Special Projects
Some members of the 35th have been authorized to pursue additional interpretations for the regiment, outside the regular, established branches. We have decided to showcase them here.
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Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
(1818-1901) Until recently when she was surpassed by HM Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria was the United Kingdom’s longest-reigning monarch. Her nine children with husband Prince Albert married into royal families all across Europe and shaped the modern world. Only eighteen when she became Queen and officially crowned a year later, her reign of 63 years saw much change, both to the UK and the entire globe. As such, this impression is to honor her legacy as a defining person in British history. This meticulously-researched impression, made entirely out of reproduction 1830s fabric, is meant to show her between her coronation in 1838 and her marriage in 1840.
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CAMEL CORPS
Nile Expedition 1884-1885 A soldier of the Royal Sussex Regiment serving in the Camel Corps during the Nile Expedition.
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…The sand of the desert is sodden red,
Red with the wreck of a square that broke; The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England’s far, and Honour a name, But the voice of the schoolboy rallies the ranks, “Play up! play up! and play the game!” Vitai Lampada, Sir Henry Newbolt |
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10th PARACHUTE BATTALION
World War II 1943-1944 A private in the 10th Parachute Battalion, made up of men from the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1943.
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