A testament to the bravery and resilience of local volunteers who repeatedly answered the call during times of national crisis.

Follow them through 200 years and five pivotal periods of British military history.

From deterring invasion by revolutionary France to preventing an impending defeat in South Africa, they endured the dire conditions of the Balkan campaigns in Gallipoli and Salonika, via the sands of Egypt and Palestine, to the mud and destruction of the Western Front.

After evacuation from those legendary beaches of Dunkirk, they deployed to the North African Desert, fighting in the decisive battles of Tobruk and El Alamein, before reaching Monte Cassino and the liberation of Europe from Nazi occupation.

Their story culminates in the tensions of the nuclear-armed race for political, economic, and military supremacy that defined the second half of the 20th century.

This is the history of the Yeoman soldiers of Sussex and Surrey