Royal Sussex Regiment

Royal Sussex Regiment
Badge of the Royal Sussex Regiment.
Active1881–1966
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
RoleLine infantry
Size1–2 Regular battalions

1–2 Militia and Special Reserve battalions
1–3 Territorial and Volunteer battalions

Up to 17 Hostilities-only battalions
Garrison/HQRoussillon Barracks, Chichester
Nickname(s)The Prince of Orange's Own
The Orange Lilies
The Haddocks
The Iron Regiment
Motto(s)Honi soit qui mal y pense
(unofficial) Nothing succeeds like Sussex
MarchThe Royal Sussex
(unofficial) Sussex by the Sea
Anniversaries13 September – Quebec
30 June (1916) – The Day Sussex Died
EngagementsEgyptian Expedition
Second Boer War
World War I
World War II

The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot and the 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry). The regiment saw service in the Second Boer War, and both World War I and World War II.

On 31 December 1966, the Royal Sussex Regiment was amalgamated with the other regiments of the Home Counties Brigade – the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) – to form the Queen's Regiment; which was later, on 9 September 1992, amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment to form the present Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires).