The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1959. The regiment was created...
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Somerset Light Infantry and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and was itself merged with three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade in 1968...
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regiment was amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry which was again amalgamated, in 1968...
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Regiment of Foot to form the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1881. The regiment was first raised by Colonel Edward Fox as Edward Fox’s Regiment of Marines...
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Albert's) The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The King's Shropshire...
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William Oxenham (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
doing so His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, Bodmin, Cornwall as are his campaign and good conduct medals. "No...
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Surfing Tommies (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry)
follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on a journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders, where they...
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Michael Alexander (British Army officer) (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
II Prisoner of War held captive at Oflag IV-C, and later a writer. Alexander was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from Sandhurst...
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British Light Infantry Regiments Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Durham Light Infantry Highland Light Infantry King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry King's...
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patitur (He conquers who endures) The RLI were allied to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1932. This alliance later fell into abeyance but was resurrected...
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(Service) Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 6th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (disbanded February 1918) 6th...
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Vyvyan Adams (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
programme director. He was a barrister, and was a Major in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry of the British Army in World War II. In 1951 he drowned while...
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(reduction of 4th Battalion, King's Own Shropshire Light Infantry) A Company (Cornwall), at Truro and Bodmin (reduction of Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (TA))...
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Herbert Thomas Dobbin (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
September 1946) was a British Army officer of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He commanded a number of battalions during the First World War and...
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Army officer who became colonel of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, then the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Educated at the Royal Military...
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William Dowling (VC) (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
32 years old and a private in the 32nd Regiment of Foot (later the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when he was...
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Thomas Edward Rendle (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
Rifles. His VC is displayed at the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum in Victoria Barracks, Bodmin, Cornwall. "No. 29037". The London Gazette (Supplement)...
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Walter Brooks (British Army officer) (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
cricketer and British Army officer. Brooks served in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from 1904–40, serving in the First World War and receiving...
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(Cornwall) Regiment of Foot to form the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1881, becoming the 2nd Battalion of the new regiment. The regiment was raised...
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Indian Brigade and served in Mesopotamia) 4th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at Truro (served in Aden, later with 75th Division in Palestine)...
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consisting of three companies of the 32nd Regiment of Foot (later the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry), several companies of the 13th Native Infantry and detachments...
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Harry Patch (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
after completing training to the 7th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, serving as an assistant gunner in a Lewis gun section. Patch...
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Horace Augustus Curtis (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
September he joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) at Bodmin, with his service number being 15833. However, within days of enlisting in the DCLI...
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Robert Goldsmith (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
who became colonel of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Goldsmith was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1927. He attended...
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David Tyacke (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
commanding officer of 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) prior to its amalgamation into the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry. Tyacke was...
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First DCLI Cemetery, The Bluff (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry)
cemetery here was founded by the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) before the fighting of 1916. At the time of the armistice it contained burials...
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Roy Urquhart (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry until 1942. Then he was appointed as a staff officer in the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division, which...
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John Masters (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
he was seconded to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) for a year before applying to serve with the 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles...
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The Rifles (category The Light Infantry)
formed on 1 February 2007 by the amalgamation of the four Light Infantry and Rifle Regiments of the Light Division as follows: 1st Battalion The Rifles...
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Geoffrey Toye (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers)
" Toye joined the Army in 1914, first as a private in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and later in the Royal Flying Corps, in which he served in...
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