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Wiki says that it was written by William Ward-Higgs, as either a song in praise of his adopted county, or as a wedding present for his sister in law, who was marrying a Captain in the Royal Sussex. It was never adopted as the Regimental March of the Royal Sussex Regiment, that was always the...

I really hate to be pedantic, but, it was written in 1907, seven years before the outbreak of WW1