The Brecknockshire Battalion was a Welsh unit of the British Army's auxiliary forces. First raised in 1859, it became a Volunteer Battalion of the South...
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numbered. 1st Battalion (Reg) 2nd Battalion (Reg) 3rd (Reserve) Battalion (SR) – formerly the 3rd Militia Battalion The Brecknockshire Battalion (TF) - formerly...
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Monmouthshire Regiment (redirect from 4th Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment)
1st Volunteer Battalion being formed at the same time from the 1st Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteers). Although the volunteer battalions saw no active service...
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The Brecknockshire Militia, later the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county...
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1917 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment 2–0 Brecknockshire Battalion 1918 Training Reserve Battalion 1–0 Signal Service Depot 1919 1st Battalion of Brecknockshire...
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The regiment now had one SR battalion (the 3rd (Reserve) Bn at Brecon Barracks) and one TF battalion (the 1st Brecknockshire Bn at Conway Street drill hall...
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This unit evolved to become the 1st (Brecknockshire) Battalion, The South Wales Borderers in 1908. The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August...
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certification of fitness. Specifically, the vast majority of the 1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers were deployed to Normandy at the end of...
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transferred to Northern Army (Home Forces). The battalion absorbed the 2/1st Brecknockshire Battalion of the South Wales Borderers in November 1916. During...
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their local infantry regiment's reserve battalion. As the army expanded rapidly, further reserve battalions and brigades were formed. After conscription...
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Coast Defence Battalion. Originally formed as 2nd North Coast Defence Battalion. Originally formed as 3rd North Coast Defence Battalion. Originally formed...
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Newport 5th Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Ross-on-Wye The Brecknockshire Battalion, The South Wales Borderers, Brecon 2nd Battalion, The Herefordshire...
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Light Infantry were added to the Middlesex Brigade, and the 1st Brecknockshire Battalion of the South Wales Borderers also sailed with the brigade. The...
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7th and 8th Middlesex, and 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers (from Brecon) as an extra battalion for garrison duties in Aden. The...
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cyclist battalion. The South Wales Brigade was organised as follows: Brigade Headquarters at 29 Windsor Place, Cardiff Brecknockshire Battalion, South...
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Madhya Pradesh, India. It was built by men of the Warwickshire and Brecknockshire regiments, the first British army units to be based in Mhow, as a garrison...
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List of units of the British Army Territorial Force (1908) (section Infantry and cyclist battalions)
provide facilities for sub-units of the Leicestershire Yeomanry and the 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. A number of units, particularly those attached...
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Raised by local initiative in Monmouthshire and Brecknockshire, it became the 11th (Service) Battalion of the local regiment, the South Wales Borderers...
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David Hughes-Morgan (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
commission in 1906, but in 1907 joined the 1st (Volunteer) Battalion (later the Brecknockshire Battalion), resigning in 1911. During the First World War he returned...
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Lancashire Regiment) 50th Provisional Battalion (from the Home Service details of 1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and 4th Bn, King's...
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Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk (category Lord-lieutenants of Brecknockshire)
Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. On 15 May 1867, his company commander was promoted to command the 1st Administrative Battalion, Brecknockshire Rifle...
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Mortar Battery 5th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers 2nd Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment...
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Regiment, Royal Artillery (3rd Battalion The Monmouthshire Regiment) in 1947 and evolved to become the 638th (Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire) Light Anti-Aircraft...
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Bedfordshire Militia Berkshire Militia Brecknockshire Militia Royal Buckinghamshire Militia (King's Own) Cambridgeshire Militia Cardiganshire Militia Carmarthenshire...
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Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk (category Lord-lieutenants of Brecknockshire)
followed him as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Honorary Colonel of the 3rd (Brecknockshire & Monmouthshire) Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment in the...
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On 8 August 1894 he was commissioned major in the 1st (Brecknockshire) Volunteer Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and on 1 November 1895 was appointed...
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Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk (category Brecknockshire Militia officers)
the battalion (now the Brecknockshire Battalion in the Territorial Force) on 20 March 1912. On the outbreak of World War I he mobilised the battalion at...
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multi-battalion regiments. In England, Wales and Scotland, each regiment was to have two regular or "line" battalions and two militia battalions. In Ireland...
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wars. It later became a battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry and supplied thousands of recruits to the fighting battalions during World War I. After...
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in 211 (South Wales) Battery, later C (Glamorgan Yeomanry) Troop F (Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire) Troop – formed in 1967 in 211 (South Wales) Battery...
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