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See Post-World War II 2nd 1857 France, North Africa, Burma [15] See Post-World War II Supplementary Reserve 3rd 1760 See Post-World War II Territorial Army 4th, (redesignation of 4th/5th Battalion) 1859 France, Malta, Greece [16] See Post-World War II 5th (The Weald of Kent) 31 March 1939, as a duplicate of 4th Battalion
141 RAC was raised in November 1941 by the conversion to the armoured role of the 7th Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), a hostilities-only battalion raised in July 1940. The battalion had been assigned to the 209th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) , serving alongside the 8th, 9th and 10th battalions of the Buffs. [ 1 ]
The 2/4th Battalion, the 2/5th (Weald of Kent) Battalion, the 3/4th Battalion and the 3/5th (Weald of Kent) Battalion all remained in England throughout the war while the 10th (Royal East Kent and West Kent Yeomanry) Battalion was formed in Egypt in February 1917 and then transferred to France as part of the 230th Brigade in the 74th Division.
The brigade was formed for service in the United Kingdom on 13 October 1940 by No 9 Infantry Training Group in the South West Area of Southern Command.Under the name of 209th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) it was initially composed of newly raised battalions of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
This is a list of regiments within the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War.. On the creation of the corps in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, it comprised those regular cavalry and Territorial Army Yeomanry regiments that had been mechanised, [1] together with the Royal Tank Regiment. [2]
The 89th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, (89th LAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of the British Army during World War II.Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Buffs in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1941.
The East Kent Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) was an auxiliary [a] regiment raised in Kent in South East England.From its formal creation in 1760 the regiment served in home and colonial defence in all of Britain's major wars until 1918, seeing active service in the Second Boer War and supplying thousands of reinforcements to the Buffs during World War I.
2nd Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (from 4 May 1940 until 2 July 1941 then transferred to 132nd Infantry Brigade) C Company, 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment (Machine Gun Company) (from 1 August 1943 until 6 January 1944) 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment (from 1 December 1944) 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (from 2 December ...