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A 6-pdr anti-tank gun of No. 26 Anti-Tank Platoon, 1st Battalion, Border Regiment, during the Battle of Arnhem, 20 September 1944. The gun was at this moment engaging a German PzKpfw B2 (f) tank, and successfully knocked it out. The 2nd Battalion was serving in British India on the outbreak of war.
When the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot amalgamated with the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot, to become The Border Regiment in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, four pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Cumberland and Westmorland were integrated into the structure of the regiment.
In January 1916, 1/6th Gordons returned to GHQ troops in exchange for 1/6th Bn Cheshire Regiment, but this battalion left the brigade for 39th Division in February, after which 20th Bde reverted to the normal four-battalion formation. In line with a new organisation for infantry brigades, it formed a Machine-Gun Company and a Trench Mortar ...
1st Battalion Essex Regiment: 44 and 56 Columns 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding): 33 and 76 Columns 4th Battalion Border Regiment: 34 and 55 Columns 60th (North Midland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery: 60 and 68 Columns (fighting as infantry) 12th Field Company Royal Engineers & Medical Detachment: Support
18th Battalion (3rd City) Manchester Regiment 2nd Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers Pioneers: 11th Battalion (St.Helens Pioneers) Prince of Wales's Volunteers
Column of the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders marching to the trenches along the Becordel–Fricourt road, France, October 1916. The 7th Division was a Regular Army formation that was formed in September 1914 by combining units returning from garrison outposts in the British Empire at the outbreak of the First World War the previous month.
The battalion amalgamated with the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, Queen's Lancashire Regiment, in 1999, to form the Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers; HQ and C Companies amalgamated to form A (Tobruk) (King's Own Royal Border Regiment) Company, and A and D Companies amalgamated to form C (Sicily) (King's Own Royal Border Regiment) Company, of the ...
The brigade now comprised only two battalions, the 1st Border Regiment and the 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment, with Brigadier Philip "Pip" Hicks, in command, Brigadier Hopkinson having been promoted to major-general and given command of the 1st Airborne Division from Major-General Browning. [11]