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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 1st Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteers were a unit of the British Army raised from 1859 onwards as a group of originally separate Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVCs). They later became the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment and saw action in the Gallipoli and Palestine campaigns during the First World War.
The 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) was a short-lived infantry regiment of the British Army from 1960 to 1964. Its lineage is continued by the Royal Anglian Regiment .
After the war, in 1920, it was converted to infantry and became the 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, in the Territorial Army. The battalion saw extensive service in the Second World War , fighting in France in 1940, Tunisia from 1942–43 and later Sicily and Italy from 1943–45 before ending the war in May 1945 in ...
– The Northamptonshire Regiment [1] [58] – 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment (Army Reserve) The Steel Heads – 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment [1] [58] The Stickies – The Royal Ulster Rifles (83rd & 86th) Stink – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers (responsible for poison gas and flame ...
After the Second World War the British Army had fourteen infantry depots, each bearing a letter. The depots were territorially organised, and Infantry Depot G at Colchester was the headquarters for the county regiments of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk.
48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot 50th (The Northamptonshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers 50th (The Northamptonshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery
The two Northamptonshire volunteer regiments became the East and West Regiments, with a new Central Regiment formed under the command of Lt-Col Thomas Samwell. The Castle Ashby and Northampton Volunteer Infantry refused to transfer and resigned; the Kettering Volunteer Infantry continued to serve as volunteers under the old regulations.