During this time, Hampshire soldiers won 2 Victoria Crosses and numerous other awards. in August 1914. By the end of November, the port of Basra had been secured and the town of Qurna was captured the following month. 8th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. 6th/7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. The 1st Hampshire being in the 4th Division, 11th Brigade. 214th INFANTRY BRIGADE. Those unfortunate enough to be wounded on the battlefield had to crawl back as best they could through the mud and slime. The Queen's, (Royal West Surrey Regiment). [7th] 4th Volunteer Battalion based in Newport, former 1st Isle of Wight Rifle Volunteers Second Boer War [ edit] At the turn of the 20th century, there were two regular battalions of the regiment. This figure, however, does not include the men who died from other causes such as Spanish Flu. Battle of Messines. (Amalgamated with the - 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. For the British and Indian NCOs and men, life as a prisoner of the Turks was to be brutal and often short. The fate suffered by the 6th and 8th Hampshire before the War by conversion to artillery Regiments also befell the 7th Hampshire which re-formed as 524 (later re-numbered as 642) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, but also with the subsidiary title of 7th Battalion The Royal Hampshire Regiment. The Cyclist companies were grouped to form the 9th (Cyclist) battalion. A-K. 12th (Yeomanry) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Nov 1918. Once the area around Salerno had been secured, the Allies began the slow and arduous task of moving up the length of Italy with the 2nd, 1/4th and 5th Battalions in 128 (Hampshire Brigade) and the 2/4th who were in 28 Infantry Brigade. and 34th Coy. 05 Nov 1915 - 03 Feb 1916. The exhausted troops of 6th Division reached Kut on 3 December 1915, having marched 44 miles in just 36 hours. 2nd (Entrenching Battalion) Lincolnshire Regiment. The Relief Force suffered 23,000 casualties in the fighting, including 10,000 in just three weeks in April during the final desperate attempts to relieve Kut. To members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) the name Thomas Thetcher, a grenadier in the North Regiment of the Hants Militia, is synonymous with the foundation of their organisation. 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. 11th Battalion, Queen's Own, (Royal West Kent Regiment). Commander: Major General Ivor Thomas. Efforts to Relieve Kut: January-April 1916. 2nd Battalion, Oxford & Buckingham Light Infantry. Battle of Le Cateau. 18th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. 53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion, Notts & Derby Regiment. To the GHQ Troops. 12th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). Just eight officers and 167 men remained fit for duty. 16th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. This figure includes the records for the 1st/4th, 2nd/4th & 3rd/4th Battalions. Click a date below to go to that specific section of the timeline. On 22 March 2021, the Defence in a Competitive Age paper was released underlining the future of the British Armed Forces.As part of a wider reorganisation of the British Army, the following was announced: A new four-battalion Ranger Regiment will be formed in August 2021, seeded from the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland; 2nd Battalion, Princess of Wales . 4th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. S-V. 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. The Battle of Oudenarde (in present day Belgium) was fought on 11th July 1708 between the Grand Alliance forces of Britain, Holland and Austria on the one side and those of King Louis XIV of France on the other during the War of the Spanish Succession. 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. The Royal Hampshire Regiment Trust Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). museum@royalhampshireregiment.org, 2023 all rights reserved The Royal Hampshire Regiment, Website designed and built by RoosterMarketing, What is at the Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum, Volunteers and Work Experience Current Vacancies. . 3rd Dragoon Guards, (Prince of Wales's Own). 3/10th Bn Middlesex Regt. 12 Oct 1917. - 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. 7th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 2nd Battalion, The Queen's, (Royal West Surrey Regiment). 11th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. With the Royal Navy increasingly reliant on oil-powered ships, it was vital that the newly-founded Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) be protected from the Ottoman Turks who were fighting alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary in the Great War. 24 Apr-5 13th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Up to our amalgamation in 1992 The Royal Hampshire Regiment completed either tours of the Province, two of which were residential ie our families came too. 24th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. The attack was a disaster. 8th (Reserve) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. To the 16th Division. 23rd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Here the Allies and Turks fought an inconclusive battle on 22 November. 2-3 Sep 1918. Many men remained in these places to work on the Baghdad Railway, among them Fred Richards, who bravely endured the long march to Nisibin despite the wounds he had received in the fighting at Kut. He was imprisoned on an island overlooking Constantinople where he spent the remainder of the war in relative luxury. The IndonesianMalaysian Confrontation during 19631966 was an undeclared limited war aimed against the new Malaysian Federation by Indonesia. Battle of Drocourt-Queant. 