected in Selsey
Selsey
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
3e
Angmering; 14 servicemen lose their lives. A seaman is awarded DCM
Angmering
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1916-12-14
1f
Arundel Volunteers; Succussful Concert. Col Fryer appeals for more men
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
3d
Arundel;War Savings Association makes good progress
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
3e
Bognor;The Council have agreed to Donate £100 towards eqipment for the Bognor
Company of Volunteers
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
6d
Burgess Hill; More volunteers needed for "F"Company 3rd Battalion Sussex Volunteer
Regiment
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
6c
Chichester;To those over 41, more volunteers needed
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
6c
Chichester;Military Medal at 20
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
6c
Chichester; Soldiers of the Royal Sussex regiment, home from the front, are helping
on the land
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
8b
Midhurst; a mother receives news of how her son died in battle
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
8e
Selsey; A shrine dedicated to serving men is errected in the village
Selsey
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-14
1h
Shoreham Camp; Eastern Command's Third Concert
Shoreham
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Courier
1916-12-16
8d
The Price of Milk Concessions to dairy farmers
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-16
6a
Bigamy by a woman
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-16
4d
Seed Potato Distribution
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-16
4b
Hands Off Our Dogs; Letter regarding the taxing and killing of dogs in the name of
the War
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-16
6d
Roll of Honour Eastbourne board of guardians
Eastbourne
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-16
3e
War Bonuses for Teachers
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-16
2e
Proposed Memorial Cross
Ifield
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-18
5f
Chichester; Wounded arrive at Chichester station
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-18
5f
Chichester;New Volunteer Company hold their first parade
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
5e
£20 for the Volunteers from the Bognor VAD & Miss Travers Orchestra
Bognor
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1916-12-20
4d
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
2bc
The Cultivation of Land Chichester Council
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
4b
War Agricultural Committee increasing seed potatoes for more crops
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
6cde
Increasing the Food Production
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
7b
Soldiers on the Farm working while convalescent
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
4a
The Major's Weekly War Fund £12 1s
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
4d
More wounded arrive at Graylingwell 112 cot & 40 sitting from France
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
2b
The Soldiers Graves
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
4d
General Sir Archibald Murray mentioned F.G. Harfield for Egyptian Force
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
8d
War Bonus for Teachers
Chichester
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1916-12-20
4b
Volunteer Drills for Christmas
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-20
3cde
Westhampnett Council Sanitation Requirements in War Time
Westhampnett
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-21
3b
Angmering; A Service was held in the village in memory of the fallen
Angmering
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-21
3d
Bognor;Local school raises finds for local Volunteer Corps
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-21
3d
Burgess Hill; Local Volunteer Company Inspected and praised
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-21
1f
Farmers and the food supply;Women should be encouraged to work on the land and
any uncultivated land should be brought into use
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-21
1f
Convalescent Soldier Workers; Changes needed to the scheme allowing convalescent
soldiers to work on the land
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-21
4c
Christ's Hospital School concert; Mention made of those Old Boys now serving and
killed in action
Christ's Hospital
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-21
5h
Concert at Shoreham Camp;
Shoreham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-23
5a
Old Blue's and the War Christs Hospital
Horsham
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1916-12-26
5c
Lindfield
Lindfield
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
4e
60 Volunteers march to Barnham
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
4e
Bognor Anglers presented shelters for the wounded
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
2ab
The Production of Food
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
3c
The Cost of Living Local Pre-War with today's prices
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
3d
The War Local Items & Sidelights
Chichester
Bognor
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
6d
Royal West Sussex Hospital Report
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
4d
100 more Wounded Arrive at Graylingwell
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
5c
Graylingwell 120 Wounded arrive 84 were cot cases from France
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
7abcde
Graylingwell War Hospital how 925 wounded Warriors spent Christmas
Chichester
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1916-12-27
4e
Boxing Day Football Match Flight Company & 9th Hants Regiment
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
5e
Royal West Sussex Hospitals Christmas Festivities Chichester
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
5e
'Kaiser Will' a Poem
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
4d
Volunteers Route March 9th Battalion Chichester Company
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
4e
For the Fighters
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
4d
The Lindenau Concert raises £18 4s 9d for the Royal W. Sussex Hospital
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
5de
The Festival in the Churches & Hospital for Christmas 49 Wounded entertained
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1916-12-27
3b
A year in Mesopotamia Midhurst P.A. Daniels Royal Flying Corp
Midhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-28
5g
Christmas at Graylingwell Hospital;
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-28
1h
Soldiers and sea Defences; Soldiers help repair sea defences
East Lancing
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1916-12-28
8f
Tillington; A brass eagle lectern donated to the chiurch by officers of the RFC in
memory of Victor Barrington-Kennett
Tillington
West Sussex Gazette
1916-12-28
8g
Worthing; Christmas entertainment for the woundrd in the Worthing Area
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-30
8f
How Private Wilkes kept the Bridge
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-30
3g
Flour and Bread Order; Extension
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-30
3g
Summer Time in April; Plans for daylight saving next year
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-30
4d
To a Private; a poem for Sussex soldiers
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-30
3c
Account of the mining of the "Minnewaska"
Crete
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-30
5d
The VAD Hospitals at Christmas
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-30
4b
Soldiers and Sea Defences
East Lancing
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-30
3e
Christmas at the Post Office; Parcels for Horsham, numbers of Postal workers on roll
of honour
Horsham
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West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-30
3fg
The Hero of Submarine U2; advert for film
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1916-12-30
2f
A Lewes Chaplain at the front
Lewis
West Sussex County
Times
1916-12-30
3d
Christmas Day at Roffey Siege School
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
5c
Dominion Farmers and Our Allies;
South African farmers rasing funds for farmers in invaded regions
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
8a
Seed Potatoes;
Board of agriculture scheme invite applications to supply
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
8a
"B" Company, 7th Battalion Sussex Volunteer Regiment;
Orders for the week;
Repeated weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
4e
Births, Marriages and Deaths
A list of names and events;
Repeated weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
7a-d
Mid-Sussex Men Who Died for the Empire
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
2f
Serbia's Need;
Division of the Serbian Relief Fund
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
3b
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation;
Numbers of atricles despatched and received from the depots
Repeated monthly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
5c
British Farmers Red Cross;
Sent ambulances to Salonika a report
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1917-01-02
1a
Latest War News;
News from the front;
regular issue weekly;
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
2a
Not today, Wilhelm!;
Weekly report of the action
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
3e
Sussex Officers;
Royal Sussex Regiments promotions;
Repeated in further issues
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
2d
Silver Stripe issued to soldiers invalided due to disease
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
3ab
Soldier's Sick Leave;
Absentee from Royal Engineers; Did not return from leave due to illness
Bolney
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
8b
Cottage Hospital;
Acknowledgement of Gifts
Repeated weekly
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
2d
Mr Moss received official notice that "missing" son was killed in action
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
5c
Thanks - Sister in charge of Sunshine Auxillery Hospital acknowldges with thanks the
gifts received
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-02
5b
In Hospital;
Lance-Corporal Cooper returned from France and is in hospital;
A brief history
Lindfield
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
7a
A Word to Employers; recent rules and regulations
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Observer
1917-01-03
4a-c
The Promise of the Year; Haig's despatch on the Somme and the future of the war
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
7c
War Office Wearing Uniforms; new regs
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
7b
Big Christmas Party; Duke of Norfolk & wounded soldiers
Arundel
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
5b
League of Mercy; appeal for funds and costs of care
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
5d-e
For the Boys at the Front;
tinned provisions
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
6e
Eggs for the Wounded; continues weekly
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
7d-e
War Agricultural Committee;
Potato Growing and Pig Keeping
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
4e
Red Cross Work; at Graylingwell Hospital
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
5a
Graylingwell Gift Fund;
continues weekly
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
7b
Chichester Lighting Cases;
continues weekly
Chichester
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Observer
1917-01-03
6b
Work of the R A M C
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
4d
Record Collection; Belgian Relief Fund
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
4d
The War Hospital Supply Depot; reopening; info continues weekly
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-03
6c-e
Westhampnett Tribunal; agricultural workers called up and German Prisoners to
work
Westhampnett
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917 01 03
6e
Small Shot Young girls, soldiers and licensed premises
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
5d
Vacancies for Royal Marines.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
1f
King and President. New Year Message to French Nation.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
4c-f
Haig's Peace Note. WSG War Special. Ready to the Battle.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3f
Alton RDC have applied for german prisoners to work on the roads.
Alton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3e
Bells of Arundal Parish Church heard for first time on New Years day following a long
silence.
Arundal
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1917-01-04
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Following their route march through Arundal Park, Volunteers entertained to tea.
Arundal
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3f
Christmas Party at the Castle. Wounded soldiers entertained by the Duke and
Duchess of Norfolk.
Arundal
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3c
Extraordinary Case of a German Alien. Woman pleaded guilty for being in a
prohibited area without the required permit.
Bexhill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3c
A British Officers Ignorance of Patriotic Law. Major failed to give notice of an alien
living in his house.
Bexhill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3g
Soldiers at Cooden Red Cross Hospital entertained at Bexhill Church Institute.
Bexhill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
8a
125 men enrolled for labour compant to go to France for road work. Authorities hope
to raise a double company.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
2h
Military Age and Employer's Lists. Inspector's rights to enter premises. Duties
imposed on employers.
Britain
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
6g
An RAMC Nightmare. Letter from Pte. Spratt to his parents describes the conditions
in the trenches.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7c
Emsworth Men's Institute entertain wounded soldiers from Northlands Red Cross
Hospital.
Emsworth
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7c
Miss Chadband presents Horton War Hospital with wheel chair in memory of her
brother.
Epsom
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1917-01-04
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Local Vicar writes letter from France about water in trenches.
Epsom
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7c
War shrine erected at West Ewell, distinct from village war memorial.
Ewell
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3d
Farnham and the Food Supply. UDC Public meeting to consider means of increasing
food supply.
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7c
Admirable entertainment at the Corn Exchange, for soldiers billetted in area
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7d
Local Christmas fund enables local soldiers and sailors to receive Christmas parcels.
Fernhurst
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
1h
A Hale War Shrine. Dedication of shrine to Lieutenant Walter Welch, killed in action
near Ypres.
Hale
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7e
Public meeting held for the formation of a Volunteer Corps for the area.
Haslemere
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7e
Royal Engineers Staff-Serg't writes letter from India. many of the "boys" are down
with Malaria.
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7e
New Bugle Band of "C" (Horsham) Company 8th Sussex Volunteer Regiment make
first public appearence
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
7g
Family rescued by some Sea Cadets following the torpedoing of the "City of
Birmingham".
Lindfield
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
1f
The Mudslinging London Press Group. Those at the front heartened by Prime
Ministers strong speech.
London
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1917-01-04
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Country Village, Loxwood.
War profits. Milk prices the same as in London.
Loxwood
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3d
Potatoes Under Glass. Mitcham market gardeners to experiment.
