The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's...
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Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. As a result of the Defence Review, the 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk...
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Suffolk) Battalion from the 1st Battalion of the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) 2nd (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Lincolnshire and...
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Fitzgerald Wintour (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
military officer who served in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and the Royal Norfolk Regiment. Wintour was commissioned in the British Army in...
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The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British...
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Wars, before being amalgamated with the Royal Norfolk Regiment to form the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) in 1959 which, in 1964,...
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Le Paradis massacre (category Military history of Norfolk)
during the Battle of Dunkirk. Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment, had become isolated from their unit. They occupied and defended...
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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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David Jamieson (VC) (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
holiday retreat in Norfolk. He volunteered in the Territorial Army unit at Dersingham for the 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment, and was commissioned...
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David Thorne (British Army officer) (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
Edward's School, Oxford, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Thorne was commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1952. He was a keen cricketer...
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Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment Private Edward Wake (1892–1915), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment Private Leonard F. Brewster (1898–1918), Norfolk Yeomanry...
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Frank Beck (British Army officer) (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
the Sandringham Company of Volunteers ("E" Company, 5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, Territorial Force), which included grooms, gardeners, farm labourers...
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Sidney Bates (category Royal Norfolk Regiment soldiers)
joined the British Army and served with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment in June 1940 shortly after it returned from being stationed in Delhi...
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Thomas Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
becoming an Honorary Colonel of the Royal Norfolk Regiment. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Norfolk from 1944. Leicester married Lady...
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The Norfolk Yeomanry was a volunteer cavalry (Yeomanry) regiment of Britain's Territorial Army, accepted onto the establishment of the British Army in...
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The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Raised in 1674 as one of three 'English' units in the Dutch Anglo-Scots...
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Eric Hayes (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant into the Norfolk Regiment (later the Royal Norfolk Regiment)...
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Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) which was later amalgamated with the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), 3rd...
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George Gristock (category Royal Norfolk Regiment soldiers)
holding the appointment of company sergeant major in 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment, British Army during the Second World War. During the Battle of...
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Yorkshire Regiment Sergeant Cyril R. Leathes (d.1915), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment Gunner Charles Punchard (1886–1917), 291st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison...
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The Norfolk Regiment of Canada was an infantry regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia (now the Canadian Army). First raised...
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Jack Dye (British Army officer) (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
2013) was a British Army officer. Dye was commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment on 13 September 1940. He took part in the Normandy landings in June...
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John Niel Randle (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
the Royal Norfolk Regiment in May 1940. At the age of 26, he was promoted to temporary captain whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment...
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1953. The Norfolk Regiment (Royal Norfolk Regiment from 1936) amalgamated with the Suffolk Regiment in 1959 to form the 1st East Anglian Regiment, later...
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Ernest John Moeran (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
motor cycle dispatch rider in the 6th (cyclist) battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, and the following year was commissioned second lieutenant. He did...
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Ian Freeland (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Freeland was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Norfolk Regiment (Royal Norfolk Regiment from 3 June...
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John Archer (British Army officer) (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1944. He transferred to the Devon and Dorset Regiment in 1946 and served with the regiment during the Malayan...
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Peter Beck (schoolmaster) (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
second lieutenant into the Royal Norfolk Regiment. During the Second World War, he continued to serve in the same regiment, becoming adjutant of its 1st...
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Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
Campbell's name change is that upon Colin's entry into the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot as an ensign in 1808, his uncle presented him to the Duke...
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Philip Hamond (category Royal Norfolk Regiment officers)
the Norfolk Regiment. Following the end of hostilities, he left Cape Town for England in early June the same year. He rejoined the Norfolk Regiment in...
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