Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, a Regular Army unit, had been serving in England since 1931 [56] and, upon the outbreak of the Second World War, was serving alongside the 2nd Battalion, Dorset Regiment and the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in the 5th Infantry Brigade, part of the 2nd Infantry Division.
They consisted of men volunteering for Kitchener's New Armies and the battalions became, respectively, the 14th, 15th and 16th (Service) battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. A further battalion, 17th, was formed in June 1915 as a reserve battalion, and was reorganised in the Training Reserve in September 1916 as 92nd Training Reserve ...
1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment: 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders: 1st Battalion, East Lancashires: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers: 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment
6th (Cyclist) Bn, Royal Sussex Regiment: Sutherland-shire: 1st Sutherland (The Sutherland Highland) VRC (part) 5th (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Bn, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) (part) Warwickshire 1st VB, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (double battalion) 5th Bn, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
When the Volunteers were subsumed into the Territorial Force (TF) in 1908 as part of the Haldane Reforms, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Birmingham Rifles became the 5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and 6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, respectively and the cyclist company was disbanded, while 'U' Company and the cadet ...
He was commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1886. Elkington served with the West African Frontier Force, with British forces in the Second Boer War and in India. In 1914 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and given command of his regiment's 1st battalion.
On graduation in September 1908 he was commissioned into the 1st Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a second lieutenant, [25] and first saw overseas service later that year in India. [24] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1910, [26] and in 1912 became adjutant of the 1st Battalion of his regiment at Shorncliffe Army Camp. [24]
6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1832 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot 1832–1881 [29] [30] 1685 Raised 12 December 1673, in Ireland for Dutch service. Came onto the English establishment temporarily in 1685 and permanently in 1688. [30] 1881: The Royal Warwickshire Regiment: 7: 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot ...