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The 6th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment was an infantry battalion of the British Army.Part of the Volunteer Force, later the Territorial Force (renamed the Territorial Army in 1920), the battalion was part of the Hampshire Regiment and recruited from Portsmouth, Hampshire.
On 1 November 1938 the battalion became 44th Battalion (6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment), Royal Tank Regiment, soon afterwards redesignated as 44th Royal Tank Regiment (44th RTR). After the Munich Crisis the TA was rapidly doubled in size, and 44th RTR formed 50th Royal Tank Regiment (50th RTR) as a duplicate unit in April 1939.
The 1/6th Battalion (64 SL Regt) was reconstituted as 599th (Mobile) HAA Regiment, RA (Essex Regiment) (TA). The Regimental Headquarters was established at the Drill Hall, Mount Road, Chingford and here was raised "P" and "Q" Batteries, the first Commanding Officer being Lt-Col Sir John Ruggles-Brise RA (TA), later Lord Lieutenant of Essex.
The 6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (6th Royal Warwicks) was a unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) from 1908 until 1961. Recruited from Birmingham, it served as infantry in some of the bloodiest fighting on the Western Front and in Italy during World War I.
The 6th Battalion, Royal Scots, was a unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Force. Beginning as a Volunteer unit formed from teetotallers in the city of Edinburgh in 1867, it later became affiliated to the Royal Scots .
The 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment was a Territorial Force (TF) unit of the British Army.Formed in 1908 from Volunteer units recruited in Cheshire since 1859, it was one of the first TF units to go to the Western Front in World War I.
The High Peak Rifles, later 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, was a volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army.First raised in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in 1860, it fought as infantry on the Western Front during the First World War and as an air defence unit during the Second World War.
The battalion was authorized on 10 August 1914, and embarked for Britain on 29 September 1914. It formed the nucleus of the Remount Depot on 20 January 1915, and the remainder of the battalion's personnel were absorbed by the Canadian Cavalry Depot, CEF, on 6 March 1915 to provide reinforcements for the Canadian Corps in the field. The ...