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The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in ... (3/4th-3/8th) battalions. Three service battalions (9th, 10th and 11th) and one ...
8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment: 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment: 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment: 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry: 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry: 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment: 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment: 14th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry: 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters ...
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.
Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 10th (Service) Battersea Battersea, 3 June 1915 Mayor and Borough of Battersea: 124th Brigade, 41st Division [35] [36] 11th (Service) Lambeth Lambeth, 16 June 1915 Mayor and Borough of Lambeth: 123rd Brigade, 41st Division [35] [36] 12th (Reserve) Brixton, October 1915 Depot companies of 10th and 11th Battalions
After a two-hour pause, the second phase would begin, with three companies of the 10th Battalion Essex Regiment leap-frogging through the Norfolk positions, following a creeping barrage to the final objectives from Meunier House to Nobles Farm, 500 yd (460 m) beyond the Brewery. If the attack succeeded, the third phase would begin with the ...
In May 1941, the Divisional Headquarters and elements of the division (notably the 4th Cavalry Brigade), together with a battalion of infantry from the Essex Regiment (the 1st Battalion), a mechanised regiment from the Arab Legion and supporting artillery was reorganised as Habforce for operations in Iraq including the relief of the base at RAF ...
The following units served in the division. [1]53rd Brigade. 10th (Service) Battalion, Essex Regiment 8th (Service) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment (disbanded February 1918) 8th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (disbanded February 1918)
During the First World War the British Armed Forces was enlarged to many times its peacetime strength. This was done mainly by adding new battalions to existing regiments (the King's Royal Rifles raised a total of 26 battalions).