6th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). Third Battle of the Scarpe. The advance northwards continued, with the commanders justifying each new objective as necessary to protect the one previously captured. 9th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. His loss was a great loss to our prisoners in their captivity. 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). In March 1915 the battalion became part of the 187th (2/3rd West Riding) Brigade of the 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division. India was known as the Jewel in the Crown due to its colonial and trading importance and needed to be protected at all costs. W-Z. To the 7th Division. Having defeated the Germans in Sicily, it was now time for the Allies to turn their attention to Italy. 3rd Battalion, The Queen's, (Royal West surrey Regiment). Following the impact on the Territorial Army of economies in defence expenditure, the 4th and 5th Battalions amalgamated to form the 4/5th Battalion in 1961. 20th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. E-G. 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 11 Nov 1918. 27th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. 1/7th Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. It arrived in France in August 1914. During the long march into captivity, William would have been among the most senior ranked officers because the Turks had separated the commissioned officers from the rank and file. Others had had them stolen while they slept. 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The Boer War of 1899-1902 was preceded by more than a century of conflict between the Boers (Dutch settlers) and the British Empire. 2nd Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. Williams notebooks describe in detail something of the prisoners daily routine as well as hospital admissions and deaths. Conditions were far from ideal the flooding of the Tigris resulted in waterlogged ground while the extremes of heat and swarms of flies must have seemed utterly alien to the British soldiers. 4th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) were at Deganwy Camp in Wales for the annual Divisional Training at the beginning of August 1914, with rumours of impending War, the Camp broke up on the 3rd of August and Company returned to its own Headquarters. 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. They walked coolly on and were within 300 yards of the Turkish trenches when the officer, the last of that forlornest of forlorn hopes, fell. 04 Aug 1914 - 11 Nov Colchester prior to the outbreak of the war. . ), 107th Brigade. Following the end of World War One and the Versailles Peace Treaty, Britain was responsible for the mandate of Palestine. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). 1/1st and 1/3rd Bns in the 84th Brigade, 28th Division They took no part in a hard-fought engagement at Shaiba (12-15 April 1915) in which the British successfully defeated a Turkish attempt to retake Basra. To that end the new Tory government dispatched five regiments, among the Windress, to North America in 1711 to help the British colonists in the fight against their French neighbours in Canada. 1915 - 01 Mar 1916. A-K. 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, L-Z. 4th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters,(N&D Reg). 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (W.R.R. 36th Division. 7th Battalion, The Buffs, (East Kent Regiment). Two Polish nationals, forcibly conscripted into the German 334 Division, surrendered to men of the 2/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in the village of Alberoro, Italy. On 29 April 1916, with food supplies exhausted and all hope of relief gone, Major-General Townshend surrendered the Kut garrison and its 13,309 personnel to the Turks. All those poor men who had to trek as prisoners owe Leach a heavy debt of gratitude. 5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). 6th Battalion, British West Indies Regiment. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 784 recorded WW1 deaths for the 15th (Service) Battalion (2nd . After the retreat from Le Cateau, southwards towards Paris, 1st Hampshire then took part in the Allied counter-offences on the Marne and Aisne rivers. Its headquarters were in Carlton Place, Southampton, (headquarters of the old 5th, and until August 1939, the 5/7th Battalion). 1-18 Oct 1916, including the 2nd Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company. The 1st Bn. These became the new unit's 1st and 2nd Battalions respectively. Disbanded. Nine men of the 1/4th Hampshires died in Kut during the siege which left ten officers and 178 other ranks to march out of the garrison when it surrendered on 29 April 1916. history during WW1. He was born in Gilbraltar (his parents were Tom Bu. 2nd/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 2nd Bn Essex Regt. Today it lies in an unmarked grave because it proved impossible to identify the remains of the soldiers when they were moved from Nisibin. British Army 330319 Private Hampshire Regiment 8th Battalion Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight Rifles. Kut stands on a peninsula two miles long by one mile wide within a horseshoe bend of the River Tigris. 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. 1st Battalion,Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Senior NCOs played a critical role in helping the soldiers to endure the long months of captivity. 5th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. At the outbreak of the First World War much of the British Regular Army was stationed in India and needed to be replaced by Territorials from Britain. 