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The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot as the 1st and 2nd battalions; the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia became the 3rd (Reserve) and 4th (Extra Reserve) battalions and the ...
2nd Battalion, Malay Regiment – Lt. Col. Frederick Walter Young; 2nd Malaya Brigade; Brig Francis Hugh Fraser 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment – Lt. Col. Edward Barclay Holmes; 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders – Lt. Col. John Heslop Stitt/Richard Gilbert Lees; 2nd Battalion, 17th Dogra Regiment – Lt. Col. Sidney Clermont Scott
1st Battalion, 321st Artillery (1-321) deployed to Vietnam attached to the 2d Brigade, 101st Airborne Division from 12 – 17 December 1967. After 30 days of in-country training, during which the battalion undertook missions in support of the 2d Brigade, the battalion supported Operations Manchester, San Angelo and Atalla.
18th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (3rd City) 19th (Manchester) Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps; 19th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (4th City) 20th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (5th City) 21st (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (6th City) 22nd (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (7th City) 23rd ...
The Army Air Corps (AAC) is the aviation arm of the British Army, first formed in 1942 during the Second World War by grouping the various airborne units of the British Army. Today, there are eight regiments (seven Regular Army and one Reserve ) of the AAC, as well as two independent flights and two independent squadrons deployed in support of ...
The 1st Manchester Rifles, later the 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army recruited in and around Manchester.It served as infantry at Gallipoli, fighting with distinction at the Third Battle of Krithia, and in some of the bitterest battles on the Western Front in the First World War.
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27th (Reserve) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, (from 22nd, 23rd and 24th (Oldham Pioneers) Bn depot companies) became 71st Training Reserve Battalion Almost 10,000 men enlisted in the Manchester Pals battalions, of whom 4,776 were killed.