Mitcham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
3h
Queen Mary sends gifts to wounded soldiers at Netley Hospital.
Netley
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
2a
Local Soldiers' Cash. War Office have issued list of soldiers killed in action with
balances of pay outstanding.
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
2c
War Farming in West Susex. Discussion on the organisation of farming in the area.
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-04
8g
A German Peace. Rev Hollis comments in his "Parish Notes".
Worthing
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
4de
22nd Royal Fusiliers Signallers formerly in Horsham; detailed article on their 1yr
anniversary dinner in France; casualties & honours including the Somme
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
4e
Extracts of thank you letters from Horsham “lads” for socks and mittens.
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-06
3c
War Shrines
Brighton
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-06
3c
Open Meeting for wounded soldiers
Brighton
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-06
8f
Wounded Soldiers' festivities at Crawley Cottage Hospital
Crawley
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Courier
1917-01-06
5c
Entertaining the Wounded
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-06
4d
War Work Association donations and subscriptions
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-06
5d
War Work Association
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-06
8d
Christmas Day at the Camp
Forest Row
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-06
5d
German dog found on soldier and brought to England
Hartfield
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
2g
8th Battalion Sussex Volunteer Regiment Horsham “C” Company orders; repeated
weekly
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
3c
Land for Cultivation; Urban District Council Meeting; use of unused allotments
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
3b
Intercession and thanksgiving Services at Horsham Churches
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
3a
Military Hospital;19 in patients; Christmas festivities; thanks to donors and artistes
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
3g
War Hospital Supply Depot & West Sussex County Collecting Centre V.O.; Report
Dec 1916 & letters of thanks for medical supplies & garments from Casualty
Clearing Stations & Field Hospitals; continues weekly
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
3fg
Horsham Urban Tribunal; applications for exemption from military service from those
working in the town; repeated weekly
Horsham
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Times
1917-01-06
4c
Christmas Day Dinner collection for Belgium children
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
3b
Parcels to “Horsham boys” at Christmas and their letters of thanks
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-06
3e
Horsham Rural Tribunal; applications for exemption from military service from those
largely working on the land; repeated most weeks
Villages in Horsham
Rural District
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-06
5e
Appeal Tribunal Case
Worth
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
3a
Gardeners' Association;
Collecting vegetable for the fleet;
Praise for the work
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
5d
Wheat and Potatoes;
Suggestions of the Royal Agricultural Society;
Potato seed being scarce
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
2a-c
British Raids;
Weekly report of the action
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
8d
Appeal Tribunal;
Review of war exemptions
Repeated in further issues
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
5e
Lost in the deep;
Destroyer sunk
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
2f
"Like Walstead";
A Burgess Hillian in France;
Letter from front
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
5e
Awarded the D.S.O;
A brief history
Burgess Hill
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1917-01-09
8f
Seed Potatoes;
Cuckfield Rural Parish Council;
Application to supply invited
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
5d
Cuckfield Local Tribunal;
Review of war exemptions
Repeated in further issues
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
5d
Privae Divall's death';
An account
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
5f
Widow's Six Soldier Sons;
A record of the family
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
8b
Aiding the Royal Sussex Regiment Prisoners' of War Fund;
Childrens; Dance Arranged
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-09
5f
Military Medal Won;
An account
Keymer
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-10
4e
Bognor Soldier's "Ratmare"
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-01-10
6e
The Alien Order
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-10
2b-d
Increasing Food Production
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-10
4a
The Mayor's Weekly War Fund; continues weekly
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-10
4e
2nd Lieutenant H Brown; safe after being torpedoed
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-10
4a
Our Volunteers; continues weekly
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-01-10
2bc
Increasing Food Production
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-01-10
3bcd
West Sussex County Appeal Tribunal
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-10
2a-b
Littlehampton Tribunal; exemptions and pleas; Tribunals continue weekly under
different place names, next is West Sussex Tribunal on 1917-01-10
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1917-01-10
2ab
Littlehampton Tribunal - repeated weekly
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-10
5c
Way-side Shrine; an early war memorial
Selsey
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-10
3C
Letters -Men Who ought to be in Uniform
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-10
5c
Sussex Volunteer Regiment
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-10
6c
Latest Casualty List
Local Names
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
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Selling at the top of the Market. Kaisar proclaims the war will be continued.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
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Village with splended war record. 10% of population on war service.
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
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Letter home from Pte. Jeffery RAMC gives insight into current conditions on the
front.
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
7d
Volunteer's, Please Note. People cannot use the fact that they are volunteer
members as exemption.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
7c
Delay Elsewhere. Why? Wounded men from France delayed whilst waiting for
ambulance train from Brighton.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
6f
A pianist member of "Queen's" writes from France.
Crowborough
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
6h
Local vicar writes home "having never seen so much mud".
Eastleigh
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
7e
A Modest Hero. Bombardier writes home about working all night through a heavy
bombardment of gas shells.
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
7g
Christmas parcels sent to local men in service reached 430.
Haslemere
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-11
8g
St. Mary's Red Cross Hospital have exhibition of work done by soldier patients.
Worthing
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-13
8b
War Savings - letter to the Editor
Crawley
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-13
2b-c
War Prices - England is still the cheapest country to live in (advert)
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-13
8a
East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-13
8b
Letter to the editor re war savings
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-13
4f
The Great War - Horsham and District Jottings repeated most weeks. Local news on
those killed; wounded; awarded honours; writing home; town fundraising etc
Horsham and district
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-13
2g
Horsham Urban District Council: securing more land for food production
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-13
4d
Lecture to WEA on the effect of the war on agriculture
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-13
3c
Burial Committee; Canadian Military request for wooden crosses
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-13
4c
Childrens Treat; Postmaster and staff entertain families of postal workers serving
“with the colours”
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-13
3fg
Horsham Petty Sessions: unshaded lamps. Repeated weekly including absentees
exceeding leave; excessive lights etc
Horsham; Ifield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
1f
Allied Farmers' trails;
How French agfriculture has suffered
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
1f
Local Aid for Allied Farmers;
Sussex raises £2,782
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
2f
Notice to employers;
Employers to keep records of anyone of military age
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
2ac
Allies' aims in the war;
Reports from the front
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1917-01-16
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Place of women in the national life has been revolutionised, without them national
machine would stop
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
3a
Burgess Hill volunteers at dinner;
"F" company 2nd battalion Sussex volunteer regiment isat dwon to dinner a report of
the speeches
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
2c
Sussex men in India;
A Burgess Hillian's Letter
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
5c
Local Tribunal;
Appeal for exemption;
Repeated in further issues
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
5c
War Savings Association;
Discussion for forming an association in Cuckfield
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
5d
Promoted and awarded the military medal;
Previously won D.C.M. now R.S.M. and awarded Military Medali
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
6a
Haywards Heath Bench;
An absentee Thomas Warnett
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-16
1f
Roll of honour;
Two more namers have been added to the roll;
A brief history of them
Slaugham
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-17
8e
Golf Clubs to help
Bognor & Selsey
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-17
4b
Bishop Jones at the High School
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-17
4bc
The Church's War Work
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-17
4e
Road Men for France
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-17
4e
The Red Cross; W V A D
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-01-17
2cd
Chichester Council, Food Production Schemes
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-01-17
8de
Food Production Problems
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-01-17
8e
Eggs for the Wounded - reported regularly
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-01-17
7ab
Cultivation of Land
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1917-01-17
4cd
Littlehampton Wounded Entertained
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-17
5a
Manhood Red Cross
Manhood
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-17
8e
German Prisoners for the Land
Steyning
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-17
8e
The Needs of Farm Labour
West Sussex
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-17
3c
Letters
Men Who Ought to be in Uniform
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-17
3c
Letters
Men Who Ought to be in Uniform
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-17
6c
Latest Casualty List
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
1g
Plain Questions to Mr. Prothero. Appeals to the country to win the war. Money and
food.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10e/f
Great Work of the Navy. Sir John Jellicoe Explains.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10b
Allies Peace Terms. Reply to Mr Wilson's Note. Invaded lands to be evacuated.
Turkey to quit Europe.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
6c-f
The Hohenzollern Hybrid Again. Kaiser shelters behind peace intrigue.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
6h
"We want peace" cry the Germans from their trenches.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10c
Two U-Boats captured. Taken by Italian Navy.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10c
Belgian Fighting. Batteries busy along the whole front.
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1917-01-18
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Three western allies all represented on Belgian soil.
Belgium
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10d
Kaisers Outburst. Melodramatic manifesto to the German people.
Berlin
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
4g
Wounded soldiers from Northbrook Hospital entertained by local Salvation Army.
Bishop's Waltham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
5b
For the Food Supply. Applications to be invited for vacant land for cultivation.
Bognor Regis
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
5a
Future winners of honours to receive letter from town authorities.
Bognor Regis
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
5a
Over 3000 Bognor men serve in the Army and Navy.
Bognor Regis
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
5c
Volunteers sat down to dinner to be told that Private Taylor, chairman of the urban
council had uniquely swan in all of the members.
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
4d
Sussex Company in India. Royal Sussex Regiment serving with Norfolk Regiment.
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
3d
War Farming in West Sussex. Discussion on food production by War Agrecultural
Committee.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
5d
Canadian Officers gave local children and their Mothers exceptional Christmas treat.
Crowborough
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
9c
Ladies of the Needlework Guild entertain convalesing soldiers.
Eastergate
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1917-01-18
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Aircraft Secrets. Charges under the Defence of the Realm Regulations for
communicating information.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
9c
The effect of gunfire on rain during the battle of the Somme, is discussed by Colonel
Chrystie
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10c
On the Italian Front. Artillary and Patrol activity. Air Raids over Pola.
Italian Front
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
9h
Lance-Corporal Thompsett of RSR wins MM for gallantry displayed at the "Redoubt".
Keymer
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
6a
German sailors involved in the Skarger Rak battle explain their defeat due to the
English wife of their commander in Heligoland.
Kiel
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10h
A Storm Centre in the Vosges. Underground war.
La Chapellotte
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10d
103 Belgians Escape. Exciting voyage down the Meuse.
Liege
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
11b
Wounded Soldiers Entertained. Whist Drives organised for local Nursing Association.
Littlehampton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10c
Russians Repel Strong Attack in Riga region. Aeroplanes fire on enemy battery.
Riga
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10c
Stiff Fighting in Rumania. Sereth village abandoned to the enemy.
Rumania
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1917-01-18
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On The Western Front. Livelyness about Serre. British post lost and regained.
Serre
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
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Eastern Command Depot Concert. Highly successful.
Shoreham Camp
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
10c
French Guns Busy. Artillary activity south of the Somme.
Somme
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
6h
Admiralty refrains from doing itself justice. German submarines running the
gauntlet.
South Coast
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
3d
Scramble for Hun Prisoners. Desire to employ German prisoners of war to work on
the land.
