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6th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment: 66 and 39 Columns 7th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment: 29 and 35 Columns 12th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment: 12 and 43 Columns 3rd West African Field Ambulance: Support (From disbanded 70th British Infantry Division); Javelin British 14th Infantry Brigade. O.C. Brigadier Thomas Brodie: 59 HQ column
The forces for the second Chindit operation were called Special Force, officially 3rd Indian Infantry Division, or Long Range Penetration Groups, [17] but the nickname, the Chindits, had already stuck. The new Chindit force commenced training in Gwalior. Men were trained in crossing rivers, demolitions and bivouacking. Calvert and Fergusson ...
The remainder of the regiment were drafted to 1st Battalion Essex Regiment, which had also returned from the Chindit expedition, and continued as infantry until the end of the war> However, the Chindits did not see action again and 'Special Force' was disbanded in February 1945. [25] [59] [71] [72] [73]
At the start of World War II the 4th battalion, along with the 6th, 7th and 12th battalions, was grouped with the 1st Sierra Leone Rifles and 1st Battalion, Gambia Regiment, to form the 6th (West Africa) Infantry Brigade. The battalion remained in Nigeria while the first three battalions fought the Italians in East Africa. The battalion ...
The 77th Indian Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the Indian Army during World War II.It was formed in India in June 1942. The brigade was assigned to the Chindits and organised into eight columns for operations behind enemy lines in Burma.
On 22 June 1940, No. 2 Commando was turned over to parachute duties and on 21 November, re-designated the 11th Special Air Service Battalion, with a parachute and glider wing. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was 38 men of this battalion who on 10 February 1941 took part in Operation Colossus the first British airborne operation. [ 5 ]
Absorbed into 11th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment on 18 June 1918 Volunteer Training Corps [12] 1/1st Battalion Cumberland Volunteer Regiment later 1/1st Battalion Cumberland and Westmoreland Volunteer Regiment later the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Border Regiment: Carlisle: Disbanded post war 2/1st Battalion Cumberland Volunteer Regiment: Workington
The battalion was reformed by the Territorial Army in 1947 as the 15th (Scottish) Parachute Battalion (TA). In 1967 it was re-designated 15 PARA (SV) and came under command of the 44th Parachute Brigade. [4] In June 1974, Warrant Officer Class 2 John Gordon McRae became the first territorial to be awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. [5]