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A century after the end of the Great War

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Welcome to this special issue of Caring4Sussex, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, a war inconceivable for its horrors today. The Royal Air Force was one good thing to come out of it, and we look back at 100 years of the RAF too.

I apologise in advance if we’ve left vital parts out – in the limited space we have all we can do is scratch the surface when tomes have been written and still don’t cover it all. But I can say that quite a few tears were shed putting it together, and our writers are not even old enough to have relatives who were involved.

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05 100 years of the RAF 06 Homage to the Somme arming – how one farmer 09 Fcoped with this yer’s heat

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FEATURE 14 SPECIAL Sussex and WW1

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18 News round-up 21 Letters Benevolent Fund helps 23 R4AFgenerations of 1 family

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Sussex coastal defence and the RAF Even before the RAF was founded in 1918, air bases along the Sussex coast were sending planes and Zeros -- ‘blimps’ -- up to try and spot German submarines desperately trying to cross the channel.

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nti-submarine patrols operated out of the Sussex airship station at Polegate, which also opened out-stations at Slindon and Upton, and aircraft were flown from Telscombe Cliffs.

The most important air base was at Newhaven, but there were others built including at Eastbourne, Middleton-on-Sea, Goring, Ford and East Preston.

The Territorial Army was keeping an eye on the shore from an inland position, and it moved nearer the coast as the war drew on, but Newhaven was the only place in Sussex to receive defensive armaments, according to John Grehan and Martin Mace in their book Battleground Sussex.

Here were placed two rapidfiring six-inch guns to combat any German torpedo boats, but really Newhaven was principally a port for stores and munitions, which would be shipped to the Western Front.

In March 1918, three newly formed Royal Flying Corps Squadrons arrived, and on April 1 these squadrons became part

Bristol F2B Fighter leading an RAF SE5a courtesy of the Old Warden Airfield in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

of the Royal Air Force, which was officially given life that day.

The WRAF was also formed in 1918.

It was the first time that any country had formed a completely separate air force that operated independently of the army or navy. The RAF had more than 290,000 staff and nearly 23,000 aircraft, and its role in WW1 was to support ground forces on the Western Front.

In July, the No. 92 Squadron left Tangmere for France with its SE 5a scout aircraft, a replica cockpit of which is housed at the Tangmere Aviation Museum.

Arrival of the Americans More than 15,000 Americans arrived in Sussex towards the end of the First World War, according to research carried out by West Sussex County Council.

As writer Janet Green points out, it’s almost unfathomable how the local areas coped with this massive influx of people – how they fed and watered them and disposed of their waste.

A replica SE5a cockpit at Tangmere Aviation Museum near Chichester, photo courtesy of the museum.

But arrive they did, and in an incredible effort helped to develop five military sites – Tangmere, Ford, Rustington, Southbourne (Emsworth) and Goring-on-Sea. By the spring of 1918, Tangmere ‘Training Depot’ had been built.

Page bombers, huge long-range bombers that were built to cross enemy lines.

Evidence of technical innovations developed in Sussex has been unearthed by the University of Chichester in its ‘Over Here’ project led by Professor Ross Wilson under the auspices of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

“The arrival of American aviators and the construction of aerodromes in Sussex in 1918 demonstrated the commitment of the US to the war effort. It also brought people from the United States ‘over here’ that might have otherwise never have come to Britain,” said Professor Wilson.

These innovations included work to develop the Handley

The bombers were able to drop the largest explosive of the war, the 1,650lb ‘SN’ bomb, which was so large it had to be carried externally under the bomb bay.

“The arrival of American servicemen in West Sussex in 1918 and the construction of aerodromes was enabled by a highly-important treaty between Britain and the US, while the development of technology and training for pilots contributed to the buildup of its air force.

“This is important international history right on our doorstep, and our project team has uncovered a history of the First World War in Sussex that has been almost forgotten.”

At 10:45am on 11 November 1918, the crew of a 15 Squadron RE.8 observation aircraft landed at Auchy and reported no enemy aircraft or anti-aircraft fire. Fifteen minutes later, the Armistice with Germany came into force and fighting on the Western Front ended.

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How do we get the young to remember the dead when we are ourselves too young to know?

Peter Simpson drags his teenager away from the comfort of the fighting computer game Fortnite to show him the stage of real war.

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e in Britain have been true to our word, making great efforts to remember those who laid down their lives.

But time passes, memories fade, priorities change and life goes on. All living connections to the Great War have been severed, and survivors of the Second World War, which actually suffered three times as many casualties as the First, are also getting older.

How can we future-proof the act of remembrance for the next 100 years and beyond?

How can we upgrade the signposts of remembrance – the monuments in most British towns and the stained-glass windows in churches? What constant, impactful symbols must we construct so future generations never forget?

Or do we, as some suggest, let history and memory find their natural paths, and let, so to speak, World War One go?

After all, we hardly remember the Battle of Agincourt, a major English victory in the Hundred Years’ War, that took place in October 1415, south of Calais.

It was a pivotal battle in our island’s history – as was the sea battle of 1805, when Admiral Lord Nelson defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar, and so on.

Can we expect successive generations raised in the current dynamic digital age to carry on remembering the Great War in the same way as we have done over the past 100 years?

My son’s generation – he is 13 – has as much emotional investment in World War One as they have in Agincourt. They cannot see the relevance to their lives.

Indeed, online Xbox war games such as Call of Duty, history lessons or trips to museums or the battlefields are their only links. They make for excellent learning experiences but ultimately, for most of that generation, they offer entertainment or just enough interest to pass an exam.

“What we choose to remember helps tell us a lot with who we are, or who we would like to be,” says History Professor Sam Edwards from Manchester Metropolitan University.

The Danger Tree is stands midway between the German and Allied frontlines, in the centre of No Man’s Land. Any soldier reaching it could be pretty sure they wouldn’t make it back to their trench alive.

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“To keep the great wars of the 20th century relevant to a younger generation thus demands that our commemorations speak to them of the ways in which their world has been shaped by the actions

The Caribou Memorial at Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel, just above the remains of one of the notorious trenches.

and activities of those in the past.

“There’s no one way to do this, but it does mean that those planning commemorations should think about teasing out some of the specific past-present connections.”

A visit to the battlefields Fearing my son, if left to his own devices, would spend his summer holidays in front of a computer screen playing warthemed video games online with his mates in separate houses in our Sussex town, I took him on a road trip to the battlefields that have shaped our present: a dose of reality away from digital wizardry and graphics.

