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Essex Regiment cap badge, WWI. Active: 21 July 1915–2 May 1919: Country: ... Essex Regiment, was a unit formed from older or unfit men for line of communication ...
While the men donned the black beret of the Royal Armoured Corps, they continued to wear their Essex Regiment cap badge as did all infantry units converted in this manner. [59] During the conversion, surplus personnel were formed into 'R' Company, Essex Regiment, which soon afterwards was designated as V Corps HQ Defence Company. [60]
During the First World War the British Armed Forces was enlarged to many times its peacetime strength. This was done mainly by adding new battalions to existing regiments (the King's Royal Rifles raised a total of 26 battalions).
Accordingly, the 1st Battalions of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and the Essex Regiment were merged to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) on 2 June 1958, which itself became part of a new "large regiment": the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964.
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Meanwhile the 2/6th Battalion had been reformed as 600th (Mobile) HAA Regiment, RA (The Essex Regiment) (TA) The Regimental Headquarters was established at the Drill Hall, Vicarage Lane, East Ham, initially with just "Q" Battery, whilst "P" Battery was raised at the Drill Hall, 110 East Street Prittlewell. "R" Battery was subsequently raised at ...
Plastic cap badges were introduced during the Second World War, when metals became strategic materials.Nowadays many cap badges in the British Army are made of a material called "stay-brite" (anodised aluminium, anodising is an electro-plating process resulting in lightweight shiny badge), this is used because it is cheap, flexible and does not require as much maintenance as brass badges.
[3] [4] The eagle of the French 62nd Regiment was captured by one of the regiment's predecessors at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812. [5] The eagle and garter badge appeared in the centre of the colours presented to the 1st battalion on 30 May 1959. [6] A common cap badge and buttons were worn by all regular battalions of the East Anglian ...