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The Bedfordshire
and Hertfordshire Regiment
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crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
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| 1688.10.09 | Archibald
Douglas's Regiment of Foot raised at Reading from southern counties; known until 1751 by the names of nine other colonels |
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| 1747 | ranked as 16th Foot | |
| 1751.07.01 | 16th Regiment of Foot | |
| 1782.08.31 | 16th (the Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1809.05 | 16th (the
Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot (exchanged county titles with 14th Foot) |
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| 1881.07.01 | The Bedfordshire
Regiment reorganised as the county regiment of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] |
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| 1919.07.29 | The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment | |
| 1958.06.02 | amalgamated with The Essex Regiment, to form 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) | |
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The Bedfordshire Regiment in The Great War, by Steve Fuller [includes battalion war diaries] | |
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The Bedfordshire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). | |
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The Bedfordshire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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| 33rd Brigade Depot at Bedford [1873-1881] | ||
| 16th Regimental District at Bedford [1881-1905] | ||
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| G Group, at Colchester [1946-1948] | ||
| East Anglian Brigade, at Bury St. Edmunds [1948-1958] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1688-1958] | ||
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| 2nd Battalion [1859-1948] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (Bedfordshire
Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953] |
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| 4th Battalion (Hertford Regiment
of Militia) [1881-1953] |
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| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 3rd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th (Huntingdonshire) Volunteer Battalion [1900-1908] | ||
| 5th Battalion [1908-1958] | ||
| 1st Battalion, The Hertfordshire Regiment [1908-1958] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/5th Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 6th Battalion [1939-1947]
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| 7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 7th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 2/7th (Home Defence) Battalion
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| 8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 8th Battalion [1940-1942]
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| 9th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 9th Battalion [1940-1946]
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| 10th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 10th (Home Defence) Battalion [1940-1941]
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| 11th Battalion [1917-1919]
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| 12th (Transport Workers) Battalion
[1916-1919] |
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| 13th (Transport Workers) Battalion
[1917-1919] |
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1946]
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| 50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 51st (Service) Battalion [1916-1919]
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| 52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 70th (Young Soldier) Battalion
[1940-1943] |
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| 71st (Young Soldier) Battalion
[1940-1943] |
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| 2/1st Battalion, The Hertfordshire
Regiment [1915-1917] |
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| 1st (Reserve) Battalion, The Hertfordshire
Regiment [1915-1917] |
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| 4/1st Battalion, The Hertfordshire
Regiment [1915-1917] |
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| 2/1st Battalion, The Hertfordshire
Regiment [1915-1917] |
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| 2nd Battalion, The Hertfordshire Regiment
[1939-1944] |
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| 1st Garrison Battalion [1915-1920]
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| 2nd Garrison Battalion [1916-1920]
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| 3rd Garrison Battalion [1917-1920]
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| Namur
1695, Blenheim, Ramillies,
Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Surinam,
Chitral, South
Africa 1900-02
The Great War (18 battalions): Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Oppy, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St.Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Drocourt Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Selle Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18 The Second World War: Dunkirk 1940, North-West Europe 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, Belhamed, Tunis, North Africa 1941 '43, Cassino II, Trasimene Line, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Singapore Island, Malaya 1942, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944 5th Battalion: South Africa 1900-02 |
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| 1947? | HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | |
| 1688.10.09 | Col. Archibald Douglas | |
| 1688.12.21 | Col. Robert Hodges | |
| 1692.08.01 | Col. James (Stanley), 10th Earl of Derby | |
| 1705.03.25 | Brig-Gen. Francis Godfrey | |
| 1711.02.17 | Brig-Gen. Henry Durell | |
| 1713.06.23 | Brig-Gen. Hans Hamilton | |
| 1715.07.11 | Col. Richard (Ingram), 5th Viscount Irvine | |
| 1717.12.13 | Col. John Cholmley | |
| 1724.04.07 | Maj-Gen. Henry (Scott), 1st Earl of Deloraine, KB | |
| 1730.07.09 | Lt-Gen. Roger Handasyde | |
| 1763.01.14 | Col. Hon. Robert Brudenell | |
| 1765.06.25 | Lt-Gen. Sir William Draper, KB [also 79th Foot] | |
| 1766.03.04 | Lt-Gen. James Gisborne [also 121st Foot] | |
| 1778.05.14 | Lt-Gen. James Robertson | |
| 1788.03.06 | Lt-Gen. Hon. Thomas Bruce [also 100th Foot] | |
| 1797.12.15 | Lt-Gen. Henry Bowyer | |
| 1808.08.29 | Gen. Sir Charles Green, Bt. | |
| 1814.02.17 | Lt-Gen. Sir George Prevost, Bt. [also 5th Bn 60th Foot, 76th Foot; Capt-Gen. North America; Gen. & Gov. Dominica 1802-07; Gov. Lower Canada 1811-15] | |
| 1816.01.08 | Lt-Gen. Hugh Mackay Gordon | |
| 1823.03.15 | Gen. Sir William Carr (Beresford), 1st Viscount Beresford, GCB, GCH [also 69th Foot, 88th Foot; Col.-in-Chief 60th Foot; MGO 1828-30] | |
| 1854.01.28 | Gen. Sir Thomas Erskine Napier, KCB | |
| 1857.05.16 | Maj-Gen. Cecil Bishop, CB | |
| 1858.03.22 | Gen. Sackville Hamilton Berkeley | |