We stayed at Battery Valley Farm and Homestay on the Somme, which is, according to war maps, located between the third and fourth German trenches, a mile and half away from the British front lines and Theivpal Memorial to the Missing.

The Somme is back to its prewar bucolic, peaceful beauty.

What strikes the 21st-century visitor is the abundant birdsong and gentle folds of the fields

and woods, stitched together by winding country roads boarded by hedgerows and ditches festooned with wild flowers.

We visited the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial to pay homage to the Danger Tree, a preserved trunk that marks the point in no-man’s land where, if you were lucky enough to have reached it, you knew you were likely to die because heading forward towards the enemy or back to your trench almost certainly meant being gunned to death.

The 74-acre preserved battlefield is where the Newfoundland Regiment made its unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916, during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Its first major engagement lasted approximately 30 minutes and most of the regiment was wiped out.

Along with preserved trench lines, there are a number of memorials.

Although today the trenches are covered with wild flowers and bees, pieces of iron trench supports and stakes, once wrapped in barbed wire, brought the war closer to our senses.

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Private J. Dunning, one of the casualties of the Royal Sussex Regiment, lies in a graveyard on the Somme.

We walked quietly through several cemeteries and my son noted that many Simpsons fought, their names engraved on the memorials alongside the band of brothers lost to the war.

“They were quite young, some of them,” he said, looking at the grave of 18-year-old privates wiped out in the early September of 1916. “It’s quite depressing,” he said, before exclaiming how heavy and menacing the spent ordinance, still being collected by farmers, was in his hands.

We drove on from the Somme to the Normandy coast, where we walked through the bunkers of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, and along the beaches of D-Day – Gold, Sword, Juno, Omaha and Utah. He jumped over the old Mullberry piers left over from

the so-called Winston Harbour, the temporary piers that were the brainchild of Britain’s wartime prime minister.

zone depicted in Call of Duty, and from the sands he looked for where the bunkers might have been on the dunes.

“I can see how they designed the graphics for Call of Duty.

It’s very lifelike,” he noted as he clambered in and out of a bunker, and I thought it best not to ask if he meant the game or the large barrels of the German guns at Longues Sur Mar.

I have played such games with him and am struck by the attention to detail and attempts to personalise the gaming experience and make it mean something more than just a gratuitous shooting game; whether they serve as effective commemorative tools is not clear but they certainly engage more with the historical context than the plastic soldiers I played with as a boy.

At the American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overlooking Omaha beach, we found the grave of Captain John H. Miller, the protagonist of the epic war film Saving Private Ryan. “Oh, he was actually a real person!” exclaimed my son.

I am 52 years old and the world wars of the 20th century have been a running narrative in my life thanks to my grandparents and some of my teachers, who lived through the Second World War (my headmaster had our school changed to Montgomery of Alamein and my grandmother forbade a German girlfriend of mine from entering her house because she was bombed out during the Blitz). They regularly recalled that harrowing time. They have all since passed, but they left a sense of duty to remember and to always wear a poppy for a week each year in early November, no matter where I was.

Will my son do the same? What about his children? At my son’s request we found the landing

After our road trip, I felt he did get a sense that war is not a novelty, that it’s real, there are reasons why they are fought and why we should – why we must – mark, remember or

commemorate those who fight and die on our behalf.

I told him global wars of the 20th century are crucial to us understanding the current situation of the world and especially that of our country as we prepare to leave the European Union, a concept itself born out of the ruinous conflicts of both World Wars. And we should, therefore – indeed must – continue to commemorate them.

“We need to be willing to revisit and rethink the nature of the wars, about how they were experienced, and what they meant and still mean for our world today,” says Edwards.

We need to – but how, is the question.

Digging up the horrors of the past There are still reminders of the horrors that took place on the Somme 100 years ago – and not just in the cemeteries and memorials that dot the landscape.

“I find these all the time, out on the pastures; the cows’ hooves dig them up, or when I plough the fields in autumn.

All the farmers here do,” says dairy farmer Frederic Sangrier, pointing to a pile of rusted cyclical objects stacked against a concrete shed.

“A special council truck makes regular rounds to take them away,” adds the farmer of Battery Valley Farm and homestay, adding how his neighbour up the road recently found live ammunition.

“When they dug foundations for their new cowshed they found metre-high live shells. “They had to call in the army to deal with them,” he adds, turning his facial expression to one of exaggerated astonishment and lucky escape.

He picks up one of the rusting hulks and weighs it in his hands.

“They say it will take 500 years for all the ordinance to be recovered.”

His wife Natalie chimes in, nodding towards the imposing Thiepval Monument to the Missing just over the brow of the valley. “When they dug up the road near the memorial, they found human remains,” she says. “This happens a lot too.”

The skeletal souls were interned at one of the local cemeteries, their names already engraved on granite along with the tens of thousands of others at monuments to the missing.

The France-Belgium Western Front has been giving up its World War One ghosts ever since the guns fell silent at 11am on the 11th of November, 1918.

Peter Simpson decided to drag his teenage son away from the imaginary war he plays daily online.

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eeping gardens green when the K rain doesn’t fall Global warming, we are told, will make weather extremes more commonplace in future. The summer heatwave has been a challenge to all of us, with brown lawns and withered plants spoiling the tranquillity and beauty of our treasured outdoor spaces. We all need to take a hard look at our gardens and decide how best to adapt and minimise the impact of drought and extreme heat. windy conditions. I would recommend Beth Chatto’s inspiring book ‘The Dry Garden’ to anyone seriously interested in the subject, which also contains a valuable list of drought tolerant plants.

Dahlias are drought-tolerant and will flower throughout the autumn.

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ome factors are outside our control, such as soil type or garden aspect. But whatever soil we have, from light and sandy to heavy clay, or whether the garden is exposed or sheltered – we need to improve our garden’s capacity to withstand long periods of drought. It is all a matter of degree and how far we want to go, but a combination of measures can make a big difference.

Watering is not the answer.

Although new plants must be watered in and given extra water until established, it is all about improving the moisture holding capacity and fertility of the soil and choosing plants more suited to dry, sunny and

If you are starting a bed from scratch, then you must dig in a good supply of humus, regardless of soil type. It could be garden compost, wellrotted manure, rotted leaves, in fact anything which will add moisture retentive humus.

When planting, put whatever’s left into each hole, and mix well with the soil. When trying to establish drought-loving plants, use fertiliser sparingly – it will encourage too much top growth and they will survive much better on a thin diet.

