The 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) was an infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1958 to 1966. The regiment served in the Cyprus Emergency...
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Green Jackets was formed on 1 January 1966 by the amalgamation of the three separate regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade: 1st Green Jackets (43rd and...
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Army battalion and on 7 November 1958, following Duncan Sandys' 1957 Defence White Paper, it was renamed the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd), forming part...
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amalgamated with the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) and the 2nd Green Jackets (King's Royal Rifle Corps) to form the Royal Green Jackets on 1 January 1966...
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Infantry Brigade to the Green Jackets Brigade. The regiment was subsequently renamed as the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) on 7 November 1958. The remaining...
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List of British Regular Army regiments (1962) (category Lists of British Army units and formations)
Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry. Green Jackets Brigade: 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd), 2nd Green Jackets (King's Royal Rifle Corps), 3rd Green Jackets...
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of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (which had been at Cowley Barracks); renamed 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) from 7 November 1958...
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King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) 22 Special Air Service 1st/2nd Gurkhas 1st/7th Gurkhas Jackson, p. 122. Pocock,...
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Peninsula Barracks (category Buildings and structures in Winchester)
Barracks, Winchester to Peninsula Barracks in 1964. The 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) returned to the barracks on 21 April 1964, from Bushfield Camp...
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Minden Barracks (category Buildings and structures in Penang)
Royal Australian Regiment 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) (1962-1964) 2nd Green Jackets (KRRC)/2nd Bn Royal Green Jackets (1964-1966) "Minden Barracks:...
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The Rifles (category Military units and formations established in 2007)
Rifles (formed from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Green Jackets) 5th Battalion The Rifles (formed from the 1st Battalion, Light Infantry) 6th Battalion The...
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became the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd), and in 1966 was merged into the Royal Green Jackets. In 2007, the Royal Green Jackets became part of The Rifles...
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Henry Addison (VC) (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry soldiers)
London Gazette. 2 September 1859. p. 3302. The Gorget. Journal of the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) 1964 Burial location of Henry Addison (Suffolk)...
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Oxford (section Green belt)
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry: 1 October 1945. 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd): 7 November 1958. Royal Green Jackets: 1 January 1966...
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Tod Sweeney (category Royal Green Jackets officers)
Sweeney commanded the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) at Penang from April 1962 to January 1964; during the Brunei Revolt and Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation...
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John Winterton (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry from 1955 to 1958 and Colonel Commandant of the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) from 1958 to 1960...
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SS Nevasa (section Design and construction)
the Middle and Far East including the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) who left Southampton on 7 April 1962 and arrived at Penang on 28 April 1962 via...
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David House (category Royal Green Jackets officers)
officer).[33] House commanded the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) at Penang from January 1964 to December 1964, and in West Berlin to September 1965...
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Edward Jones (British Army officer, born 1936) (category Royal Green Jackets officers)
regiment became the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) in 1958, and was merged into The Royal Green Jackets in 1966, becoming its 1st Battalion. He took...
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Andrew Martin (British Army officer) (category Royal Green Jackets officers)
Martin commanded the 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 43rd and 52nd and the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) in Cyprus from 1957 to...
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Peter Gerahty (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
second-in-command of the 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 43rd and 52nd and the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) from July 1958 to July...
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two other regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade were re-titled the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) and 3rd Green Jackets, the Rifle Brigade (Prince...
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Yorkshire Light Infantry 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade 2nd Battalion...
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Dennis Fox (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
MBE in the New Year Honours. His last regiment was the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) and he retired from the Army in September 1961. He later worked...
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Robert Pascoe (category Royal Green Jackets officers)
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry in the Suez Canal Zone, Osnabrück and in the Cyprus Emergency; including with the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) from...
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Large regiment (section Expansion and contraction)
Battalion The Royal Green Jackets – formed 1 January 1966 from: 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) – 1st Battalion 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle...
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Gerald Lathbury (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
1962 to 1965 as well as Colonel Commandant of both the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) and the Parachute Regiment from 1961 to 1965. In 1965 he participated...
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Robin Evelegh (category Royal Green Jackets officers)
the 1st Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 43rd and 52nd in 1952. He served with the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) in Penang...
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David Wood (British Army officer) (category Royal Green Jackets officers)
Northern Ireland, and Aden. Wood was second-in-command of the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) in Penang, during the insurgency in Brunei and the Confrontation...
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Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) to form the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Oxfordshire Light...
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