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 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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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John Clegg (actor) (category Wiltshire Regiment soldiers)
as a private in the Wiltshire Regiment in Hong Kong, followed by a commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Hampshire Regiment. Clegg later became...
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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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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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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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Stephen Saunders (British Army officer) (category Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment officers)
British Army in 1965 and was commissioned into the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment having completed his officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst...
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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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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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commanded a battalion in the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) and was for a time in command of 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot. As of 2010[update]...
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Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. A TRF serves to quickly identify the regiment or corps of the wearer, in the absence of a cap badge. It is similar to...
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Edward Nelson, 5th Earl Nelson (category Wiltshire Regiment officers)
(1908–1970). Edward Nelson was a Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment with whom he served on the Nile Expedition of 1885–86. During the...
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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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Springers – 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot – The Wiltshire Regiment – The Lincolnshire Regiment The Staffordshire Knot – 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire...
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Salisbury (redirect from Salisbury, Wiltshire)
locally /ˈsɔːzbəri/ SAWZ-bər-ee) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers...
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