Mulching is extremely important, but don’t put it on a dry soil! Having created the sponge to hold water in the soil, we don’t want the sun and wind to dry it out too quickly.

This is where mulching comes in. It serves two important functions: (1) to prevent water evaporating from the soil, and (2) to prevent weed seedlings emerging.

Drought-resistant bed showing Cistus, Rosemary and Lavender (Wisley).

Note the thick layer of bark chippings.

Beth Chatto recommends using straw around her shrub areas and pulverised bark, a much finer material, around her herbaceous plants. Straw put down in Autumn, after some good rainfall, will break down and add valuable nitrogen to the soil. Pulverised or composted bark is expensive, but there are cheaper alternatives such as spent mushroom compost, wood chippings, well-rotted manure and spent hops. As long as the material is bio-degradable, it will add nutrients to the soil.

And be as generous as you can afford to be – at least 2in deep, preferably 3in.

Having sorted out the soil, use drought-resistant plants to build up resilience to the threat of climate change. Plants that survive the scorching Mediterranean sun are going to do well, including Cistus, rosemary, juniper, Genista, Spanish broom and so on.

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Space prevents me from going any further, but information about drought tolerant plants is readily available on-line.

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Sedums – superb drought-resistant plants which flower in September.

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hen the 2nd battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment arrived in France with the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division on 13 August 1918, they received a heroes’ welcome before firing a single shot.

There were 213 casualties that day.

His next letter described the Battle of the Aisne on September 14.

A year later, the battalion was on the front line to launch the biggest allied offensive of the year in the Battle of Loos in the vicinity of the iconic Danger Tree, which still stands today in the middle of what was No-Man’s Land. It was the first time poison gas was used by the British, but a weak wind spread it no further than NoMan’s land, resulting in limited visibility and actually killing some British soldiers – including one Sergeant Archibald Cleare, from Chichester.

“The battalion that morning walked right into a death trap,” he wrote. “The German artillery were firing on us at a range of 450 yards. Shells were bursting over us like drops of rain.”

For two days the British were easy, open targets for the Germans and although ultimately the town of Loos was captured, it came at a cost of more than 60,000 men,

“It was a glorious time for us,” Private Harold Morley wrote home to his family in Arundel, describing how French people crowded around them, giving them food, cigarettes and drinks.

When the Royal Sussex Regiment first arrived at Cooden Camp at Bexhill for training, there were no uniforms available for them so they had to train in the clothes they were wearing when they arrived. A month later they still did not have khaki but had to wear old uniforms used in the Boer War.

including three major generals and the only son of Rudyard Kipling.

men became casualties, 19,000 of them dead, happened a day later.

The Day Sussex Died

The diversionary salient began at 3am on 30 June at the Boar’s Head, Richebourg L’Avoue, to the north of the Somme.

Worse was to come for the three Southdowns Battalions, who had been raised by MP Colonel Claude Lowther, the owner of Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex.

Colonel Claude Lowther and the first of the Southdowns Battalions.

Royal Sussex Regiment Heritage Project One of the most extensive collections of material in the UK about a county regiment is being developed in West Sussex as part of the county Record Office’s Royal Sussex Regiment Heritage Project.

The project will create an RSR catalogue, which will be available online and used for digital displays and life-long learning, using diaries, letters, newspapers, military records and all sorts of archive material.

This will stretch all the way back to 1701, and aims to list every known soldier who served in the RSR Between then and 1966.

Schools across East and West Sussex will be invited to participate in visits and activities, using original material such as film clips and digital images that can be used for work in the classroom.

Surviving veterans will be interviewed. Public events will be held across the county, and volunteers will be called upon to help out with the work involved in cataloguing all the material.

Lowther had been granted permission from the War Office to raise a battalion of local men and in September 1914 set up offices all over Sussex, notably in Worthing, Bognor, Brighton, Bexhill, Eastbourne and Hastings.

The Germans knew they were coming.

Bridges had been laid out to help the soldiers cross drainage ditches – but this made them even easier targets for the Germans. Some were trapped in a dyke that they hadn’t known about, and eventually the

Within two days, 1,100 men had volunteered and they became the 11th battalion, the first Southdowns Battalion. Two more battalions from mostly Sussex families were raised by the end of the year, and the three battalions, the 11th, 12th and 13th, became known as ‘Lowther’s Lambs’.

Lambs to the slaughter. They didn’t know they were part of a diversionary force that was intended to take attention away from the main Battle of the Somme – but that horror, in which more than 57,000

Chatsmore Catholic High School and the Caring Lady Funeral Directors produced this memorial to the fallen of Boar’s Head in 2016 to mark the centenary of the tragedy on 30 June 1916.

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One man’s mission to remember For 40 years, David Lester has been collecting information on the original volunteers for the Southdowns Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment.

“My original idea was to just find all of the men who had the SD prefix to their army number,” he says. “Having found nearly 4,000 names I am now trying to put together a complete history from birth to death of those wonderful young men so that future generations will be able to see what they did for us.”

Like Harold Diplock, pictured, a swimming instructor in Eastbourne, who was killed in April 1916 at the age of 20 years and 10 months.

Harold Diplock

“I am very grateful to the Eastbourne Heritage Centre, which has given me the opportunity to input all of my records, photographs and memorabilia onto a purpose-built website (www.royalsussexsouthdowns.co.uk),” says Dave.

“With the end of the WW1 commemorations fast approaching it is more essential than ever to record as much information as possible of any of those wonderful young men who were members of the Southdown Battalions, also known as Lowther’s Lambs.

“Let’s make sure their sacrifices will never be forgotten.”

A memorial from Harold Diplock’s family.

To help Dave with his mission, contact him at delester1394@gmail.com.

fighting became brutal, handto-hand savagery.

Private George Sydenham in a letter home to Haywards Heath.

Five hours after the Southdowns Brigade went over the top, it had lost 17 officers and 349 other ranks. Half of the 12th battalion were killed, the 13th almost entirely wiped out. More than 1,000 men were wounded or taken prisoner.

There are 7,302 names inscribed on memorial panels in the Regimental Chapel of St George, Chichester Cathedral.

June 30 has come to be known as ‘The Day Sussex Died’, yet there were still two years to go and many, many more losses.

The men who remained of the three Southdowns Battalions were sent to the Somme midAugust, where at one stage they had to hold the trenches for five weeks with no relief.

“We were never intended to have to face such warfare,” said

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The names comprise 39 officers and 6,912 men of other rank.

