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The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three.
By the war's end, the Essex Scottish Regiment had suffered over 550 war dead; its 2,500 casualties were the most of any unit in the Canadian army during the Second World War. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] In 1954, as a result of the Kennedy Report on the Reserve Army , this regiment was amalgamated with The Kent Regiment to form The Essex and Kent Scottish ...
Essex Regiment (2 C, 26 P) G. Gloucestershire Regiment (4 C, 39 P) Gordon Highlanders (2 C, 7 P) H. ... Pages in category "Regiments of the British Army in World War II"
During the Second World War, The Essex Scottish mobilized the Essex Scottish Regiment, CASF, for active service on 1 September 1939. It embarked for Great Britain on 16 July 1940 and was re-designated the 1st Battalion, The Essex Scottish Regiment, CASF, on 7 November 1940. The battalion took part in the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942.
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 Regiment.
1/4th Battalion, Essex Regiment; 1/5th Battalion, Essex Regiment; 1/6th Battalion, Essex Regiment; 1/7th Battalion, Essex Regiment; 161st Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps (formed 23 April 1916, moved to 54th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 19 April 1918) 161st Trench Mortar Battery (formed by 17 May 1917) 162nd (East Midland) Brigade
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 11th Medium Regiment was a Royal Artillery unit, formed in the British Army during World War II. First raised in 1940 as infantry of the Essex Regiment, it was converted to the medium artillery role in 1942 and fought in the campaign in North West Europe. It was disbanded after the war.
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