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The
Manchester Regiment |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
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| 1881.07.01 | The
Manchester Regiment organised as the city regiment of Manchester, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions: |
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| 1958.09.01 | amalgamated with The King's Regiment (Liverpool), to form The King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) | |
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The Manchester Regiment, by Stephen Luscombe (The British Empire) | |
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The Manchester Regiment, by Peter Findlow (GENUKI) | |
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The Manchester Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). | |
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The Manchester Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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| 63rd Regimental District at Ashton [1881-1905] | ||
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| D Group at Carlisle [1946-48] | ||
| Lancastrian Brigade at Preston [1948-1958] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1881-1958] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1881-1948] | ||
| 3rd Battalion [1900-1906] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1900-1906] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (6th Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia) [1881-1900, 1908-1953] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1881-1900, 1908-1953] | ||
| 5th Battalion [1900-1908] | ||
| 6th Battalion [1900-1908] | ||
| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 3rd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| [5th vb] 17th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps [1881-1886] | ||
| 5th (Ardwick) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 6th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 5th Battalion [1908-1941] | ||
| 6th Battalion [1908-1921] | ||
| 6th/7th Battalion [1921-1936] | ||
| 7th Battalion [1908-1921] | ||
| 8th (Ardwick) Battalion [1908-1958] | ||
| 9th Battalion [1908-1958] | ||
| 10th Battalion [1908-1938] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/5th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916?]
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| 2/6th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 6th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 2/7th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 7th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 7th Battalion [1939-1947] |
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| 2/8th (Ardwick) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 8th (Reserve) (Ardwick) Battalion
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| 2/9th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 9th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 2/9th Battalion [1939-1941] |
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| 2/10th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 10th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 11th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 11th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1939-1941] |
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| 12th (Service) Battalion [1914-1917]
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| 12th (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry)
Battalion [1917-1919] |
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| 13th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 14th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1915]
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| 16th (1st City) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 17th (2nd City) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1917] |
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| 18th (3rd City) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 19th (4th City) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 20th (5th City) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 21st (6th City) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 22nd (7th City) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1920] |
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| 23rd (8th City) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 24th (Oldham) (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
[1914-1919] |
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| 25th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 26th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 27th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 28th Battalion [1917-1918] |
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| 29th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1943] |
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| 51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
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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 [1915-1920]
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| 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
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| [combined battle
honours of 63rd Regiment and 96th
Regiment, plus:]
Guadeloupe 17591, Egypt 1882, Defence of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War [42 battalions]: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917, Bullecourt, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Kemmel, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Rumani, Egypt 1915-17, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1918, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18 The Second World War: Dyle, Withdrawal to Escaut, Defence of Escaut, Defence of Arras, St. Omer-La Bassée, Ypres-Comines Canal, Caen, Esquay, Falaise, Nederrijn, Scheldt, Walcheren Causeway, Flushing, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Roer, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Weeze, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Dreirwalde, Aller, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Gothic Line, Monte Gridolfo, Coriano, San Clemente, Gemmano Ridge, Montilgallo, Capture of Forli, Lamone Crossing, Defence of Lamone Bridgehead, Rimini Line, Montescudo, Cesena, Italy 1944, Malta 1940, Singapore Island, Malaya 1941-42, North Arakan, Kohima, Pinwe, Shwebo, Myinmu Bridgehead, Irrawaddy, Burma 1944-45 1. awarded 1909 for service of 63rd Regiment. |
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| Uniform: | 1881-1937:
scarlet; facings: white 1937-1953: scarlet; facings: deep green 1953-1958: blue; facings: deep green; piping: deep green headdress:
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| 1930.03? | F.M. HM King George V | |
| 1947.05.13 | HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | |
| 1877.10.15 | [1st Bn:] Gen. Sir Richard Waddy | |
| 1877.10.15 | [2nd Bn:] Gen. Thomas Maitland Wilson [also 63rd Foot] | |
| 1881.07.10 | Gen. Edmund Richard Jeffreys, CB | |
| 1889.12.18 | Gen. John McNeill Walter, CB [also R Sussex Regt] | |
| 1895.09.25 | Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Radford Norman, KCB | |
| 1899.12.17 | Lt-Gen. Vere Hunt Bowles | |
| 1904.01.08 | Maj-Gen. William Osborne Barnard | |
| 1920.01.16 | Maj-Gen. Sir Vere Bonamy Fane, KCB, KCIE | |
| 1924.05.14 | Maj-Gen. Sir Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin, KCMG, CB | |
| 1925.02.03 | Gen. Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, GCB [also 21st Lancers; Hon. Col. 6th Bn Manchester Regt] | |