Demobilisation in France did not begin until mid-December, and although a few made it home for Christmas 1918, a great many did not finally make it back to their loved ones until June 1919.

They were the lucky ones.

Events and services will be held all over Sussex to commemorate the ending of the First World War. For details of just some of them, see Page 26.

John Oxenham (1852-1941) Part of a poem on the dedication stone at the Newfoundland Memorial Park in Beaumont Hamel, France.

Victoria Crosses awarded to four soldiers in the Royal Sussex Regiment One member of the Royal Sussex Regiment was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry given to service personnel, for his actions in the Battle of Boar’s Head.

Desperate to serve his country, Nelson Victor Carter, from Eastbourne, joined the 11th Royal Sussex Regiment in 1914.

The London Gazette described the actions that led to his posthumous award: “During an attack he was in command of the fourth wave of the assault.

Under intense shell and machine gun fire he penetrated, with a few men, into the enemy’s second line and inflicted heavy casualties with bombs.

Nelson Victor Carter, awarded the

“When forced to retire to the Victoria Cross for his ‘magnificent’ enemy’s first line, he captured conduct at the Battle of Boar’s a machine gun and shot the Head. gunner with his revolver…

Finally, after carrying several wounded men into safety, he was himself mortally wounded and died in a few minutes.

“His conduct throughout the day was magnificent.”

The other three VC recipients from the RSR, serving in other action, were: Sergeant Harry Wells, from Herne Bay, Kent, killed at Loos on 25 September 1915. He was awarded the VC for ‘a magnificent display of courage and determination’.

Lieutenant Eric Archibald McNair was born in Calcutta, India.

He served with the 9th and 10th Battalions of the RSR and was awarded the medal ‘for most conspicuous bravery’ before being killed at Hooge in 1916.

Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Graham Johnson came from Gloucestershire and served in the Boer War and both World Wars. His award was given for ‘splendid leadership’ with the 2nd Battalion of the RSR at Sambre Canal. He lived until 1975.

Soldiers of the Southdowns Battalions were also awarded 20 military medals, 9 distinguished conduct medals, 4 military crosses and a Distinguished Service Order.

Thousands more deserved them.

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From this vast altar—pile the souls of men Sped up to God in countless multitudes: On this grim cratered ridge they gave their all.

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On the Sussex Home Front When war broke out there was mass hysteria about anyone or anything German.

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pies were thought to be everywhere; German music was banned in many places; Boots the chemist had to put out an advert to say that Eau de Cologne had nothing to do with the German city, and almost renamed it Eau de Provence.

The Royal House of SaxeCoburg became the Royal House of Windsor.

In the Daily Mail: “Refuse to be served by any Austrian or German waiter. If your waiter says he is Swiss, ask to see his passport.”

Young men were pushed into joining up.

up – and on one market day in Bognor, 50 horses were taken from the market square.

But it was all for the war effort, and communities began to rally round.

In the book Great War Britain, Remembering 1914-1918 with West Sussex County Council and edited by Martin Hayes and Emma White, Alan Readman writes an extensive piece on what communities and often the women within them were doing to support their loved ones on the front.

On 12 August 1914 the Duke of Richmond, who was the chairman of West Sussex County Council, issued a request for war relief funds to be collected across the county.

An incredible amount of money was raised within days of the request being issued – running to hundreds of thousands of pounds in today’s terms.

West Sussex is a rural county, and agricultural produce was sent over the channel – oat seeds and rams were sent to help the French farmers, and books were sent to help relieve boredom in the trenches.

In Bognor Regis, the Observer urged local girls to: “Give the cold shoulder to all the men till they don the khaki, and show what stuff they are made of.”

The Midhurst Parish Magazine and Chichester Observer carried similar messages – and in May 1916, any able-bodied man between the ages of 18 and 41 became liable to enlist.

It wasn’t just the men who were enlisted – horses had to join up, too.

Newspapers from Chichester and Bognor report drivers being stopped and their horses simply taken from them, and private residents having theirs removed from their own stables. Tradesmen and farmers had to give them

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The local magazine Scribble, which was published in the Angmering, Rustington and East Preston area, issued a request for bathing shoes to send to the front – so soldiers could use them as slippers.

Easter egg collections were made, and women began to make ‘comfort’ items and send home-made food to the front.

Women also began to enter occupations that had been closed to them, and more than two million of them now worked in factories – including munitions plants – farms, and other places now abandoned by the male labour force.

Women made sandbags, extra socks (always called for), and other clothes.

and were supporting the British cause when Britain was still recruiting and training volunteers.

Initially the Indian wounded were taken to Southampton, with facilities at Boulogne and Abbeville inadequate.

King George V visited them in Southampton and created the role of Commissioner The UK’s first Women’s in Charge of the Welfare Institute was founded in of Indian Troops, a role Sir West Sussex, at the Fox Inn Walter Lawrence took on. It in Singleton on 9 November was Sir Walter who decided 1915, when ‘a group of women to accommodate them in bound together to help their Brighton and Hove – and country and themselves’. where better than the Royal There is only one official Pavilion, with its gardens, its female British soldier recorded, cavernous rooms and wealth Flora Sandes, who joined the of facilities.

Serbian Army in 1917, but Archived photographs, made there were women on the available to C4S by Brighton frontline carrying out medical Pavilion, of makeshift wards services, one of whom, Nellie housing turban-headed Indian Foyster, is remembered on patients lying in beds under Worthing’s war memorial with the words: ‘Nursing sister hanging chandeliers make for remarkable if incongruous Nellie Foyster, drowned when viewing. the hospital ship Salta sunk.’

Wounded soldiers brought to Sussex Twenty-five ‘auxiliary’ hospitals were set up in Sussex to treat the wounded from the Western Front, including Brighton’s Royal Pavilion, which became a military hospital in 1914 to treat Indian soldiers. The role of Indian soldiers in the war is rarely given the prominence it deserves – yet they made up a vast number of troops

As well as the Pavilion, York Place School and the Brighton workhouse (renamed Kitchener Hospital) became hospitals to treat Indian war casualties, and a year after the first ones had arrived in December 1914, 2,300 had been treated.

By the end of January 1916 the Pavilion was no longer needed for Indian patients and it became a general military hospital.

Any useful materials or items were collected and used, and jumble sales became fundraisers, along with other social events, which were vital for keeping morale alive as well as raising money and collecting items.

The First World War was arguably the beginning of women’s emancipation, with those over 30 and property owners given the vote in 1918.

The Royal Brighton Pavilion became a dedicated hospital for wounded Indian soldiers between 1914-16. Pic courtesy of Brighton Museums.