Steyning
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-18
2d
Canadian Colours deposited in Surrey Church. 123rd Battalion Royal Grenadiers of
Torontocomplete training.
Witley
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-20
4e
German prisoners & interned aliens to be used in agriculture. Service of women
likely in the near future
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-20
4a
Christmas greetings from Lieut-General Sir Aylmer Hunter Weston to all men who
served with him in Gallipoli; reference to arduous campaign
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-20
3d
Exhibition of drawings and lithographs by Joseph Pennell illustrating munitions work
in factories by
Brighton
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-20
8a
Letter to Editor re use of allotments for war effort
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-20
8a
Appeal by Red Cross Society for funds to continue their work
East Grinstead
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-20
4f
Notice of Publc Meeting about War Loans and War Savings Cerificates
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-20
8a
Letter to Editor re war loans
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-20
8f
Sussex Volunteer Force orders
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-20
6e
Town Council Meeting considers War Loan arrangements
Eastbourne
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-20
4a
Miss Peake; sent 75 parcels to the front & Daily Mirror reported her 29th cwt of tinfoil
sent in comparison to 20 cwt from Stoke nr Devonport
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-20
3c
Meeting in aid of Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops for disabled soldiers and sailors
Horsham
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-20
5d
First drill parade of new Volunteer Platoon
Turners Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
2ac
War news of the weeks;
Various reports of the war
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
5c
Death of Gunner Godding;
Official intimation of death received
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
1f
Burgess Hill Tribunal;
Applications for exemption of service
Repeated in further issues
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
5e
Soldier's Death;
Death in hospital of Private Siimonds;
A brief history'
Burgess Hill
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Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
5d
War Savings Association;
Decision taken on a War Savings Association
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
3ab
Haywards Heath Tribunal;
Applications for exemption of service;
Repeated in further issues
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
3c
Haywards Heath Sergant wins the Military Medal;
Letter from hospital
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
8d
Seed Potatoes;
Invitatiion for application
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-23
8d
Christmas Puddings for soldiers;
A letter of thanks from regiment
Hurstpierpoint
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-24
5b
Increased Separation Allowances
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-24
4e
Recruits wanted for C L B
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-24
5b
Graylingwell War Hospital; more wounded arrived, continues almost weekly
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-24
7c
A War Memorial
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-24
5e
Cicestrian's letter from France
Chichester
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Chichester Observer
1917-01-24
6c
A War Memorial
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-01-24
5e
Cistestians Letter from France
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-24
4d
An Appeal for Volunteers
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-24
3c
Letters
Men Who ought to be in Uniform
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-24
3c
Letters Men who Ought to be in Uniform
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-24
5e
Child Allowance
WORTHING
WORTTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-24
6d
Latest Casualty List
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
4a
Response to ill-informed American's statement about German superiority.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
4c-f
Who Hits First. Allies tactical development.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
8g
Germans copy British newspapers. Anon pamphlet in Germany attacks their
Chancellor.
Amsterdam
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
8g
German story of a Naval Encounter. Torpedo boats encounter enemy destroyers.
Berlin
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1917-01-25
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Rest Rooms for the Wounded. Mayoress arranges ground floor of premises to
wounded off the streets.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
3f
Five British soldiers encountered 300 Germans in East Africa is reported in a letter.
Important due to danger to communications.
Chiddingfold
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
1g
Graylingwell War Hospital. 140 men entertained by West Sussex Club at the Dolphin
Hotel.
Graylingwell
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
4b
Letter from Lady doing useful war work in Paris regarding German underground
work.
Paris
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
8g
Details of the Russian Riga Victory. Solid system of underground fortress found.
Petrograd
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
8d
Letter home from a Private recalls Christmas in the trenches.
Redhill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
8g
German Spies in Sweden. Reports of a widely extended espionage system.
Stockholm
West Sussex Gazette
1917-01-25
4b
A colonel, his servant and a corporal drop in to well known hostelry. (Interesting
story).
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-27
4b
Ministry of Agriculture; preparation for farming lands in France & helping peasants in
Belgium, Serbia & Poland as victory likely soon
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-27
3c
Lord Winterton; new years message to constituents & news from front in Egypt
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-27
5f
Help Our Wounded working parties
Crawley and Ifield
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-27
8c-d
Special Soldiers' Night at Whitehall Palace
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-01-27
3b
C (Horsham) Co, 8th Batt Sx Vol Regiment: route march & assault training
Horsham
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-27
2f
East Sussex and War Savings: County Committee formed
Lewes
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-27
8c
Barclay & Company AGM and War Loans Policy
National
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-27
6e
Tribunal considering case of two conscientious objectors
Newhaven
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-01-27
2b
Opening of YMCA hut for servicemen
Polegate
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
2ab
Week's bag of German aeroplanes on the British front;
Various reports from the front
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
2de
Life on board a troopship;
Private Yeandle writes from troopship
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
8f
Sussex Volunteer Regiment;
7th battalion parade at Wakehurst Gardens
Ardimgly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
3ac
Rural District Local Tribunal;
Exemptions from service;
Repeated in further issues
Cuckfield
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1917-01-30
8b
For the fleet;
Collection of fruit and vegetables for H.M.Ships
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
6c
Alleged Absentee;
Defendant said he had been refused service
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
2f
Soldier's Letter from India;
Writing from North West India
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
8a
Home on special leave to delight of parents Lt. Cheall arrived home unexpectedly
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
8b
Private Flay distinguishes himself by his conduct in the field;
Christmas dinner in trenches
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
8de
A khaki wedding;
at the parish church;
Corporal Fears
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-01-30
8d
Officer Killed in action;
Captain Prideaux reported killed in action;
A brief history of carrer
Lindfield
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-31
7a-b
Men from the land
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-31
7e
Other Items; resolution re assisting those called to visit wounded in serious or
dangerous state
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-31
2c-e
The Victory Loan
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-31
4c
Pig Keeping
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-31
4e
Save for the War
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-01-31
2cde
The Victory Loan
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-31
5e
1,100 Men Wanted
Westhampnett
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-01-31
5d
No German Prisoners for Gravel Digging
Westhampnett
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-31
3c
Letters Volunteers
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-31
6f
Tribunals for Exemption of Service
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-31
2b
Tale of a Soldier's Watch
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-01-31
6c
Latest Casualty List
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-01
4c-f
To Pieces before Peace. Evidence suggests the Central Allies are falling apart!
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-01
8b
Home on Leave. The bewildering medley of every kind of soldier.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-01
7g
Encounter with a German Submarine. Two young men's thrilling story.
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-01
7b/c
Military authorities in France give permission for starting a school of instruction for
chaplains.
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-01
7g
Injustice to Discharged Soldiers. Criticised war office insurance benefit methods.
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-01
8d
Comforts for Sussex Drafts. Permission given for comforts to be collected for 4th
Reserve Battalion RSR.
Partridge Green
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-01
4a
From a young Angmering officer on the Somme front. The full meaning of a little
phrase.
Somme
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
3g
Letter from Trooper H A Perry Sussex Yeomanry; on way to Egypt; among the troops
saved from the “Ivernia”
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-03
3d
Annual General Meeting of Volunteer Regiment
Brighton
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-03
2a
Public Meeting about War Loans and War Savings
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-03
4c-d
Advertisement placed by War Savings Committee
East Grinstead
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-03
5e
Output from war work association for month of January
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-03
5c
Letters from the Front
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-03
5e
Institute opened up for Canadia soldiers
Groombridge
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
3c
Horsham Urban District Council; use of unoccupied allotments
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
3d
Horsham Urban District Council; grant to “C” Co Sussex Volunteers and drill ground
issues
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
3a
Victory Road Girls School concert for War Hospital Supply Depot
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
3de
Horsham Urban District Council; animated discussion regarding investing in war loan
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
4bd
British Farmers' Red Cross Fund; Horsham branch National Farmers' Union great
fundraising sale
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
3fg
West Sussex Appeal Tribunal; Horsham and District military service exemption
cases; continues regularly
Horsham; Two Mile
Ash; Mannings Heath
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
4f
Concert by Miss Annie Tate to troops at Roffey Siege School
Roffey
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-03
8b
Work to Win - letter to the Editor
Sussex & Surrey
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Courier
1917-02-03
3e
Issue of regulations re Volunteer Force
Sussex-wide
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-03
4f
Suicide of George Foster; possibly related to objection to going into army
West Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-03
3f
Exciting Times in a Patrol Ship
Woodgate / Danehill
45Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-06
5a
Seed Potatoes;
Board of Argiculture unable to supply
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-06
8e
Military Service and Certified Occuptaions;
Revised occupations list
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-06
2a-d
America and The Pirates;
British Advances in the West
Reports from the front
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-06
8b
Marriage of Sergeant Attwater;
an account of wedding
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-06
2f
Sussex's Farmers gift sale;
Fine support for red cross fund
Haywards Heath
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-06
5c
Death of able-seaman Scutt;
A brief history
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-06
3d
Clement Reed soldier summoned for driving horse and cart without lights
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-07
6c
Cultivation of Land Order
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-07
1d
The Bognor Volunteers; appeal for more men
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-07
8d
Sergeant G F Eade
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-02-07
6cd
The Cultivation of Land Order 1916 - Regulation of cultivation of small plots
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-02-07
1d
For Aviation - Military Proposal to take land at Tangmere & Boxgrove
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-02-07
2abc
Chichester Council - £14,400 New War Loan to boost food production
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-02-07
6b
Westhampnett Tribunal - No Prisoners of War for gravel pits
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-02-07
1e
Graylingwell War Hospital - progress of Gift Fund - irregular reports
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-02-07
7b
Littlehampton Council Meeting report on the food problem
Littlehampton
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-07
1d
For Aviation; proposed use of land at Tangmere and Boxgrove
Tangmere
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-02-07
5b
Advert A Little Maid of 10 years
WORTHING
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1917-02-07
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Latest Casualty List
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-02-07
3c
Letters a LETTER OF APPRECIATION FOR Cecils Red Cross Hospital
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
7a/b
Join The Industrial Army. A summons for every man to volunteer for war work.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
4a-d
The Hungary Hunzollverein. The new Berlin decree. The real German objective.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
2b
Women and Allotments. Local authorities to take full advantage of powers to
cultivate the land.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
8a/b
The Canadian War Photographes. Exhibition at Art Gallery.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
8a
Education after the war. Necessary for people to be better educated and more highly
trained.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
8a
Support by the Women's Tariff Reform Association for the war government.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
8a
Train brings 118 Australian wounded to kitchener Hospital.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
6e/f
Volunteers Want £600. Chichester Company Sussex Volunteer Regiment appeal to
the inhabitants.
Chichester
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1917-02-08
7c/d
Surrey Local war agricultural Committee. returns from farmers show additional
labour is needed.
Epsom
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
7d
Farewell concert by "Coughdrops" given in aid of military charities. Troupe of invalids
moving to another camp.
