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The 13th Light Horse Regiment was raised in Victoria in March 1915. Being the thirteenth regiment raised within the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) they were soon given the nickname the "Devil's Own" regiment, [1] and comprised twenty-five officers and 497 other ranks serving in three squadrons, each of six troops. [2]
The Australian squadrons of XXII Regiment were amalgamated with the 13th Australian Light Horse Regiment. For a month in 1918 during the battles of Hundred Days Offensive , the 13th was attached to the III British Corps, while Sir Alexander Godley briefly commanded III Corps and regarded the regiment as his personal troops.
The units included military district brigades established in 1776, county regiments, four battalions, and one independent corps of light horse. Four regiments were located in counties that became part of the Southwest Territory in 1790 and later Tennessee in 1796.
Royal Anglian Regiment: 13: 13th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1822 [37] 13th (1st Somersetshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1822–1842 [37] 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1842–1881 [37] [38] 1685 Raised 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Huntingdon's ...
The brigade was reformed in January 1917 – with the 4th Light Horse Regiment in place of the 13th – and joined the division on formation. [ 8 ] The 5th Mounted Brigade was formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908 as the 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade with three yeomanry regiments: the Warwickshire Yeomanry , the Royal ...
The Elegant Extracts – 7th Regiment of Foot later Royal Fusiliers and 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry [1] [3] [10] (in 1811, many of the regiment's officers were court-martialled and replaced by officers drawn from other regiments. [35]) Eliott's Light Horse – 15th The King's Hussars [1]
13th Regiment or 13th Infantry Regiment may refer to: 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment , a unit of the French Special Forces Somerset Light Infantry (13th Regiment of Foot), a unit of the British Army
On 26 Nivôse Year III (29 January 1793), the regiment was amalgamated with several other volunteer units: Dragoons of the Manche (English Channel), Dragoons of Seine-Inférieure, Dragoons of Calvados, and the cavalry companies of the Polish and Batavian Legion (Dutch) to form the new 13th Light Horse Regiment (French: 13ème Régiment de ...