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1685.06.20 |
The Duke
of Norfolk's Regiment of Foot
raised at Norwich from men of Norfolk and
Suffolk, incorporating a detachment raised in 1660 which had been
sent to Virginia in 1676; known until 1751 by the names of ten other
colonels |
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ranked
as 12th Foot |
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1751.07.01 |
12th Regiment
of Foot |
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1782.08.31 |
12th (the
East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot |
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1881.07.01 |
The Suffolk
Regiment
reorganised as the county regiment of Suffolk,
encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] |
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amalgamated
with The Royal Norfolk Regiment,
to form 1st East Anglian Regiment
(Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) |
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The
Suffolk Regiment [1685-1959] (St. Edmundsbury Borough Council) |
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1st/12th
Foot East Suffolk Regiment [in Australia] 1854-1860, by B &
M Chapman. |
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The
Suffolk Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great
War). |
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The
Suffolk Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918) |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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RHQ:  |
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Reserve
Battalion [1842-1858] |
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? Depot Battalion
[1856-1871] |
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32nd Brigade
Depot at Bury St. Edmunds [1873-1881] |
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12th Regimental
District at Bury St. Edmunds [1881-1905] |
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G Group,
at Colchester [1946-1948] |
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East
Anglian Brigade, at Bury St. Edmunds [1948-1959] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1685-1959] |
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2nd
Battalion [1756-1758] |
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2nd
Battalion [1811-1818, 1858-1948] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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3rd
Battalion (West Suffolk Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953]
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4th Battalion (Cambridge Regiment
of Militia) [1881-1908] |
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Territorials
and Volunteers: |
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1st
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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2nd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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3rd
(Cambridgeshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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4th
(Cambridge University) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1903] |
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4th
Battalion [1908-1960] |
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5th
Battalion [1908-1921] |
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6th
(Cyclist) Battalion [1910-1920] |
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1st
Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment [1908-1947, 1956-1960] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/4th Battalion [1915-1916]
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Cambridgeshire and Suffolk Reserve
Battalion [1917-1919] |
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2/5th Battalion [1916-1918]
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5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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5th
Battalion [1939-1945]
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2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion [1914-1919]
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3/6th (Cyclist) Battalion [1915-1916]
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6th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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2/6th (Home Defence) Battalion
[1940-1940] |
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7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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7th Battalion [1940-1941]
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8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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8th Battalion [1940-1947]
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9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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9th (Home Defence) Battalion [1940-1941]
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10th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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11th (Cambridgeshire) (Service) Battalion
[1915-1919] |
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12th (East Anglian) (Service) Battalion
[1915-1919]
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13th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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14th Battalion [1917-1919]
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15th
(Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion [1917-1919] |
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16th (Service) Battalion [1915-1919]
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30th Battalion [1941-1943]
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31st Battalion [1941-1946]
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50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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70th (Young Soldier) Battalion
[1940-1943] |
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2/1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire
Regiment [1915-1918] |
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1st (Reserve) Battalion, The Cambridgeshire
Regiment [1915-1917] |
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Cambridgeshire and Suffolk Reserve Battalion,
The Suffolk Regiment [1917-1919] |
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4/1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire
Regiment [1915-1917] |
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2nd Battalion, The Cambridgeshire
Regiment [1939-1947] |
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1st (Reserve) Garrison Battalion
[1916-1919] |
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2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
[1916-1917] |
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Dettingen,
Minden, [Gibraltar
1779-83]1, Seringapatam,
India2, South
Africa 1851-2-3, New
Zealand3, Afghanistan
1878-80, South Africa
1899-1902
The Great War (22 battalions): Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La
Bassée 1914, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18,
Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Hooge
1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville
Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Theipval, Le Transloy,
Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917
'18, Arleux, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road,
Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18,
St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918,
Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Hindenburg
Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre,
France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma,
Doiran 1918, Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla,
Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt
1915-17, Gaza,
El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon,
Palestine 1917-18
The Second World War: Dunkirk
1940, Normandy Landing,
Odon, Falaise, Venraij, Brinkum, North-West Europe 1940
'44-45, Singapore
Island, Malaya
1942, North Arakan,
Imphal, Burma 1943-45
1. the Castle and Key badge superscribed
"Gibraltar 1779-83" and subscribed "Montis Insignia
Calpe" (dates added 1909).
