The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to...
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Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) 4th (Leicestershire) Battalion – 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment. The Royal Anglian Regiment was established...
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Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the Royal Anglian Regiment, of which A Company of the 1st Battalion is known as the Royal Norfolks. The regiment was...
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Warwickshire Regiment (until November 1962), Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Sherwood Foresters. Mercian Brigade: Cheshire Regiment, Worcestershire Regiment, Staffordshire...
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artillery regiments of the Royal Artillery in the Second World War, before being amalgamated with the Derbyshire Yeomanry to form the Leicestershire and Derbyshire...
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John Cridlan Barrett (category Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers)
Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum Collection in the Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester. "Royal Leicestershire Regiment". "Royal Leicestershire Regiment"....
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Chris Keeble (category Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers)
and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. In February 1964 he received a commission into the British Army's Royal Leicestershire Regiment, which was...
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Northamptonshire) and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the Royal Anglian Regiment. The lineage of the Essex Regiment is continued by 'C' Company...
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Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the Royal Anglian Regiment. 'A' Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglians...
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Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire), 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment) on 1 September...
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Desert Rats. The regiment was based in South Wigston, Leicestershire, along with its affiliated Territorial Army unit, B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire...
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Foot) and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to create the present Royal Anglian Regiment. In 1685, the Duke of Norfolk's Regiment of Foot was recruited...
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17th Regiment or 17th Infantry Regiment may refer to: Royal Leicestershire Regiment, also known as the 17th Leicestershire Regiment of Foot, of the British...
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Philip Smith (VC) (category Royal Leicestershire Regiment soldiers)
Dublin. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment now housed in the Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester, England...
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Leicester Town Rifles (redirect from 579th (The Royal Leicestershire Regiment) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery)
become the parent unit of the Territorial Army battalions of the Leicestershire Regiment, which served on the Western Front during World War I. Their successor...
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Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the present Royal Anglian...
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Royal Irish Hussars 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot, later the Royal Leicestershire Regiment 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot, later 2nd Battalion...
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and Northamptonshire), and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the present Royal Anglian Regiment. The regiment was formed on 9 October 1688 in...
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United Kingdom in the Korean War (section Royal Navy)
Warwickshire Regiment 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment 1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment Cavalry...
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The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. It was known as the...
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Frederick Philipse Robinson (category Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers)
raised the Loyal American Regiment, which performed signal service to the royal cause until the peace in 1783. In this regiment young Frederick Philipse...
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Roger Delgado (category Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers)
degree. He served in the Second World War with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Corps of Signals, attaining the rank of major. Delgado worked...
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William Buckingham (category Royal Leicestershire Regiment soldiers)
nearly 16, and was posted to the 2nd Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment. With the regiment, he served on Guernsey and in British India. On the outbreak...
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combining the depots of four regiments: The Royal Warwickshire Regiment The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment The Royal Leicestershire Regiment The Sherwood Foresters...
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Battalion 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) – 3rd Battalion The Royal Leicestershire Regiment – 4th Battalion The Royal Green Jackets – formed 1...
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Anglian Regiment, 2nd East Anglian Regiment, 3rd East Anglian Regiment and The Royal Leicestershire Regiment being merged to create one larger regiment - the...
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The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, previously titled the 6th Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence...
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Richard Prescott (category Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers)
Regiment of Foot on 20 December 1756. He transferred to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on 9 May 1758, and became lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Regiment of...
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Philip Bent (category Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers)
Scottish regiment "for a bit of fun" as the war was anticipated to be over by Christmas. He was commissioned in the Leicestershire Regiment, British Army...
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was amalgamated with the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment (in 1946 re-titled Royal Leicestershire Regiment) to form the British Battalion (Malaya...
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