Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles. CULLEN. 5th - Northumberland Fusiliers. It was fought between mixed French, British and Dominion forces and the German Empire in the Somme River valley in northern France. The regiment was created in 1881, as the Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment), by the amalgamation of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot. The 2nd Bn was one of two Regular battalion formed originally in 1881, and were attacking Ovillers on the first day of the Somme offensive where they sustained 437 casualties. Killed in action in Flanders, France on 27th July 1918. 18084 Private Thomas Duker, 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers Private H. T. Edwards, 7th Battalion East Surrey Regiment 54154 Private D. Egan M.M. Private 14611113, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. The regiment… Buried in GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS, Somme, France. The Royal Berkshire Regiment. George Ernest. Son of William and Alice M. Clarke, of Calais St. I am trying to find out more information about my great grandfather, who died in WW1. A few View larger image Permissions. 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards Killed in action 27th March 1918, age 22 Commemorated on Arras Memorial, France Private George Smith - 15792 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment Killed in action 22nd July 1917 Buried in Pholosophe British Cemetery, France Private Albert W Thody - T/207893 10th Battalion, The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, 1st and 2nd Battalions. U. 100. Site Updated: 15/11/2021 William Hunt 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (d.20th October 1917) William Hunt was a 38 year old father of seven children conscripted in 1916. Princess Charlotte of Wales's. ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT. 2nd battalion Berkshire regiment ww1 - Unit War Diaries - The Great War (1914-1918) Forum. 22nd October : In front line East of Gueudecourt. The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot. So he joined them late on. 19737. Its gallantry three years later at Tofrek (1885) in the . He was killed in action on 1 July 1916 in the first day of fighting in the Battle of the Somme near the town of Albert. During the 1881 reforms, a new county regiment for Berkshire was formed by merging the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment and the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment. For example, to search for a battalion in the Northumberland Fusiliers, you need only search using the word 'Northumberland'. 1st Foot - The Royal Scots. 4th Bn were Territorials - ie pre WW1 they were a part-time battalion. In typical British county regiments, the 1st and 2nd Battalions were regular army, the 3rd was the special reserve . Son of William and Helen Doherty; husband of Margaret May Doherty, of Gretton, Northamptonshire. 3rd Spec. When searching for unit numbers, use cardinal numbers (i.e. Headstone bears inscription "May his soul rest in the Lord." 1/5th 1/6th 10th Battalion 117th Battery, 26th Brigade 11th Battalion 122nd Battery 12th Battalion 13th Battalion 14th Battalion 14th Service Bn. 6th - Royal Warwickshire. By 1901, William (from Pamber Heath), aged 36 and a carter on a farm, was living with Annie 1800 - 1979. 200627 Serjeant Charlie Benn, 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. South Lancashire Regiment, 2nd Battalion. The regiment had been captured by the Japanese Army when Singapore fell on 15 February 1942 The Fallen in WW1 who are not on the War Memorial Ernest AKERS Private, 2nd Battalion, Princess of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) Army no. John Nisbet served in 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers and came from Brougham Street, Edinburgh. Enlisted in Pershore, Went out on 20th August 1916. 2nd Battalion was a pre-war Regular battalion. as opposed to ordinal numbers (i.e. He was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment in 1898 and by the time of the outbreak of WW1 had risen to the rank of Major. He was the son of Herbert and Mary Lovesey of Winterbourne Bassett. 19th October : Between Gueudecourt and Le Transloy. Description. This is the order of battle for the Battle of the Somme fought from 1 July to 18 November 1916 as one of the main engagements of the First World War. He was killed in action on 1 July 1916 in the first day of fighting in the Battle of the Somme near the town of Albert. Husband of Dora May Botting of Jubilee Cottages, Broad Street, Cuckfield, Sussex, UK. The Gloucestershire Regiment The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994. Thomas Gilbert Matthias, DSO, MID, Croix de Guerre, Major, 5th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Unfortunately the 'New Army' battalions shared the Regulars number sequence. 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment. Killed in action 11th November 1916. The London battalions formed the London District, which consisted principally of the 1st and 2nd London Divisions.. First World War. 7. The 8th Royal Berkshire Battalion was formed in Reading in September 1914 as part of K3 and attached as Army troops to the 26th Division. BOLTON, O. £340 WW1 1914-15 Star Trio + Wound Badge (76771) to 10273 CPL. Imperial war Museum image Q53377 Battalions of the New Armies. 