The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994. It traced its...
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The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment was a short-lived infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1994 by...
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The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars was a volunteer yeomanry regiment which, in the 20th century, became part of the British Army Reserve. It traced its...
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The 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1694. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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MPs for Gloucestershire constituency Gloucestershire County Cricket Club Gloucestershire Police and Crime Commissioner Gloucestershire Regiment High Sheriff...
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The Royal South Gloucestershire Light Infantry (RSGLI), later the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment was a Militia regiment raised in the county of...
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imagination of the world", especially the fate of the 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, which was outnumbered and eventually surrounded by Chinese forces...
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World War II. Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served...
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James Carne (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
College, Sandhurst and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 3 September 1925. He was promoted to lieutenant on 3 September...
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a memorial in South Korea that commemorates the actions of the Gloucestershire Regiment and C Troop, 170th Mortar Battery, Royal Artillery, of the British...
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The Rifles (category Rifle regiments)
Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and the 1st Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. Initially configured in the light...
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108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) Gloucestershire Regiment 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of...
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Reconnaissance Corps (redirect from 56th Reconnaissance Regiment)
43rd Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps (based on the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment) was the divisional reconnaissance battalion of the 43rd (Wessex)...
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The 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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becoming a Volunteer and later Territorial Force battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment (the 'Glosters'), it fought on the Western Front and in Italy during...
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The Gloucestershire Regiment was formed in 1881 as a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and at the outbreak of World War I it comprised two regular...
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The Gloucestershire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. Before World War I it comprised two regular battalions, two reserve battalions...
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Würzel (category Gloucestershire Regiment soldiers)
in Germany and Northern Ireland with the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and had played in the bands Bastard and Warfare. In the early...
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Francis George Miles (category Gloucestershire Regiment soldiers)
He was 22 years old, and a Private in the 1/5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed...
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Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment and Gloucestershire Regiment became the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, again with a single battalion...
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final service as a Special Reserve unit of the Gloucestershire Regiment in World War I, the Militia regiments of the county served in home defence in all...
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Daniel Burges (category Gloucestershire Regiment officers)
commissioned on 21 October 1893 as a second lieutenant into the Gloucestershire Regiment, and was promoted to lieutenant on 8 July 1897. Following the outbreak...
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to the Commandos Association. Manchester Regiment (New 1st Battalion) (1944–1945) Gloucestershire Regiment (1944–1945) Life Guards Royal Horse Guards...
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ISBN 978-0-850-45727-8. David Scott Daniell, Cap of Honour: The Story of the Gloucestershire Regiment (The 28th/61st Foot) 1694–1950, London: Harrap, 1951.* Major L...
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Infantry of the British Army (section Brigade system, large regiments, disbandings and amalgamations)
Regiment (29th/45th Foot) – Worcestershire Regiment and Sherwood Foresters Royal Regiment of Gloucestershire and Hampshire – Gloucestershire Regiment...
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F. W. Harvey (redirect from Laureate of Gloucestershire)
had declared war on Germany, Harvey joined the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment as a private. Shortly afterwards, in November, he became a Roman...
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Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) which was again amalgamated, on 27 July 1994, with the Gloucestershire Regiment to create the Royal...
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the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, and from 1 January 1912 until his departure for Somaliland in 1914 Carton de Wiart served as the regiment's adjutant...
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Dorset Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. The Wessex Brigade had previously rejected the formation of a large regiment in...
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with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, the Royal Green Jackets and The Light Infantry to form a new large regiment, The Rifles...
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