The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994. It traced its...
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The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment was a short-lived infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1994 by...
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MPs for Gloucestershire constituency Gloucestershire County Cricket Club Gloucestershire Police and Crime Commissioner Gloucestershire Regiment High Sheriff...
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The 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1694. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars was a volunteer yeomanry regiment which, in the 20th century, became part of the British Army Reserve. It traced its...
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World War II. Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served...
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The 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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imagination of the world", especially the fate of the 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, which was outnumbered and eventually surrounded by Chinese forces...
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14th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (West of England), and the 23rd (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (8th City) raised in 1915...
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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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a memorial in South Korea that commemorates the actions of the Gloucestershire Regiment and C Troop, 170th Mortar Battery, Royal Artillery, of the British...
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James Carne (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
College, Sandhurst and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 3 September 1925. He was promoted to lieutenant on 3 September...
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Reconnaissance Corps (redirect from 56th Reconnaissance Regiment)
43rd Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps (based on the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment) was the divisional reconnaissance battalion of the 43rd (Wessex)...
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becoming a Volunteer, and then later, a Territorial battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment (the 'Glosters'), it fought on the Western Front and in Italy during...
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108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) Gloucestershire Regiment 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of...
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Tank Regiment converted from 6th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 44th Bn, Royal Tank Regiment converted from 6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment...
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The Gloucestershire Regiment was formed in 1881 as a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and at the outbreak of World War I it comprised two regular...
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The Royal South Gloucestershire Light Infantry (RSGLI), later the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment was a Militia regiment raised in the county of...
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Imjin Barracks (category Royal Air Force stations in Gloucestershire)
the Battle of the Imjin River because of the connection with the Gloucestershire Regiment, which formed part of the United Nations contingent in the Korean...
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Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) which was again amalgamated, on 27 July 1994, with the Gloucestershire Regiment to create the Royal...
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Würzel (category Gloucestershire Regiment soldiers)
in Germany and Northern Ireland with the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and had played in the bands Bastard and Warfare. In the early...
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The 12th (Service) Battalion (Bristol's Own) of the Gloucestershire Regiment (the 'Glosters') was a 'Pals battalion' of 'Kitchener's Army' raised immediately...
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Sid Smart (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
then put on hold due to his wartime service. An officer in the Gloucestershire Regiment, Smart saw active service in France and was twice wounded. Smart...
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Infantry of the British Army (section Brigade system, large regiments, disbandings and amalgamations)
Regiment (29th/45th Foot) – Worcestershire Regiment and Sherwood Foresters Royal Regiment of Gloucestershire and Hampshire – Gloucestershire Regiment...
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Michael Rose (British Army officer) (category Gloucestershire Regiment soldiers)
Reserve (TAVR) as a private soldier and was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment TAVR on 17 March 1959, transferring to the Rifle Brigade as a second...
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the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, and from 1 January 1912 until his departure for Somaliland in 1914 Carton de Wiart served as the regiment's adjutant...
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final service as a Special Reserve unit of the Gloucestershire Regiment in World War I, the Militia regiments of the county served in home defence in all...
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Anthony Farrar-Hockley (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
start of the Second World War and enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment, a line infantry regiment of the British Army. The fact that he was underage...
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Army - 20. General Sir John Waters, GCB CBE 5 April 1993 - 1 July 1993 (As Co-DSACEUR) British Army Gloucestershire Regiment 5 April 1993 1 July 1993...
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Francis George Miles (category Gloucestershire Regiment soldiers)
He was 22 years old, and a Private in the 1/5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed...
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