The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1959. The regiment was created...
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Somerset Light Infantry and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and was itself merged with three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade in 1968...
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Regiment of Foot to form the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1881. The regiment was first raised by Colonel Edward Fox as Edward Fox’s Regiment of Marines...
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regiment was amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry which was again amalgamated, in 1968...
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Harry Patch (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
after completing training to the 7th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, serving as an assistant gunner in a Lewis gun section. Patch...
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Albert's) The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The King's Shropshire...
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Roy Urquhart (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry until 1942. Then he was appointed as a staff officer in the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division, which...
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Thomas Edward Rendle (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
Rifles. His VC is displayed at the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum in Victoria Barracks, Bodmin, Cornwall. "No. 29037". The London Gazette (Supplement)...
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Victoria Barracks, Bodmin (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry)
Reforms, the 32nd and 46th Regiments amalgamated to form the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry with its depot in the barracks in 1881. The keep became the...
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(Cornwall) Regiment of Foot to form the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1881, becoming the 2nd Battalion of the new regiment. The regiment was raised...
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Fusiliers guarded the section of railway line at Irene. Cornwall Hill takes its name from the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry brigade. These Cornish men...
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William Oxenham (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
doing so His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, Bodmin, Cornwall as are his campaign and good conduct medals. "No...
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Clement Leslie Smith (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
old, serving in the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, attached to the 5th Somaliland Light Infantry during the Fourth Somaliland Expedition...
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Indian Brigade and served in Mesopotamia) 4th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at Truro (served in Aden, later with 75th Division in Palestine)...
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Herbert Thomas Dobbin (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
CBE DSO (1878-1946) was a British Infantry officer of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He commanded a number of Battalions during the First World...
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Michael Alexander (British Army officer) (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
II Prisoner of War held captive at Oflag IV-C, and later a writer. Alexander was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from Sandhurst...
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1918 6th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 6th Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (disbanded February 1918) 6th Battalion...
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Horace Augustus Curtis (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
September he joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) at Bodmin, with his service number being 15833. However, within days of enlisting in the DCLI...
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Operation Clipper (category Land battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
Regiment (attacking Tripsrath and Rischden) 5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (attacking Hochheid) 5th Battalion, Dorset Regiment (detached...
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William Dowling (VC) (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
32 years old and a private in the 32nd Regiment of Foot (later the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when he was...
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Peter Rodd (category Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford)
younger son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan). His father was the only son of Maj. James Rennell Rodd of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and the...
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west of Florence in Bagno a Ripoli. It was the site of the Battle of Incontro on 8 August 1944 when the 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry plus...
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Robert Goldsmith (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
who became colonel of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Goldsmith was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1927. He attended...
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George Butterworth (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, but he soon accepted a commission as a subaltern (2nd Lieutenant) in the 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, and...
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Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
Regiment of Foot, before joining the newly created Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry when it was founded in 1881. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71...
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Herbert Augustine Carter (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
Cross is displayed at the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, Bodmin, Cornwall, England. Mee, Arthur (1937) Cornwall. London: Hodder & Stoughton; p...
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consisting of three companies of the 32nd Regiment of Foot (later the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry), several companies of the 13th Native Infantry and detachments...
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Drake's Drum (category History of Devon)
Infantry Division, which included 4th and 5th Battalions of The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and the 9th battalion The Devonshire Regiment, took Drake's...
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Reade Godwin-Austen (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
Sandhurst. Due to a lack of promotion in his own regiment, Godwin-Austen transferred to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and commanded the 2nd Battalion...
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Alec Newboult (category Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
World War, he served with the Royal Naval Division and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, being awarded the Military Cross in 1918. He then joined...
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