| 1863.02.13 | Gen. George Macdonald | |
| 1883.03.02 | Gen. Edward Stopford Claremont, CB | |
| 1890.07.17 | Gen. Frederick Robert Elrington, CB | |
| 1892.01.26 | Gen. Sir William Payn, KCB | |
| 1893.06.15 | Lt-Gen. Sir John William Cox, KCB | |
| 1900.05.18 | Lt-Gen. William Charles Bancroft | |
| 1903.02.01 | Lt-Gen. John Thomas Dalyell | |
| 1909.06.12 | Maj-Gen. Reginald Lawrence Herbert Curteis | |
| 1914.04.22 | Maj-Gen. Thomas David Pilcher, CB | |
| 1928.12.15 | F.M. Sir Frederick Rudolph (Lambart), 10th Earl of Cavan, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE [also Irish Gds; CIGS] | |
| 1935.10.16 | Gen. Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, KB, CMG, DSO | |
| 1948.01.01 | Lt-Gen. Sir Reginald Francis Stewart Denning, KBE, CB [continued 1958 in 3rd East Anglian Regt] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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| Anniversaries: | Blenheim (2 Aug.) | |
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The Prince Albert Volunteers | 19uu-1936 | |
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The Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers | 1936-1941 | |
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The Prince Albert Volunteers | 1941-1946 | |
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The Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers | 1946-1955 | |
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16th Infantry Battalion (The Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia | 1926-1948 | |
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16th/28th Battalion Battalion (The Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia) | 1948-1952 | |
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16th Infantry Battalion (The Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia | 1952-1958 | |
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The First City | 1928-1958 | |
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[no external sites have been found] | |
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Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Museum, Luton (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regimental Association Museum, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing). | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The wasp. | |
| Full Histories: | ||
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record of the Sixteenth, or the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot, containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688 and of its subsequent services to 1848. London : Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1848. (Historical records of the British Army) | |
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Maurice, Frederick, Sir. The 16th foot : a history of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. [reprint] London : Constable & Co.,1931 | |
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Maurice, Frederick, Sir. The 16th foot : a history of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. [reprint] London : Constable & Co., 1936. | |
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Peters, George Williams Howard. The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (the 16th Regiment of Foot). London : Leo Cooper, 1970. (Famous regiments) | |
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The Story of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment : (the 16th Regiment of Foot). Vol. 1, 1688-1913. [Farnham?] : [History Committee, The Royal Anglian Regiment (Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire)], 1986. | |
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The Story of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment : (the 16th Regiment of Foot). Vol. 2, 1914-1958. [Farnham?] : [History Committee, The Royal Anglian Regiment (Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire)], 1986. | |
| Short Histories: | ||
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Fanning, E. G. Additional notes on the history of the 16th Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment. [s.l. : s.n.], 1931. | |
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Sainsbury, J. D. (John David). A guide to the history of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Welwyn, Hertfordshire : Hart Books, 1987. ISBN: 0948527013 (pbk.) | |
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Militia: |
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King, Ann J. Muster books for North & East Hertfordshire, 1580-1605. [Hitchin] : Hertfordshire Record Society, 1996. (Hertfordshire Record Publications ; v. 12) ISBN: 0952377918 | |
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Burgoyne, John M., Sir. Regimental records of the Bedfordshire Militia from 1759 to 1884. London : W.H. Allen, 1884. | |
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Fellows, R. Bruce. Historical records of the Hartfordshire [sic] Militia, to 1892. St. Alban's : Gibbs & Bamforth, 1893. | |
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Sainsbury, J. D. (John David). Hertfordshire's soldiers: a survey of the auxiliary military forces raised in Hertfordshire from 1757 to the present day. Hitchin (Herts.) : Hertfordshire Local History Council, 1969. ISBN: 090045900X | |
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Hill, John. Hertfordshire militia lists : Hemel Hempstead. [Ware : Hertfordshire Family and Population History Society], 1987. ISBN: 0946780110 (pbk) | |
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A short history of units administered by the Bedfordshire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. [s.l.] : The Association, 1955. | |
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Webster, F. A. M. (Frederick Annesley Michael). The history of the Fifth Battalion the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.). London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co., 1930. | |
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Sainsbury, J. D. (John David). Hertfordshire's soldiers: a survey of the auxiliary military forces raised in Hertfordshire from 1757 to the present day. Hitchin (Herts.) : Hertfordshire Local History Council, 1969. ISBN: 090045900X | |
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First World War: |
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Pebody, E. Experiences in the Dardanelles of the 1st/5th Beds. Regt. T.F. Olney, 1916. | |
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Rimmer, Edmund. The story of the First-Fifth Bedfords. Manchester : Co-operative Wholesale Society's Printing Works, 1917. | |
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Second World War: |
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Medley, R. H. (Robin H). Cap badge : the story of four battalions of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire regiment (TA) : 1939-1947. London : Leo Cooper, 1995. ISBN: 0850524342 | |
| Manuscripts and Archives: | ||
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Orderly Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75) | |
