The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [UK]

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Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 10.07.2006

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	1881.07.01	The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry named for the future King Edward VII, and organised as the county regiment of Cornwall, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
		1st Battalion, redesignation of 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry Regiment of Foot 2nd Battalion, redesignation of 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
	1959.10.06	amalgamated with The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), to form The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry


		The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		Timeline of The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1702-1997, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in India, by Cathy Day (Family History in India).
		The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
		The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)

	*RHQ and Depot:*
		RHQ:
		32nd Regimental District at Bodmin [1881-1905]

		J Group at Farnborough [1946-1948]
		Light Infantry Brigade at Strensall [1948-1959]

	*Regulars:*
		1st Battalion [1881-1959]
		2nd Battalion [1881-1948]

	*Militia and Special Reserve:*
		3rd Battalion (The Duke of Cornwall's Rangers) [1881-1953]

	*Territorials and Volunteers:*
		1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		4th Battalion [1908-1921]
		4th Battalion [1939-1947]
		4th/5th Battalion [1921-1939, 1947-1960]
		5th Battalion [1908-1921]
		5th Battalion [1939-1947]

	*Hostilities-Only Units* (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
		2/4th Battalion [1914-1920]
		4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
		4th Battalion [1939-1947]
		2/5th Battalion [1915-1916]
		6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
		6th Battalion [1940-1942]
		7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
		7th (Home Defence Battalion [1940-1941]
		8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
		9th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
		10th (Service) Battalion (Cornwall Pioneers) [1915-1919]
		11th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
		12th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
		13th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
		30th Battalion [1941-1946]
		50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]


	[combined battle honours of 32nd Regiment and 46th Regiment, plus:] Gibraltar 1704-05¹, Dettingen², St. Lucia 1778³, Tel el Kebir, Egypt 1882, Nile 1884-85, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902 Great War [15 battalions]: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Hooge 1915, Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916 '18, Delville Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy 1917-18, Struma, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Gaza, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18, Aden Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Cheux, Hill 112, Mont Pincon, Noireau Crossing, Nederrijn, Opheusden, Geilenkirchen, Rhineland, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Gazala, Medjez Plain, Si Abdallah, North Africa 1942-43, Cassino II, Trasimene Line, Advance to Florence, Incontro, Rimini Line, Italy 1944-45 1. awarded 1909 for service of 32nd Regiment. 2. awarded 1882 for service of 32nd Regiment. 3. awarded 1909 for service of 46th Regiment.


		Colours, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)

Badges:

Badges and Insignia, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)

Uniform:

1881-1953: scarlet; facings: white
1953-1959: dark green tunic, blue trousers; facings: white; piping: white
headdress:

Uniforms, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)


	1919.06.02	F.M. HM King Edward VIII


	1881	[1st Bn:] Gen. Sir William Jones, GCB
	1881	[2nd Bn:] Gen. Charles Stuart
	1890.04.08	Gen. John Thomas Hill [also Gordon Hldrs]
	1902.04.16	Lt-Gen. Granville George Chetwynd-Stapylton [also Q R West Surrey Regt]
	1915.04.28	Lt-Gen. Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, KCB, CVO
	1923.05.12	Lt-Gen. Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker, KCB, KCMG, DSO
	1932.04.26	Brig-Gen. Martin Newman Turner, CB, CMG, CBE
	1935.06.29	Gen. Sir Walter King Venning, GCB, CMG, CBE, MC [also Col. Cmdt. ACC, REME; QMG 1939-42]
	1947.01.17	Gen. Sir Daril Gerard Watson, GCB, GBE, MC [also QMG 1946-47]
	1953.10.18	Maj-Gen. Vyvyan Evelegh, CB, DSO, OBE
	1958.08.27	Maj-Gen. Robert Burrell Frederick Kinglake Goldsmith, CB, CBE [to 1959]



	Succession of Colonels, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young) Commanding Officers, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)


		Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
		Victoria Crosses, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		VCs in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
		Boer War Honour Roll, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		CANLOAN Roster, Second World War, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		Roll of Honour, World War 2, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		Harry Patch, by Niall Stewart and Richard Cable (BBC The Last Tommy Gallery)


	Motto:	One and all
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:	Truro (11 June 1946), Bodmin (28 July 1946)
	Marches:
	Musicians:
	Band History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd) Bandmasters, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd) Regimental March, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*


		The Battleford Light Infantry	-1936
		The Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers	1946-1955
		1st Battalion, The North Saskatchewan Regiment (Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers)	1955-1959
		46th Battalion (The Brighton Rifles)	1934-1951
		The Rand Light Infantry	1932-1959


		[no external sites have been found]


		The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Regimental Museum, Bodmin (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Regimental Museum, Bodmin, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing).
		Regimental Museum, Bodmin, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		Regimental Chapel, Bodmin, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		Regimental Chapels, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore


	Regimental Journal:
		*One and all*.

	Full Histories:


	Short Histories:

		White, Hugo. *The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry*. Tempus (Images of England)

	Militia:


	Territorials/Volunteers:


	First World War:


	Second World War:


	Links:
		Bibliography, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)