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
8b
YMCA give farewell concert to soldiers leaving for work abroad.
Lewis
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
8f
The King's Speech. Speech to bothe Houses of Parliament.
London
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-08
8f
A Trip in a Fritz-Frightener. Soldier describes his adventure as crew of a tank.
Portsmouth
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
2g
Killed in action; former Horsham Grammar School Master
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3c
Letter Jan 13th from Trooper H A Perry Sussex Yeomanry; more details of rescue
from the “Ivernia”
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3c
Bombadier Harbour letter to wife; death of comrades; need for parcels in bitter cold
& opinion of “Huns”
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3c
Death of Sapper Albert Fagg; first of 12 clerks serving from Horsham Post Office to
give his life
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
8a
Preparation of roll of honour / memorial to be placed in church porch
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
2a
Supply of seed potatoes
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
3d
Keeping of pigs, poultry and rabbits
East Dean
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
2a
Land offered to War Work Association
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
2b
Lighting cases before the Bench
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
5c
The Cheery Fund
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
6b
Employment of conscientious objectors and prisoners of war
East Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
4fg
Brewster Sessions – Transfers of licences to wives as husbands on service; fines for
liquor sales to servicemen
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3b
Horsham Urban District Council; War Loan investment
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
2g
“C” Company Horsham Volunteers shooting competition
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3fg
War Hospital Supply Depot report for 1916 & letter of thanks
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3g
Whist Drive for Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund for Disabled Soldiers & Sailors
Horsham
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Courier
1917-02-10
6e
Meeting of East Sussex War Agricultural Committee
Lewes
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3a
Horsham Volunteers; winter route march & ice hockey match on lake
Mannings Heath;
Warnham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3de
Theft of ham hock at Roffey Camp;Sergeant Cook Harold Holmes RGA & one other
sentenced to hard labour
Roffey
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
4g
Miss Annie Tate; 30th concert to troops at Roffey Siege School
Roffey
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
2b
Boy Scouts contribution to the war
Sussex
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-10
2e
What Sussex has done for the war: "The Iron Regiment."
Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-10
3e
West Sussex Appeal Tribunal; conscientious objector from Horsham
Worthing
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
7ab
Volunteer Movement at Burgess Hill;
Recruits Wanted
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
2a-c
British offensive near Kut;
Reports from the front
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
3f
Shell shock;
A description
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
8c
Lieutenant Calvert R.E.;
Killed by a shell; A brief hisotry
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1917-02-13
8a
Royal Sussex County Hospital;
An apeal for funds
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
8b
Death of Lance-Corporal Suter;
A history
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
8a
Thanks from the front;
Saddler-Corporal Styles writes from Salonika - thanks for mittens
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
8d
Killed in action;
Lieutenant Munster a brief history
Keymer
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
5ab
Late Able-Seaman Cutt;
Details of interment
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-13
6b
Private Laker Killed;
Letter from Chaplin
Lindfield
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-14
8e
How Soldiers Cure Sore Tender Feet, Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, etc., in the
Trenches
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-14
3d
The Treating of Wounded Soldiers; alchohol
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-14
5b
War Memorial
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-14
4e
Chichester and the War Loan
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-14
4d
"Footballers" in Egypt
Selsey
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1917-02-14
6c
Immediate Call to the Colours
WORTHING
1917-02-14
6de
Brave Men of Broadwater
Memorial Service
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
1h
Serre Hill Fight. British still advancing.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
10g
The Import of Grandcourt. It's importance ready for the general attack.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
12f
Victory This Year. It'sno longer doubtful that the German lines will be brocken this
year, says Haig.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
10g
Italy on the Submarine Campaign. German bluff has gone bankrupt.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
4d
Public Services and the Army. B2 and C2 men to be called up.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6a & e
Deadly monotonous flying is lonely and fatiguing, states Lord Montague.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6b-e
The Submarine Spook. German command yeald to the military position.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6g
New German machine gun is of a terribly efficient pattern.
WORTHING GAZETTE
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1917-02-15
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New German tanks due to appear are larger and more powerful than British ones.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6g
The curious soldiers superstition of lighting more than one cigarette with one match.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
2b
Nursing on a Hospital Ship. Is very different to that in a hospital, remembering the
number of men that require attention.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6e
Miracle cure of a kiss gives corporal back his speech lost due to shell shock.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6g
Allied prisoners employed on the new line in Armenia are treated badly by the
Germans and Turks.
Armenia
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6a
Duke of Norfolk dies with funeral taking place in Arundal.
Arundal
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
1h
German's confirm they are preventing Mr Gerard communicating with his
government.
Berlin
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
5d
Company of Volunteers report that throughout the year a great deal of useful work
has been completed.
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
10f/g
Escape from a German Prison. British officers story. Conditions at Crefeld.
Crefeld
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
5g
Lad writes home about kicking a football between the shell holes.
Croydon
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1917-02-15
2c
East Sussex and Discharged Soldiers. Pensions Committee to ensure that they
receive correct attention.
East Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
10e
Germany's Big Munition Effort. 300,000 workers at Krupps.
Essen
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6g
We have the Germans beaten on all sides states Tommy.
German East Africa
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
11f
German Boy Prisoners. Nearly a third of each German company consisted of 1917
class recruits.
Grandcourt
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
10e
Enemy's Aims and Ambitions. Colonel Sykes address Kew Working Men's Club.
Kew
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
10c
The Bedfordshire Regiment has left for service abroad.
Lewis
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
3c
War and Agriculture. Mr Prothero explains government action.
London
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
3c
The Men Called Up. Men withdrawn from the land under new Army Order.
London
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
10e
German's and Riga. Complete defeat od best first-line divisions. Enemy's depression.
Petrograd
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
6g
German loses are coming home to them reports a traveller.
Rotterdam
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1917-02-15
1h
Sailly Hill Taken. Important success on the Somme. Mr Gerard, US Ambassador in
Berlin , taken hostage.
Somme
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
4c
Sussex Artillary Changes. The break up of "C" Battery of the Brigade RFA, formerly
6th Sussex.
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
10a/b
The Iron Regiment.
What Sussex has done for the war.
Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-15
12f
Appeal from "A" Company 9th Volunteer Battalion RSR for help in equiping the
company.
Westhampnett
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
2f
How soldiers cure feet problems in the trenches
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-17
3g
Letter from Private E Baverstock 15th Veterinary Hospital; terrible cold conditions;
men ill; animals in his care; opinion on war
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-17
4e
How soldiers cure foot problems in the trenches
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
3d
Annual meeting and report of Sussex Eye Hospital
Brighton
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
2f
Special meeting to consider investment in War Loan
Chailey
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
8b
War Loan Meeting
Copthorne
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Courier
1917-02-17
5e
Work of Red Cross nurses
Crawley
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
8c-d
War Loan Meetings
Crawley
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
5d
Expectations of volunteers
Crawley Down
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
4c-d
Appeal for more members for War Savings Association
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
6f
Account of lie at the Front by local clergyman
Eastbourne
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
5c
Christmas in Egypt
Egypt
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
2d
Meeting re War Loan
Forest Row
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
3e
The Halland Platoon
Halland
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-17
4bc
W Sx Education Committee extracts; leaving early for farm work; women teachers
who marry; National Service Scheme
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-17
3g
Miss Peake sent 82 parcels including 12 to India; names of some recent recipients
who have written to thank
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-17
3g
Daily Express Silver Foil Collection: rivalry between Horsham & Devonport
Horsham
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1917-02-17
3e
Charity whist drives for St Dunstan Home for Blind Soldiers & Sailors
Shipley
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-17
5a
Reflection on death of Duke of Norfolk
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
5a
Army Oats - Harvest 1917;
Army Council to pay 41s 3d a quarter
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
2a-c
British take more positions on the Ancre;
Reports from the front
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
5c
Death of Captain Earle;
Died of spotted fever;
A history
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
2d-f
Severest of three war winters;
experience of Rev. Maddock in Flanders
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
1a
In hospital;
Privates Worksett and Sydenham in hospital both progressing nicely
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
6a
Late Col. Dudley Sampson;
Tribute given by the Haywards Heath Bench
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
6d
Died of wounds;
Letter from officer
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
6d
War Honours and Losses;
List of Old Boys from St. John's College
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
3e
War Savings Association;
An enthusiastic meeting
Lindfield
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1917-02-20
5b
To Aid the V.W.W.O.;
an appeal for funds
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-20
3ab4g-5a
Lieut.-Col. Dudley Sampson J.P., D.L.
A fine careeer sadly passed away
Lindfield
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-21
2d
Damage by Aircraft; Crop damage
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-21
4b-c
Dramatic Chances of 1917
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-21
4d
The City Volunteers;
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-21
3b
Permission to leave school
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-21
8e
Chichester Volunteers, First Inspection
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-21
8e
Volunteer Corps and National Service
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-21
5d
Cicestrian's Exciting Experience
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-21
2b-d
International Stores; Lady Grocers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-02-21
7c
Chichester County Petty Sessions - another Alien summonsed
Chichester
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1917-02-21
5d
Cicestrian's Exciting Experience - RFC Observer's Lucky Escape from death
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-02-21
3c
Letters Increasing the accommodation at St Mary's Hospital
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-22
2d
Conscientious objectors have been sentenced to imprisonment by court-martial.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-22
4b
German submarines have not scored many points recently.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-22
4c-f
The Homeland Army Hits Out. The final smash in the West.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-22
8b
Soldier Concerts. Inmates at military hospitals have little to complaim about.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-02-22
2d
Women carpenters employed in France by Byfleet company.
Byfleet
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
5a
Victoryn through fasting
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-24
4abc
International Stores pictorial advert – men at war so they have lady grocers to
attend to customers
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
2a
Sussex Appeal Tribunal
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
3d
Dedication of a war shrine
Brighton
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-24
3a
Women take over belfry as men joined up; to ensure bells ring when peace declared
Dorking
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
2a
Tribunal cases (appear every week in great detail - ths is an example)
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
5c
War Savings Association
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
6e-f
Tribunal cases
Eastbourne
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
8
Memories of a year in France (poem by serving soldier)
France
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
3c
Woman charged with supplying intoxicants to soldiers
Hastings
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
5e
Joining Sussex Volunteer Regiment
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-24
3b
British Farmers' Red Cross Fund; gift sale accounts & Ladies Committee Report
Horsham & 17 other
villages listed
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-24
4b
Belgian Relief Fund statement of accounts 1916; still refugees being housed
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-24
4c
Council School Managers Meeting extract; use of school gardens for potato
production
Horsham
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Times
1917-02-24
3g
Horsham Rural District Council; need for men over military age to join Sussex
Volunteer Regiment
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-24
3g
Another Flag Day; ladies again on the war-path
Horsham
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
3e
Report of sugar shortage
Lewes
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
5e
Price of milk
Lewes
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
3f
Suggested pooling of breweries
Lewes and East
Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
5c
Numbers of conscientious objectors
National
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
3d
Proposed memorial to Indian warriors
Patcham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-24
4d
Girls from Victory Road Council school entertain soldiers at Roffey Siege School
Roffey
West Sussex County
Times
1917-02-24
4d
Concert in aid Rusper War Work Party
Rusper
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
6e
Tribunal cases - Army v Food Production
Uckfield
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-02-24
6d
Investment in War Loan
Uckfield
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1917-02-24
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Miniature Rife Club; subscription cost low to encourage lads soon to join up to
practice
Warnham
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
2c
An Urgent Duty;
Volunteering for national Service;
Work-Not-Shirk
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
2a-c
"Unceasing Pressure" by our troops on the enemy;
Reports from the fronts
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
8e
Stick crutches for the wounded;
Approval of director general a depot for wounded soldiers to get crutches has been
setup
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
7f
Cuckfield Rural District Local Tribunal;
Exemptions from servicel
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
8c
Died whilst prisoner of war;
Ottoman Reed Crescent reported James Thomsett died of scurvy
Handcross
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
6ab
Cottage Hospital at Haywards Heath;
Another year's good work ;
A report
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
2d
Back to their regiment - Bolney;
Absentee from the Buffs at Newhaven
Haywards Heath
Bolney
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
8b
Congratulations - Major Crawford;
Brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for valuable services
rendered
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
8a
Better news;
Private Hilton recovering from operation.
