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The 1st Garrison Battalion, Essex Regiment, was a unit formed from older or unfit men for line of communication duties during World War I. It served at Gallipoli , carrying out a multitude of tasks both at the bases and under fire on the beaches.
While the men donned the black beret of the Royal Armoured Corps, they continued to wear their Essex Regiment cap badge as did all infantry units converted in this manner. [59] During the conversion, surplus personnel were formed into 'R' Company, Essex Regiment, which soon afterwards was designated as V Corps HQ Defence Company. [60]
When the Military Service Act 1916 swept away the Home/Overseas Service distinction, all TF soldiers became liable for drafting overseas if medically fit, and the provisional battalions became numbered battalions of their parent regiments on 1 January 1917. 66th Provisional Battalion became 16th Battalion, Essex Regiment at Fleet, Hampshire ...
During the First World War the British Armed Forces was enlarged to many times its peacetime strength. This was done mainly by adding new battalions to existing regiments (the King's Royal Rifles raised a total of 26 battalions).
Accordingly, the 1st Battalions of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and the Essex Regiment were merged to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) on 2 June 1958, which itself became part of a new "large regiment": the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964.
Essex Regiment: 13th (Service) West Ham West Ham, 27 December 1914 Mayor and Borough of West Ham: 100th Brigade, 33rd Division [44] [82] 14th (Reserve) Brentwood, September 1915 Depot companies of 13th Battalion 23rd Reserve Brigade [82] Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) 15th (Service) Nottingham Nottingham, February 1915
The cap badge was a silver eight-pointed star bearing the castle and key of Gibraltar, with a scroll inscribed "East Anglia". The key and castle was a badge awarded to predecessors of all three regiments for their part in the Great Siege of Gibraltar from 1779 - 1783. [ 7 ]
The War Office began to reorganise surplus AA regiments in the UK into infantry battalions, primarily for line of communication and occupation duties, thereby releasing trained infantry for front-line service. [48] 74th (Essex Fortress) was one of the searchlight regiments selected for conversion, reorganising in the infantry role as 74th ...