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Capt. William D. Wood, Cornwall Volunteer Cavalry, c.1863. Cornwall Troop of Volunteer Militia Cavalry – raised on 15 February 1856, under Capt. James J. Dickinson, with Lt. William D. Wood and Cornet John Kewan. The troop provided an honour guard for the visit of the Prince of Wales to Dickinson's Landing in 1860. This troop was disbanded in ...
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The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a cadet organisation based in the United Kingdom.It is a voluntary youth group which is part of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets.The ATC is largely composed of individual units known as squadrons.
The Cornwall Fortress Royal Engineers, was a volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers formed in 1908. ... In the new year, 509 Bty formed a Training Troop, which ...
The Army Cadet Force (ACF) is a cadet organisation based in the United Kingdom.It is a voluntary youth group sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (British Army).Local units of the ACF, called Detachments, are based in towns and villages across the UK and formed of those cadets and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers (CFAVs) parading together at that location.
First DCLI Cemetery, The Bluff in Belgium. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1959.. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, by the merger of the 32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot and the 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot.
Cornwall Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery – formed January 1940, reorganised as 523rd (Cornwall) Coast Regiment July 1940 [163] [181] Devonshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – reorganised as 566th, 567th and 568th (Devon) Coast Regiments April 1941 [182] [183]
In the evening the 5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (5th DCLI) of 214th Brigade and the 7th Royal Tank Regiment (7th RTR) attacked the hill and reached the hilltop and woods nearby, which brought the four 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division brigades onto the ridge. To the north of Éterville, troops of the 3rd Canadian Division had ...