West Sussex Gazette: May 17 1860

9th Sussex (Arundel & Littlehampton) Rifle Volunteers to assemble on next Tuesday at the station and march to Littlehampton parade ground for drill.

The Standard (London, England), Friday, December 16, 1859

PROGRESS OF MUSKETRY INSTRUCTION IN THE ARMY Aldershot- The musketry instruction of the several battalions composing the division of the Army at Aldershot from time to time during the year 1858-59 has procedded steadily and well and the results of the shooting except in the Oxfordshire and North Cork Rifle Militia Regiments are satisfactory. The […]

24 November 1859: News Article

Suggestions are being offered that the towns of Arundel and Littlehampton together might furnish a goodly number of candidates for these corps, and that in the event of a Sussex detachment being so formed, the meeting ground for exercise might be Leominster, as it is frequently was for the Sussex Yeomanry Cavalry Corps.

16 June 1859: News Article

LETTING OF THE LITTLEHAMPTON TOLLS. – These tolls, which, at the sale, were put up, as usual, at the price for which they were last let (when there happened to be competition, which led to an advance of £30 upon all previous lettings), were bought in by the Trustees, there being no no bidding.

2nd June 1859: News Article

Brighton Gazette 2nd June 1859 A picturesque appearance is presented, by the commencement of an encampment of troops around the fort for rifle practice. A division from the barracks at Chichester is so disposed of.

26th May 1859: News Article

In connexion with the visit of inspection by Admiral Chads and party from the War Office, an order has been given for increased accommodation.

West Sussex Advertiser and South Coast Journal, May 26 1859

Admiral Chads and several other officers of the military service were here a few days since on a visit of inspection to the fort, having reference, we believe, to the intention of a much larger number of men being sent her for rifle practice; in furtherance of which object Mr E. Corney has received an […]

The Builder: Volume 17, February 19th 1859

Sinking a Well at Little Hampton A contract with the Board of Ordnance is being carried out by Mr. Edward Corney for the supply of spring water to the military fort at Little Hampton. Seven iron caissons of 3 feet 6 inches diameter and 5 foot lengths, are being sunk, from which boring will be […]

West Sussex Advertiser and South Coast Journal, December 4th, 1856

THE FORT The large guns, for 10-inch shot, weighing 95 cwt, arrived from Woolwich by sea, on Sunday, and a company of artillery regulars, all wearing the Sebastopol medal, – some with a medal in addition for distinguished service, – are here seeing to the mounting of the guns on the battery.

Sussex Advertiser, Tuesday 25 November 1856

Lieut.Still, with 41 men of the Royal Artillery, arrived here on Friday with carriages and materials for mounting the heavy guns at the Fort.