THE heart-warming story of how children and young adults with disabilities from East Sussex helped wounded soldiers is the latest addition to a First World War website.
Servicemen who had lost limbs in the conflict were sent to Chailey Heritage Craft School, set up in 1903 to provide a home and education for children with disabilities, to learn from the youngsters how to overcome their injuries. Continue reading
PEOPLE with pictures showing life in East Sussex during the First World War are urged to submit them for a photographic project aimed at bringing the past to life.
East Sussex County Council’s First World War website has launched a new feature showing photographs taken during the conflict, overlaying a modern image taken from the same perspective. Continue reading
THE role played by volunteer nurses during the First World War is brought to life in the latest addition to a website marking the conflict in East Sussex.
East Sussex County Council’s First World War website is offering people the chance to view moving messages and drawings left in an autograph book by wounded soldiers to a nurse at Filsham Park Hospital, St Leonards. Continue reading
THE ceremonial head of East Sussex County Council has paid tribute to those who lost their lives on one of the darkest days of World War Two.
Council chairman Cllr Colin Belsey joined other East Sussex dignitaries in marking the 72nd anniversary of the Dieppe Raid of August 19 1942 during a visit to the French town. Continue reading
