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The East Surrey Regiment
The East Surrey Regiment was formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot and the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot.
Battalions during the Great War.
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd (Reserve) Battalion
- 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion
- 1/5th Battalion
- 2/5th Battalion
- 1/6th Battalion
- 2/6th Battalion
- 3/5th Battalion
- 3/6th Battalion
- 7th (Service) Battalion
- 8th (Service) Battalion
- 9th (Service) Battalion
- 10th (Reserve) Battalion
- 11th (Reserve) Battalion
- 12th (Service) Battalion (Bermondsey)
- 13th (Service) Battalion (Wandsworth)
- 14th (Reserve) Battalion
- 15th Battalion
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Those known to have served with The East Surrey Regiment during the Great War.
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700 2nd Lt. Montaque Adolph Stimson 10th Btn East Surrey Regt. (d.30th Sep 1916) Montague Stimson was 21 years old when he was killed, he was serving with the 10th Btn. East Surreys, attached to the 8th Btn. He had previously served with the Honourable Artillery Company enlisting in 1914. His brother Douglas also served with the Honourable Artillery Company and younger brother Eric was killed whilst serving with the Rifle Brigade. |
993 Private Arthur Huitson 2/7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry My grandfather Arthur Huitson was born in Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham 17th September 1889. He served with the Durham Light Infantry (No. 276005) in WW1. He was married and lived in Sunderland when he joined up early in the war. His date of discharge was 19th April, 1919.
He was also in the East Surrey Regiment (No. 204320) as Corporal Arthur Huitson, 2/7th DLI, 6 squad Command School of Musketry at Aldershot between 20th January 1917 and 22nd February 1917 (according to his study note book which he used at Aldershot).
He was a POW but I don't know where. He most likely went to Archangel with the 2/7th but don't know whether he served in France or where he was a POW.
He and his wife and daughter came to Australia in 1922. He was a carpenter. He died on in January 1957 in Ipswich, Queensland. |
207105 Pte. George Huxley MM.& Bar 12th Btn East Surrey Regiment My Grandfather, George Huxley, born in Bromley, served in 12th E.Surrey Regt in France, I think, as a disaptch rider. He was awarded the Military Medal and received a bar to same, for Bravery in the Field. The family know little of his service or deeds. |
206020 Pte. Henry John Cooke 1st Btn East Surrey Regiment (d.5th Nov 1916 ) Henry Cooke is a distant relation, he is buries in Gorre British and Indian Cemetery, grave 111. 8. 19. |
205960 Pte. Reginald Wallinger Looms 4th Btn. East Surrey Regiment Reg was my Grandfather. He served on the Western Front and was wounded in the neck, but survived, married and had a son in England (my dad). He emigrated to Melbourne Australia, but returned to England during the Depression. He followed his son back to Australia after WW2 and lived out his days in Victoria dying at the ripe age of 80. |
207364 2nd Lt. Harold Vernon Brown 8th Btn. East Surrey Regiment (d.3rd May 1917) Harold Brown was my husband's uncle. He was killed in 1917 whilst attached to the 11th Bn. East Surrey Regiment and his remains were never found. His name is on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. |
207814 Pte. Frank Farley 1st Btn. East Surrey Regiment (d.4th Oct 1917) Frank Farley was my paternal Grandfather. He enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment in Chichester. Precise details of his service were destroyed when military records were destroyed in London by enemy action in WW2.
He was killed at Ypres on 4th October 1917 near a village called Broodseide.He has no marked grave as his remains were never found, but his name appears, with others from his regiment on the frieze at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Flanders. |
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