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List of battalions of the Devonshire Regiment information


This is a list of battalions of the Devonshire Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958.

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List of battalions of the Devonshire Regiment

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This is a list of battalions of the Devonshire Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958. When the 11th (North...

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The Rifles

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The Rifles is an infantry regiment of the British Army. Formed in 2007, it consists of four Regular battalions and three Reserve battalions. Each Regular...

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Dorset Regiment

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the Dorset Regiment was amalgamated with the Devonshire Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. In 2007, it was amalgamated with the Royal...

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Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

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of the Queen's Division. Currently, the regiment has two battalions: the 1st Battalion, part of the Regular Army, is an armoured infantry battalion based...

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Lancashire Fusiliers

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20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot in 1782. The regiment embarked for Holland in August 1799 to take part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland and...

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Exeter and South Devon Volunteers

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become a battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. Both its active service battalions went to garrison India on the outbreak of the First World War, and then...

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Mercian Regiment

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battalions, plus a territorial battalion, and was created through the merger of three single battalion regiments. The antecedent regiments were, The 1st...

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Large regiment

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of the British Army's line infantry and rifles regiments to a single battalion. Although some regiments temporarily raised new battalions during the early...

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List of pals battalions

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This is a list of pals battalions (also called "service" or "locally raised" battalions) of the British Army during the First World War. Pre-war Territorial...

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Regiment

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after the Second World War, every regiment had at least two battalions. Traditionally, the regular battalions were the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the militia...

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Wiltshire Regiment

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with the Gloucestershire Regiment to form the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, which later amalgamated with the Devonshire and...

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Royal Scots

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end of 1914, the regiment stood at a strength of 24 battalions; another six Territorial battalions and three New Army battalions (one of bantams) were formed...

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42nd Regiment of Foot

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a Royal regiment. The second battalion of the Black Watch was sent to the Caribbean but after the losses of Ticonderoga, the two battalions were consolidated...

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Green Howards

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the latter the Special Reserve; the regiment now had one Reserve and two Territorial battalions. The 1st Battalion remained in India as part of the 2nd...

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East Devon Militia

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The 1st or East Devon Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the...

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List of Provisional Battalions of the Territorial Force

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appropriate regiments. List of units of the British Army Territorial Force (1908) Originally formed as 1st North Coast Defence Battalion. Originally formed...

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1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteers

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The 1st Devonshire Artillery Volunteers and its successor units served in the British Army's Reserve Forces from 1859 to 1961. During World War I it carried...

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North Staffordshire Regiment

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the newly formed South Staffordshire Regiment. The 64th Regiment of Foot was originally raised in 1756 as the 2nd Battalion of the 11th (Devonshire)...

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Bedfordshire Militia

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for the fighting battalions of the regiment in World War I. After 1921 the militia had only a shadowy existence until its final abolition in 1953. The English...

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Dorset Militia

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(R) Bn Wiltshire Regiment. The training staff remained part of the Dorsets. The battalion was transferred to the Devonshire Regiment on 1 November 1917...

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List of nicknames of British Army regiments

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This is a list of nicknames of regiments of the British Army. Many nicknames were used by successor regiments (following renaming or amalgamation). Contents...

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