BERKSHIRE REGIMENTAL HISTORY (From 1881) Cardwell Reforms 1881 In 1881, under the Cardwell reforms, Infantry Regiments were reorganised and the 49th and 66th Regiments became the 1st and 2nd Battalions of Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Berkshire) Regiment and the 62nd and 99th the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regiment. The […]
King’s Regiment (Liverpool) The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) was one of the oldest infantry regiments of the British Army, having been formed in 1685 and numbered as the 8th (The King’s) Regiment of Foot in 1751. Unlike most British infantry regiments, which were associated with a county, the King’s represented the city of Liverpool, one of only four regiments affiliated to a city in the British […]
Krigssejler Holger Fangel Schwensen`s beretning om sine oplevelser under krigen Indledning Dette er det første og eneste foredrag, jeg vil holde, da jeg de sidste 55 år har forsøgt at fortrænge de oplevelser jeg var ude for fra 1939 – 1945. I 1939 var jeg på sømændshøjskolen i Svendborg, hvor vi lærte sømandsskab og navigation. […]
Ole Frandsen Andersen B-kompagniet, 342 Maskingeværbataillon, US Army I den 11. time på den 11. dag i den 11. måned 1918 kom budskabet om våbenstilstanden som sluttede Den Store Krig. Men det var 11 dage for sent for den frivillige fra Havnelev. Det lille kapel på Lille Heddinge kirkegård Et billede af Ole Frandsen som […]
Link to 70 years ceremony for the air crash 14 Marts 2013 http://www.tv2east.dk/video/2013-03-14-2 The full story of Colin Frederich Chambers, edited by his son Michael Chambers
The London Regiment is a Territorial Army regiment in the British Army. It was first formed in 1908 in order to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions in the newly formed County of London, each battalion having a distinctive uniform. The Volunteer Force was merged with the Yeomanry in 1908 to form the Territorial Army. This resulted from the impending insolvency of the Volunteer Force’s voluntary […]
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was a Irish infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry).It saw service in the South African War, the First World War and the Second World War, before being amalgamated into theRoyal Irish Rangers in 1968. History 1881 – 1914 On 1 July 1881 […]