|
|
Authors
and Contributors this page:
T.F.
Mills |
|
|
Page
created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
14.07.2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
The
Royal Hampshire Regiment, by Paul Jerrard. |
| |
History
of The Royal Hampshire Regiment, by F.A. Mason. |
| |
The
Hampshire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the
Great War). |
| |
The
Hampshire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918) |
|
|
|
|
RHQ and
Depot: |
|
|
RHQ: Serle's House, Winchester, Hants. |
|
|
37th Regimental
District at Winchester [1881-1905] |
|
|
|
|
|
H Group
at Bulford [1946-1948] |
|
|
Wessex
Brigade at Exeter [1948-1968] |
|
|
Prince
of Wales's Division at Lichfield [1968-1992] |
|
|
|
|
Regulars: |
|
|
1st
Battalion [1881-1992] |
|
|
|
|
|
2nd
Battalion [1881-1948] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Militia
and Special Reserve: |
|
|
3rd Battalion (Hampshire Militia)
[1881-1953] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Territorials
and Volunteers: |
| |
The
Militia, Volunteers & Territorials, by Paul Jerrard |
|
|
1st
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
|
|
2nd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
|
|
3rd
(Duke of Connaught's Own) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
|
|
4th
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
|
|
5th
(Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice's) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
|
|
4th
Battalion [1908-1956] |
|
|
4th/5th
Battalion [1956-1967] |
|
|
5th
Battalion [1908-1921] |
|
|
5th/7th
Battalion [1921-1939] |
|
|
6th
(Duke of Connaught's Own) Battalion [1908-1938] |
|
|
7th
Battalion [1908-1921,1939-1947] |
|
|
8th
(Isle of Wight Rifles, Princess Beatrice's) Battalion [1908-1937] |
|
|
9th
(Cyclist) Battalion [1911-1920] |
|
|
The
Wessex Regiment [1967-1995] |
|
|
The
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Territorials [1967-1971] |
|
|
|
|
Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
|
|
|
2/4th Battalion [1914-1919]
|
|
|
4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
|
|
|
2/5th Battalion [1914-1918]
|
|
|
5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1917]
|
|
|
2/6th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Battalion
[1914-1916] |
|
|
2/7th Battalion [1914-1916]
|
|
|
7th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
|
|
|
7th Battalion [1939-1946]
|
|
|
2/8th (Isle of Wight, "Princess
Beatrice's") Battalion [1915-1916]
|
|
|
8th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
|
|
|
2/9th (Cyclist) Battalion [1914-1919]
|
|
|
3/9th (Cyclist) Battalion [1916-1916]
|
|
|
9th Battalion [1940-1941]
|
|
|
10th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
|
|
|
10th Battalion [1940-1941]
|
|
|
11th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
[1914-1919] |
|
|
11th
(Royal Militia Island of Jersey) Battalion [1940-1946] |
|
|
12th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
|
|
|
12th Battalion [1940-1944]
|
|
|
13th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
|
|
|
13th (Home Defence) Battalion [1940-1941]
|
|
|
14th (1st Portsmouth) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
|
|
15th (2nd Portsmouth) (Service) Battalion
[1915-1919] |
|
|
16th (Portsmouth ( Reserve) Battalion
[1915-1916] |
|
|
17th Battalion [1917-1919]
|
|
|
18th (Service) Battalion [1916-1917]
|
|
|
19th (Garrison) Battalion [1916-1919]
|
|
|
20th (Service) Battalion [1919-1919]
|
|
|
30th Battalion [1941-1943]
|
|
|
50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
|
|
|
51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
|
|
|
52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
|
|
|
53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
|
|
|
70th (Young Soldier) Battalion [1940-1943]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[combined battle
honours of 37th Regiment and 67th
Regiment, plus:]
Blenheim1,
Ramillies1,
Oudenarde1,
Malplaquet1, Dettingen1,
Belleisle2,
Burma 1885-87,
Paardeberg, South
Africa 1900-02
The
Great War [36 battalions]: Le
Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, Armentières
1914, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde,
Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette,
Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917
'18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Langemarck
1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele,
Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys,
Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant,
Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes,
Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy
1917-18, Kosturino,
Struma, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Helles,
Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Landing
at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915-16, Egypt
1915-17, Gaza,
El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon,
Palestine 1917-18, Aden,
Shaiba, Kut al Amara
1915 '17, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915-18,
Persia 1918-19, Archangel
1919, Siberia 1918-19
The
Second World War: Dunkirk
1940, Normandy Landing,
Tilly sur Seulles, Caen, Hill 112, Mont Pincon, Jurques,
St. Pierre La Vielle, Nederrijn, Roer, Rhineland, Goch, Rhine,
North-West Europe 1940
'44-45, Tebourba
Gap, Sidi Nsir,
Hunt's Gap, Montagne Farm, Fondouk, Pichon, El Kourzia, Ber
Rabal, North Africa 1940-43, Landing
in Sicily, Regalbuto, Sicily 1943, Landing
at Porto S. Venere, Salerno, Salerno Hills, Battipaglia,
Cava di Tirreni, Volturno Crossing, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano,
Monte Ornito, Cerasola, Cassino II, Massa Vertecchi, Trasimene
Line, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Monte Gridolfo, Montegaudio,
Coriano, Montilgallo, Capture of Forli, Cosina Canal Crossing, Lamone
Crossing, Pideura, Rimini Line, Montescudo, Frisoni, Italy 1943-45,
Athens, Greece 1944-45,
Malta 1941-42
1. awarded
1882 for services of 37th Regiment.
2. awarded 1951 for services of 67th
Regiment.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
White Regimental Colour never issued to
1st Bn during period of white facings (1881-1904), i.e continued
to carry yellow Colour. 1st Bn also continued to carry yellow Colour
after becoming "royal" in 1946. 2nd Bn received white
Regimental Colour 1882. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Badges: |
The Royal Tiger
superscribed "India". A double red rose fimbriated gold. |
|
Uniform: |
1881-1904:
scarlet; facings: white
1904-1953: scarlet; facings: yellow (restoring colour
common to 37th Foot and 67th
Foot)
1953-1992: blue; facings: yellow; piping: yellow
headdress: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
cap badge
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1881 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Sir Edmund Haythorne, KCB [also 55th Foot] |
|
1881 |
[2nd Bn:]
Lt-Gen. William Mark Wood |
|
1883.06.24 |
[2nd Bn:]
Gen. Sir Henry Errington Longden, KCB, CSI
[also Lincolnshire Regt] |
|
1888.11.11 |
Gen. Thomas Edmond Knox, CB [also
Norfolk Regt] |
|
1893.12.15 |
Lt-Gen. Sir John Wellesley Thomas, KCB |
|
1908.02.07 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Charles Benjamin Knowles, KCB |
|
1924.07.30 |
Gen. Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, GBE,
KCB, KCMG |
|
1945.01.23 |
Gen. Sir George Darrell (Jeffreys), 1st
Baron Jeffreys, KCB, KCVO, CMG, JP [also Gren Gds] |
|
1948.01.01 |
Brig. Philip Herbert Cadoux-Hudson, MC,
DL |
|
1954.03.19 |
Brig. Gerald Dominick Browne, CBE, DL |
|
1964.03.19 |
Maj-Gen. Richard Hutchinson Batten, CB,
CBE, DSO, DL |
|
1971.06.30 |
Brig. David John Warren, DSO, OBE, MC, DL
|
|
1981.09.07 |
Gen. Sir David Fraser, GCB, OBE, DL |
|
1987.01.26 |
Brig. Robert George Long, CBE, MC, DL
[to 1992] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Motto: |
|
|
Nicknames: |
|
|
Anniversaries: |
Gallipoli
(23 Apr.), Minden
(1 Aug.) |
|
Freedoms: |
Aldershot (11Sep.
1945), Bournemouth (13 Sep. 1945), Winchester (15 Sep. 1945), Southampton
(25 Apr. 1946), Portsmouth (20 May 1950), Romsey (26 Sep. 1959), Basingstoke
(16 July 1966), Rushmoor (20 May 1981), New Forest District (Affiliation,
8 July 1986), Test Valley (25 June 1986), Christchurch (19 Oct. 1987),
Eastleigh (14 Sep. 1991), Jersey (9 May 1992 - Liberation Day |
|
Marches: |
|
|
Musicians: |
|
|
Mascot: |
|
|
Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|