BBC News reports that the site of Cooden Camp, a World War I training camp that opened in 1914, is being investigated ahead ...

The former WW1 training camp at Cooden originally housed men who would form the 11th, 12th and 13th Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment. ASE was commissioned to excavate the site by Bellway, which ...

Among those trained there were soldiers of the Royal Sussex Regiment, which suffered devastating casualties on the Western Front on 30 June 1916 – known locally as "The Day Sussex Died".

"In particular this year, we remember the many men of Sussex ... 1916 where the Royal Sussex regiment occupied the Boar’s Head, a salient line in the German Front Line during WW1,” he said.