A brief history
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-02-27
3a-c
Late Colonel Dudley Sampson;
Burial and Memorial Service
Lindfield
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-28
8d
An Important New Act
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-28
6b
Officers' War Rations
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-28
3d
Bognor Volunteers; appeal for older men to join
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-28
7a
Cicestrian's Canadian Letter
Canada
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-02-28
3e-d
Littlehampton Volunteers Inspected
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-02-28
3c
Letters - Critical of Worthing and the lack of volunteers
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-02-28
6e
Latest Casualty List
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
4b
French soldier/priest says complimentary things about British Officers and men in
published memours.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
4a
German submarine numbers are duplicated to infer that none have been lost.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
4b
A Tommy's letter from the front will help new recruits begin soldiering with a stout
heart.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
4c
A Fine Start for March. Navy and submarine test.
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1917-03-01
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Men fighting abroad do not intend to return to Sussex as it was, without prospects.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
1h
Sussex Motor Volunteer Corps. Acceptance by the King creates need for more
volunteers.
Bexhill-on-Sea
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
8a
More wounded soldiers arrive from the front.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
8a
Victuallers and Volunteers. Appeal made at the annual meeting of the Licenced
Victuallers Protection Society.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
7e
The Winning of the War. Mr. J.J.Robinson delivers a lecture to make things clear.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
8c
Ladies Flag Day in aid of disabled soldiers and sailors, generously supported.
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
8g
Swinging on Beyond Kut. Allied troops advance on enemy on three sides.
Kut
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
8g
Local victims of German pirates. Steamship "John Miles" torpedoed.
Southwick
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
1f
Soldiers enetertain the poor. A Shoreham Depot concert at Setyning Union.
Steyning
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-01
1h
Red Cross Decoration for Sussex Ladies, awarded by the King.
Sussex
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Times
1917-03-03
3g
Rural Tribunal; Head at Christ's Hospital applying for exemptions for pupils in the
OTC who would be 18 before they took their exams
Christ's Hospital
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-03
5d
Cheery Fund gifts for soldiers
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-03
2g
Letter requesting clothing for Serbian refugees
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-03
2g
Letter appealing for Volunteers for National Service
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-03
3a
Town Band arrange comforts to be sent to members serving
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-03
3eg
Horsham Urban District Council Meeting extracts; War Loan; National Service
Scheme; cultivation unoccupied land; surfeit of flag days & a dim view of the
volunteers!
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-03
4a
Miss Peake champion collector of tinfoil for Daily Express & letters of thanks for her
parcels through the cheery fund
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-03
4bc
Horsham Miniature Rifle Club extract from AGM; patriotic duty digging ground for
potatoes
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-03
2g
West Sussex War Pensions Committee meeting at town hall
Horsham
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-03
2a
British Farmers Red Cross raise funds to purchase farm in France to accommodate
500 soldiers
National
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-03
6a
How Sussex Won the War
Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
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Prisoners of war on the land;
Home Office decision to release prisoners to work on the land in Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
2f
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation;
Number of articles received and despatched
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
2a-c
British Troops still advancing against the Germans;
Reports from the fronts
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
2e
War Agricultural Sub-Committee;
Soldiers available to work on land;
Conditions of employment
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
8b
National Service;
Public Meeting to explain
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
4b
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
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Advert:
Cuckfield Urban District;
National Service;
A Public Meeting
Volunteer Force;
Public Meeting
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
3ab
National Service;
Inaugaration National Service Movement in Central Sussex
Haywards Heath
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
8a
National Service;
Public Meeting to explain
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-06
5e
Roll of Honour;
One son killed, one POW;
Another soldier has trench fever
Lindfield
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-07
6e
Bosham Seaman found dead
Bosham
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-07
4d
A Rest Room for Soldiers
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-07
4c
The Volunteers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-03-07
5d
Bognor Man's Experiences - letter from Gunner A. Sice, RMA who had been on the
Laurentic when it was sunk
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-03-07
6d
A Sequel to Depression - Bosham Seaman found dead
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-07
6f
Feats in the air
In the Air
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-07
7d
Blinded Soldiers Bazaar Week
London
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-07
2b-e
National Service Westhampnett's Decision
Westhampnett
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-07
5c
Canadian Junior Soldiers - Burglary
WORTHING
WORTHING gAZETTE
1917-03-07
6E
Latest Casualty List
WORTHING
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-08
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Mr. Lloyd George's Grave Words. Enroll today for National Service.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-08
4a
King thanks military and civilian personnel for their splendid work in forcing the
German retreat.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-08
3d
A remarkable incident. Brother-in-Law finds photo of his wife's missing brother in
London newspaper found on the battlefield.
Alton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-08
3a
Popular young soldier from 4th Sussex, Lance-Sergeant Peel gazetted SecondLeiutenant
Arundal
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-08
8a/b
Women Workers. Women Road-Sweepers the latest feminine invasion.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-08
2g/h
Sussex and the War. Sussex battalions anf their part in the Loos advance.
Loos
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-08
4c/d
The New British Front. Trench line reaching from Ypres to Roye.
Western Front
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-08
8h
National Service. Meeting at the Connaught Hall indicates that there is steady
determination.
Worthing
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-10
3b
Letters from Horsham soldiers thanking Miss Peake for parcels; sadly not so many
Horsham boys now in 22nd
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-10
3g
Extract letter from officer Indian Cavalry in Mesopotamia; description of action &
conditions for men & horses
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West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-10
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154 old scholars of Christ's Hospital killed in action; medal tally and VC
Christ's Hospital
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-10
3c
Whist Drive to raise money for garments for wounded soldiers
Colgate
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-10
8f
Vegetable Growing
Crawley
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-10
8d
Plea for provision of a war shrine
Crawley Down
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-10
8c-d
Great Tanks Film showing
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-10
2a
East Grinstead Borough Council discuss the Volunteer Force
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-10
4b
Woman charged with making false statement of being Dutch not German
Faygate
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-10
8c-d
A Forest Row Lad in Mesopotamia
Forest Row
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-10
4f
Letter rallying support for National Service Scheme; public meeting to be held
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-10
3ef
Lecture to WEA; “the Reaction of the War on British Spirit”
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-10
3g
Miss Peake sent 33rd hundredweight silver foil; letter of thanks Private Neeves in
India
Horsham
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1917-03-10
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New institution opened for wounded soldiers with paralysis & nerve disturbances
Hove
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
2a-c
Baghdad Occupied;
Reports from the fronts
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
5f
Rector and National Service;
Rec. J.L.Brock writes
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
5f
Gunner J Goddings death;
Died in action of heart failure
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
5e
National Service;
Report of the meeting held in Parish Hall
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
8a
Our Sailors;
Special collection of fruit and vegetables for the various naval bases
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
8a
Unconfirmed Rumour;
Letter received of death of husband, this was a shoclk comfirmation requested
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
8a
"Missing believed killed";
Corporal R Backshall last seen in no man's land
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
5d
"Sunshine" Auxillary Hospital;
Acknowledgement of gifts
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
5d
National Service Order;
Meeting to discuss the order
Hurstpierpoint
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-13
5c
Marriage of Lieut. Luttman-Johnson and Miss Horne
Staplefield
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-14
4e
National Service The Position of Agriculture
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-14
4b
YMCA for Soldiers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-03-14
6bcd
More allotments wanted - problem of shortage of suitable land
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-03-14
2d
Interned Aliens' Wives receive increase in maintenance allowance
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-14
3a
Sussex by the Sea
HORSHAM
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-14
7c
Littlehampton
LITTLEHAMPTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-14
2b
Soldiers for Farm Work
West Sussex
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-14
3c
Letters
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-15
4c-f
A review of the current situation on all the various fronts.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-15
3d
Private Scutt awarded Military Medal for bravery in the field. Killed in action on the
Somme.
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-15
8a
Lieutenant-Colonel appeals for more vigorous response to the call for men to sign up
with the 1st Battalion SVR.
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-15
7d
Major Hanbury Brown appeals to Rural District Council for a grant to fund 7th
Battalion Sussex Volunteer Regiment.
Cuckfield
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-15
2e
Home Secretary and National Service. Impressions of Lord Kitchener.
Hove
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-15
8h
Men from Home Defence Force waiting at Chichester to be sent out into the field for
food production.
Westhampnett
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-17
4a
Letter from Chaplain J Thoms to widow of J Akehurst; offering sympathy; description
of burial etc
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-17
8f
How various kinds of "foot misery" are cured in the trenches
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-17
4f
Advice from Sgt C S Turner RAMC on Reudel Bath saltrates benefits for foot
problems in trenches
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-17
5f
Food Production
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-17
4e-f
Concern about possible closure of Brewery House Red Cross Hospital
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-17
5e
Letter appealing for funds for Brewery House Red Cross Hospital
East Grinstead
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Courier
1917-03-17
4f
News from Camel Corps from East Grinstead man
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-17
4f
Appeal for books for soldiers a Forest Row Camp
Forest Row
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-17
3d
Need for skilled ploughmen to return for the season; status of steam ploughs in
district; appeal for others with cars or mechanical ability to assist
Horsham District;
Steyning District
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-17
4a
Letter displayed in West St detailing why fish is dear & dangers for fishermen
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-17
3g
Horsham Petty Sessions extract; Woman charged with making false statement of
being Dutch not German
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-17
3d
Public meeting to appeal for men for National Service: address by R J Neville MP
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-17
4a
Affectionate sighting of “our” steam roller in Macedonia; Surveyor's comments on it's
departure & replacement
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-17
3c
YMCA social for soldiers from Horsham & Roffey Siege Camp
Horsham; Roffey
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-17
6a
What Sussex Did in the War - account of first action in Gallipoli
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
2a-d
Germans Fall Back on a front of over 60 miles;
Reports from the fronts
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
1b
Private Harry Gates Killed;
Death in action;
A brief history
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1917-03-20
8e
Letter from Mesopotamia;
Corporal Mitchell R.E. states….