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Alan Alda reveals he has Parkinson’s disease: “I’m not angry” CBS News

IKEA: council stalemate over Lancing plans is ‘disappointing’ The Argus

Despite a crushing diagnosis three and half years ago that he has Parkinson’s Disease, M*A*S*H star Alan Alda has said he’s been living life to the full ever since.

Best known for his portrayal of Captain ‘Hawkeye’ in the Korean War TV series M*A*S*H, Alda said in an interview on This Morning, on CBS, that he had had himself tested for the debilitating disease after reading an article which said an early sign was the tendency to act out one’s dreams.

“I was having a dream that someone was attacking me and I threw a sack of potatoes at them. But what I was really doing was throwing a pillow at my wife,” he said.

“I’ve had a full life since then,” he said. “I’ve acted, I’ve given talks, I help at the Alda Center for Communicating Science, I started a new podcast. I have been on television a lot in the last couple of weeks talking about the new podcast – and I could see my thumb twitch in some shots and I thought, it’s probably only a matter of time before somebody does a story about this from a sad point of view, but that’s not where I am.”

The 82-year-old recently launched a podcast called Clear+Vivid, which explores all the ways in which people communicate with each other.

The ability to engage with people clearly, he says, is the key to greater understanding for everyone.

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Controversial plans to build an Ikea store and 600 homes were locked in stalemate last night.

Hundreds of residents packed into a public meeting in Lancing on July – a year and a half after the plans were announced.

Another reason Alda spoke out was to send a message of hope to those who might be facing the disease.

“In the very beginning, to be immobilized by fear and think the worst thing has happened to you – it hasn’t happened to you. You still have things you can do,” Alda said. “I’m taking boxing lessons three times a week. I do singles tennis a couple of times a week. I march to Sousa music because marching to music is good for Parkinson’s.

“You’ve got to cross the street, there are cars coming. How do you get across the street? You don’t just sit on the pavement and say, well, I guess I’ll never cross the street again. You find a way to do it.”

He hopes by going public to not just ease the fear others might be feeling, but to also put his own mind at ease.

“I’m not going to worry. While I’m trying to say something else, I’m not going to be thinking, is my thumb on a life of its own. You know, that’s just one of the realities of my life. But I’ve acted in movies since – it’s threeand-a-half years since I had the diagnosis and it hasn’t stopped my life at all. I’ve had a richer life than I’ve had up until now.”

But councillors voted to defer the decision until a later date on the grounds that developers were unable to prove the project would enhance the environment.

And the committee required developers to meet with Lancing College to discuss how its proposal would not negatively impact the school.

The applicant, Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, submitted the application for New Monks Farm last July.

Martin Perry, executive director of the club, said: “It was disappointing that it had

to be deferred but I am still optimistic.

“Frankly the requirements from the council are minor and we will go back and discuss with Ikea on what mitigation they can provide in the next meeting.”

Tim Farlam, real estate manager for Ikea UK and Ireland, said: “We are disappointed with the decision as the proposal met all national and local planning guidelines and we regularly held discussions with the local community to ensure the final store design met the needs of both Ikea and the surrounding community.”

The developers have been asked to provide a more detailed plan to meet the committee’s requirements.

The proposals also include the provision of a new roundabout on the A27, a country park, community hub and the

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relocation and expansion of the Wilthy Patch Gypsy and Traveller site.

Mark Williams, from Lancing College, said the developments would have a major impact on the school.

He said: “Our college has more than 500 pupils. The traffic for Ikea will be very intense and it will affect parents’ journey time and travel to the school.

“Our school provides an important service to the community. We provide a swimming pool and chapel, and we offer bursaries for parents.

“If parents find it difficult to get to our school, they will go elsewhere.”

Gerard Rosenberg, chairman of the Shoreham Society, said: “We are working closely with other environmental and residents associations as we are concerned about the amount of pollution the new developments would bring.

“This will not affect Shoreham, but it’s a regional issue. More

and more cars are already travelling on the A27. The proposals say it will bring up to two million traffic movements per year.”

Labour Councillor David Balfe, representing Eastbrook, said: “The A27 is already over capacity, along with the constant delays in the evenings.

“Additionally, extra homes will bring more cars. Are these reasons not enough for the council to reject the application?”

However, supporters of the application say bringing an international company to Lancing will boost the town’s profile. Conservative councillor Brian Boggis, representing Peverel, said: “I understand everyone’s worries. We need to look at the bigger picture and look at the benefits it will bring to our town.”

The committee has not confirmed the date for the next meeting.

Ken Dychtwald, CEO of Age Wave, a consulting firm specializing in age-related issues, was compiling a list of thought leaders around the world in the ageing field. He found plenty of experts in ethics, social welfare, grief, illness, palliative care and geriatric health, among others.

He looked for experts on fun.

“There weren’t any,” he says.

Yet older adults have more time for fun—7½ hours of leisure a day compared with 35-to-44year-olds, who have only around 4 hours, according to a 2016 study by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave. He suspects many older adults are at a loss for how to fill that time, which he says may explain why the average retiree watches 48 hours of TV each week, according to 2017 Nielsen viewing figures.

It’s not that older adults are glum. They’re happier than middle-aged and younger adults, according to researchers at the Stanford Centre on Longevity. Stress, anger and worry decrease with age, according to Laura Carstensen, director of the centre and coauthor of the study.

But many adults forget how to have fun. They’ve spent the past 40 years showing up for work every day, paying off mortgages, getting kids through school and taking care of ageing parents. Having fun and being spontaneous —a key element of fun and play—gets lost. It’s considered non-productive, which makes some people feel guilty.

Fun is important at every age but can be even more beneficial as we grow older. The very things associated with it—laughter, levity, enjoyment, diversion— can act as antidotes to stress, depression and anxiety. It often involves being with others, and social connections are linked to better cognitive health in later life and lower likelihood of developing dementia.

We’re really designed to play through our lifetime, says Stuart Brown, psychiatrist and author of Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul. Loneliness, a problem for many senior citizens, “is ameliorated when they find a group and have a playful interaction, whether book club or birding,” says Dr Brown, 85, who founded the National Institute for Play in Carmel, California, to cultivate scientific study.

Fit and flirty at 50: why older people are exercising more than millennials Daily Telegraph The research, published in the journal PLOS, is “clinically very relevant” since most previous similar studies have relied on cell cultures, said Dr Nathan Hawkshaw, from the University of Manchester.

