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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
1st Volunteer Battalion based in Ulverston, former 10th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps; The 2nd Battalion embarked for South Africa in December 1899, to serve in the Second Boer War, and saw action at the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900. The 3rd and 4th Militia battalions were embodied and embarked for South Africa in February and January ...
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 ...
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 11th, New Army "Service" battalion, was referred to as Bantam battalion because it was predominantly composed of men under the prewar height limit. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] The Volunteer Training Corps were raised with overage or reserved occupation men early in the war, and were initially self-organised into many small corps, with a wide variety of names.
The 6th and 7th Battalions, both Territorial Army battalions, were deployed to France as part of the 156th Infantry Brigade in the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division to provide cover for the withdrawal of troops of the British Expeditionary Force; after the Normandy landings in June 1944, the battalion took part in the North West Europe Campaign ...
As a result, for the 1943 Chindit operation, the battalion was expanded and broken down into reconnaissance platoons for the Chindit columns. [2] In 1944, the battalion was broken down into three detachments for attachment to Special Forces units among the Chindit force. In 1945, the 2nd Burma Rifles was reconstituted as an infantry battalion. [2]
The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry [a] (WCY) was a cavalry unit of the Territorial Force (TF), which had served in World War I.Before the TF reformed on 7 February 1920 the War Office had decided that only a small number of mounted Yeomanry regiments would be required in future, and the remainder would have to be re-roled, mainly as artillery.