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All battalions of the East Anglian Brigade wore a common cap badge, with each unit having a distinctive collar badge, coloured lanyard and stable belt.The 2nd East Anglian Regiment wore a collar badge combining elements of the insignia of the two merged regiments: a sphinx and the battle honour Talavera for the Royal Lincolns and Northamptons respectively.
The Northamptonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1960. In 1960, it was amalgamated with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire), which was amalgamated with the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), the 3rd East Anglian ...
The 2nd East Anglian Regiment wore collar badges consisting of a sphinx on a tablet inscribed "Egypt" over a scroll with the battle honour Talavera and a black lanyard The 3rd East Anglian Regiment wore collar badges depicting a Napoleonic eagle enclosed within the Garter and a pompadour purple (claret purple) lanyard
The Northamptonshire Regiment remained at the barracks until it merged with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) in 1960.
The Royal Anglian Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Army.It consists of two Regular battalions and one Reserve battalion. The modern regiment was formed in 1964, making it the oldest of the line regiments now operating in the British Army, and can trace its history back to 1685.
2/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (joined February 1915 from 2nd East Anglian Division to replace 1/1st Cambridgeshires, returned to 2nd East Anglian Division in April of that year) [30] 1/10th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Hackney) (from April 1915)
East Anglian Division: 69th (2nd East Anglian) Division: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk: Second-line division lost territorial association early 1918 [27] [28] 55th West Lancashire Division: 57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division: Lancashire and Liverpool [29] [30] 56th ...
2nd Infantry Regiment (South Korea) - Korean War unit; 2nd Guards Field Artillery - Imperial German Army World War I unit; 2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia) - World War II unit; 2nd Regiment of Light Cavalry Lancers of the Imperial Guard (the "Red Lancers" - a Napoleonic French unit, originally raised as the Guard Hussars of the ...