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Authors
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T.F.
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Page
created 20 July 2000. Corrected and updated
15.07.2006
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[combined battle
honours of 62nd Regiment and 99th
Regiment, plus:]
Louisburg1,
South Africa 18792,
South
Africa 1900-02
The Great War [12 battalions]: Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, La Bassée
1914, Messines 1914 '17 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres
1914 '17, Langemarck 1914, Nonne Bosschen,
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers,
Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin,
Pozières, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras
1917, Scarpe 1917, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood,
Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele,
St. Quentin, Lys, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Bapaume 1918,
Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin
Canal, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders
1914-18, Doiran 1917,
Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla,
Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915-16, Gaza,
Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18,
Tigris 1916, Kut al
Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18
The Second World War: Defence
of Arras, Ypres-Comines
Canal, Odon, Caen,
Hill 112, Bourguébus Ridge, Maltot, Mont Pincon,
La Varinière, Seine 1944, Nederrijn, Roer, Rhineland,
Cleve, Goch, Xanten, Rhine, Bremen, North-West Europe
1940 '44-45,
Solarino, Simeto Bridgehead,
Sicily 1943, Garigliano
Crossing, Minturno,
Anzio, Rome, Advance to Tiber, Italy 1943-44,
Middle East 1942, North
Arakan, Point 551,
Mayu Tunnels, Ngakyedauk Pass, Burma 1943-44
1. belatedly
awarded 1910 for service of 62nd Regiment.
2. awarded 1882 for service of 99th
Regiment.
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1881-1905:
scarlet; facings: white
1905-1953: scarlet; facings: buff
1953-1959: blue; facings: buff; piping: buff
headdress:
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1881 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Sir William Thomas Knollys, KCB [also Scots
Gds] |
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1881 |
[2nd Bn:]
Gen. Sir Henry James Warre, KCB |
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1883.05.26 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Sir John Alexander Ewart, KCB [also Gordon
Hldrs, Argyll & Sutherland Hldrs] |
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1884.03.12 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Charles Lennox Brownlow Maitland, CB |
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1898.04.04 |
Gen. Sir John Hart Dunne, KCB |
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1924.04.21 |
Maj-Gen. Finlay Cochrane Beatson, CB |
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1929.01.01 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Evans, KBE, CB, CMG,
DSO |
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1942.06.28 |
Gen. Sir William Platt, GBE, KCB, DSO [GOC
East Africa 1941-45] |
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1954.11.01 |
Maj-Gen. Basil Aubrey Coad, CB, CBE, DSO
[continued 1959 in Duke of
Edinburgh's Royal Regt] |
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Motto: |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
Ferozeshah
(21 Dec.) |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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The nines. |
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The journal of The Wiltshire Regiment. |
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Full Histories:
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Kenrick, Neville Cyril Evelyn. The
story of the Wiltshire Regiment : (Duke of Edinburgh's) the 62nd and
99th foot, 1756-1959, the militia and the territorials, the service
battalions, and all those others who have served or been affiliated
with the Moonrakers. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1963. |
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Gibson, Tom. The Wiltshire Regiment
(the 62nd and 99th Regiments of Foot). London : Leo Cooper
Ltd., 1969. (Famous regiments) ISBN: 085052007X |
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Short Histories:
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H. M. C. (Harry Molyneux Carter) The
springers. Dublin : W. Carson, [1891]. |
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Gillson, R.M.T. A short history of
the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) (62nd and 99th Foot)
from 1756 to 1918. London : Gale & Polden, 1921. |
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Gillson, R.M.T. A short history of
the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) (62nd and 99th Foot)
from 1756 to 1936. London : Gale & Polden, 1936. |
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2nd Battn. The Wiltshire Regiment
(Duke of Edinburgh's) : Centenary, Bangalore, India, 1924.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1924 |
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Historical retrospect of the Wiltshire
Regiment, formerly 62nd and 99th Foot and The Royal Wiltshire Militia,
now styled The Duke of Edinburgh Wiltshire Regiment. Aldershot
: Gale & Polden, 1899. |
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1st Battalion Duke of Edinburgh's
Wiltshire Regiment, Quetta, Baluchsitan, 1899. Quetta : F.
Bremmer, 1899. |
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Pictorial record of the Duke of Edinburgh's
2nd Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment, Poona, India, 1915.
Bombay : British Historical and Art Publishing Co., 1915. |
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Militia:
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Cole, Jean A. (Jean Audrey). Wiltshire
militia orders, 1759 to 1770 : an index to names, courts martial,
promotions, demotions, discharges, etc. with the movement of the Wiltshire
regiment of militia and some other militia regiments. [Devizes]
: Wiltshire Family History Society, 1994. ISBN: 1898714037 (pbk) |
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First World War:
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Shepherd, W. S. (W. Scott). The 2nd
Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (99th) : a record of their fighting in
the Great War, 1914-18. [Aldershot : Gale & Polden], 1927.
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