1st Battalion, King's Own, (Royal Lancaster Regiment). There were worrying signs, too, of increasing German military and economic influence in the area with many Turkish regiments advised or even commanded by German officers. At Shumran they were issued with coarse black biscuits which they ate dry without soaking them in water first. 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). 17 Nov 1914 - 19 May 1915. For many of the soldiers present it was the first reunion they had enjoyed with their comrades since the march into captivity. The Armys solution was to authorise the formation of 2nd Line units which were distinguished by a 2/ prefix from the original unit (prefixed 1/.) 1/5th Bn London Regt. 4th Reserve Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 1914. The role of the Beach Group was to land supplies until a harbour could be captured. Lieutenant Gerard Ross Norton, 1/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Second World War. Serle's House He fell resignedly on the floor, the stump of a cigarette in his mouth, and with a tiredness born of long suffering, buried his head in his arms to shut out the disappearing column and smoked on I saw another man crawling on all fours over the desert in the dark quite alone. Hampshire Regiment was part of III Corps which consisted Her Comforts Fund, started in July 1916, raised money for parcels to send out to the prisoners. 12th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. A-K. 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. The Royal Hampshire Regiment Trust The winter weather added to the misery of the Kut garrison. 2nd Bn Duke of Wellington's Regt. The 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment who had been called in as reinforcements for the assault on the Taku Forts from behind, to avoid a defeat as had been seen the previous year, and by the end of the battle were to have won four Victoria Crosses. William had been born in Salisbury and before the war he trained to be a teacher at the Diocesan Training College in Winchester. 4th Battalion, Oxford & Buckingham Light Infantry. Kut survivors of the 1/4th Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment outside the Great Hall in Winchester on 20 February 1919 before the official welcome home reception. L-Z. 16th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). The Royal victory secured the House of Hanover on the English throne. From time to time the emphasis of role changed, for example with training in Civil Defence in the early 1960s. They served with 128th Brigade, 43rd (Wessex) Division and later with 46th Division and saw action in North Africa, Italy and the Middle East. This section will focus on the 2/4th Hampshire. 3rd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. All ended in failure. For several months, the Germans had been attacking the French at Verdun who were suffering heavy losses. Brudenells were to fight alongside the 37th in the Westphalia campaign and to share with them the laurels of Minden.. A convenient marker point to positively identify the Countys (Southampton) Militia was the Militia Act of Charles II in 1661 which acknowledged emphatically the Kings sole right to control the Militia this act provided for the levying of the Militia by the Lords Lieutenant and for its organisation by Companies and Regiments. The next objective, known as The Wadi, was taken on 14 January at which point the Turks withdrew to strong defensive positions at the Hanna Defile (Um-El-Hanna). The captured men marched together as far as Shumran where the officers and rank and file were separated. Battle of Albert. As part of this the 2nd Hampshire were being detailed for reduction to cadre, a small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose. Another major relief effort was launched on 8 March 1916 with an attack on Duijaila Redoubt. The 2/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion was formed at Sheffield on 21 September 1914, composed mainly of officers and men who, for various reasons, had chosen not to volunteer for Imperial Service. 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. From Mosul the trek continued to the railhead at Ras-Al-Hain, some 200 miles to the north-west, travelling via Dolabia, Rumailan, Kabir, Nisibin and Kochhisar. The Campaign which was to last from 1st July to 18th November involved 5 Hampshire Battalions and cost around 1,300 Hampshire Regiment lives. The 477-strong regiment included 20 men from Brunswick and Hesse, these German states supplying some 2,000 soldiers for the expedition. 10th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). William spent time at Nisibin, but in Mrs Bowkers Comforts Fund Ledger (see above) he is also recorded at Afion Kara Hissar, Yarbaschi and Adano. Of the 13,309 soldiers who surrendered at Kut, 13,078 went into captivity. 21 13th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. There are:6939 items tagged 2/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment available in our Library Coordinates The 4th Military Region of Vietnam People's Army, is directly under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam, tasked to organise, build, manage and command armed forces defending the North Central VietnamThe predecessor, 4th War Zone (Vietnamese: Chin khu) was established by the order of Ho Chi Minh on 15 October 1945, and this day has become the traditional day of the Military Zone. After the war survivors erected a plaque in the crypt at St Pauls Cathedral dedicated to those who died in the siege and afterwards in captivity. Archive Film 2nd Hampshire Regiment Going Forward On The Somme June 1916 BOOKS AVAILABLE Soldiers Died in the Great War: The Hampshire Regiment. 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. 2nd Hampshiresailed for North Africa on 11th November 1942, arriving in Algiers on 21st. 