The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. During the First World War, the port of Newhaven was key to supplying the British Army in France and Belgium. Before the outbreak of the First World War, Newhaven was a key point in travel between Britain and Europe. Newhaven was the departure […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. The creation and name of the south coast town of Peacehaven are heavily connected in the events of the First World War. The town was originally conceived as a ‘Garden City by the Sea,’ by its founder the businessman and entrepreneur, Charles Neville. […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. Cooden Camp was a military training camp established in Bexhill at the start of the war. The camp was situated near Cooden Beach Golf Club on what had been farmland between Cooden Sea Road to the east, and Cooden Wood, to the west. […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. The outbreak of war in 1914 saw the major combatants draw heavily on their empires, dominions and colonies. The use of West Indian and African soldiers in the various armies provided much needed manpower in fighting the war but also gives a clear […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. When war was declared in 1914, Britain relied heavily on soldiers from the empire. Men from around the world would arrive in East Sussex to fight for Britain. At the outbreak of the First World War, the Indian Army numbered 240,000 men; by […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. With manpower shortages hampering the war effort, the British Army looked to China in order to find able workers. 1915 was the worst year of the war for Britain and France. The casualties sustained in battles at Ypres and Gallipoli had brought little […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. Seaford resident Cuthbert Bromley distinguished himself during the Gallipoli landings on 25 April 1915. Cuthbert was born in Hammersmith, London before the family moved to live in Seaford. One of four brothers, Cuthbert originally planned on being a doctor or a civil servant after […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. Major Alfred John Martineau was the Commander of Newhaven Fort during the early years of the war. Alfred John Martineau was born in 1871, the youngest son of Judge Alfred and Maria Martineau, 6 Evelyn Terrace, Brighton. He was a highly qualified doctor and surgeon and […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. During the First World War, over 240,000 British soldiers lost limbs as a result of the fighting. Of these men a number would be sent to a hospital in East Sussex to learn from the limbless children who stayed there. In the years before the […]
The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. In 1918 as a result of the war and German U-Boats sinking ships carrying food, rationing was introduced and a committee was set up to look at the ways of utilising any available natural resource. Throughout the country, rural schools were instructed to ‘employ […]
