Sussex Military History Society
Researching & exploring the military past of Sussex & beyond since 1998
A talk by Nigel Shearsmith, guest speaker, whose grandfather, RSM Bacon, fought in this action nr Abbeville almost exactly 86 years ago. Nigel writes: “Join amateur historian Nigel Shearman for the dramatic story of how a territorial battalion from Guildford faced the might of Nazi Germany’s invasion of France. Poorly armed and minimal training, these citizen-soldiers […]
A talk by George Hoad, a local amateur historian. Operation Musketeer was the Anglo-French plan for the invasion of the Suez canal zone to capture the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis in 1956 and return it to Anglo-French control and operation. Israel, which invaded the Sinai Peninsula, had the additional objectives of opening the […]
Up to June 1944, Op Husky was certainly the largest amphibious invasion of WW2. Op HUSKY was the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 by the western Allies. Some historians contend that it was larger than Op OVERLORD but based on the number of divisions landed on Day and the size of the Landing Zone.
Confirmed title and synopsis to follow. Seaford was an army training base before and during the First World War, with two massive army camps north and south of the town.
TBC The Battle of Dorking (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney is one of the most influential works of early invasion literature—a vivid and unsettling fictional account of Britain’s sudden defeat by a technologically advanced European power. Written in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, it captured contemporary anxieties about national preparedness, military reform and the […]
A talk by Richard Shenton. Title and synopsis to follow