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Of the ten 1/4th Battalion officers captured all survived while only 50 of the original 178 rank and file made it home again. 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 8th Battalion, King's Own, (Royal Lancaster Regiment). On 21st April 1758 the 2nd battalions were separated from their original corps and numbered as separate units from the 61st onwards. Served in France and Flanders until the There was a small, dark, dank room, with no windows to it, only a few feet square. However, they were quickly driven back. The food situation within Kut quickly became serious. The Hampshires within Kut were led by Major Foster Footner, from Romsey, who commanded nine other officers and 187 other ranks. Tory hostility to Marlborough had centred on his concentrating British energies in Flanders at the expense of diversionary attacks on the French and their allies elsewhere in the world. 7th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. One account describes how a group of Hampshires were cut down: A small batch of the Hants were seen to advance at walking pace some 1,800 yards without taking cover. . Jun 1916 - 11 Nov 1918. Contalmaison and La Boisselle. 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. 2nd Bn Duke of Wellington's Regt. Other prisoners ended up at Entilli, Kedos, Adana, Airan, Angora, Tarsus, Changri, Daridja, Mosul and Baghdad. 26 Aug 16th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. 1/9th Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. 17th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. 7-10 Sep 1914, including the 04 Aug 1914 - H Coy had their The Drill Hall at the old . Ceremonial events included the Kings Review in 1948, the re-dedication of the County Memorial and the Regiments own Memorial Garden, the Freedom of the City of Portsmouth in 1950, the provision of Coronation contingents in 1953 and Royal Guards of Honour in Romsey in 1957, and Newport, Isle of Wight in 1965. 16th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Most people have heard of the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele and perhaps even the Gallipoli campaign. 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. L-Z. The 2/4th remained in India until April 1917. In 1918, the 1st/7th Hampshire reached Aden, where they helped to defuse part of the local war between the Turks and troops in Aden, which had been happening since 1915, since Turkey had entered the War. 28th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. On 16th April 1746the Jacobite Rebellion was brought to an end at the battle between the Highland Army of Prince Charles Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) and the Royal Troops of King George II. The regiment existed continuously for 111 years and served in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. More troops were sent to reinforce 6th Division which advanced again to Ctesiphon, just 18 miles from Baghdad. Of these, 197 were men of the 1/4th Hampshires, comprised mainly of the battalions Headquarters and A Company, plus drafts from other battalions such as the 2/4th. The 2/67th was formed under the Army of Reserve Act of July 1803 to counter the renewed threat from Napoleonic France. The 2/4th Battalion remained in India until the spring of 1917 when they moved to Egypt. Conditions on the journey to Ras-Al-Hain were perhaps the worst of the entire march. Later the 1/4th moved farther south, while the 2/4th extended their positions to include Ksar Mezouar and Guessa Farm, a frontage of some seven thousand yards. L-Z. A-G. 10h Battalion, Lincolnshire Regient. War was declared on 4th August and on 23rd August 1st Hampshire deployed to France and fought its first battle at Le Cateau on 26th August. 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). The total given is 5,746. The 9th Brigade, which four 1/4th Hampshires had managed to infiltrate, attempted reinforce a group of around 60 men who had got within 50 yards of the Turkish trenches. 1st Battalion, The Queen's, (Royal West Surrey Regiment). The Treaty of Paris of 1763 which ended the Seven Years War left Britain in control of Canada and the 13 American colonies. The Hampshires, having suffered 30 per cent casualties, were then taken out of the line and returned to Amara. The war scare of 1859 brought a sudden realisation to the country that its defences were inadequate, and public opinion was so aroused that the government agreed to the Volunteer Corps, disbanded in 1814, being reformed. 17th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, (N&D Reg). The 5th Hampshire was the first to disband in January 1946, the same month that the 1/4th moved to Vienna on occupation duties. 26th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. 17 Nov 1916 - 10 Feb 1918. Soldiers of the 2/4th Hampshires on their way to their base at Quetta, India, in early 1915. Winchester Few, however, are aware that thousands of British troops fought in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the Great War and that the Army suffered one of its most humiliating defeats there. 2nd Battalion, The Buffs, (East Kent Regiment). 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. To the 36th Division. August 1914 : in Winchester. The siege began on 7 December 1915. 3-4 May 1917, including On 9th September The Royal Hampshire Regiment amalgamated after 290 years of existence, with The Queens Regiment to form The Princess of Waless Royal Regiment (Queens and Royal Hampshires). The Hampshires spent a month operating in difficult terrain often swampy and increasing heat, but the Turks refused to give battle and the battalion returned to Basra. To the Corps Troops. However, in December 1914 they, too, were ordered to India, arriving in January 1915. 11th Battalion, The Queen's, (Royal West Surrey regiment). Wancourt Ridge. 