2. awarded 1836 for services in 1797-1809, including
5th Mysore war
and subsequent campaigns in South
India.
3. awarded for services 1860-1861 and 1863-1866.
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
?-1881:
scarlet; facings: yellow
1881-1899: scarlet; facings: white
1899-1953: scarlet; facings: yellow
1953-1959: blue; facings: yellow;
piping: yellow
headdress:
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cap badge
© from the collection of Glenn R. Meyer
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1685.06.20 |
Col. Henry (Howard), 7th Duke of Norfolk,
KG |
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1686.06.14 |
Col. Sir Edward Henry (Lee), Bt., 1st Earl
of Lichfield |
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1688.11.30 |
Col. Sir Robert (Carey), 6th Lord Hunsdon |
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1688.12.31 |
Col. Hon. Henry Wharton [composer
of Lilliburlero] |
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1689.11.01 |
Col. Richard Brewer |
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1702.09.28 |
Maj-Gen. John Livesay |
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1712.03.16 |
Lt-Gen. Richard Philipps |
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1717.08.25 |
Brig-Gen. Thomas Stanwix
[also 30th Foot; Gov. R
Hospital 1715-20] |
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1725.03.22 |
Gen. Thomas Whetham |
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1741.08.12 |
Col. Scipio Duroure |
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1745.05.28 |
Lt-Gen. Henry Skelton |
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1757.04.22 |
Lt-Gen. Robert Napier |
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1766.11.21 |
Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, KB (senior) |
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1779.04.21 |
Gen. William Picton [also
75th Foot] |
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1811.10.15 |
Gen. Sir Charles Hastings, Bt. |
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1823.10.09 |
Gen. Hon. Robert Meade |
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1852.07.29 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Richard Goddard Hare Clarges,
KCB [also 73rd Foot] |
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1857.04.14 |
Lt-Gen. Charles Anthony Ferdinand Bentinck |
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1864.10.29 |
Gen. Henry Colvile |
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1875.11.02 |
Gen. John Patton |
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1888.02.28 |
Gen. John Maxwell Perceval, CB |
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1900.01.25 |
Gen. Hon. Sir Percy Robert Basil Fielding,
KCB |
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1904.01.10 |
Lt-Gen. Hon. Bernard Matthew Ward, CB |
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1918.06.28 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Alfred Edward Codrington, GCVO,
KCB |
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1918.10.03 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow, KCB, KCMG |
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1919.08.01 |
Gen. Sir Thomas Lethbridge Napier Morland,
KCB, KCMG, DSO [also KRRC] |
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1925.05.22 |
Maj-Gen. Sir John Ponsonby, KCB, CMG, DSO |
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1939.03.25 |
Col. Walter Norris Nicholson, CMG, DSO |
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1947.06.10 |
Brig. Edward Henry Walford Backhouse, CBE |
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1957.06.10 |
Brig. Richard Hobson Maxwell, CB
[continued 1959 in 1st East Anglian Regt] |
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Motto: |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
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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 Suffolk regimental gazette.
Feb. 1890- July 1959. |
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Full Histories:
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the Twelfth, or the East Suffolk Regiment of Foot containing an
account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent
services to 1847. London : Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1848.
(Historical records of the British Army) |
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Webb, Edward Arthur Howard. History
of the 12th (the Suffolk) Regiment, including a brief history of the
East and West Suffolk Militia, the latter being now the 3rd Battalion
Suffolk Regiment. London : Spottiswoode, 1914. |
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Moir, Guthrie. The Suffolk Regiment
(the 12th Regiment of Foot). London : Leo Cooper Ltd., 1969.
