The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by...
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The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, which is recruited from five of the...
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amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment to become the 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment. In 2014, the 3rd...
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with the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, in 1999, to form the King's and Cheshire Regiment; A and V Companies amalgamated as A (King's)...
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33rd (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment was a British Territorial Army regiment of the Royal Corps of Signals. The regiment was originally a TAVR...
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battalions of the Cheshire Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 2007. When the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot became...
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Hugh Colvin (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
was 30 years old, and a second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took...
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Battalion, Cheshire Regiment was a Territorial Force (TF) unit of the British Army. Formed in 1908 from Volunteer units recruited in Cheshire since 1859...
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division recruited mainly in Wales, but also in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire. The Territorial Force (TF) was formed on 1 April 1908 following the enactment...
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Sherwood Foresters Regiment would be amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the new Mercian Regiment. In August 2007...
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The Cheshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment that can trace its history back to 1797 when Sir John Leicester of Tabley raised a county regiment of light...
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Arthur Percival (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
1951. He continued his relationship with the Cheshire Regiment being appointed Colonel of the Cheshire Regiment between 1950 and 1955; an association continued...
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amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment to form the Mercian Regiment. The regiment was formed as part...
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two King's Companies of the King's and Cheshire Regiment, to form 4th Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, with the KORBR lineage being maintained...
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Thomas Alfred Jones (category Cheshire Regiment soldiers)
was born in Runcorn, Cheshire, on 25 December (Christmas Day) 1880. He was a private in the 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, British Army during...
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The King's and Cheshire Regiment was a regiment of the British Territorial Army, with headquarters in Warrington, Cheshire. The regiment was formed in...
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The history of Cheshire can be traced back to the Hoxnian Interglacial, between 400,000 and 380,000 years BP. Primitive tools that date to that period...
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Brigade: Cheshire Regiment, Worcestershire Regiment, Staffordshire Regiment. Welsh Brigade: Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Welsh Regiment. Wessex...
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Henry Kelly (VC) (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
lieutenant in the Pioneer Corps from December 1940, transferring to the Cheshire Regiment in October 1941. From October 1943 until February 1944, he was in...
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Sherwood Foresters (redirect from The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment))
Worcestershire Regiment to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, which in 2007 was amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Staffordshire...
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Regiment) to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/44th Foot). In September 2007, the regiment amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment...
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Foot Cheshire Regiment 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment of Foot Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921 23rd Regiment of...
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Colonel Bob Stewart - CO of the Cheshire Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Duncan - CO of the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Lieutenant Colonel...
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10th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers (1st Gwent) (redirect from 51st (Graduated) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment)
transferred to works battalions of the King's (Liverpool Regiment) and the Cheshire Regiment or to munitions work, 13th SWB forming its own Works Company...
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(Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot which he held until 1853, when he transferred to succeed his brother Charles as colonel of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot...
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Database> Cheshire> Birkenhead". Retrieved 23 July 2020. "4th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment during the Great War". Retrieved 23 July 2020. "Cheshire Regiment -...
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Thomas Neely (category Cheshire Regiment soldiers)
stature, he was posted to the Cheshire Regiment's Bantam Battalion, but later transferred to The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, part of 76th Brigade, 3rd...
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William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
mother. Captain in the service of the 4th/5th Cheshire Regiment (Territorial Army) High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1923 Governor of Lever Brothers and Unilever...
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1916) 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment (joined June 1918) 58th Brigade 9th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment (left February 1918) 9th (Service)...
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amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) to form the Mercian Regiment. Today the traditions...
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