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    The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994. It traced its...
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  • The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment was a short-lived infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1994 by...
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    MPs for Gloucestershire constituency Gloucestershire County Cricket Club Gloucestershire Police and Crime Commissioner Gloucestershire Regiment High Sheriff...
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  • The 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1694. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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    The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars was a volunteer yeomanry regiment which, in the 20th century, became part of the British Army Reserve. It traced its...
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    imagination of the world", especially the fate of the 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, which was outnumbered and eventually surrounded by Chinese forces...
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    World War II. Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served...
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    a memorial in South Korea that commemorates the actions of the Gloucestershire Regiment and C Troop, 170th Mortar Battery, Royal Artillery, of the British...
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  • The Royal South Gloucestershire Light Infantry (RSGLI), later the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment was a Militia regiment raised in the county of...
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    James Carne (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
    College, Sandhurst and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 3 September 1925. He was promoted to lieutenant on 3 September...
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  • The Rifles (category Rifle regiments)
    Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and the 1st Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. Initially configured in the light...
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    43rd Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps (based on the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment) was the divisional reconnaissance battalion of the 43rd (Wessex)...
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    108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) Gloucestershire Regiment 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of...
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  • The 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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    the Battle of the Imjin River because of the connection with the Gloucestershire Regiment, which formed part of the United Nations contingent in the Korean...
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  • Daniel Burges (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
    commissioned on 21 October 1893 as a second lieutenant into the Gloucestershire Regiment, and was promoted to lieutenant on 8 July 1897. Following the outbreak...
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  • Staffordshire Regiment, The Staffordshire Regiment Museum, accessed and archived 22 July 2019. Battle Honours The Gloucestershire Regiment 28th LXI, accessed...
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  • Francis George Miles (category Gloucestershire Regiment soldiers)
    He was 22 years old, and a Private in the 1/5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed...
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  • final service as a Special Reserve unit of the Gloucestershire Regiment in World War I, the Militia regiments of the county served in home defence in all...
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    The Gloucestershire Regiment was formed in 1881 as a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and at the outbreak of World War I it comprised two regular...
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    becoming a Volunteer, and then later, a Territorial battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment (the 'Glosters'), it fought on the Western Front and in Italy during...
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  • Regiment (29th/45th Foot) – Worcestershire Regiment and Sherwood Foresters Royal Regiment of Gloucestershire and Hampshire – Gloucestershire Regiment...
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  • Würzel (category Gloucestershire Regiment soldiers)
    in Germany and Northern Ireland with the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and had played in the bands Bastard and Warfare. In the early...
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  • Lofty Large (category Gloucestershire Regiment soldiers)
    to join his county regiment (the Gloucestershire Regiment) because of a lack of vacancies, he instead joined the Wiltshire Regiment, with whom he served...
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    ISBN 978-0-850-45727-8. David Scott Daniell, Cap of Honour: The Story of the Gloucestershire Regiment (The 28th/61st Foot) 1694–1950, London: Harrap, 1951.* Major L...
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    had declared war on Germany, Harvey joined the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment as a private. Shortly afterwards, in November, he became a Roman...
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    Hardy Falconer Parsons (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
    temporary second lieutenant in the 14th (Service) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed...
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  • Dorset Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. The Wessex Brigade had previously rejected the formation of a large regiment in...
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    Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
    purchased a commission as an ensign in the 6th Regiment of Foot. He soon went to Scotland with the Sixth Regiment to suppress the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Following...
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    Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) which was again amalgamated, on 27 July 1994, with the Gloucestershire Regiment to create the Royal...
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