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  • Reverend G B Fairhurst, Padre of the 2/5th Queen's Regiment, talking to two of the men in his battalion and an American soldier in the Anzio bridgehead, 20-21 February 1944. IWM

    Courage Under Fire: The 2/5th Queen’s Royal Regiment, BEF: May 1940 – by Nigel Shearsmith

    Lewes Town Hall High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
    Talk

    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 […]

    £6

  • Cuckfield Royal Observer Corps Post – Open Days

    Cuckfield Royal Observer Corps Post Newbury Lane, Cuckfield, West Sussex, United Kingdom
    Non-SMHS Event

    Open only on 18/7/26: 1200-1600, 19/7/26: 1000-1300, 29/8/26:1200-1600, 30/8/26: 1000-1300 NB: The post is locked and secure at all other times and no equipment is stored inside. Step back into the Cold War at the Cuckfield ROC Post, one of the few surviving and fully restored Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring bunkers in the UK. This […]

    Free

  • Italian POWs march to waiting landing craft during the Allied invasion of Sicily, July 1943

    Operation HUSKY: the largest amphibious invasion of the Second World War? – Graham Moore

    Lewes Town Hall High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
    Talk

    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.

    £6