Publications
A Henfield 'Die Hard', by Robert A. Holder, published June 2003 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 15 no. 6, article, pp.259-261) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15249] & The Keep [LIB/508827] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Daniel Caplin (1786-1828), the son of John and Mary Caplin of Woodmancote, married Ann Holder on 7 July 1813 at Woodmancote. Six years earlier Ann Holder had a baseborn son baptised with the name Daniel on 27 March 1808. The article covers the years between 1808 and 1813 from the enlistment of Daniel into the Company of the 2nd battalion of His Britannic Majesty's 57th Regiment of Foot, the West Middlesex Regiment, his service in WWI including being badly wounded on 25 May 1811, his return to Portsmouth and then Chichester Barracks where he married Ann.