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The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to 1688.The regiment saw service for three centuries, in numerous wars and conflicts such as both World War I and World War II, before being amalgamated, in September 1964, with the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), the 2nd East ...
It incorporates the museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, and has a range of exhibits illustrating post-medieval and contemporary Leicester. [1] The museum is close to the 15th century Magazine Gateway and within the precincts of the medieval 'Newarke', the 'New Work' of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster.
Royal Leicestershire Regiment; Searchlight regiments of the Royal Artillery; Military units and formations established in 1940; This page was last edited on 10 June ...
The barracks became the depot for the two battalions of the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot as well as the 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. [3] Following the Childers Reforms, the barracks became the depot of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment in 1881. [3]
4th Royal Tank Regiment 1916 - 1993 Memorial Altar; 8th Army Memorial; 8 Group Path Finder Force; ... Royal Leicestershire Regiment Memorial; Leicestershire Tigers;
44th (The Leicestershire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers; 44th (The Leicestershire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery; 52nd (Graduated) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment; 52nd (Service) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment; 110th Brigade (United Kingdom) 121st (The Leicestershire Regiment) Light Anti-Aircraft ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) – King's Own Royal Border Regiment March (De ye ken John Peel) (Quick); The Red Rose (Slow) The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – The British Grenadiers (Quick); Rule Britannia (Slow) The Royal Anglian Regiment – Rule Britannia/Speed the Plough (Quick); The Northamptonshire (Slow)