of a crowned garter and star. The ORs' forage cap badge of 1874–81 was a Garter star surmointed by a bugle horn, with a scroll beneath inscribed 'Royal Sussex'. When the Royal Sussex Regiment was formed in 1881 the RSLIM's Garter star was combined with the Roussillon plume of the 35th Foot to produce the badge that was worn until 1966. Precedence When camped together, militia regiments drew lots to decide their relative order of precedence; this determined their position in the line of battle and which colonel was in command. During the War of American Independence a meeting of the lords lieutenant met to settle the order of precedence. The Duke of Richmond blocked the first proposal – that regiments should rank from their first embodiment under the 1757 Acts – because the Sussex Militia would rank last and he would be the junior colonel, even though he was a general in the regular army. Instead the lord lieutenants determined the order by ballot before each year's camping season, beginning in 1778. For the Sussex Militia the positions were: 27th on 1 June 1778 15th on 12 May 1779 12th on 6 May 1780 45th on 28 April 1781 12th on 7 May 1782 The militia order of precedence balloted for in 1793 (Sussex was 24th) remained in force throughout the French Revolutionary War. Another ballot for precedence took place at the start of the Napoleonic War, when Surrey was 48th. This remained in force until 1833. In that year the King drew the lots for individual regiments and the resulting list remained in force with minor amendments until the end of the militia. The regiments raised before the peace of 1763 took the first 47 places, followed by the 22 raised between 1763 and 1783: Sussex was 53rd, moving up one place 52nd in 1855 after artillery militia regiments were removed from the list. Most regiments paid little notice to the additional numeral. Memorial Members of the 3rd Battalion who died in the Second Boer War are commemorated on the Royal Sussex Regiment memorial in Brighton. Regimental museum The Royal Sussex Regiment Museum including its militia units is based at Eastbourne Redoubt in Sussex. See also Sussex Militia Militia (Great Britain) Militia (United Kingdom) Special Reserve Royal Sussex Militia Artillery Royal Sussex Regiment History of Sussex Footnotes Notes References W.Y. Baldry, 'Order of Precedence of Militia Regiments', Journal