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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A talk by Richard Shenton. Title and synopsis to follow