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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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Page
created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
14.07.2006
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History
of The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (Army site) |
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The
Dorsetshire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918) |
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The
Dorsetshire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the
Great War). |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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RHQ: |
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39th Regimental
District at Dorchester [1881-1905] |
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H Group
at Bulford [1946-1948] |
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Wessex
Brigade at Exeter [1948-1958] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1881-1958] |
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2nd
Battalion [1881-1948, 1951-1952] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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3rd Battalion (Dorset Regiment
of Militia) [1881-1953]
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Territorials
and Volunteers: |
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1st
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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4th
Battalion [1908-1958] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/4th Battalion [1914-1918]
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4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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5th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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5th Battalion [1939-1947]
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6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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6th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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7th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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7th (Garrison) Battalion [1940-1942]
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8th (Home Service) Battalion [1916-1917]
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8th Battalion [1940-1941]
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9th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
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9th Battalion [1942-1946]
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30th (Service) Battalion [1941-1946]
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50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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70th (Young Soldier) Battalion
[1940-1942] |
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1st (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
[1916-1917] |
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2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
[1916-1916] |
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[combined
battle honours of 39th Regiment and
54th Regiment, plus:]
Martinique
17941, Tirah,
Relief of Ladysmith,
South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War [13 battalions]:
Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La
Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel,
St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18,
Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917, Scarpe
1917, Messines 1917, Langemarck 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde,
Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Amiens, Bapaume 1918,
Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal,
Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders
1914-18, Suvla,
Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt
1916, Gaza,
El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon,
Palestine 1917-18, Basra,
Shaiba, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence
of Kut al Amara, Baghdad, Khan Baghdadi, Mesopotamia 1914-18
The Second World War:
St.
Omer-La Bassée, Normandy
Landing, Villers
Bocage, Tilly sur Seulles, Caen, Mont Pincon, St. Pierre
La Vielle, Arnhem 1944, Aam, Geilenkirchen, Goch, Rhine,
Twente Canal, North-West Europe 1940
'44-45, Landing
in Sicily, Agira,
Regalbuto, Sicily 1943, Landing
at Porto San Venere, Italy 1943, Malta
1940-42, Kohima, Mandalay,
Mt. Popa, Burma 1944-45
4th Battalion: South
Africa 1900-01
1.
awarded 1909 for service of 39th Regiment.
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1881-1904:
scarlet; facings: white
1904-1953: scarlet; facings: grass green
1953-1958: blue; facings: grass green; piping:
grass green
headdress:
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1881 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen John Ramsay Stuart, CB |
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1881 |
[2nd Bn:]
Gen. Sir Charles Thomas van Straubenzee, GCB [also
47th Foot] |
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1892.08.11 |
Lt-Gen. Robert John Eagar, CB |
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1894.10.24 |
Gen. Henry Ralph Browne, CB
[also Norfolk Regt] |
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1903.10.08 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Matthew William Edward Gosset,
KCB |
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1909.03.28 |
Lt-Gen. Lindsay Farrington |
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1910.02.03 |
Maj-Gen. William de Wilton Roche Thackwell,
CB [also Hon Col. 7th
Bn King's Regt] |
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1910.06.17 |
Maj-Gen. Henry Cook, CB |
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1922.03.05 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Arlington Augustus Chichester,
KCMG, CB, DSO |
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1933.07.02 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Hubert Jervoise Huddleston,
GCMG, GBE, CB, DSO, MC [Gov. Gen. Sudan 1940-47] |
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1946.10.31 |
Brig. Charles Hall Woodhouse, OBE, MC |
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1952.03.01 |
Maj-Gen. George Neville Wood, CB, CBE, DSO,
MC [continued 1958 in Devonshire
and Dorset Regt] |
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Motto: |
Primus in Indis,
Montis Insignia Calpe |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
Plassey
(23 June), Sarah Sands (11 Nov.) |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
quick:
The Maid of Glenconnel |
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slow: The
Maid of Glenconnel [slowly] |
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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 Dorset Regimental Journal
Vol. 1. no. 1 (May 1912)-v. 3. no. 27 (July 1914). Portsmouth, 1912-1914. |
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The Dorset
regimental quarterly. Vol. 1. no. 1 (June 1926)-v. 19. no.
