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The Northamptonshire Regiment
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by A. Melville-Brown
United Kingdom 
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1881.07.01 The Northamptonshire Regiment
organised as the county regiment of Northamptonshire, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
 
1960.06.01 amalgamated with The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
pip The Northamptonshire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
pip The Northamptonshire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
     
  RHQ and Depot:
    RHQ:
    48th Regimental District at Northampton [1881-1905]
   
    G Group, at Colchester [1946-1948]
    East Anglian Brigade, at Bury St. Edmunds [1948-1960]
     
  Regulars:
    1st Battalion [1881-1960]
    2nd Battalion [1881-1948]
     
Militia and Special Reserve:
3rd Battalion (Northampton and Rutland Militia) [1881-1953]
4th Battalion [1881-1899]
Territorials and Volunteers:
1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
4th Battalion [1908-1937]
5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion [1920-1961]
Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
2/4th Battalion [1914-1918]
4th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1918]
4th Battalion [1939-1947]
5th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
6th Battalion [1940-1946]
7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
8th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
9th Battalion [1917-1919]
50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
1st Garrison Battalion [1915-1919]
2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion [1916-1917]
[combined battle honours of 48th Regiment and 58th Regiment, plus:] 

Louisburg1, Quebec 17591, Martinique 17622, Havannah2, Martinique 17943, South Africa 18794, Tirah, Modder River, South Africa 1899-1902

Great War [13 battalions]:  Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Ypres 1914 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Amiens, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, 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

Second World War:  Defence of Escaut, Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, North-West Europe 1940, '45, Djedeida, Djebel Djaffa, Oued Zarga, Djebel Tanngoucha, Sidi Ahmed, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Adrano, Sicily 1943, Sangro, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Cassino II, Monte Gabbione, Trasimene Line, Monte La Pieve, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Madagascar, Yu, Imphal, Tamu Road, Bishenpur, Monywa 1945, Myinmu Bridgehead, Irrawaddy, Burma 1943-45

Northamptonshire Militia:  Mediterranean

1.  awarded 1882 for service of 48th Regiment.
2.  awarded 1909 for service of 48th Regiment.
3.  awarded 1909 for service of 58th Regiment.
4.  awarded 1882 for service of 58th Regiment.

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Badges: A sprig of maple leaves each charged with a fleur-de-lys; The Castle and Key superscribed "Gibraltar, 1779-83" and with the motto "Montis Insignia Calpe" underneath; The Sphinx superscribed "Egypt"
Uniform: 1881-1927: scarlet; facings: white
1927-1953: scarlet; facings: buff
1953-1960: blue; facings: buff; piping: buff
headdress: construction sign
   
   
     
   
1937.05.11 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, GCB CI, GCVO, GBE
1881 [1st Bn:]  Gen. William Anson McCleverty [also 108th Foot]
1881 [2nd Bn:] Gen. Sir Arthur Johnstone Lawrence, KCB [also Rifle Bde]
1897.10.07 Maj-Gen. Robert Children Whitehead, CB
1910.12.12 Maj-Gen. George Fitzherbert Browne, CB, DSO
1925.06.22 Gen. Sir Havelock Hudson, GCB, KCIE
1931.10.23 Gen. Sir Harry Hugh Sidney Knox, KCB, DSO [AG 1935-37; Gov. R Hospital]
1943.11.05 Maj-Gen. Guy St. George Robinson, CB, DSO, MC
1953.11.05 Brig. Wilfrid John Jervois, MC
1956.10.12 Brig. John Lingham, CB, DSO, MC [to 1960]
   
   
vc Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
vc VCs in The Northamptonshire Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
pip Pte. Bert Edgehill, 7th Battalion [WW1]
pip The McAllister family and the Northamptonshire Regiment
   
   
 
Motto: Montis Insignia Calpe
Nicknames: construction sign
Anniversaries: Talavera (27 July)
Freedoms: construction sign
Marches: quick:  The Northamptonshire
  slow:  The Duchess
Musicians: construction sign
Mascot: construction sign
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
Canada flag The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment
-1960
Australia flag 48th Battalion (The Torrens Regiment) 1930-1951
Australia flag 58th Battalion (The Essendon Rifles) 1931-1951
Australia flag 58th/32nd Infantry Battalion (The City of Essendon Regiment) 1951-1960
New Zealand flag The North Auckland Regiment 1913-1960
South Africa flag Regiment de la Rey
-1960
 
swords Northamptonshire Regiment Association (Northamptonshire County Council)
   
   
monument The Northamptonshire Regimental Museum, Northampton (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
monument The Northamptonshire Regimental Museum, Northampton, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing).
   
