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The
Devonshire Regiment |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
Kingdom
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| How to find information about individuals who served in this corps |
| 1667.06.13 | The Marquess of Worcester's Regiment of Foot | |
| 1667 | disbanded | |
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| 1673.01.24 | The Marquess of Worcester's Regiment of Foot | |
| 1674 | disbanded | |
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| 1685.06.20 | The Duke
of Beaufort's Regiment of Foot also known until 1751 by the names of ten other colonels |
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| 1751.07.01 | 11th Regiment of Foot | |
| 1782.08.31 | 11th (the North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1881.07.01 | The Devonshire
Regiment reorganised as the county regiment of Devonshire, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] |
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| 1958.05.17 | amalgamated with The Dorset Regiment, to form The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | |
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History of The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (Army site) | |
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1st/11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot [in Australia] 1845-1857, by B & M Chapman. | |
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The Devonshire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). | |
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The Devonshire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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The Devonshire Regiment (Fovant Badges Society) | |
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| ? Depot Battalion
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| 34th Brigade Depot at Exeter [1873-1881] | ||
| 11th Regimental District at Exeter [1881-1921] | ||
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| H Group at Bulford [1946-1948] | ||
| Wessex Brigade at Exeter [1948-1958] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1685-1958] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1756-1758] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1808-1816, 1858-1948] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (South Devonshire
Regiment of Militia) [1881-1908] |
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| 3rd Battalion [1908-1953]
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| 4th Battalion (1st or East Devon
Regiment of Militia) [1881-1908] |
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| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st (Exeter and South Devon) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd (Prince of Wales's) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 3rd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 5th (The Hay Tor) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1908-1958] | ||
| 5th (Prince of Wales's) Battalion [1908-1939, 1947-1950] | ||
| 6th Battalion [1908-1947] | ||
| 7th (Cyclist) Battalion [1909-1920] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/4th Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 3/4th Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 2/5th Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 3/5th Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 2/6th Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 3/6th Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 2/7th (Cyclist) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 7th (Haytor) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 8th Battalion [1939-1947]
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| 9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 9th Battalion [1939-1947]
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| 10th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 10th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 11th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1915]
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| 11th Battalion [1940-1943]
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| 12th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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| 12th Battalion [1940-1946]
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| 13th (Works) Battalion [1916-1917]
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| 14th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917]
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| 15th Battalion [1917-1919]
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| 16th (Royal 1st Devon and Royal North Yeomanry) Battalion [1917-1919] | ||
| 30th Battalion [1941-1945]
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| 50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
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| 1st Garrison Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
[1916-1917]
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| Dettingen,
Salamanca, Pyrenees,
Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Afghanistan
1879-80, Tirah,
Defence of Ladysmith,
Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War (25 battalions): Aisne 1914 '18, La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Rosières, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bois des Buttes, Marne 1918, Tardenois, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Egypt 1916-17, Gaza, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Tel Asur, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Mesopotamia 1916-18 The Second World War: Normandy Landing, Port en Bessin, Tilly sur Seulles, Caen, St. Pierre la Vielle, Nederrijn, Roer, Rhine, Ibbenburen, North-West Europe 1944-45, Landing in Sicily, Regalbuto, Sicily 1943, Landing at Porto San Venere, Italy 1943, Malta 1940-42, Imphal, Shenam Pass, Tamu Road, Ukhrul, Myinmu Bridgehead, Kyaukse 1945, Burma 1943-45 4th, 5th, 6th Bns: South Africa 1900-01 |
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| Badges: | Arm badge: French Croix de Guerre on both upper arms in formal dress, commemorating 2nd Bn at Bois des Buttes (27 May 1918) |
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| Uniform: | ?-1881:
scarlet; facings: Lincoln green 1881-1905: scarlet; facings: white 1905-1953: scarlet; facings: Lincoln green 1953-1958: blue; facings: Lincoln green; piping: Lincoln green headdress:
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| 1667.06.13 | Edward (Somerset), 2nd Marquess of Worcester | |
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| 1673.01.24 | Col. Henry (Somerset), 1st Duke of Beaufort (3rd Marquess of Worcester), KG | |
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| 1685.06.20 | Col. Henry (Somerset), 1st Duke of Beaufort (3rd Marquess of Worcester), KG | |
| 1685.10.26 | Col. Charles (Somerset), Marquess of Worcester | |
| 1687.05.08 | Lt-Gen. William (Herbert), 2nd Marquess of Powis (Viscount Montgomery) | |
| 1688.12.31 | Maj-Gen. Sir John Hanmer, Bt | |
| 1702.02.12 | Gen. James (Stanhope), 1st Earl Stanhope | |
| 1705.05.08 | Maj-Gen. John Hill | |
| 1715.07.13 | Brig-Gen. Edward Montague | |
| 1738.08.09 | Maj-Gen. Hon. Stephen Cornwallis | |
| 1743.05.21 | Col. Robinson Sowle | |
| 1746.02.07 | Brig-Gen. William Graham | |
| 1747.12.01 | Lt-Gen. Maurice Bocland | |
| 1765.08.21 | Gen. William a'Court Ashe | |
| 1781.08.10 | Lt-Gen. Francis Smith | |
| 1791.11.09 | Gen. James Grant | |
| 1806.04.20 | Gen. Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick | |
| 1807.04.20 | Gen. Sir Charles Asgill, Bt, GCH | |
| 1823.07.24 | Gen. Sir Henry Tucker Montresor, KCB, GCH | |
| 1837.03.15 | Gen. Sir Rufane Shawe Donkin, KCB, GCH | |
| 1841.05.10 | Gen. Sir John Wilson, KCB | |
| 1856.06.23 | Lt-Gen. William George Cochrane | |
| 1857.09.05 | Lt-Gen. Sir Richard Doherty | |
| 1862.09.03 | Gen. Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, GCMG, KCB | |
| 1874.02.07 | Gen. Sir Francis Seymour, Bt, GCB | |
| 1890.07.11 | Gen. Sir George Harry Smith Willis, GCB | |
| 1897.03.24 | Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Newdigate Newdegate, KCB | |
| 1902.08.02 | Maj-Gen. Hon. Charles John Addington | |
| 1903.09.12 | Maj-Gen. Hon. Sir Savage Lloyd Mostyn, KCB [also R Welch Fus] | |
| 1910.12.09 | Lt-Gen. Sir George Mackworth Bullock, KCB | |
| 1921.08.15 | Lt-Gen. Sir Louis Jean Bols, KCB, KCMG, DSO | |
| 1930.09.14 | Maj-Gen. Sir Charles Clarkson Martin Maynard, KCB, CMG, DSO | |
| 1943.09.15 | Col. Harold Street, DSO | |
| 1948.12.01 | Col. Lionel Henry Mountifort Westropp [to 1958] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Devonshire & Dorset Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
| Motto: | Semper fidelis [adopted ca. 1881 from the motto of the city of Exeter, which had been suggested in 1588 by Queen Elizabeth] |
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| Anniversaries: | Wagon Hill (6 Jan.), Bois des Buttes (27 May) | |
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The Devonshire and Dorset Regimental Association (Army site) | |
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2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment (World War II Living History Association) | |
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Military Museum of Devon and Dorset, Dorchester (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester (museum site) | |
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The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester (Simonides listing) | |
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The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester (WestCountry.com listing) | |
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East Devonshire Regiment Crimean Memorial, Exeter Cathedral | |
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Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918 Memorial, Exeter Cathedral | |
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