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After serving in home defence, the Essex Brigade (containing the 1/4th, 1/5th, 1/6th and 1/7th battalions and now numbered the 161st (Essex) Brigade in 54th (East Anglian) Division) landed at Suvla Bay in August 1915 in an attempt to restart the stalled Gallipoli Campaign. The four Essex battalions saw some hard fighting, but lost even more men ...
[1] [5] [7] Major Stuart Goode (4th Bn, Bedfordshire Regiment) took over as CO, and was confirmed in the rank of temporary Lt-Col on 15 October. The battalion was reinforced by men and boys from the Royal Naval Division , and later by a party attached from 1/7th Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers , and by Australian troops, so that two additional ...
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1/6th Bn Essex Regiment (64th Searchlight Regiment) HQ, 441 and 442 SL Coys at the Cedars, West Ham, raised from Bn HQ, HQ Wing, A, B and C Coys 6th Essex. 443 SL Coy at Chingford, raised as a new unit and housed from early 1939 in a new Drill Hall built at Mount Road. 2/6th Bn Essex Regiment (65th Searchlight Regiment)
2/6th Battalion, Essex Regiment – disbanded in January 1918 [4] 2/7th Battalion, Essex Regiment – broken up on 10 October 1917 to provide drafts to 67th (2nd Home Counties) Division; 4/1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment – duplicate of 2/1st Bn, brought up to strength with drafts from 3/1st Bn and joined the brigade to replace 2/4th Essex
The 153rd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (153 RAC, sometimes known as 153 (Essex) Regt RAC) was an armoured regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps, part of the British Army, and was raised during the Second World War. The regiment saw brief but intense action in the invasion of Normandy before being broken up to provide replacements to other units.
The Essex Regiment chose to designate its battalions '1/' and '2/' as it did in the First World War. During 1939 the 6th Battalion, Essex Regiment duplicated and both the 1/6th and 2/6th battalions became the 64th and 65th Searchlight Regiment respectively, but still remained part of the Essex
Elements fought the British Army on 19 April 1775, the engagement that started the battle for independence and an active duty regiment saved General George Washington's Army after the Battle of Long Island in August 1776. [2] The same element helped the American cause to remain alive in December 1776 during the Battle of Trenton. They manned ...