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    The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by...
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  • The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, which is recruited from five of the...
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  • battalions of the Cheshire Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 2007. When the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot became...
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  • Battalion, Cheshire Regiment was a Territorial Force (TF) unit of the British Army. Formed in 1908 from Volunteer units recruited in Cheshire since 1859...
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  • amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment to become the 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment. In 2014, the 3rd...
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    The Cheshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment that can trace its history back to 1797 when Sir John Leicester of Tabley raised a county regiment of light...
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  • with the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, in 1999, to form the King's and Cheshire Regiment; A and V Companies amalgamated as A (King's)...
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    Arthur Percival (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
    1951. He continued his relationship with the Cheshire Regiment being appointed Colonel of the Cheshire Regiment between 1950 and 1955; an association continued...
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    division recruited mainly in Wales, but also in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire. The Territorial Force (TF) was formed on 1 April 1908 following the enactment...
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    Hugh Colvin (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
    was 30 years old, and a second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took...
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  • other armed units such as provincial frontier-security regiments and the volunteer regiments of the reserves. In practice, however, the native soldiers...
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    William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
    mother. Captain in the service of the 4th/5th Cheshire Regiment (Territorial Army) High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1923 Governor of Lever Brothers and Unilever...
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    33rd (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment was a British Territorial Army regiment of the Royal Corps of Signals. The regiment was originally a TAVR...
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    Regiment) to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/44th Foot). In September 2007, the regiment amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment...
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  • and King's and Cheshire Regiment. Only the London Regiment was retained as a separate TA regiment. The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment already had a...
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    ISBN 1-84342-643-9. Stephen McGreal, The Cheshire Bantams: 15th, 16th and 17th Battalions of the Cheshire Regiment, Barnsley:Pen & Sword, 2006, ISBN 1-84415-524-2...
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    Colonel Bob Stewart - CO of the Cheshire Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Duncan - CO of the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Lieutenant Colonel...
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  • The King's and Cheshire Regiment was a regiment of the British Territorial Army, with headquarters in Warrington, Cheshire. The regiment was formed in...
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    Chester Castle (category Castles in Cheshire)
    battalions of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot. Under the Childers Reforms, the 22nd regiment evolved to become the Cheshire Regiment with its depot in...
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    The history of Cheshire can be traced back to the Hoxnian Interglacial, between 400,000 and 380,000 years BP. Primitive tools that date to that period...
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    Sherwood Foresters Regiment were amalgamated with the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the new Mercian Regiment. While stationed...
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    Bob Stewart (politician) (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
    at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment as a second lieutenant on 25 July 1969. His service number was 487588...
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    amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment to form the Mercian Regiment. The regiment was formed as part...
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  • Worcestershire Regiment to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, which in 2007 was amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Staffordshire...
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  • Nantwich in Cheshire. The regiment then moved into the Chester Garrison, where it stayed for the remainder of its embodiment. Late in 1813 the regiment was redesignated...
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    John Graves Simcoe (category Cheshire Regiment officers)
    1773. In 1770, Simcoe entered the British Army as an ensign in the 35th Regiment of Foot, and his unit was dispatched to the Thirteen Colonies. Later, he...
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  • Sherwood Foresters Regiment would be amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the new Mercian Regiment. In August 2007...
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  • The Cheshire Artillery Volunteers was a brigade of Volunteer artillery units raised in the county of Cheshire in the mid-19th century. Their successors...
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    Thomas Alfred Jones (category Cheshire Regiment soldiers)
    was born in Runcorn, Cheshire, on 25 December (Christmas Day) 1880. He was a private in the 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, British Army during...
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    in mid-20th century with visiting overseas teams. The First Worcester Regiment became first team to clinch the title. Mohun Bagan became the first non-army...
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