The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers...
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1958 by the amalgamation of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) which had been raised in 1685 and the Manchester Regiment which traced its history to 1758. In...
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The Manchester Regiment was a Jacobite unit raised during the 1745 Rebellion and the only significant number of English recruits willing to fight for...
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and is the regiment's Colonel in Chief. The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment is the county regiment for Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside...
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21st (Wigan) Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army recruited...
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HMS Manchester, three ships of the Royal Navy USS Manchester, two ships of the United States Navy Manchester Regiment, also known as The Manchesters, a...
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Vineyard. Captain William Thomas Forshaw of the 1/9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in this battle from...
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with the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment. The regiment was raised in Menorca (then called Minorca) by Lieutenant-General...
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battalions of the Manchester Regiment. 1st Manchester Pals became 16th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (1st City) 2nd Manchester Pals became 17th...
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Battalion, Manchester Regiment 1/6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment 1/7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment 1/8th Battalion, Manchester Regiment 1/I East Lancashire...
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auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England just before the Crimean War. It later became part of the Manchester Regiment. Although...
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amalgamated with the 96th Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment in 1881. The formation of the regiment was prompted by the expansion of the army as a...
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The 111th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Manchester Regiment) (111 RAC) was an armoured regiment of the British Army, raised by the Royal Armoured Corps...
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Manchester Regiment in 1958 to form the King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester), which was later amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and...
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Keppoch's regiment was stated to be a deaf-mute; John MacLennan of Glengarry's had club feet; Hugh Johnston and Matthew Matthews of the Manchester Regiment were...
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Rex King-Clark (category Manchester Regiment officers)
previous five years, he had been serving as a subaltern officer in The Manchester Regiment commanding an infantry platoon in Yorkshire, Egypt, Palestine and...
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accessed and archived 22 July 2019. Museum of the Manchester Regiment: Battle Honours of The Manchester Regiment, Tameside Metropolitan Borough, accessed and...
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the battalions were raised (the Dorsetshire Regiment raised eleven battalions, whilst the London Regiment managed to raise eighty-eight battalions). Regular...
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5th Battalion, Border Regiment 111th Regiment RAC (Manchester Regiment) from 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment 112th Regiment RAC (Foresters) from 9th...
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Wilfred Owen (category Manchester Regiment officers)
he was commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) in the Manchester Regiment. Initially Owen held his troops in contempt for their loutish behaviour...
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the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) to form the Duke of Lancaster Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)...
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Issy Smith (category Manchester Regiment soldiers)
as a reservist in 1914. As a corporal in the 1st Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, Smith was engaged in the Second Battle of Ypres. On 26 April 1915...
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Old Street drill hall, Ashton-under-Lyne (category Manchester Regiment)
become the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in 1888 and the 9th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in 1908. The battalion was mobilised at...
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The 1st Manchester Rifles, later the 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army recruited in and...
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Jack Churchill (category Manchester Regiment officers)
Military College, Sandhurst, in 1926 and served in Burma with the Manchester Regiment. He enjoyed riding a motorbike in Burma. Churchill left the army...
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instrumental in raising pals battalions for the King's Regiment (Liverpool) and the Manchester Regiment, which formed the basis of these newly formed brigades...
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1920 during an uprising against the British, when 300 men of the Manchester Regiment w defeated in the city.[citation needed] Hillah is located near the...
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Douglas Glover (politician) (category Manchester Regiment officers)
Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, TA; in 1945 he was appointed to the command of the 2nd Battalion Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment in North-West...
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(Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (West of England), and the 23rd (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (8th City) raised in 1915 and sent...
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fleur-de-lis was the cap badge of the Manchester Regiment from 1922 until 1958, and also its successor, the King's Regiment up to its amalgamation in 2006....
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