27923 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment Achiet le Grand Extension IV. COLLINS FRANK M M 02/12/17 Lance Corporal Royal Berkshire Regiment 2nd Bn. The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot. Medal Trio and Plaque to 203295 Cpl F. Rollason, 2/5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1125) 285.00 Quick View Royal Berkshire Regiment (9) Royal Dorset Yeomanry (1) Royal Engineers (110) Royal Field Artillery (72) Royal Fusiliers (13) Royal Garrison Artillery (33) Royal Horse Artillery (5) Royal Horse Guards (1) Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (5) Royal Irish Fusiliers (6) Royal Irish Rifles (3) Royal Marine Light Infantry (9) Royal Munster Fusiliers (1) 25th Brigade / 8th Division . A WW1 'Battle of Cambrai' Casualty (K.I.A.) British Army WW1 Service Records, 1914-1920 CONNOR W A D C M 28 15/10/17 sergeant Royal Berkshire Regiment 2nd Bn. History of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment. 5th (Service) Battalion Pas-de-Calais, France. Latest item produced by the Regimental Museum. Burma WWII Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay! 1st July : Attack of Ovillers. Went to Sutton Veny in May 1915. 8th Battalion Manchester Regiment, attached 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Date of death: 28/05/1918 Jackson, Hugo Harrison Orderly Friends' Ambulance Unit Date of death: 27/05/1918 Cooper, William Randolph 2nd Lieutenant 4th Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment . Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles. Died 26 January 1945. The Royal Berkshire Regiment, March 10th to 12th 1945. He was 21. I've got the below details: Name: George Charles Stephens Rank: Lance Corporal Service No: 201834 Regiment/Service: Royal Berkshire Regiment 2nd Bn. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936. Killed in action on the 13th July 1916 during a raid on the German trenches at Croix Barbee, aged 19. 23rd and 24th October : Attacks on Zenith Trench. Well worth the buy. A CD recording of the final Parade of the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment in Brock Barracks in 1959. 1st Battalion deployed to Egypt in 1882. Upton's WW2 medals are privately named and do not include a Burma Star, this is either missing from the group, or for some reason he did not go with the Battalion into Burma. Also includes photographs of men and graves from WW1. Red Cross Registration card confirms that he was serving 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, D Coy, 13th Platoon, when taken prisoner at Juvincourt 27th May 1918.He was re-patriated 1st January 1919. 8th of August 1915, left Division and landed at Le Havre. HANSON. Lance Corporal, PO/1451 (S). Northamptonshire . C.W. Essex Regiment, 2nd Battalion. Born in Ross-on-Wye, Hereford and enlisted in Reading. Reports on the Battle. Remembered Today: 86309 Private William John NAGLE Australian Sea Transport Services who died 08/01/1920 PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY Egypt. Tracing the men who fought in the Burma theatre of WWII. The Battalion took up its assembly position in accordance with Brigade Operation Order No. A974 Corporal Thomas Henry Vickers of Grimsby, died 13 October 1915. The 8th Royal Berkshire Battalion was formed in Reading in September 1914 as part of K3 and attached . The Return of the 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment on 17 May 1919. Hi all. Royal Marine Lght Infantry. At the outbreak of the war in August 1914 the King's Own was made up of two Regular and two Territorial Battalions as well as a Special Reserve Battalion. Born and resident Boxford, enlisted St. Pancras, Middlesex. [War Diary, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment - 1 July 1916] Attack on OVILLERS. These became the new unit's 1st and 2nd Battalions respectively. Private 23436, Wiltshire Regiment Private 22977, 10th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment Private 95005, 159th Company, Labour Corps Private 26402, 2nd/4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment Born: 21 December 1895 Enlisted: April 1916 Died: 30 August 1918 Charles was born in Blockley, the son of George Alfred and Mary Ann Herbert. WW1 Record Sources. It follows on from the well received volume on the 1st Battalion, published last year by this Museum. (Tenby). The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 726 recorded WW1 deaths for the 2nd Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry. John Nisbet served in 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers and came from Brougham Street, Edinburgh. The memorial to the 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, situated near the Bois des Buttes where the battalion was in action in late May 1918. British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920. B. ). 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Service No: 9847 Died 15 March 1915, aged 22 Thomas John Prior was born on 15th March 1893 at Burghfield, the son of William and Annie Prior (nee Kent) and also appears to have been also known as John Thomas Prior. Son of Charles and Mary Benn, of Virginia Water, Surrey. It was erected in honour of the men of the 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment who fought and died there and reads; Erected to commemorate the fierce fighting in the clearance and final capture of Mandalay Hill by the 2nd Bn. THE AIM :-of this section is to cover the activities of the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment from 1948, when the 1st & 2nd Battalions merged during the post war reorganization of the British Army through to 1959 when they amalgamated with the 1st Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment. 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. The Battalion was in reserve during the Battle of Mons, retreated to the Marne and then moved North the 1st Division crossing the Aisne at Bourg-et-Comin on the 13th September 1914. 1917 the 1st Royal Berkshire war diary entry reads: In the trenches. Deserters and/or settlers in North America. 79021914, enlisted at Reading and name appears on Bagshot War Memorial at St Annes Churc. He was 21. H. 24, the Somme, France 20 08-Oct-18 Melbourne Alfred GAMMAGE Sergeant Age 23 50732 and 22396 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire . Frederick Harold Denham. The Division were one of the first in France, and fought at the Battle of Mons, and during the epic fighting retreat to the Marne, where the BEF held . 