2 (June 1951). London, 1926-1951. |
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The Dorset
regimental journal. Vol. 19. no. 3 (Sep. 1951)-v. 27. no.
2 (May 1958). London, 1951-1958. |
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Full Histories:
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Atkinson, Christopher Thomas. The Dorsetshire
Regiment; the Thirty-Ninth and Fifty-Fourth Foot and the Dorset
Militia and Volunteers. Oxford : Privately printed at the
University Press, 1947. [v. 1. The Thirty-Ninth.--v.
2. The Fifty- Fourth. The Dorsetshire Regiment] |
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Phipps, P. R. A medallic record of the war services
of the Dorsetshire Regiment (39th and 54th). [Dorchester
: Hnery Ling Ltd.], 1932. Repr. from the Dorsetshire regimental
quarterly, v. 6, no. 3, Sept., 1931, and rev. "January, 1932." |
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Popham, Hugh. The Dorset Regiment: the 39th/54th
Regiment of Foot. London : Leo Cooper Ltd, 1970. (Famous
regiments) ISBN: 0850520487 |
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Phipps, P.R. Records of the 1st Battalion, The
Dorset Regiment, late 39th Regiment, from 1853 to 1893.
Cairo : [s.n.], ca. 1893. |
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The First Battalion, the Dorset Regiment (39th
and 54th) in the Far East : two hundred years after the landing
of the 39th Regiment in India in 1754. [Hong Kong] : Dorset
Regiment, 1954. |
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Short Histories:
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The Dorset Regiment : The 1st Battalion Dorsetshire
Regiment illustrated with brief historical account of the services
of the regiment. Ferozepore : F. Bremmer, 1906. |
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A short history of The Dorsetshire Regiment.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1922. |
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A short history of The Dorsetshire Regiment.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1937. |
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A short history of The Dorsetshire Regiment.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1941. |
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A short history of The Dorsetshire Regiment,
1702-1948 . Dorchester : Henry Ling Ltd., 1948. |
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Militia:
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Records of the 3rd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
from 1757 to 1893, together with the names and dates of commissions
of officers who have entered the regiment from its formation down
to the present time. London : Griffith Faran, [1893] |
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Territorials/Volunteers:
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Symonds, Henry. Dorset Volunteers during the
French wars, 1793-1814. Dorchester : F.G. Longman, 1920. |
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First World War:
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Ransome, A. L. The Fine Fighting of the Dorsets : three
battles of 1st Battn. The Dorsetshire Regiment in 1914 and 1915.
Dorchester : Regimental Museum, 1959.
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Ransome, A. L. The 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment in
France and Belgium, Aug. 1914 to June 1915, including a roll of
officers, list of honours and awards, mentions in despatches and
summary of casualties. [Plymouth] : Priv. print. [at the
Mayflower press], 1923.
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History of the Dorsetshire regiment, 1914- 1919.
Dorchester, London : Henry Ling Ltd.; Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1932. |
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Second World War:
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Bredin, Alexander Edward Craven. Three assault
landings; the story of the 1st Bn., the Dorsetshire Regiment in
Sicily, Italy, and N. W. Europe. Aldershot : Gale & Polden,
1946. |
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White, Oliver Geoffrey Woodhouse. Straight on
for Tokyo; the war history of the 2nd Battalion, the Dorsetshire
Regiment (54th Foot) 1939-1948. Aldershot : Gale & Polden,
1948. |
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Watkins, G. J. B. From Normandy to the Weser
: the war history of the Fourth Battalion the Dorset Regiment, June
1944 - May 1945. [s.l. : s.n., (H. Ling at the Dorset
Press) , ca. 1945-1979]. |
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Hartwell, G. R., and Pack, G. R. Edwards. The
story of the 5th Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment in north-west
Europe. [s.l. : s.n., (H. Ling Ltd., at the Dorset
Press), 1946]. |
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Havers, Norman. March on! : an infantry
battalion in England, India and Burma 1941-1945. Worcester
: Square One, 1992. ISBN: 1872017541 |
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