Formed in the Childers Reforms of 1881, the East Surrey Regiment was an amalgamation of a number of other brigades, including the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot and the 1st and 3rd Royal Surrey Militias.
During the First World War, the regiment was primarily based in France, and was caught up in the battles of Loos, the Somme, Arras and Ypres.
Commonwealth War Graves
Friday, Private John (d1919, aged 21, illness)
Perrett, Private Thomas (d1919, aged 40, cause of death unknown)
Pratt, Private Charles (d1918, aged 19 died of wounds)
Rowell, Lance Corporal Henry (d1918, aged 18, killed in action)
Death and Service 