   
Regimental Journal:
The journal of the Northamptonshire Regiment.
   
Full Histories:
book Barthorp, Michael.  The Northamptonshire Regiment, (the 48th/58th Regiment of Foot). London,  Cooper,  1974.  ( Famous regiments)  ISBN: 0850521467
book Gurney, Russell.  History of the Northamptonshire Regiment, 1742-1934. Aldershot : Gale & Polden,  1935.
book Jervois, W. J. The history of the Northamptonshire Regiment, 1934-1948.  Northampton : Regimental History Committee, 1953. 
book Moore, Geoffrey.  'Just as good as the rest' : the accolade given to the 1st Battalion the Northamptonshire Regiment ...   Huntingdon : The author, 1979.  ISBN 0-9503630-3-7
book Watts, C. J. M.  The history of the Northamptonshire regiment, 1948-1960.  Northampton : Regimental History Committee, 1963. 
   
Short Histories:
book Wyatt, James Digby.   A short history of the Northamptonshire Regiment.  Aldershot :  Gale & Polden, 1920.
book Wyatt, James Digby.   A short history of the Northamptonshire Regiment.  Aldershot :  Gale & Polden, 1933.
book Bicentenary 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (48th/58th).  [s.l. : s.n.],  December 1955.
book Historical souvenir and history of the Northamptonshire Regiment, Poona, India, 1908.  [Poona] : British Historical and Art Publishing Co., 1908.
book A short history of the Northamptonshire regiment (48th/58th foot), 1741-1951. Northampton : [s.n.], 1951.
 

Militia:

book D'Arcy, R. J.   Memoirs and records of the Northamptonshire and Rutland Militia, together with a brief outline of the origin and history of the Militia Force of Great Britain to the present time.  London : Edward Stanford, 1875.
book Markham, Christopher Alexander.   The history of the Northamptonshire & Rutland Militia; now the 3rd Battalion (Militia) of the Northamptonshire Regiment, from 1756 to 1919.  London : Reeves and Turner, 1924.
book Records of the services of the Northamptonshire and Rutland Militia from 1756 to 1889.  Northampton : Cordeux & Sons, [1890]
 

Territorials/Volunteers:

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First World War:

book Holloway, W. H. Northamptonshire and the Great War.  Northampton : The Northampton Independent, [192u]
book King, H. B.  7th (S.) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, 1914-1919. [s.l. : s.n.], 1919.
book Moore, P. G. (P. Geoffrey). Four V.C.s in forty months : the proud record in World War I of the 6th (Service) Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment.  Buckden : Moore, 1979.  ISBN: 0950636053 
book Moore, P. G. (P. Geoffrey).  Kitchener's pioneers : the story of one battalion formed from Kitchener's first 100,000 - August 1914 ; 5th Service Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment (Pioneers).  Buckden, England : Moore, 1978.  ISBN: 0950636002 
book Needham, Evelyn Jack.  The first three months : the impressions of an amateur infantry subaltern.  Aldershot ; London : Gale & Polden,  1936.
book Paget, Guy.  History of the raising of the 7th (Service) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment (48th & 58th Foot) : and its records from the formation until it proceeded on active service 14th Sept., 1914-31st August, 1915.  Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1915. 
book Walkey, F. J. With the Northampton Territorials in Egypt and Palestine.  Northampton : W.H. Holloway, [reprinted from the Northampton Independent]
book Woodall, David.  The Mobbs' Own : the 7th Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment.  Spratton :  R. Frisby in association with D. Woodall, 1994.
ISBN: 0952447509 (pbk) :
book The Northamptonshire regiment, 1914-1918.  Aldershot :: Gale & Polden, 1932.
 

Second World War:

book Wallis, R. S., and R.J. Hornsby.  A history of the 58th, 1939-1945, 2nd Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment.  Aldershot, England :  Gale and Polden, 1947.
   
Special Topics:
book Chaytor, R. J. The Northamptonshire Regiment 1st Battalion ... being reproductions of a series of photographs of the Battalion taken by special artist and by Colour Sergeant J. Hull at Secunderabad, 1896.  Philadelphia : [s.n.], 1896.