3rd - East Kent (Buffs) 4th - Royal Lancaster. 1, 2, 3 etc.) The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 2294 recorded WW1 deaths for the 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. The wood was a portion of a pine-wood lying between the railway and the Ypres-Comines Canal near Spoilbank. Army no. Buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar. 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. 2nd Lieutenant William Howe . 2nd Suffolks' dug-outs in "Bellyache Wood", July - August 1915. The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot. James Herbert Benyon, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, inspects men of the 4th Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Newbury Racecourse, October 1914. Private 11054, 2nd Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment). Skyrme was killed while looking over the front line 2nd - Royal West Surrey. He died at Steenwerck Field Hospital on 20th of October 1917 from injuries sustained. 41st Regiment of Foot. This section summarises the main events in the development of the Regiment from its formation up to the time of its amalgamation in 1959. Private, 2nd Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment), 25 Brigade, 8th Division. The Battn relieved the 8th LN Lancs Regt in the line, two Coys garrisoning the front line and two the Support Defences, the KEEPER'S HUT BREASTWORK line. A980 Reginald Douglas Crosby, M.C., 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Son of Charles and Mary Benn, of Virginia Water, Surrey. British Army WW1 Pension Records 1914-1920. The Royal Berkshire Regiment, March 10th to 12th 1945. 8438 He died of his wounds on 6 October 1915 He is buried in grave I B 158 Bailleul Communal Cemetery . Belgium '20230' PROWSE POINT MILITARY CEMETERY III. Private, 17571. In the evening 2nd Lieut R.E.E. Royal Berkshire Regiment (d.19th Aug 1917) In Memory of William Green of the 2nd/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment who died on the 19th Aug 1917, age 39. Royal Berkshire Regiment: 2nd September 1918: Captain GEOFFREY HARRIS GOTELEE: South Wales Borderers: 18th September 1918: Air Mechanic CHARLES PAYNE: Royal Air Force: 2nd October 1918: Lance Serjeant ALBERT EDWARD MOODY: 1st Battalion, Border Regiment: 17th August 1917: Lance Corporal ARTHUR BINSTEAD: Royal Sussex: 26th September 1917 : Lance . Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion. Death: 14 June 1918 • Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Grave Reference: Q. I. E. 16. May(2) 3853 Rfm William Salter, 2nd Bn, Rifle Brigade; Let's put faces to the names - Jack Nixon By the end of the war it had expanded to 17 battalions, ten of which had seen active service. OSBORNE, Derrick: 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry: PARIS, Harold Graham: 138th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery: PARTRIDGE, Alec John: 9th (Service) Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment attached to C Company. Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force 7083 WO2 (CSM) Ferdinand C. Ewald, Signal Service Royal Engineers 9609 Lance Corporal M. Fiveash, 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Stories. The latter was actually the first officer of the Battalion. 1891, aged 3 1901, aged 13killed in action. If you want to purchase a copy go to the Museum Shop on line on www.thewardrobe.org.uk Army no. 3. Of the Malta Garrison. ***** 16th October : Fricourt area. Belgium '11670' TYNE COT MEMORIAL Panel 105 to 106 and 162. Bn. The 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment was in the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division and Pelham landed in France with the Battalion on the 12th August 1914. Plot 19. The 2nd Bn Lincolnshire Regt was on the left and the 2Bn Devonshire Regt on right. Bancourt British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 1959, with The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's), to form The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) A 2nd Battalion of the 66th served 1803 - 1817 The Peninsula War 1808 - 1814 2nd Battalion, 66th Regiment. Entering the Battle around 20 April 1944, the 1st Royal Berkshires continued to fight the Japanese for a further three weeks in horrendous conditions . The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. It earned its name from the water supplied by a neighbouring well. UK, British Army World War I Pension Records 1914-1920 This database contains service records of non-commissioned officers and other ranks who were discharged from the Army and claimed disability . The type of information contained in these records includes: name of solider, age, birthplace, occupation, marital status, and regiment number. 1st and 2nd Bn were at about 10400 at the start of WW1. 7th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment The 11th Worcestershire was commanded by. Regiment Battalion Any Battalion "M" Coy. 2nd Battalion. Tel: 0118 901 5950 Email . For further information see (1) The Royal Berkshire Regiment by F. Loraine Petre, 2 volumes, originally published 1925, reprinted by the Museum in 2004; (2) The History of the Royal Berkshire Regiment 1920-1947 by Gordon Blight, 1953; (3) The Royal Berkshire . Ernest Davies, 2nd Royal Berkshire Regiment July(1) Ensign John Cuthbert Leckie, 95th Foot June(1) 11 million searchable names - and counting! 11th (Service) Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (1st South Down) attach. Regiments. 11th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment group at Camp at Fovant, Wiltshire (June 1915) Age 29. It was not only sons that were lost, many fathers also paid the supreme sacrifice. He was the son of Herbert and Mary Lovesey of Winterbourne Bassett. Remembered with Honour at Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium. (with copy MIC & medal roll)
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