| 1932.05.10 | Brig-Gen. Wilfrid Keith Evans, CMG, DSO | |
| 1934.07.19 | Col. Francis Holland Dorling, DSO | |
| 1947.04.11 | Maj-Gen. Charles Dawson Moorhead, CB, DSO, MC | |
| 1948.01.08 | Maj-Gen. Eric Boyd Costin, DSO | |
| 1954.01.09 | Maj-Gen. Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill, CB, CBE, MC [continued 1958 in King's Regt] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Manchester Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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Casualties in the Anglo-Boer War, by Anthony Lambert [Internet Archive] | |
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Gallantry Awards in the Anglo-Boer War, by Anthony Lambert [Internet Archive] | |
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| Anniversaries: | Ladysmith (28 Feb.), Kohima (15 May), Guadeloupe (10 June), Inkerman (5 Nov.) | |
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| Miscellaneous Tradition Links: | ||
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Le Régiment de Ste. Hyacinthe | 1938-1958 | |
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10th Battalion (The Adelaide Rifles) | 1937-1958 | |
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The Southland Regiment |
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The Otago and Southland Regiment | 1948-1958 | |
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1st Bn Manchester Regiment, Burma Star Association | |
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The Manchester Regiment, by Craig Healey (The Great War Society) | |
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Museum of the Manchesters (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Museum of the Manchesters, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing) | |
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The Museum of the Manchesters, Tameside Metropolitan Borough | |
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Museum of the Manchesters, Ashton-under-Lyne | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The Manchester gazette. | |
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The Manchester Regiment gazette. | |
| Full Histories: | ||
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Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). History of the Manchester Regiment (late the 63rd and 96th Foot). London : F. Groom, 1923-1925. (2 vols.) | |
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Campbell, G. L. The Manchesters : a history of the Regular, Militia, Special Reserve, Territorial, and New Army Battalions since their formation; with a record of the officers now serving and the Honours and Casualties of the war of 1914-16. London : Picture Advertising Co., 1916. | |
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Bell, A. C. History of The Manchester Regiment, First and Second Battalions, 1922-1948. Altrincham : John Sherratt and Son, 1954. | |
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Broomhall, F. H. Regimental life in the British army in India, 1921-1922. Cheshire : Fleur de Lys, 1997. ISBN: 1873907079 | |
| Short Histories: | ||
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Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). A short history of The Manchester Regiment (regular battalions). 3rd ed. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1933. | |
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Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). A short history of The Manchester Regiment (regular battalions). 4th rev. ed. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1950. | |
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Presenting The Manchester Regiment, 1758-1953. London : Malcolm Page, 1953. | |
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Whyte, Wolmer, ed. The Manchester regiment. London and Melbourne : Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., 1941. ( The roll of the drum ; histories of the regiments of the British Army) | |
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Militia: |
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History of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. typescript, 1937. | |
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Territorials/Volunteers: |
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Evans, H.C. Records of the 4th Volunteer Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Manchester : [s.n.], 1900. | |
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First World War: |
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Hurst, Gerald Berkeley. With Manchesters in the East. Manchester, London, New York : University Press ; Longmans, 1918. | |
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Westropp, Henry Charles Edward. To Manchester; a tribute to "the fallen" and to "the spirit" of her great regiment. Manchester : Sherratt & Hughes, 1920. | |
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Wilson, S.J. The Seventh Manchesters, July 1916 to March 1919. Manchester : University Press, 1920. | |
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Bonner, Robert A. 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment. Macclesfield : Fleur de Lys, [2003?] ISBN 1-873907.02-8 | |
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Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth Battalions, the Manchester Regiment (First City Brigade); a record, 1914-1918. Manchester : Sherratt & Hughes, 1923. | |
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Kempster, F., and H.C.E. Westropp. Manchester City battalions of the 90th & 91st Infantry Brigades : book of honour. London : Sherratt & Hughes, 1917. | |
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The 21st Battalion of the Manchester Regiment : a history. Manchester : Sherratt & Hughes, 1934. | |
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Wilde, Alderman Herbert. The Oldham Battalion of Comrades (24th Battalion Manchester Regiment) : book of honour. London : Sherratt & Hughes, 1920. | |
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Stedman, Michael. Manchester Pals : 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd & 23rd Battalions of the Manchester Regiment : a history of the two Manchester brigades. London : Leo Cooper, 1994. ISBN: 0850523931 (pbk) | |
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Fox, John F. Forgotten divisions : the First World War from both sides of No Man's Land. Wilmslow : Sigma Leisure, 1994. ISBN: 1850583781 (pbk) | |
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King-Clark, R. (Robert). The battle for Kohima : the narrative of the 2nd battalion, the Manchester Regiment ; the machine gun battalion of the British 2nd Division. Cheshire : Fleur de Lys Pub., 1995. ISBN: 187390701X | |
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Bonner, Robert A. The Ardwick boys went to Malta. Macclesfield : Fleur de Lys, 1992. ISBN: 01873907052 | |
| Other Wars: | ||
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Diary of Siege of Ladysmith : 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment, 31st October 1899-28th February 1900. [sl : sn, 1900?] | |
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Marden, A.W. ; Newbigging, W.P.E. Rough diary of the doings of the 1st Battn. Manchester Regt. during the South African War, 1899 to 1902. Manchester : John Haywood, 1902. | |
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Cowell, C.W. Records of the Mounted Infantry Company 2nd V.B. Manchester Regt., 1887-1908. Manchester : Baxter, [ca. 1910] | |
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Manchester Regiment Archives, Central Library, Ashton-under-Lyne | |
