SH of C HQ Company at Danny Park Estate, Hassocks - just north of Brighton, Sussex, England, August 1942. This photo is rolled up and is to be sent for restoration. CONFIRM, GET PHOTO & TRANSCRIBE NAMES From the Regimental History, page 112: "The move south [in October 1941] to relieve a battalion of the Welsh Regiment whose headquarters were at Danny Park, Hurstpierpoint, took place on the 24th and was carried out without a hitch. Danny Park, a large estate, boasted a lovely old Tudor mansion. The owner, Sir William Campion, and his family lived in one wing of the house, with the rest being occupied by Battalion Headquarters. The officers' mess was in the great hall, a vaulted oak-panelled sixty-by-forty-foot room with armour hanging up among the life-sized oil portraits of Sir William's ancestors. In this same hall was a plaque commemorating the meeting which took place there in 1918 when Prime Minister Lloyd George met with his cabinet to discuss the terms of surrender for Germany. Scattered throughout the estate were Nissen huts and tents tucked under the trees to avoid detection from the air. Six and a half miles directly to the south was the sea and Brighton, and between the Seaforths and the sea lay the South Downs, an open country of high hills and rolling farmland. The battalion found itself responsible for the defence of a 12-mile front on the South Downs, and with the platoons scattered about on the various defence posts they inherited, it was a 22 mile drive for Lt-Col. Ferrie or anyone else to make a tour of inspection of all subunits, billets and posts. It was a most unsatisfactory situation." From the book, Danny House: A Sussex Mansion through Seven Centuries, page 141: "After Dunkirk, of course, Danny, except for the south wing, was required by the Military. Coastal Sussex became a war zone braced for a German invasion. The mansion now housed officers while other ranks occupied tents and Nissen huts in the park. By the autumn of 1941 these makeshift facilities were full of Canadian infantry. First to arrive were the Seaforth Highlanders – a mere coincidence, presumably, that Simon, his uncle Edward and his grandfather had served with their British equivalent. Then on 6 August 1942 came Le Regiment de La Chaudiere. Some days later, after apples were stolen from the orchard, the men were mustered on parade and duly berated. This fierce discipline, and the watchful eye of Mr Arnold, who multi-tasked as butler, barrack warden and ARP controller, could account for Danny’s plaster ceilings and back-staircases surviving the war intact. More positive, perhaps, on 16 August, were an open air Mass on the forecourt and an inspection by the Canadian Air Minister. Sadly though, by October steady rain, clinging mud and defective latrines had lowered morale: ‘C’est mort’ agreed a visiting General. And despite ‘a coloured troupe, mostly girls’, at the Chinese Gardens, and dances in the Great Hall fleshed out by ladies ferried in by army lorry from Hurst, morale was further depressed by training the local Home Guard and by exercises on the Downs to repel an ever less likely German invasion. After Le Regiment thankfully redeployed to Scotland in the summer of 1943, thoughts turned to the Liberation of Western Europe and British Commandos tidily trained on the estate for an Invasion of Normandy, whereas luckless Stanmer Park way over ‘the hill’ was mangled by manoeuvring tanks."