The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second...
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was established to serve as the county regiment for the following counties: Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire Leicestershire Lincolnshire...
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(West Essex) Regiment of Foot to form the Essex Regiment in 1881. The regiment was raised by Colonel James Long as James Long's Regiment of Foot in 1741...
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The South Essex Regiment, later the Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers, is a fictional infantry line regiment in the British Army that was created by Bernard...
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The Essex Scottish was an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army until 1954. Founded in 1885 as the 21st Essex Battalion of Infantry, it went through several...
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the dangerously depleted South Essex Regiment in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. The 1st Battalion, South Essex Regiment, is desperately short of men...
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Group. The Windsor Regiment (RCAC) originated in Windsor, Ontario, on 15 December 1936 as The Essex Regiment (Tank), named after Essex County. It was redesignated...
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The 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881. It was originally raised in Northumbria...
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and Hertfordshire Regiment and the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment amalgamated on 2 June 1958 to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot). From...
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West Ham (redirect from 13th (Service) Battalion, Essex Regiment (West Ham))
of local volunteers, the 13th (Service) Battalion (West Ham) of the Essex Regiment. The battalion first paraded in February 1915 at St Luke's Church in...
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161st (Essex) Brigade 1/4th Battalion, Essex Regiment 1/5th Battalion, Essex Regiment 1/6th Battalion, Essex Regiment 1/7th Battalion, Essex Regiment 161st...
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Colchester Garrison (section Essex Regiment)
battalions from the Essex Regiment, the Suffolk Regiment, the Norfolk Regiment, the Royal Berkshire Regiment, the Cambridgeshire Regiment, the Royal Fusiliers...
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War II. Its lineage is maintained by 36 (Essex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, part of 71 (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals. After Britain was...
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The 6th Battalion, Essex Regiment was a volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army. First formed in the docks of East London in 1860, it served as infantry...
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South Essex Light Company and fight until the French are finally driven out of Spain. Private Batten is a soldier in the South Essex Regiment, later...
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The 7th Battalion, Essex Regiment was a volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army. First formed in the eastern suburbs of London in 1860, it served...
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John McDougall (VC) (category Essex Regiment soldiers)
approximately 21 years old, and a private in the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot (later The Essex Regiment), British Army during the Second China War when the...
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Augustus Newman (category Essex Regiment officers)
major by 1939. He was 37 years old and a lieutenant colonel in The Essex Regiment, British Army, attached to No. 2 Commando during the Second World War...
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Francis Newton Parsons (category Essex Regiment officers)
in Dover – 10 March 1900) was educated at Dover College, joined the Essex Regiment and served in the Second Boer War. He was an English recipient of the...
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Essex and Kent Scottish is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. The regiment was formed in 1954 by the amalgamation of The Essex...
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OCLC 59637091. Martin, Colonel Thomas Alexander (1952). The Essex Regiment, 1929–1950. Brentwood: Essex Regiment Association. OCLC 4045659. Mead, Richard (2007)....
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William McWheeney (category Essex Regiment soldiers)
McWheeney was 23 or 24 years old, and a sergeant in the 44th Regiment of Foot (later The Essex Regiment), British Army during the Crimean War when the following...
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(Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot Essex Regiment 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot Sherwood...
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Frank Bernard Wearne (category Essex Regiment officers)
Wearne was 23 years old, and a second lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment, British Army, attached to the 10th Battalion during the Great War when...
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Border Regiment Private Arthur Morter (1886–1915), 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment Private Sidney Morter (1887–1915), 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment Private...
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Battalion, Border Regiment 88th Brigade: 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment 5th Battalion...
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6th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment 8th Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment 10th Battalion, The Essex Regiment The brigade left the division on 22...
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the Nexon–Brive line The Pompadours, a nickname for the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot A shade of pink A type of fabric produced by warp printing...
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Campaign the Essex Regiment were part of the Chindits. A famous member of the regiment was Arthur Percival, who was commissioned into the regiment in 1916...
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Leslie Banks (category Essex Regiment soldiers)
in The Dangerous Age. During the First World War he served with the Essex Regiment. He received injuries that left his face partially scarred and paralysed...
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