He added: “Interestingly, when the hair growth-promoting effects of CsA were previously studied in mice, a very different molecular mechanism of action was suggested. Had we relied on these mouse research concepts, we would have been barking up the wrong tree.”

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If it looks like millennials – the generation now in their twenties and thirties – are healthy, happy and having all the fun, it’s time to look again. According to a new survey, people over the age of 50 now spend more time each week exercising than their younger counterparts, and many of this older cohort identify sex as their favourite way of staying fit.

In the survey, two thirds of the older age group gave walking as their favourite method of exercise, while one in seven named sex – twice as many as those who selected yoga, for example. And according to Susan Quilliam, who updated the classic book The Joy of Sex and serves on the council for sexuality and sexual health for the Royal Society of Medicine, they might have a point.

“Sex can raise your heart rate, your endorphin levels, and there’s lots of research that says men who have regular sex are less likely to die of a heart

attack,” she explains. “So yes, it’s exercise – as well as fun.”

The survey, for orthopaedic support company Neo G, says that those over the age of 50 exercise for 26 minutes a week more than millennials; one in five of them doing it more than when they were in their twenties.

Older people also have a lower level of concern about how they look. The survey showed that 12% of respondents in their twenties and thirties blamed poor body image for their failure to exercise, while just 5% of the over-fifties said the same.

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Caring opinions token is this issue’s book The recipient of t thoughtful for her cheery bu Angela Parsons er. Thank th ea w ar’s summer letter on this ye you. to ay w its ken is on you Angela, a to

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to write in to our Letters page – from the response, we can see that readers are really interested in what their neighbours across the county are thinking, and in recognition of this we are going to award a £10 book token to one letter writer each issue to thank you for your time.

All you have to do is send your thoughts by email to: edit@caring4sussex.co.uk Or by post to: Letters, Caring4Sussex, 19 Ruskin Road, Worthing, BN14 8DY

Who are today’s music icons?

How unexpected to see an article about Pink Floyd in your magazine, a band I know and love and now come to realise are pretty old!

Spare a thought fo r wildlife in summe r heat

Phew! By the time the September editio n of Caring4Sussex out I am hoping th is e skies may have br oken at least a coup of times – I barely le remember the Sout h Downs looking so parched, or our ga rdens so sorry for th emselves.

But how wonderful it’s been for our su mmer industries – hotels, restaurants, the ice cream vans, bu cket and spade shop more summers like s– this would be wond erful, and negate th need for so many fo e reign holidays.

But we do need to spare a thought fo r our wildlife, so I’m hoping people have been putting out th e odd saucer of water for our local foxes. Birds and he dgehogs (if there are any left).

Wildlife is always so mething to bear in mind – whatever th weather. e Angela Parsons Midhurst

I remember seeing them live way back when, can’t remember exactly, or even what the tour was called.

But they were an icon of their generation, as each generation has them – from Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Who, The Clash, The Jam, right the way up to Abba, Wham! and even Take That – each young generation will look back and remember the key bands from their time, even if they didn’t like them.

But I do wonder what today’s generation will look back on. With no real charts as such, with record buying largely disappearing for downloads and what seems to be a lack of live performing – will they look back on their musical youth with quite such strong memories?

Debbie Braithwaite Haywards Heath

Climate change is happening regardless of human activity Thank you for the information on Rampion in your last edition. I note your constructive comments/criticisms about the possibility that this windfarm will actually consume more fossil fuel carbon in its construction and maintenance than it will actually conserve in its operation. The huge cost to the hard-pressed UK taxpayer is eye-watering – especially as any saving in carbon emission will be dwarfed on an almost weekly basis by new coal-fired power stations in China. If we really want low cost, carbon free energy why not develop nuclear power?

However, missing from your report is the fact that carbon content in the atmosphere (as carbon dioxide gas which is essential to plant growth) has not been proven to be a major cause of “climate change”. Our planet has been changing its temperature regularly for millions of years; geologists believe that the North Pole has been free of ice for longer than it has been covered. Hard to blame that warming on human-kind’s activities. We are not in danger of over-heating the planet but merely coming out of the last ice age!

Philip Buckley Haywards Heath

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Sticking up for wind turbines I read with dismay the nihilistic comments made by the UKIP (who else) representative (Chris French) re the wind turbines.

As a structural engineer with over 45 years’ experience, I can say with authority that he has displayed the knowledge of a 3-year old.

Up until now, well over 3 million of these turbines have been installed worldwide in conditions far more adverse than off the coast of Brighton, with a failure rate to date of 22 installations over a 32-year period.

As for costs, in each and every case the turbines have paid for themselves many times over, and with no negative environmental impact.

I suggest Mr. French tries to stay awake during the short course of engineering he surely needs to attend.

Michael Hills Via C4S website

Appeal for homeless venues I picked up your publication in a pub in Arundel, where I was visiting as a tourist (I’m from Hull).

Who knew that in such a wealthy part of the country as West Sussex there would be a homeless problem, as you mentioned in one of your articles.

We northerners tend to think all is rosy down south, especially in a county like West Sussex.

And no one would argue that some of the nation’s wealthiest people live in your neck of the woods. I wonder if they ever feel guilty that they have such comfortable lives, when on their doorstep homeless charities are struggling to find venues even for daily breakfast clubs. Come on West Sussex’s wealthy – see if you can find it in your hearts to donate some of your bricks and mortar for this purpose. You’d feel better for it!

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Four generations of RAF personnel give thanks to RAF Benevolent Fund For 50 years, the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund has had a strong connection with Sussex. Their care and respite centre, Princess Marina House in Rustington, has helped thousands of RAF veterans and serving personnel enjoy a muchneeded break by the sea.

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or one family, whose generations have been involved with the RAF as long as it has existed, it has provided support in all kinds of ways.

When Squadron Leader Mike Waring, currently based in Lincolnshire, joined the RAF in 1995 he was the fourth generation of his family to do so. The family legacy had begun with his great grandfather, Wada Pickard, joining the new Royal Air Force in 1918.

Mike’s grandfather, Freddie Waring, joined the RAF in 1942, to be killed in action when

his Stirling was shot down in 1945. He had flown with 620 Squadron providing support to the Resistance, supplying drops and laying mines.

family have known the ‘safety net’ the Fund brings to all RAF personnel, past and present.

The knowledge that should the worst happen, we are not alone.

Third came Squadron Leader David Waring, a Puma pilot who served in Singapore and Borneo in a 36-year career – and then Mike, now OC 57 Squadron at RAF College Cranwell, is following in his father’s footsteps.

