The Cheshire Brigade, later 159th (Cheshire) Brigade, was an infantry formation of Britain's Volunteer Force created in 1900. It was carried over into...

The Cheshire Artillery Volunteers was a brigade of Volunteer artillery units raised in the county of Cheshire in the mid-19th century. Their successors...

The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by...

(Major General Alister Grant Dallas) 158th (North Wales) Brigade 159th (Cheshire) Brigade 160th Brigade – less one battalion; plus one section (2 × 60-pounder...

160th Brigade remains in service today. As the name suggests, the division recruited mainly in Wales, but also in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire. The...

1889, the 4th VB of the Cheshires was first assigned to the Welsh Border Brigade, changing to the Cheshire and Lancashire Brigade in the early 1890s. By...

the 1st and 2nd Line regiments. The 1/1st Cheshire Yeomanry was mobilised with the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of the...

War. The brigade was first formed in the Volunteer Force in 1902 from elements of the Mersey Brigade and the Cheshire and Lancashire Brigade. Headquartered...

Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment 159th (Cheshire) Brigade 1/4th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment 1/7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment 1/4th Battalion, Welch Regiment...

War, 259 infantry brigades were raised by the British Army, two by the Royal Navy, and one from the Royal Marines. Of these brigades, fifty-three were...

was formed in January 1915 with the 2nd North Wales, 2nd Cheshire and 2nd Welsh Border Brigades as a 2nd Line duplicate of the Welsh Division. The 68th...

action during the landing at Cape Helles in 1915, whilst leading the 88th Brigade. Davis, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs – General Officer...

(North Wales) Brigade 159th (Cheshire) Brigade 160th (Welsh Border) Brigade Artillery 265th Brigade RFA 266th Brigade RFA 267th Brigade RFA (troops same...

their right. The 159th (Cheshire) Brigade on the left was to capture Sheikh Ajlin on the sea shore, while the 160th (Wales) Brigade on the right was to capture...

Cheshire Brigade: 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Bns, Cheshire Regiment) 47th Provisional Battalion (from the Home Service details of the North Wales Brigade:...

Yorkshire). It was originally intended to use the old Mercian Brigade badge worn by the Cheshire Regiment, Staffordshire Regiment, Worcestershire Regiment...

was promoted to temporary brigadier-general to command the 159th (Cheshire) Brigade, in the 53rd (Welsh) Division, which under his command captured the...

battalions of the Cheshire Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 2007. When the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot...

county regiments of Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire. In 1948, the depots adopted names and this depot became the Mercian Brigade, with all regiments...

The 42nd Infantry Brigade, also known as 42 (North West) Brigade, was a brigade of the British Army. The brigade first saw action during the Second Boer...

front line. 158th Brigade supported 159th (Cheshire) Brigade in an attack towards Scimitar Hill on 10 August and 1/5th RWF as the brigade's leading battalion...

to 74th Brigade in exchange for 10th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment transferred to 75th Brigade in exchange...

Division during the First World War. Seymour was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) in 1904. He commanded a battalion in France...

England–Wales border, notably Denbighshire (Wales), Cheshire and Shropshire (both England). The brigade was mobilised on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of...

retired on 5 May 1906 but as a Reserve officer he served as Brigade major of the Cheshire Brigade of the Volunteers (Territorial Force from 1908) for five...

1/5th Welsh left the brigade and joined the 159th (Cheshire) Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division at Bedford. With that, the brigade passed out of existence...

2/1st Welsh Border Mounted Brigade in the Newcastle area of Northumberland in January 1915 (along with the 2/1st Cheshire Yeomanry and the 2/1st Denbighshire...

lieutenant into the Cheshire Regiment on 3 February 1926. In May 1936, recently promoted to captain, he was appointed as the Cheshire's regimental adjutant...

HMS Cheshire was a passenger ship that was built in Scotland in 1927 and scrapped in Wales in 1957. She belonged to Bibby Line, which ran passenger and...

Fusiliers, South Lancashire and most Cheshire Regiment VBs had been moved into a separate Cheshire and Lancashire Brigade under Maj-Gen Thackwell, while the...