12th (Yeomanry) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. - 7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. History Formation. 1st Battalion, Queen's Own, (Royal West Kent Regiment). 5th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Hampshire SO23 9EG, 01962 863658 Among those killed was the 1/4th Battalions Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Bowker (right), a pre-war soldier who lived in the village of Longparish, near Andover. In his response, Major Footner went out of his way to praise Regimental Sergeant Major Leach for all his efforts for the men on the march and in the prison camps. Unit histories Hampshire Regiment Remembered Today: 25368 Quartermaster Serjeant Leonard Henry CADE Meritorious Service Medal 12th Coy. The battalion came under orders of Major-General Mellisss 30th Brigade. 10th Bn Royal Irish Rifles. 28th Jun 1944 Reliefs. Brigadier H. Essame. Reformation of the Territorial Army began in 1947, and the 4th Hampshire was the first to re-form, on 1st March 1947 with its Headquarters in Newburgh House, Winchester, as in pre-War days. The 2/20th became the 67th with Wolfe as its first Colonel. - 03 Feb 1916.) They were both dying and, thank God, one was unconscious. 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. 26-30 Aug 1918, including the Company Sergeant Major Eric Rule, of St Pauls Terrace, Winchester, and Private Sidney Coles, of Western Road, Winchester, also lost their lives. Thick mud made the movement of troops and equipment difficult and the Turks had had time to improve their defences which were a mile in depth. N-R. 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. The Battle of Ramillies fought on May 23, 1706 was an overwhelming victory for the Grand Alliance forces of England, Holland and Denmark over the army of King Louis XIV of France during the war of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). L-Z. Battle of the Selle. 18 February 2012 Hampshire Regiment - 1st & 2nd Battalions This post will look at numbering in The Hampshire Regiment between 1881 and 1914. 7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. 3rd Battalion, Oxford & Buckinham Light Infantry. 4th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). His going was a sad loss to the British community at Nisibin and to all the little groups of Englishmen in isolated camps for miles around. with the Division from 05 Nov 1915 until 03 Feb 1916.). It was to remain on the sub-continent until 1826 and earn the nickname The Tigers. Mrs Bowker did this by having each prisoner adopted by someone in Britain. 4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. In that time, the unit supplied hundreds of men as drafts for other battalions fighting in different theatres of war, but primarily Mesopotamia. The War Office quickly decided that units such as these were sufficiently experienced for them to replace Regular Army units overseas, particularly in India. Hampshire SO23 9EG, 01962 863658 They were posted to Quetta (in Baluchistan in modern Pakistan) on the North West Frontier. 25th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Warren's Winchester Directory 1914 reported that on 1st October 1913 its strength was 31 officers and 820 other ranks and that 683 had attended that year . A-K. 1st/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment L-Z. 1917. Battle of Broodside. The soldiers worked mainly on railway construction projects at Ras-Al-Hain, Afion Kara Hissar, Mamourie, Bagtsche and Yarbaschi. 6th Battalion,King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. During its time in India drafts were sent to Mesopotamia . 20th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. This is the story of an action fought near the village of Ulu Langat in Selangor, Malaya resulting in the killing of 11 Communist Terrorists (CTs) and the capture of a twelfth. Lawrence was part of the negotiating team) and a daring attempt to run the Tigris blockade by steamer. 18 March 1915 : landed at Basra with 33rd Indian Brigade and remained in Mesopotamia and Persia for the rest of the war. The 8,000 Royal troops were commanded by the Kings son, William, Duke of Cumberland. 2nd Bn Lancashire Fusiliers. Most officers ended up at the Turkish prisoner-of-war camps at Afion Kara Hissar, Kastamuni, Changri, Kedos and Yozgad. Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. Advance in Flanders. Their treatment there depended largely on the character of the camp commandant, but each received a small amount of regular pay which invariably went back to the Turks to pay for food and accommodation. 18th Battalion, The Kings, (Liverpool Regiment). Create your own unique website with customizable templates. ), 7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (W.R.R. Details of the parcels sent out to the prisoners. By the end of the siege, up to 80 soldiers a day were dying in Kut, many from starvation. ), 5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (W.R.R. 26 Sep-3 Oct 1917. Among the attacking British force were 345 men of the 1/4th Hampshires who were particularly eager for success given that many of their comrades were trapped inside Kut. 10th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. of Battle, Battles Men immediately flocked to enlist and the battalion was soon oversubscribed. The Post War successors in title to the 6th and 8th were revived as 383 (Duke of Connaughts Own Hampshire) Light Regiment and 428 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Princess Beatrices Isle of Wight Rifles). Reformation of the Territorial Army began in 1947, and the 4th Hampshire was the first to re-form, on 1st March 1947 with its Headquarters in Newburgh House, Winchester, as in pre-War days.
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