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The 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, a Regular Army unit, had been serving in England since 1931 [56] and, upon the outbreak of the Second World War, was serving alongside the 2nd Battalion, Dorset Regiment and the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in the 5th Infantry Brigade, part of the 2nd Infantry Division.
After their surrender, a large group of soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, and gunners of the 210 Battery, 53rd (The Worcestershire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery as well as French soldiers in charge of a military depot were taken to a barn in La Plaine au Bois near Wormhout and Esquelbecq on 28 May 1940.
14th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment: 16th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment: 1st Battalion, Devon Regiment 15th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment: 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment: 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers: 1st Battalion, Bedford Regiment: 1st Battalion, East Surrey ...
They consisted of men volunteering for Kitchener's New Armies and the battalions became, respectively, the 14th, 15th and 16th (Service) battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. A further battalion, 17th, was formed in June 1915 as a reserve battalion, and was reorganised in the Training Reserve in September 1916 as 92nd Training Reserve ...
2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment; 1st Battalion, Border Regiment (until 4 May 1940) 4th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (until 14 December 1940) 1/8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (from 4 May 1940) 5th Infantry Brigade (detached between 19 July 1944, until 8 August 1944): [55] 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (left 5 ...
1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1946–1962) 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1946–1948} 1st Battalion, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (1946–1958) 2nd Battalion, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (1946–1948) 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment (1946–1963) 2nd Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment (1946–1948)
Men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment receiving rations while on the march in the Ypres Salient, 1915.. The brigade was a unit of the British Army during the First World War formed in September 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the Great War, from units of the Regular Army that had been serving overseas in the British Empire.
In January 1937 Hicks returned to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, which was now back in the United Kingdom and based at Tidworth Camp. He remained with the 2nd Battalion until January 1939, when he transferred again to the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, which was serving in Faizabad at the time. [1]