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
7f
With the YMCA in Flanders;
Interesting letter from the Rev. S. Maddock
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
1ef
False Pretences and theft;
ex-Sewrgeant major, deserter, runs a scam of obtaining billetting and food;
Report of trail
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
8b
Late Private Backshall;
Passed away in Military hospital in Ipswich, Laid to rest at St. Winifred's churchyard
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
8a
An airman;s death;
Lieutenant Murray was caught by propeller and died from the serious injuries
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
8a
Confirmation of the death of Sergeant Button;
Letter from officer commanding;
A history
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
8b
Death of Private Knight;
A history
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
8c
News from India;
Driver Netley writes
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
8f
National Service;
Demands the serious attention of all men;
Major Kenney-Herbert will address the public meeting
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
3f
Marriage at Slaugham;
Miss S Secretan and Lieutenant C Stevens
Slaugham
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-20
1b
Sergt. Leppard killed;
Killed in actioon;
A brief history
West Hoathly
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-21
8e
Vegetables for the Navy
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-21
5b
Soldiers for Farm Work Arrangements at Chichester Barracks
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-21
2a
Chichester's Good Record
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-03-21
5b
Soldiers for the farms - details of men being drafted onto the land
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-03-21
8e
Chichester Volunteers - first inspection
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-03-21
8e
Vegetables for the Navy - report on 800 branch committees establshed since 1914
West Sussex
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-21
3c
Letters
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-21
3c
Paper Shortage
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-21
5d
A plea from a Sergeant at the front
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-22
2c
Letter from a Sussex prisoner in Germany.
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-22
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A review of the current situation on all the various fronts.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-22
2d
Soldiers on the Land. Employing men from Chichester Barracks to work the land.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-22
7c
The Volunteers Inspected. First formal inspection of "A" Company 9th Battalion
Sussex Volunteer Regiment.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-22
7g
1st Battalion RFA Cadets increase their numbers even though many have passed on
to senior service.
Hove
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3f
Letters to Mrs Chase; first - husband missing did she know his whereabouts; second
- died gallantly; 41 yrs old & son also in forces
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3f
Sgt Crawford awarded Military Medal after daylight raid at Vierstraat, Belgium; brief
details of conflict
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3f
Orphan brought up by aunt in Horsham; emigrated to Canada; enlisted & killed;
aunt's own son also killed
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3a
Horsham officer, with 4 brothers in service, wins Military Cross; description of action
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
2g
Lord Devonport's Appeal; potato shortages
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
4e
Clerk of WSCC; those engaged in agriculture need not volunteer for National Service
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West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3c
Urban Tribunal; exemption for roller driver; state of county roads; dialogue between
surveyor & military rep; impossible for women to do it
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
2g
Admiralty report on submarine attacks; questions in the commons & fishing vessel
losses
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3f
Two more sightings of the Horsham Steam Roller; “Horsham seems to have a finger
in the pie everywhere”
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
4a
West Sussex farmers can have labour from the army now
Chichester
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-24
4f
Public Meeting about National Service
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-24
5c
Showing of the film "The Tanks" about the Battle of Ancre
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-24
5d
Letter home from local man telling of action off Cape Agulhas
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3a
Miss Annie Tate's 31st musical & social evening to troops
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3a
The “Tanks” film illustrating Battle of Ancre; crowded audiences; whenever tanks
appeared greeted with applause; adverts in earlier editions
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3g
Miss Peake has sent up her 34th hundredweight of tinfoil
Horsham
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-24
6a-b
Talk about National Servce given to Sussex Farmers Union
Lewes
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West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-24
3f
Seven sons of Mrs Perchard, by first husband Mr Emery, have served in the war; 2
killed
Steyning
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-27
2a-c
Great Events Impending in the West;
Reports from the fronts
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-27
4c
Information sought;
Mrs Seaman would be grateful of any news concerning her son, as only official
intimation of death.
Birgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-27
3f
The Ditchling Meeting;
Explanation of National Service
Ditchling
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-27
3ef
National Service Meeting;
Major Kenney-Herbert explains the scheme
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-27
3c
Young soldiers and alleged forged notes;
Had forged £1 notes
Hassocls
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-27
8b
Death of Private Lavanchy;
Died in Egypt; A brief history
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-03-27
1ef
National Service Meeting;
Be up and doing
Lindfield
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-28
2e
Bognor Volunteers Recruiting Appeal
Bognor
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-28
8a
National Service Have you sent in your form?
Bognor
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-28
8a
Tanks; Official War Film
Bognor
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-28
3a
Ungentlemenly behaviour
BRIGHTON
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-28
5c-d
In a Military Hospital
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-28
4b
The Volunteers
Chichester
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-03-28
7a
National Service Mr W H B Fletcher JP at Walberton
Walberton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-28
6c
Hoarding of Food by the Well to Do!
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-03-28
5e
Father assists son to avoid conscription
WORTHING
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
4b
Captured German airman's claim that the Germans are regenerators of Europe.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
4b
French priest claims to have witnessed German Officer brutality to their own men.
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
4c-f
A review of the current situation on all the various fronts.
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
3e
Flying Officer Killed. Cross country flight in preparation of receiving his pilot's
cedrtificate.
Angmering
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
3e
Courtfield House School raise funds for blind soldiers and sailors.
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
6h
A poem to the Nurses of Graylingwell War Hospital.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
2e
Sussex Volunteer Regiment. New ranks and promotions.
Chichester
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
3c
Hampshire Red Cross Work. The important part played since the war began.
Hampshire
West Sussex Gazette
1917-03-29
8c
Two of three military balloons descended into the River Rother, injuring an officer.
Petworth
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
3g
National Service Week; enrol today; statement from Neville Chamberlain
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
4d
Extract Horsham Rural Tribunal; opinion of parliament that production of food was
more important than sending men to army
Billingshurst
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-31
8a
Appeal for eggs for the wounded
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-31
2a-b
Report of the work of the East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-31
5a
Thanks from soldiers for footballs supplied by The Cheery Fund
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-31
5e
Annual Meeting of East Grinstead War Work Association
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-03-31
8
The Soldier Off Duty - work of YMCA
Forest Row
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
3a
Patriotic economy and thrift exhibition
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
3e
Extract Urban District Council; voluntary food control; land cultivation
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
4c
“C” Company, 8th Batt Sussex Volunteer Reg; inspection & address by Colonel
Eddowes
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
3cd
Extract Urban Tribunal; protest & resignation of chairman; detailed report of
opposing opinions
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
3f
Extract Urban District Council; Chairman intends to return to role at Urban Tribunal
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
2g
Egg Collection; free eggs for wounded servicemen; depot in Albion Road; school
children collecting
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
3f
Extract Urban District Council; War Charities Collection Committee; illustrates variety
of wartime causes
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
4f
Farewell Concert for men of RGA leaving Siege School; Portugese troops expected to
take their place
Roffey
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West Sussex County
Times
1917-03-31
4e
Extract Horsham Rural Tribunal; withdrawal of an agricultural “slackers” exemption
Warnham
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
5ef
The Congressional Church; Reverent describes his work over in Flanders
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
8bc
Food or Drink? Meeting held over the pressure on the government to ban alcohol as
popular opinion thinks it’s a waste of resources
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
3a-c
The British Farmers Red Cross Fund, Great gift sale at Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
2d
'The gallant die-hards!' Hayward Heath’s man's letter
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
2f
'Blown into a shell hole and in water': Letter home from Haywards Heath soldier;
account of battle and life in trenches
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
8e
A Lindfieldian in South Africa; new home from a soldier in Cape Town
Lindfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
1a
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work organisation; cross Mid Sussex figures on recently sent
comforts
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
7a-e
Local Roll of honour; list men who have died from 20 villages/towns in Mid-sussex,
repeated weekly
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-03
5ab
Second item under 'Notes and Comment'; Appeal for womens land army now that
they have been called to service
Mid-Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
1c
To every patriotic citizens - call for volunteers willing to serve
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
3cd
Pte Frank Cutten - well known footballer
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
3g
the War - list of casulties
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
1e
Baker's business affected by the war
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
2d
Tribunal- Attested man and ill-health plea
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
3f
Bognor Fishing Industry - amateurs desirous to Co-operate
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
2b-c
Bakers in Council - regulation in baking
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-04
3a
Sussex by the Sea; shortage of bakers in Chichester and Littlehampton
CHICHESTER
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
2b
Wounded entertained - Graylingwell
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
1f
Municipal Pig keeping
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-04
3cd
Sick and Wounded Soldiers;an appreciation of the work at Belgrave House run by the
Red Cross
LITTLEHAMPTON
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Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
3e
Forty Volunteers - recruited to Chichester Company & use of a car
Selsey
Chichester Observer
1917-04-04
3d
More Allotments
Walberton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-04
5e
The Potato Shortage in local shops
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-04
4c
Advertisement for the Grange Hospital increasing number of beds to meet the
requirements of the War Hospital at Brighton
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-04
3c
At the Winter Hall; screening of a film showing the gallant behaviour of men of
Worthing on the sinking of the Tyndareus
WORTHING
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-04
6c
Soldiers on the Land; convalescent soldiers cultivating donated land in Worthing
WORTHING,WEST
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-05
3c
Food Control & Vegetable Cultivation - Report on meeting of Arundel Mutual
Improvement Society
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-05
3c
After Five Years : Brothers meet on battlefield - letter from Charles E. Etherington
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-05
6g
All digging - 300 ten-rod allotments let
Guildford
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-05
7c
Report on stormy meeting of Horsham Urban Tribunal
Horsham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-05
6h
73 allotments supplied to local residents
Leatherhead
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-05
7c
An awful battle - letter from Lionel Crosley of the Royal Fusiliers
Lindfield
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-04-07
8d
The Sussex Volunteer Regiment - Successful meeting at Barcombe
Barcombe
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-04-07
2f
Chailey Rural District Tribunal
Continues weekly
Chailey
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-04-07
2f
East Grinstead Urban Tribunal
Continues weekly
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-07
4d
Horsham & Disrtict Jottings
France-India
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-07
4d
Eggs for the Military Hospital
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-07
4c
C Company Horsham Volunteers
Horsham
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-04-07
8f
Godstone Rural District Tribunal
Continues weekly
Oxted
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-07
4a
Death of Capt Loder
Palestine
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-07
4a
Killed & Wounded Officers
Various
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-10
2e
Their ways are different from ours'; News from a Burgess Hill man in India
Burgess Hill
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Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-10
8f
An 'At Home' Overseas; Rev Maddock and YMCA host a party for trops refered to in
letter home
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-10
1f
Death from Malaria
Hassocks
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-10
6c
Work in the gardens: meeting accounting for the work volunteers have done in
tending to serving soldiers gardens in order to help food production
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-10
8bc
Volunteers at Borde Hill; 7th Batalian Sussex Volunteer Regiment's manuvous and
inspection, details and improvments needed to be made
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-10
8a
Home From The War; 27 year old returns home after serving with the Royal Sussex
regiment and then the Royal Warwicks. Lost his leg, awaiting fitting of false leg.
