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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
14.07.2006
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[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" |
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Uniform: |
1881-1927:
scarlet; facings: white
1927-1953: scarlet; facings: buff
1953-1960: blue; facings: buff; piping: buff
headdress:
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1881 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. William Anson McCleverty [also 108th Foot] |
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1881 |
[2nd Bn:]
Gen. Sir Arthur Johnstone Lawrence, KCB [also Rifle
Bde] |
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1897.10.07 |
Maj-Gen. Robert Children Whitehead, CB |
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1910.12.12 |
Maj-Gen. George Fitzherbert Browne, CB,
DSO |
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1925.06.22 |
Gen. Sir Havelock Hudson, GCB, KCIE |
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1931.10.23 |
Gen. Sir Harry Hugh Sidney Knox, KCB, DSO
[AG 1935-37; Gov. R Hospital] |
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1943.11.05 |
Maj-Gen. Guy St. George Robinson, CB,
DSO, MC |
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1953.11.05 |
Brig. Wilfrid John Jervois, MC |
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1956.10.12 |
Brig. John Lingham, CB, DSO, MC [to
1960] |
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Motto: |
Montis Insignia
Calpe |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
Talavera
(27 July) |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
quick:
The Northamptonshire |
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slow:
The Duchess |
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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 journal
of the Northamptonshire Regiment. |
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Full Histories: |
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Barthorp, Michael. The Northamptonshire
Regiment, (the 48th/58th Regiment of Foot). London,
Cooper, 1974. ( Famous regiments) ISBN: 0850521467 |
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Gurney, Russell. History of the Northamptonshire
Regiment, 1742-1934. Aldershot : Gale & Polden,
1935. |
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Jervois, W. J. The history of the
Northamptonshire Regiment, 1934-1948. Northampton :
Regimental History Committee, 1953. |
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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 |
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Watts, C. J. M. The history of the Northamptonshire
regiment, 1948-1960. Northampton : Regimental History
Committee, 1963. |
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Short Histories: |
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Wyatt, James Digby. A short history
of the Northamptonshire Regiment. Aldershot :
Gale & Polden, 1920. |
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Wyatt, James Digby. A short history
of the Northamptonshire Regiment. Aldershot :
Gale & Polden, 1933. |
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Bicentenary 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment
(48th/58th). [s.l. : s.n.], December
1955. |
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Historical souvenir and history of the Northamptonshire
Regiment, Poona, India, 1908. [Poona] : British Historical
and Art Publishing Co., 1908. |
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A short history of the Northamptonshire regiment
(48th/58th foot), 1741-1951. Northampton : [s.n.],
1951. |
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Militia:
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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.
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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. |
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Records of the services of the Northamptonshire
and Rutland Militia from 1756 to 1889. Northampton :
Cordeux & Sons, [1890] |
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Territorials/Volunteers:
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First World War:
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Holloway, W. H. Northamptonshire and the Great
War. Northampton : The Northampton Independent, [192u] |
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King, H. B. 7th (S.) Battalion, Northamptonshire
Regiment, 1914-1919. [s.l. : s.n.], 1919. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Needham, Evelyn Jack. The first three months
: the impressions of an amateur infantry subaltern.
Aldershot ; London : Gale & Polden, 1936. |
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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. |
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Walkey, F. J. With the Northampton Territorials
in Egypt and Palestine. Northampton : W.H. Holloway,
[reprinted from the Northampton Independent] |
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Woodall, David. The Mobbs' Own : the 7th
Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment. Spratton :
R. Frisby in association with D. Woodall, 1994.
ISBN: 0952447509 (pbk) : |
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The Northamptonshire regiment, 1914-1918.
Aldershot :: Gale & Polden, 1932. |
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Second World War:
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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. |
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Special Topics: |
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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. |
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