This year sadly, the usual venue for the Officers Lunch at Pashley Manor was unavailable, so we regrouped at Piltdown Golf Clubhouse in East Sussex on a glorious summers day on the 29th June 2026. Definitely a contender for next year’s lunch.
Due to illness, numbers were slightly down but not drastically, and the group were looked after by excellent staff and the food was delicious. With one of the members dining coming all the way from Taunton to be with the gathered, a magnificent effort.
In 1951, the then County Borough of Eastbourne bestowed the Freedom of the town to The Regiment. To mark the occasion they erected a shelter on the seafront so the ex-service paraplegics who resided in Chaseley Homes opposite could come across and take in the sea view...
This year the service commemorated the 60th anniversary of the end of the Regiment in 1966 and the birth of The Queen's Regiment, The old Regiment became the 3rd Battalion (Royal Sussex) of The Queen's Regiment on 1st January 1967. Attendance was again very good with...
When Harry Wells finished his regular army service, he joined Kent Police for three years, however, being a regular reservist this clashed with the reserved occupation of a policeman, so he left the police and shortly after was recalled to the colours at the...