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-10
3ab
Farmers and Milk; debate between farmers and rep from ministry of food over the
recent rules and regulations of the food controller
Mid-Sussex
Chichester Observer
1917-04-11
1e
The Volunteers - Easter Monday field exercise
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-04-11
4g
The War - casulties and awards
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-11
6d
The problem of Home Defence; urgent need for more volunteers
Sussex
Chichester Observer
1917-04-11
3e
To Encourage Cultivation
Westhampnett
Chichester Observer
1917-04-11
2ef
Tribunal- Cinema manager, auctioneers etc NB these cases are reported weekly
Westhampnett
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WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-11
6d
A fighting family; a Worthing man, one of nine brothers 'fighting the cause' appeals
for musical instruments
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-12
2d
Surrey Farmers & Soldier Labour - 1200 soldiers available at Guildford
Guildford
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-12
3d
Agricultural War Notes - Soldier Labour and Women on the Land
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-12
2f
Promise to behave better - 2 French Canadian soldiers convicted of burglary
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-12
2e
The Great Khaki Army- A Frenchman's Impressions
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-14
4d
Horsham Officer Killed
France
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-14
4d
Broadbridge Heath Soldier
France
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-14
4e
French War Films
France
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-04-14
2f
Inquests at Newhaven. Suicide of soldier at Piddinghoe
Piddinghoe
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-04-14
6e
Economy ion the use of garden seeds
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-17
1b
An entertainment; in aid of British Prisinors of War fund, £10 was raised through
concert
Horsted Keynes
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Chichester Observer
1917-04-18
2a-d
Tribunal - Thirty Cases from Chichester, Bognor Littlehampton & district
Chichester Observer
1917-04-18
3c
Bognor Council meeting - War memorial
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-04-18
1d
Recruits Mr White undertaker & Mr P Wren taxi driver business conducted by others.
Cutten notice
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-04-18
1f
The War - casulty lists includes Sgt-Major Weller
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1917-04-18
2e
Tribunal - Westhampnett - 103 cases - military exemption to 94
Westhampnett
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-18
6e
Amusing letter from the front re bully beef
Worhting
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-18
5f
Food Economy; women invited to a meeting on economical consumption of food
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-18
6b
reference to the new name of The Kursal
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-18
6c
Mesopotamia forces comforts day; how Worthing supported the movement
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-18
6c
Mined Hospital Ship; Worthing woman amongst missing nurses
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-18
6e
Montague Place front gardens put under cultivation, tended by women
Worthing
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-19
2c
Another Brighton Tragedy - Soldier shoots his wife and himself
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-19
4h
Helmets & Bombs - letter from Sapper J.H. Martin to his mother
Burgess Hill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-19
7d
Crippled Soldier Annoyed - summoned before Petty Sessions for using obscene
language
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-19
5e
Canadian Prime Minister visits soldiers' concert
Godalming
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-04-21
8f
Comforts for Soldiers
Crawley
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-21
3d
Proposed War Memorial
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-24
7f
A question of milk; appeals made by military against the exemption of farm hands
from military service
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-24
3df
Econimise in food and win the war; meeting held in Burgus Hill to surport the Food
Economy campaign in central Sussex
Burgus Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-24
5bd
Notes and comments; wonded soldiers at Haywards Heath Cottage Hospital and last
section on the Blue Cross appeal
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-24
8b
"Went Forward As One Man"; letter home referring to a battle with the Turks
involving Royal Sussex and Middlesussex Regiments
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-04-24
2f
Census of Live stock
Mid-Sussex
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Chichester Observer
1917-04-25
4 ef
The War - casulty lists; includes Pullinger twins
Bognor & elsewhere in
District
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-04-25
4c
To all Employers Defence of the Realm Act
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-04-25
3a-c
Chichester Mother Summoned for neglect of baby - wife of a soldier
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-04-25
1f
Women's Day
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-25
5d
Education Committee permitting 11 children to leave school to engage in agricultural
work
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-25
6c
Food Economy campaign; part of long report of meeting condemning 'food and sugar
hoarding'
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-25
5e
Re Belgians; plea for clothing
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-25
5d
suggestion for a memorial building to fallen local men
Page 3 Col d)
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-04-25
6f
Old Sussex Road Boy killed; sergeant at seventeen, two older brothers serving
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-26
8d
A volunteer fishing brigade - Bognor leads the way
Bognor
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-26
7c
A Soldier Family - report on various members of the Nichols family
Chichester
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1917-04-26
4g
Lord Edmund Talbot on the Food Problem - letter to a correspondent
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-26
4g
Food Growing Wild - Supplies for the Country Dweller
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-04-26
8f
Economy in Food - Mayor leading campaign to reduce waste
Worthing
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-04-28
2d
Food Economy: Public Meeting at East Grinstead
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-04-28
5b
Letter from Corpl. G.W. Friend
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-28
4g
Egg Collection
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-04-28
3e
Fightng in Palestine
Palestine
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-04-28
2c
Consternation on the Farm (by a Town Girl)
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-01
2d
Cuckfield Rural District Local Tibunial; details applicants of exemption and verdicts
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-01
8c
Mrs Chatfield Hears from her son; letter home from front in Egypt, describes heat
and state of war
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-01
3e
The Battle of Gaza, detailed descirption in letter home from Royal Sussex solider of
battle in Gaza against the Turks
Haywards Heath
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Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-01
2e
Mid-Sussex Voluntary Work Organisation; details of local work done in sending
articles out to the front
Mid-Sussex
Chichester Observer
1917-05-02
3 b-c
Volunteer Fishing brigade
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-05-02
3 fg
An Alien Lady's Maid - offences
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-05-02
2a
Tannery men and volunteers
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-02
1d
The Volunteers - Sunday drill/ inspection at Summersdale
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-02
4g
The War - Military medal awarded
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-02
1e
War shrines - theft of flowers from
Chichester Subdeanery
Littlehampton
Observer
1917-05-02
4c
Public Notice To all Employers
Defence of the Realm Act
Littlehampton
Chichester Observer
1917-05-02
3g
Photography banned - a seaside warning
Selsey
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-02
3b
Sussex Woodlands providing timber for trench props , railway sleepers etc
Sussex
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-02
3b
Is Fruit Growing of national importance
Worthing
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WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-02
5e
Larger output of bread attributed to shortage of vegetables
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-02
6d
prepared for Home Defence; official inspection of Local Company in Homefield Park
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-02
2c
Picturedrome showing local interest film of recent naval funeral of Seaman harry
Hozier
Worthing
West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-03
3de
Horsham & Disrtict Jottings
France
West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-03
4c
Ambulance Train details
gifts sent
France
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-03
5g
Story from the Front - Local Man at the Gaza Battle
Haywards Heath
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-03
5f
Food Scarcity and some countryside substitutes by the Editor of Selbourne Notes
West Sussex
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-05
5e
War Work Association
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-08
6d
Forgot all about it
Bolney
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-08
6ab
Meeting at Cuckfield; details the role of the WI in educating local women on war
efforts such as food shortages, gardening and clothes
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-08
6a
War Rations, the need and the way
Haywards Heath
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Place
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-08
1f
The Recent Great Gift Sale in Haywards Heath; raised record amount in sussex for
Britich Farmers Red Cross Fund
Haywards Heath
Chichester Observer
1917-05-09
4g
Local Casulties - long list
Chichester Observer
1917-05-09
2b
Tribunal - a brewer's appeal re a horse feeder
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-09
1g
The War - includes athlete killed
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-09
1e
Memorial Service - Help for men broken in war
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-09
7b
Not Playing at Soldiers; Co's assurance to Volunteers
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-09
6d
Problem of Home Defence; more volunteers needed
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-10
2c
Calling up of Farm Workers - farms deemed to have excess men will lose them
West Sussex
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-10
4f
A Chance for Patriotic Women - call for single women to work as clerks, typists, etc.,
abroad
West Sussex
West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-12
3e
Horsham Jottings
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-12
6ef
The Robert Street Tragedy, Suicide of a Soldier
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Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-05-12
5f
Eggs for the wounded
Continues regularly
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-05-12
6abc
East Sussex War Agricultural Committee - Report on efforts to increase food
production
Lewes
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-15
8b
Soldiers' gift service; Chruch service in aid of war effort
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-15
2f
Will Fritz 'Down Tools'; letter from Royal Sussex Regiment solider who has rejoined
the regiment at the front
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-15
8a
No Use For Money; news home from Haywards Heath soldier describing conditions
on the Eastern Front
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-15
8a
Private G Nye's Experiences
Haywards Heath
Chichester Observer
1917-05-16
1e
Food Economy campaign
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-16
2c
Soldiers on the Land
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-16
3g
Three Months for False Pretences - Man in RFC uniform
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-16
1de
A beggar with a past - discharged soldier
Chichester
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Littlehampton
Observer
1917-05-16
1f
For the Wounded Free use of chairs on sea front for wounded soldiers But not their
friends
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-16
6c
The Food Pledge; result of local food economy campaign
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-16
3cd
Praise for Volunteers from the trenches
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-16
5e
The Number of Conscientious Objectors dealt with by the Tribunal
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-16
6c
War Office announce increase in age limit for attestation
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-16
5e
War Hospital Supply Depot; 36000 articles supplied in 8 months
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-17
3c
Sussex Sea Fisheries - the case for using small mesh nets
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-17
8a
120 wounded soldiers brought to Brighton via Dover
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-17
4f
Food Economy Campaign - exhibition of war cookery
Mitcham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-17
3c
Appeal to Surrey Farmers - 30,000 acres of grassland to be ploughed up
Redhill
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-17
4f
Glowing Tribute to Royal Sussex Regiment - British General tells the story of their
heroism
West Sussex
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West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-19
4e
Horsham Jottings
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-19
3e
Ashurst Wood Concert to raise funds for soldiers' teas
Ashurst Wood
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-19
8a
East Grinstead Rural Tribunal
Continues irregularly
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-19
6d
Hailsham Tribunal
Continues regularly
Hailsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-19
4a
Winning the War
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-05-19
2e
Food Economy Campaign at Lewes
Lewes
West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-19
4b
RGA sports at Roffey
Roffey
