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In 1992, the 3rd Battalion was disbanded and the old Essex connection ceased. However, infantry recruits from Essex who wish to serve with others from their county are assigned to companies in the 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment. C (Essex) Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment continues the Essex link. [70]
1st Battalion, Essex Regiment (1946–1958) 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment (1946–1948) 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment (1946–1960) 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment (1946–1948) 1st Battalion, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (1958–1960) 1st Battalion, 3rd East Anglian Regiment (1958–1964)
The 3rd battalion's nickname of "The Steelbacks" is taken from one of its former regiments, the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot who earned the nickname for their stoicism when being flogged with the cat-o'-nine tails ("Not a whimper under the lash"), a routine method of administering punishment in the Army in the 18th and early 19th ...
In a military dictionary of 1802, the word Depot is given multiple meanings: primarily it is said to describe 'any particular place in which military stores are deposited for the use of the army'; but 'it also signifies an appropriated fort, or place, for the reception of recruits, or detached parties, belonging to different regiments'. [1]
3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, a regular force infantry battalion; 3rd Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment, a battalion of the British Army; 3rd Battalion (Australia), an infantry battalion of the Australian Army; 3rd Battalion 1st Marines, an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps; 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines, an ...
The Suffolk battalion became 10th (Reserve) Battalion, and 94th Bde became 6th Reserve Brigade, which re-assembled at Colchester in May 1915. 10th (Reserve) Bn later absorbed the depot companies of the 12th (Service) Bn Suffolk Regiment (East Anglian), a K5 'Bantam battalion' formed at Bury St Edmunds in July 1915. As well as training drafts ...
The 153rd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (153 RAC, sometimes known as 153 (Essex) Regt RAC) was an armoured regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps, part of the British Army, and was raised during the Second World War. The regiment saw brief but intense action in the invasion of Normandy before being broken up to provide replacements to other units.
After the war, the brigade and the division were disbanded in 1919. However, the brigade was reformed, as the 53rd Infantry Brigade, on 18 September 1939, after the outbreak of the Second World War, in the Territorial Army from the redesignation of the 163rd Infantry Brigade, originally part of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division.