Regiment Association with their fundraising for a monument at Priez, France.
I had the privilege to go on a battlefields tour to Gallipoli in Turkey where the Royal Sussex were involved in the second part of that ill-fated campaign, landing at Suvla Bay in August 1915.
My great uncle, Albert Paice, was in the Royal Sussex at Gallipoli, was wounded and died in a military hospital in Cairo at this time.
My grandmother had not been able to visit his grave or the battlefield before she passed away so my wife, Melanie and I, placed a small poppy and cross at Green Hill cemetery, which overlooks Suvla Bay, both in memory of my great uncle and my gran.
It was a humbling experience to read the names of all his fallen comrades in the cemetery.
The peaceful setting of the cemetery, pictured above, belied the terrible carnage that took place there 99 years ago.
Peter Atkinson
Wolseley Road
Portslade
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