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-22
1b
Patriotic Ardingly, Question of War Savings; National War savings association set up
to help food economy
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-22
6d
A Nurse's Visit- Bolney; Case of the alian Anna K Andersson
Bolney
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-22
3ab
War-time progress in christian efforts
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-22
8a
Corporal G Whatford; talks about the good work done by the Royal Sussex regiment
in Gaza
Haywards Heath
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Chichester Observer
1917-05-23
1 fg
The War - inc Airman & letters home
Chichester Observer
1917-05-23
2b
"The Whining Hun" poem by Pte Tom Sanders
Chichester Observer
1917-05-23
2a-c
Bognor Municipal Piggeries
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-05-23
3e
Germans and Missionaries - East Africa - a lecture
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-23
2e
A Chichester DCM- Sgt Welcome
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-23
2f
Advice - A Chichester's Workman's wife and food shortages
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-23
3d
Chichester Volunteers - 2 new companies and 7 new 2nd Lieutenants
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-23
1cd
Welcome Aid - the US FLeet
South Coast
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-23
6d
Disabled Soldiers in Sussex
Sussex
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-23
6c
To Meet the Food Crisis; Practical hints given at meeting held in Liverpool Terrace
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-23
6d
The food economy Campaign; proclamatin will not be read locally
Worthing
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WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-23
6e
Home in Shakespeare Road giving cigarettes to passing wounded soldiers
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-24
3f
Women and the Sugar Ration - report of meeting at Church House
Farnham
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-24
8e
Flying Fatality at Hove - mid air collision of two aeroplanes
Hove
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-24
7c
Wise Words on War memorials - thoughts from the Bishop of Lewes
Lewes
West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-26
4d
Horsham Jottings
West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-26
4e
Horsham Jottings
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-26
8a
Two Airmen killed at Hove - report of collision of two Royal Flying Corps planes
Hove
West Sussex County
Times
1917-05-26
2g
Cricket at Roffey
Roffey
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-05-26
2f
Alleged Attempted Murder at Seaford - Canadian soldier charged with shooting fellow
soldier
Seaford
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-26
4b
From East to West - Scheme introduced for entertaining overseas soldiers on farms
at weekends
Sussex
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-26
4c
From East to West - Report from France from man working on railway construction
Sussex
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-05-26
2a
Royal Sussex Regiment - Officers and men mentioned in dispatches
Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-29
5d
Lectures on Food economy
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-29
8a
Mentioned in Dispatches; Royal Sussex Regiment soldier recieves special mention
from Sir Dougulas Haig
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-05-29
2d-f
Great Red Cross Sale- Most successful effort, £1000 obtained
Hurstpoint
Chichester Observer
1917-05-30
1c
Russian Affairs
Chichester Observer
1917-05-30
3e
French lady summoned for failure to register
Bognor
Chichester Observer
1917-05-30
4f
Women of Chichester - Help urgently needed
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-05-30
1f
The War - corporal awarded Military Medal
Felpham
8Chichester Observer
1917-05-30
3a
Military funeral - Belchamber
Littlehampton
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-30
6d
Empire Day in camp; Canadians at Shoreham camp celebrate
Shoreham
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-30
5d
News of Alarming Air Raid
South East Coast
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WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-30
6f
Improvement in Supply of Sugar
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-30
3c
Another Timely Communication from the Trenches; importance of training the
Volumteer Corps
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-05-30
6f
Always Merry and Bright; grateful Worthing Soldiers
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-31
3c
Distressed Belgians- report on the work of the Belgian Refugee Fund
Arundel
West Sussex Gazette
1917-05-31
2fg
What a Sussex man saw of a Tigris crossing - letter from Dr. P.S. Marshall
Barnham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-06-02
2a
Food Economy - large open air meeting at East Grinstead to hear the King's
proclamation
East Grinstead
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-06-02
8a
Entertaining the wounded at East Grinstead - report of concert, dance and card
games to entertain wounded troops
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-02
3fg
Volunteers camp
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-02
4c
Monksgate Roll of Honour
Monksgate
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-02
4de
Boxing at Roffey
Roffey
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-06-02
2f
Wine for Officer Prisoners - agreement reached with German government that officer
POWs may receive gifts of light wine in half bottles
Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-05
5e
Galliant Sussex Boys
Burguss Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-05
8c
Preserving Fruit: part of the war effort, attempts to not let anything go to waste
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-05
8de
Concert at the V.A.D hospital
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-05
8cd
A trying experience; wonded soldier, captured by Germans, made his way back to
comrades, now in British hospital
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-05
1e
Mid-Sussex voluntary work organisation; article includes figures of comoforts sent to
the front from locals
Mid-Sussex
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-05
2f
Disabled Soldiers- Instructions to Board of Guardians
Mid-Sussex
Chichester Observer
1917-06-06
1f
The War - with the Serbian Army
Chichester Observer
1917-06-06
2c
City Council - War Memorial (for those that died at Graylingwell)
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-06-06
3a
3 Mortars presented for use on proposed memorial at Chichester cemetery
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-06-06
6d
War Hospital Supply Depot; list of articles made and donated during one month
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-06-07
8a
Conditions of service for the Women's Army Auxiliary Service in France
Brighton
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West Sussex Gazette
1917-06-07
7f
Miss Snow Clifton, an ambulance driver, has returned from Salonika
Farnham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-09
3e
Horsham Jottings
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-06-09
3d
Arrival of wounded soldiers - ambulance train with 11 arrives in Brighton
Brighton
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-06-09
2a
Alien Regulations - prosecutions for contravening regulations
East Grinstead
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-09
3g
Letter to join up more people
Horsham
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-09
3f
books for British prisoners of war wanted
Horsham
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-12
5e
Horticultural society; numbers included of gardens owned by serving soldiers that
have been dug and planted up
Burguss Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-12
8a
Private George Sydenham; experience of Royal Sussex regiment soldier
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-12
3b
Haywards Heath Rangers, Where they are and what they are doing
Haywards Heath
Chichester Observer
1917-06-13
2b
Tribunals - Motor tractor drivers
Chichester
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-06-13
2d
Home from the Front; report on women working in Motor Ambulance Unit at the
front
Ferring
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WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-06-13
3a
Possibility of Communal; Kitchen for Worthing; one established at Lewes
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-06-13
6d
Salvation Army War Work; flag day; national picture
Worthing
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-06-13
6d
Piles of Ammunition; Private Puttock's experiences at the front
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-06-14
8b
Candian Soldier's Violent Death - report of Coroner's Court
Brighton
West Sussex Gazette
1917-06-14
8d
Food Economy - address by Mr. R.M. Kindersley
Littlehampton
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-16
3ef
Horsham Jottings
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-06-16
8e
Entertaining the Canadians. 1000 troops entertained by performers from 1st "B"
(Reserve) Brigade of the RFA at Shoreham
Forest Row
Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-06-16
8e
Dedication of war shrine by Bishop of Chichester
Handcross
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-16
3c
War Savings meeting
Horsham
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-06-16
2f
Converting grass to arable - report on methods to be used
Sussex
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Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-19
3a
An Egg and a Message; letter home from front
Ardingly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-19
5f
Local man injured in Egypt; letter home with news of other local men
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-19
3d-f
Farmers and Food Production- important meeting at Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-19
8a
From 'Somewhere in Palistine'; Letter from the front describing conditions etc
Haywards Heath
Chichester Observer
1917-06-20
2g
Eggs for the Wounded - letter 'A Soldier's Thanks'
Chichester Observer
1917-06-20
1e
Two Absentees
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-06-20
1e
Wounded of the War - film at Corn Exchange
Chichester
Chichester Observer
1917-06-20
1c
On seeing it through - M Painlove, France
France
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-06-20
6c
Music at the Front; letter from the front with appeal from local soldier
Worthing
West Sussex Gazette
1917-06-21
2a
Story from the Front - news from Private Herbert Smith
Haywards Heath
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Sussex & Surrey
Courier
1917-06-23
5e
A Soldier'sSuicide - Pte. Frank Simmons hanged himself from the luggage rack of a
train, leaving a suicide note
Three Bridges
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-26
1b
Hints to women land workers
East Grinstead
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-26
3cd
Women on the land- Housing accomodation difficulities- Lady Wolseley suggests an
appeal to patriotism
Haywards Heath
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-06-26
1b
Food Economy campaign- Hurst meeting addressed by Lady Wolseley and Miss
Dugdale
Hurstpoint
Chichester Observer
1917-06-27
2f
Absenter's Sick Wife
Pagham
Chichester Observer
1917-06-27
1e
Military Medal
Wick
WORTHING GAZETTE
1917-06-27
5b
Worthing Gas, Light and Coke Co; advert for women workers
Worthing
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-30
2e
Lieut Gen Broadwood death
West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-30
3f
Horsham Jottings
Sussex and Surrey
Courier
1917-06-30
2a
Women & Agriculture. Meeting addressed by Lady Wolesley, organiser for East
Sussex to the Women's Agriculture Committee
East Grinstead
West Sussex Gazette
1917-06-30
8b
Ammunition Brigade of Canadian Artillery pay 3 week visit
Petworth
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West Sussex County
Times
1917-06-30
4e
Cricket at Roffey
Roffey
West Sussex Gazette
1917-06-30
8g
Canadian Soldier's Escape - fined for being drunk and disorderly and remanded for
wilful damage
Shoreham
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
1a
France thanks British Soldiers and Farmers: grateful recognition for help in reestablishing agriculture in reconquered French Territory
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
1a
Latest War News; Ten thousand prisoners taken by the Russians; Exempted Men, An
Important Point; important information for those holding medical exemption
certificates
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
3d
Stamped Postal Stationery;
Increase in stamp price due to shortage of materials
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
4f
Births, Marriage and deaths;
List of
Repeated weekly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
3d
Mid-Sussex Vountary Work Organisation;
Number of articles received and despatched
Repeated monthly
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
2a
Offensive Operations resumed by the Russians;
Campaign in Mesopotamia
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
7a-f
Mid-Sussex Men who died for the empire;
List of men by village
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
6e
Albourne; PTE A Burtenshaw Killed
Albourne
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
1b
The Rev. J P Bacon Phillips and The War; Suggestions from a fertile brain. Various
ideas that were later adopted in some form
Brighton
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1917-07-03
5d
Killed by a shell; Death of Corporal H Rowland
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
5e
Shot in the head;
Privatre Slater in Hospital with severe head wound
Burgess Hill
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
3f
Chailey; Educative convalescence for wounded soldiers: new scheme established at
the Heritage Craft School
Chailey
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
6f
Clayton; Military Officer's Memorial: Commemorative brass added to window in
Clayton Church in memory of Captain T C Waterfield
Clayton
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
8d
"Life at Baghdad; News from Corporal E McC Mitchell, R E
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
8c
Died a prisoner of war;
Private Murrell died a prisoner of war in Germany
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
8c
Death of Pte. A.U. Pennifold;
Killed in action; 3rd son
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
8c
Marriage of Miss King;
Bridegroom has been discharged from Royal Sussex Regiment last year
Cuckfield
Mid-Sussex Times
1917-07-03
1b
Gunner Leaney Killed; Wife hears of death of husband at the front
Ditchling Common
Mid-Sus