“For the Waring family, the difference the RAF Benevolent Fund has made is immeasurable.

My father was supported through school and the help made his, and my grandmother’s life as a single parent, far easier.

“As I reflect on our family’s history of service, there has been one other constant in our lives – the RAF Benevolent Fund,” says Mike. “All of my

“For myself, the support has been even more dramatic. Our daughter Gemma has severe and complex additional needs, including delayed learning,

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Mike (left) and Dave Warning, two of four generations of one family who have been involved with the RAF since it was founded.

which means she needs extra support at school and at home – and the Fund provides that and more.”

Jon Hutcheon farms livestock on Lancing College Estates. This is his regular update on life in the fields.

Counting the costs – and the benefits – of summer heat on farming Last time I put pen to paper it was wet and this time we are just coming out of the heat wave that has been affecting the country through July. I’m not begrudging anyone some summer sun but it is becoming increasingly clear that the seasons are changing and this is having a big impact on farmers across the country.

For us it was the sheep that got hit the hardest. The lambs are mid-growth and in the process of what we call ‘finishing’.

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grass off and we had to resort to starting on the winter hay supply and buying in hard feed to tide them over. The important thing is the welfare of the animals and ensuring that they have food and bedding, so this is a cost that has to be absorbed no matter what.

The harvest was also affected by the heat wave, and we, like many others, had our crops cut and off much earlier than usual so that harvest was done and dusted by early August when normally it doesn’t even start until mid to sometimes late August.

The hope now is that the grain has developed properly and is good enough for its intended

purposes, which could be making bread with wheat, beer with barley and porridge with oats. If it isn’t a good enough grade it then goes for animal feed, which carries a much lower cost.

All of the above can impact on the consumer price that meat, bread and even milk sells at so it will be interesting to see how things develop over the next few months.

There is no point looking at this in a negative way and it’s important to look at the good points, especially when planning for the future.

One of Jon Hutcheon’s rare-breed pigs cools off in a mud bath

A lot of the wild plants and flowers seem to be thriving and orchids have done really well this year, which is great to see. In November we start a large project linked with the butterfly trust and national park to re-introduce some hybrid elm trees. More info to come as to how this goes.

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atch FAT, 50 and fed up?

How three 50+ women shed the weight Karen Hampton, from Chichester Age: Method: Starting weight: Target weight: Current weight: Weight loss:

52 Weight loss surgery (Roux-en-Y) 20 stones 12 stones 14 stones 6 stones

Weight loss surgery, or bariatric surgery, comes in a few different forms. There is a gastric band option, where the stomach is made to feel smaller by wrapping a band around it therefore less food is needed to feel full; there’s sleeve gastrectomy, where some of the stomach is actually removed, so it’s impossible to eat as much as before; and there’s the Rouxen-y gastric bypass option, or stomach stapling, where the top part of the stomach is stapled off from the rest and the remaining pouch is joined to the small intestine. Food ‘bypasses’ most of the stomach and the part of the small intestine that controls appetite and gut hormone production.

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Karen Hampton had bypass surgery, but she would not recommend it except in the most serious circumstances.

“It shouldn’t be treated as a quick fix,” she admits. But for Karen it was the only thing that worked.

“I’d tried weight-loss groups, diet pills – the doctor even prescribed some to me – crash diets, the Atkins diet – but I wasn’t very well off at the time and some of these diets are expensive because you need to buy more expensive proteins and so on.

“The weight gain began when I was seven years old and I got a bone disease which meant I had to drink five pints of liquid a day – and I chose milk. At the time I was skinny, played in all the school teams and loved horse riding and swimming – and in fact when I first started putting on weight people said it was a good thing.

“Then I left school, started work and everything stopped. I started drinking, partying, living in the West End and I started to put on weight. At 23 I had my daughter, and went from being overweight to being morbidly obese – more than 20 stones.”

The turning point for Karen came when she took her four-yearold granddaughter to the zoo.

“I couldn’t keep up with her,” she says. “It was a whole day and I remember having to sit down every half hour. My back was breaking and I thought, I’m not going to see this girl grow up if I carry on like this.”

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There’s no doubt that being overweight is unhealthy.

It can lead to all sorts of disorders, from he art and breathing problem s to joint issues to diabetes – there’s noth ing good about it and the risks are many.

Any lifestyle magazin e will give you tips on losing weight, offer yo u diets, exercise regim es, health foods – it’s all out there.

So why is it so hard to actually shed those pe sky pounds?

The trick is finding th e method that works for you – even if it mean s trying and failing a few times.

As we get older it’s ev en harder to shift the lard, but it is possible. C4S met three beautiful wo men in their fifties who ea ch successfully droppe d dress sizes – but each in their own way.

Karen started thinking about health, and to begin with she gave up smoking.

“I put on another two stone,” she said. “Then I started getting this reflux problem, like really bad heartburn, and would wake up feeling sick. My doctor referred me to be treated for that and asked me if I wanted bariatric surgery while they were operating for that.”

Two years later, Karen had dropped six dress sizes and seven and a half stones.

She suddenly began feeling confident in what she wore, and didn’t mind having her photograph taken.

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But she has a warning.

“People think it’s an easy way out and it can take the place of losing weight yourself – but it can’t, and in fact I have started putting on weight again,” she says.

“It’s stopped my reflux problem, I have started going to the gym, and I’m off the fags. But it’s not a permanent solution. That has to come from you.”

Bariatric surgery is currently available on the NHS in some areas – but not all. It is only available to people who meet strict weight and lifestyle criteria.

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Sally Hilton Age: 57 Method: Personal training Starting weight: 12st 6lbs Target weight: 9st 10lbs Current weight: 11st 10lbs Weight loss: 10lbs Sally Hilton has been battling weight gain all her life, trying every faddish diet, every kind of weight loss regime she’s ever heard of.

Claire Ronnie, Amberley Age: Method: Starting weight: Target weight: Current weight: Weight loss:

51 Slimming World* 16st 5lbs 11st 7 lbs (changed to 11st) 11st 9lbs Almost 5 stones

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Now, halfway through a 12-week personal training programme that uses HITT (high-intensity interval training), she is convinced she has found the method that suits her.

“Nothing worked before because in the long term it wasn’t sustainable,” she says. “In one diet I could lose a stone in a month, it was successful but then I would move or something would happen in my life – heartbreak, or whatever – and I’d start comfort eating, particularly with sweet things.

“About three years ago I completely gave up cakes and chocolates, any sweet things at all, and now it doesn’t bother me at all.

