The Wiltshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 62nd (Wiltshire)...
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Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment was a short-lived infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1994 by the amalgamation...
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The Royal Wiltshire Militia was an auxiliary regiment of the British Army from the English county of Wiltshire. From their formal organisation as Trained...
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The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RWY) was a Yeomanry regiment of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom established in 1794. It was disbanded...
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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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The 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, which was raised in 1756 and saw service through the eighteenth and...
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The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed on 9 June 1959 after...
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Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. Like its predecessor regiment, however, this was on 1 February 2007, merged with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal...
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Devonshire and Dorset Regiment would integrate Gloucestershire elements of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment to form a new battalion...
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Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment and Gloucestershire Regiment became the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, again with a single battalion...
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Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment at Dorchester (joined 42nd Indian Brigade and served in Mesopotamia) 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment at Trowbridge (joined...
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Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, the Royal Green Jackets and The Light Infantry to form a new large regiment, The Rifles. In June 1667 Henry...
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Stable belt (section Disbanded regiments)
other countries including Denmark, Brazil and Lebanon. The stripes vary by regiment and corps, identifying the wearer's unit. In Brazil and Lebanon they are...
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Fovant Badges (category Military history of Wiltshire)
Fovant are: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (only central part remaining) YMCA, restored in 2018. 6th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (City of London...
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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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Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, The Light Infantry and the Royal Green Jackets to form a new large regiment, The Rifles. The Territorials...
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Somerset Light Infantry (redirect from 13th Regiment of Foot)
and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets to form The Rifles. The regiment was one of...
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the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment to form the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. The new regiment inherited the back badge, and...
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collections of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, which had a museum at Brock Barracks in Reading, and the Wiltshire Regiment, which had a museum at Le Marchant...
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Rifle Volunteers (category Infantry regiments of the British Army)
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and elements of the 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment in consequence of the...
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George Brudenell-Bruce, 6th Marquess of Ailesbury (category Wiltshire Regiment officers)
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry; the Middlesex Yeomanry; the Wiltshire Regiment; and the Royal Field Artillery Lord Cardigan...
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(Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1824. It amalgamated with the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot to...
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The Light Infantry (redirect from Light Infantry (British Army regiment))
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets, the four regiments would amalgamate...
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Salisbury (redirect from Salisbury, Wiltshire)
Salisbury (locally /ˈsɔːzb(ə)ri/ SAWZ-b(ə-)ree) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers...
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Richard Luce, Baron Luce (category Wiltshire Regiment officers)
service in Cyprus 1955–1957, serving as a second lieutenant with the Wiltshire Regiment. His service number was 449150. He then briefly joined the Overseas...
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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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William Platt (category Wiltshire Regiment officers)
lieutenant-colonel rank came in 1930 simultaneous with his transfer to the Wiltshire Regiment to command its 2nd Battalion. On completion of this tour of duty in...
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Nick Welch (British Army officer) (category Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment officers)
officer of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment in 2002 and, having been promoted to colonel on 30 June 2006, he became...
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Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot Manchester Regiment 63rd (The West...
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Japanese garrison of Ramree consisted of the II Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment (Colonel Kan'ichi Nagazawa), part of the 54th Division, with artillery...
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