Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The regiment also had a distinctive stable belt, black with purple stripes edged in amber, a combination of those of the two constituents. [8] The collar badges and lanyard of the 3rd East Anglians continued to be worn by the 3rd battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment after the 1964 amalgamation.
Accordingly, the 1st Battalions of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and the Essex Regiment were merged to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) on 2 June 1958, which itself became part of a new "large regiment": the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964.
Although the regular battalion was merged into the 3rd East Anglian Regiment in 1958, the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment name continued in the Territorial Army for a further fourteen years. On formation of the 3rd East Anglians, the territorial battalion was redesignated as the 5th Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment (TA).
The Royal Anglian Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Army.It consists of two Regular battalions and one Reserve battalion. The modern regiment was formed in 1964, making it the oldest of the line regiments now operating in the British Army, and can trace its history back to 1685.
The 3rd East Anglian Regiment wore collar badges depicting a Napoleonic eagle enclosed within the Garter and a pompadour purple (claret purple) lanyard In 1963, the Royal Leicestershire Regiment was transferred from the Forester Brigade.
The Royal Anglian Regiment – formed 1 September 1964 from: 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) – 1st Battalion; 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) – 2nd Battalion; 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) – 3rd Battalion
East Anglian Brigade: 1st, 2nd and 3rd East Anglian Regiments; Forester Brigade: Royal Warwickshire Regiment (until November 1962), Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Sherwood Foresters. Mercian Brigade: Cheshire Regiment, Worcestershire Regiment, Staffordshire Regiment. Welsh Brigade: Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Welsh Regiment.
Band of the 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment [15] Band of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment [15] Band of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment [15] Territorial Army. Kohima Band of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment – 5 PWRR [16] (formed by redesignation of the Band of the Queen's Regiment – overseen by 5 QUEENS [17])