The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (11th, 39th and 54th), usually just known as the Devon and Dorsets, was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed...
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and World War II, the Dorset Regiment was amalgamated with the Devonshire Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. In 2007, it was amalgamated...
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World War and the Second World War. In 1958 the regiment was amalgamated with the Dorset Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment which, in...
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The Rifles (category Rifle regiments)
Infantry and Rifle Regiments of the Light Division as follows: 1st Battalion The Rifles (formed from the 1st Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry...
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Semper fidelis (category United States Marine Corps lore and symbols)
The Devonshire Regiment of the British Army. The motto was further continued on the badges of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment when the Devonshires were...
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Rifle Volunteers (category Infantry regiments of the British Army)
Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and elements of the 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment in consequence...
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the Devonshire Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958. When the 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot...
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The Light Infantry (redirect from Light Infantry (British Army regiment))
the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets, the four regiments would...
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Welsh Regiment. Wessex Brigade: Gloucestershire Regiment, Royal Hampshire Regiment, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment. Lancastrian...
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Oggy Oggy Oggy (category Association football songs and chants)
Team and by members of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. (The field gun competition was discontinued in 1999 after a hundred years of competition and the...
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Devon (redirect from Devonshire (country))
continued to be used in the names of the "Devonshire and Dorset Regiment" (until 2007) and "The Devonshire Association". One erroneous theory is that...
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formed by the amalgamation of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. The Wessex Brigade had previously...
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H. Jones (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment as a second lieutenant. He was promoted to lieutenant on 23 January 1962, captain on 23 July 1966, and major on...
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Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment into its former components, with the Gloucestershire element to amalgamate with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and the...
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was also used for members of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. From March 1902 until November 1905 the Devon and Exeter Gazette ran a series "The Talk...
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Stable belt (section Corps and regiments)
and a few other countries including Denmark, Brazil and Lebanon. The stripes vary by regiment and corps, identifying the wearer's unit. In Brazil and...
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Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (category Light Infantry regiments of the British Army)
Infantry and the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry to form The Light Infantry which was also merged, in 2007, with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the...
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John Wilsey (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
Wilsey was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1959. He served in Northern Ireland between 1976 and 1977, where he was mentioned in...
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Somerset Light Infantry (redirect from 13th Regiment of Foot)
and the Durham Light Infantry to form The Light Infantry. In 2007, however, The Light Infantry was amalgamated further with the Devonshire and Dorset...
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Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Green Jackets and The Light Infantry to form a new large regiment to be called The Rifles. The new regiment...
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Infantry of the British Army (category Infantry units and formations of the British Army)
regiment formed from the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. Sikh Regiment – in 2007, Sikh leaders...
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Ed Stafford (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
Academy Sandhurst in September 1998, and after a year's training he was commissioned in the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment of the British Army as a subaltern...
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Bryan Dutton (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
School and Sandhurst. Dutton was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1963. He served in British Guiana, Libya, Belize, and Germany...
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Special Air Service (redirect from The Regiment)
Cedric Delves, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment 1989 Lt Col John Holmes, Scots Guards n/k Lt Col Jonathan "Jacko" Page, Parachute Regiment 2001 Lt Col Ed...
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Brigadier Cedric Delves (late Devonshire and Dorset Regiment) 1996–1999 Brigadier John Sutherell (late Royal Anglian Regiment) 1999–2001 Brigadier John Holmes...
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Shire (section New York and New England)
Indeed, it was retained by the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment until amalgamation in 2007. Similarly, Dorset, Rutland and Somerset were formerly known as...
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both the Gloucestershire Regiment and Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in the regular army. It was the only reserve regiment in the South West with an...
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Aden, Singapore and British Guiana, between 1953 and 1963. He became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1974. He went...
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Rupert Jones (British Army officer) (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
an undergraduate cadet in 1987 and was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, his father's former regiment. He served his early career in...
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King's Guard (section Women and the guard)
five regiments of foot guards, mounts the King's Guard, while the King's Life Guard is usually provided for by the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment. Since...
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