A century ago, hundreds of men from the East Surrey Regiment perished on one of the darkest days in British military history. The first day of the German Spring Offensive – a last-ditch attempt ...

The First World War began four years earlier on July 28 1914 and was fought between the Allies, which included the British Empire, France, Russia and later the USA, against the Central Powers made ...

We the Surries kept together and dug slit trenches around a large sand dune which we named Surrey Hill after a long ... age at the time and had been in the regiment as a band boy from the age ...

Captain Wilfred Nevill of the East Surrey Regiment has been immortalised after his men dribbled balls to start the charge into German territory on July 1 1916. Cpt Nevill - aged just 21 - was ...

On 1 July 1916 a company of soldiers from the East Surrey Regiment punted footballs across the shell-scarred landscape of the Somme's no man's land. Before going over the top they were told the ...

Little did we know that hard times were to come, that in a few years time, 1941 to be exact, nearly a half of the East Surrey Regiment, now enjoying themselves in Shanghai, would be dead ...

Sean Sullivan, the Tory councillor who is pressing to honour the troops, said: 'The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment contains what used to be the East Surrey regiment. This is a local regiment.

In the early months of World War I, British Pvt. Ernest Cable was a member of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. Records show that in early 1915, his regiment was fighting in the ...

He famously appeared in the Daily Mirror later that year after officers in the East Surrey Regiment discovered his age and he was sent home. Now Sidney’s son Colin has been reunited with the ...

This football was kicked across no man's land during the Battle of the Somme by soldiers from the East Surrey Regiment It was perhaps one of the most dangerous kickabouts in football history.