[Albion] The greatest Brighton-Japanese interaction of all time?

[marlowe]

The 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment fought in Burma against the Japanese from about 1942 onwards……………

9th Btn. Royal Sussex Capture "The Rising Sun"

This photo has been supplied to me by one of our new members Spitfire MK1. His father Frank Gash served in the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex and went...

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Plenty of interactions there, albeit not everyone in that battalion would be men from Sussex.

... or from Brighton. Interesting history nonetheless.

 

[cunning fergus]

Are you able to download that photo? Pretty sure my grandfather was in that Battalion.

Sadly not but if you join the message board then I suspect you can get privileged access……