The Rifles is an infantry regimentofthe British Army. Formed in 2007, it consists of four Regular battalions and three Reserve battalions. Each Regular...
the Dorset Regiment was amalgamated with theDevonshireRegiment to form theDevonshire and Dorset Regiment. In 2007, it was amalgamated with the Royal...
ofthe Queen's Division. Currently, theregiment has two battalions: the 1st Battalion, part ofthe Regular Army, is an armoured infantry battalion based...
20th (East Devonshire) Regimentof Foot in 1782. Theregiment embarked for Holland in August 1799 to take part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland and...
become a battalion of the DevonshireRegiment. Both its active service battalions went to garrison India on the outbreak ofthe First World War, and then...
battalions, plus a territorial battalion, and was created through the merger of three single battalionregiments. The antecedent regiments were, The 1st...
ofthe British Army's line infantry and rifles regiments to a single battalion. Although some regiments temporarily raised new battalions during the early...
This is a listof pals battalions (also called "service" or "locally raised" battalions) ofthe British Army during the First World War. Pre-war Territorial...
after the Second World War, every regiment had at least two battalions. Traditionally, the regular battalions were the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the militia...
with the Gloucestershire Regiment to form the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, which later amalgamated with theDevonshire and...
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...
a Royal regiment. The second battalionofthe Black Watch was sent to the Caribbean but after the losses of Ticonderoga, the two battalions were consolidated...
the latter the Special Reserve; theregiment now had one Reserve and two Territorial battalions. The 1st Battalion remained in India as part ofthe 2nd...
The 1st or East Devon Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, DevonshireRegiment, was a part-time military unit in the maritime county ofDevonshire in the...
appropriate regiments. Listof units ofthe British Army Territorial Force (1908) Originally formed as 1st North Coast Defence Battalion. Originally formed...
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...
for the fighting battalionsoftheregiment in World War I. After 1921 the militia had only a shadowy existence until its final abolition in 1953. The English...
This is a listof nicknames ofregimentsofthe British Army. Many nicknames were used by successor regiments (following renaming or amalgamation). Contents...