(Famous regiments) ISBN: 0850520061 |
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Gardiner, C. H. (Charles Henry). Centurions
of a century : among which are many who have soldiered in the Twelfth,
or the Suffolk Regiment of Foot ... Brighton : The Editor,
: 1915. |
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Lloyd, J. S. D. The record of the
foreign service tour of 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment, 1907-1926.
[s.l. : s.n.], 1926. |
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Murphy, Charles Cecil Rowe. The history
of the Suffolk Regiment, 1914-1927 : with numerous portraits illustrations
maps and plans. London : Hutchinson, 1928. |
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Nicholson, W. N. (Walter Norris). The
Suffolk Regiment, 1928 to 1946. Ipswich : East Anglian Magazine,
1948. |
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Godfrey, F. A. The history of the
Suffolk Regiment, 1946-1959. London : L. Cooper, 1988. ISBN:
0850522536 |
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Short Histories:
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The 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment
illustrated, with a brief historical account of the services of the
regiment. Quetta : 1899. |
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Gardiner, C. H. (Charles Henry). The
annals of the Twelfth East Suffolk Regiment. Bury St. Edmund's
: Printed at the "Free Press" works, 1908. [Reprinted
from the "Bury Free Press."] |
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Gardiner, C. H. (Charles Henry). The
annals of the Twelfth East Suffolk Regiment. [new ed.] Calcutta
: Wyman Bros., [ca. 1920]. |
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1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment,
Malta, 1909. Paris : phototypie P.G. Evrard, 1909. |
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A short history of The Suffolk Regiment
(12th Regiment of Foot). London : Gale & Polden, 1921. |
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A short history of The Suffolk Regiment
(12th Regiment of Foot). [new ed.] London : Gale & Polden,
1933. |
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An illustrated record of the 12th
Foot for 250 years, 23 June 1685-23 June 1935. Bury St. Edmunds
: The Suffolk Regimental Gazette (printed by The Bury Free Press),
1935. |
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The Suffolk regiment. London
: M. Page, 1953. |
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Lummis, Eric. The Suffolk Regiment,
1685-1959. [England] : [s.n.], : 1997. |
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Lummis, Eric. The Suffolk Regiment,
1685-1959. Rev. ed. [England] : [s.n.], : 1998. ISBN:
0953194221 |
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Biography: |
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Bevan, Silvanus. Topees & red berets
: saga of a Suffolk officer. Upton-on-Severn : Square One
Publications, 1995. ISBN: 1872017967 |
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Militia:
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Frost, Harry. A short historical record
of the 4th Batt. Suffolk Regiment (Late Cambridgeshire Militia).
Cambridge : A.T. Naylor, 1896. |
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First World War:
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Fair, A. ; Wolton, E. D. The history
of the 1/5th Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment. Eyre & Spottiswoode,
1923. |
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Second World War:
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Lummis, Eric. 1 Suffolk in Normandy.
[s.l.] : E.T. Lummis, 1993. ISBN: 0952080303 (pbk.) |
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Other Wars: |
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Spicer, Len. The Suffolks in Malaya.
Peterborough : Lawson Phelps Pub., 1998. ISBN: 095335590X |
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Special Topics: |
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Standing orders of the Suffolk Regiment
(the Twelfth Foot). [Ludgershall, Wilts : The Adjutant's Press,
1925. |
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The roll of honour of the officers,
warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Suffolk
Regiment A.D. 1914 to 1919 ... [Ditchling, Sussex : St. Dominic's
Press, 1920. |
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Monier-Williams, H.B. The story of
the Colours, 1685 to 1954. Bury St. Edmunds : Suffolk Regimental
Gazette, 1954. |
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Burrows, Keith. Mildenhall, the Suffolk
Regiment, and the Great War. [Mildenhall] : Riverside Middle
School, 1978. |
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The march of the 1st Bn. Suffolk Regiment
through the County of Suffolk, 16th to 23rd August, 1927.
[s.l. : s.n.], 1927. |
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Manuscripts
and Archives: |
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Suffolk
Regiment Archives (Suffolk Record Office) |
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by A. Melville-Brown 