“I eat really healthily now and my training is changing my body composition.”

HITT is intensive circuit training with a mixture of classes and personal training. It intersperses intense bursts of activity with less intense exercise, or rest, on a rotating basis for a set period of time.

Sally sets a minimum of two one-hour sessions a week and usually manages about four. But it wouldn’t have worked for Sally on its own.

“With a personal trainer I’m not just doing it for myself,” she says. “If you just go to classes it’s easy not to go if you don’t feel like it, but if you have a personal trainer you feel you’re letting them down.

“Also they set you work to do on your own – he’ll ask me to do three sessions before he sees me again and I feel bad if I haven’t done them, so I do. It’s motivating.”

Sally says the programme incorporates a lot of leg work, because that’s where the body’s heavier muscle mass is and therefore requires more energy to get moving – thus burning more calories and increasing her metabolic resting rate.

Her personal trainer also looks at what she eats – and to her surprise, she was told to eat more.

“My daily requirement is 2,000 calories but I was only eating 1,200, which meant my body was going into starvation mode, eating the muscle instead of the fat.”

And she points out that weight training is particularly good for women as they get older, because bone density diminishes with age and weight training helps to maintain bone mass.

Sally’s programme doesn’t focus on weight so much as size – and halfway through, she has lost 10 centimetres from her waist and three from around her arms.

“I can definitely tell that my body’s changing. I knew before I did my measurements that it was starting to work. I haven’t reached my target weight or got back into my clothes yet, but I’m only halfway through.”

So would she recommend this method to everyone?

“I know it works for me – but there are three key things,” she says. “Don’t weigh yourself too often; exercise is key; and give up everything with sugar in it.”

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It wasn’t until Claire Ronnie stood on the scales at the weight loss group she happened to go to that she realised she weighed 16 and a half stones.

“It was a massive shock,” she said.

“I couldn’t believe it.

“I’d never considered myself huge – as a teenager I was always tall and broad, I had a bit of puppy fat but nothing horrendous. I’d never been on any diets or anything but when I went shopping I did always pick loose-fitting clothes. I was an 18 on top and a 16 on the bottom – but to be honest there wasn’t a lot of room in an 18!”

Suddenly, Claire found herself on a weight-loss programme – and in a year and a half she had lost an incredible five stones.

“It was great because you can eat so much of so many things,” she says. “As much potatoes, pasta, meat, vegetables – as you want. It’s a diet you can have around your family – you can have all the comfort things like carbohydrates, and I was shocked by the amazing things you can have yet it works.

“I missed cakes the most and because I’m so near my target I let myself have one a week now. But things like jacket potatoes – I wouldn’t even think about putting butter on one now.”

Claire’s weakness was sweet things like biscuits, which she would snack on while making dinner for her family. But she got herself organised and made up a batch of soups for the freezer that she began to snack on instead.

“You go along to the group to get weighed and you can see people changing and getting slim and that’s amazing, how it changes people’s lives,” she says. “I can now get into a size 12 and that still gives me a real buzz.

“And now I’m feeling healthier in other ways – I don’t get back problems any more, and I’ve started going to the gym, which I would never have considered doing before.”

Claire also suffers from the lung disease Alpha 1, an enzyme deficiency that causes respiratory problems.

“Losing weight has helped with that too,” she says. “It was one of the most positive things that happened to me in 2017. I feel like a different person. Friends keep saying how they can’t believe how I look – and when I look at old photos I can’t believe it either.”

After

*Claire’s weight-loss group was Slimming World, a franchised slimming group which meets regularly and can be found in most areas.

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Remembrance Sunday to be observed with beacons and bells March no more my soldier laddie, There is peace where there once was war.

Sleep in peace my soldier laddie, Sleep in peace, now the battle’s over.

Church bells will ring out all over the country at 12.30pm on the 11th – a touching tribute to the bell ringers who joined the war effort and as a consequence left the bells hanging in silence for much of the war.

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he Sussex County Association of Change Ringers has joined a national campaign by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers and the government to recruit 1,400 people (the number of bell ringers thought to have lost their lives in the war) to ring bells as they were rung on 11th November 1918, when more than 3,000 bell towers clanged with joy and relief that the horror was over.

Anyone wishing to ring the bells of peace in our county can find out more at www.big-ideas.org/project/ringing-remembers/, or just google Ringing Remembers.

At 7pm on the 11th, beacons will be lit all over the country in a tribute that is being supported by the Royal Navy and the RAF. Anyone can light a beacon, but to join the official tribute there are processes to go through. Details at www.brunopeek.co.uk

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Services in West Sussex districts

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(not confirmed but probably):

SHOREHAM 9.45am March leaves from the community centre in Pond Road to arrive at the Church of St Mary de Haura.

10am Remembrance service.

11am Wreath laying, Last Post and two minutes’ silence at the war memorial.

SOUTHWICK 10.30am Parade leaves Southwic k Square car park.

11am Service at the war memorial on Southwick Green.

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2.45pm Wreath laying at the war memorial on South Street.

3pm Service at St Michael and All Angels Church, followed by a parade.

SOMPTING 11am Remembrance service at St Mary’s Church, followed by a parade to the war memoria l on Church Lane.

WORTHING

11am Two-minute silence beg inning on the stroke of 11am at the war memorial outside the Town Hall in Chapel Road Service.

11.30am Wreath laying and salu te.

ARUN ARUNDEL 10.45am Gathering at the war memorial, town square.

Two-minute silence, wreath layin g and service.

12.30am Service at Ford Memoria l Garden.

BOGNOR REGIS 10.15am Remembrance Parade from the library, London Road into the pedestrian area and to the town hall.

11am Two-minute silence and service and at the town hall.

LITTLEHAMPTON

10:30 Gathering at the town clock.

10.45 Procession starts to war memoria l.

11am Service at the war mem orial, before moving on to St Mary’s Church for another serv ice.

CHICHESTER CHICHESTER 10.30am Litten Gardens war mem orial, St Pancras.

MIDHURST 10.45am Market Square war mem orial before moving to church for service (to be confirmed).

HORSHAM 10.30am War memorial in the Carfax in the town centre.

Service, then parade moves to St Mary’s Church in the Causeway, returning at about 1pm .

MID SUSSEX Surviving members of ‘Lowther’s Lambs’ reunited in 1979 for the last time.

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HAYWARDS HEATH 10.30am Service to be attended by many members of the armed forces, local groups and mem bers of the Royal British Legion youth organisation s.

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