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    The Dorset Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958, being the county regiment of Dorset. Until 1951, it...
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  • The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (11th, 39th and 54th), usually just known as the Devon and Dorsets, was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed...
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  • by The Devonshire Regiment of the British Army. The motto was further continued on the badges of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment when the Devonshires...
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  • The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry...
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  • The Rifles (category Rifle regiments)
    Infantry and Rifle Regiments of the Light Division as follows: 1st Battalion The Rifles (formed from the 1st Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry...
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    Delves, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment 1989 Lt Col John Holmes, Scots Guards n/k Lt Col Jonathan "Jacko" Page, Parachute Regiment 2001 Lt Col Ed Butler...
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  • Second World War. In 1958 the regiment was amalgamated with the Dorset Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment which, in 2007, was amalgamated...
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    Dorset (/ˈdɔːrsɪt/ DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire /ˈdɔːrsɪt.ʃɪər, -ʃər/ DOR-sit-sheer, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered...
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  • recruits and weapons for their own full-time regiments. Early in the conflict in September 1642 Dorset Trained Bandsmen were called out by both sides...
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  • Rifle Volunteers (category Infantry regiments of the British Army)
    Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and elements of the 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment in consequence of...
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  • H. Jones (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
    Sandhurst, on 23 July 1960, was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment as a second lieutenant. He was promoted to lieutenant on 23 January...
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    Half-Hour on the BBC Light Programme. The 1st battalion the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment was based there from 1961 to 1963. However, the barracks were becoming...
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  • with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. However, the four regiments then took the decision...
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  • John Woodhouse (British Army officer) (category Dorset Regiment officers)
    former Colonel of the Dorset Regiment. He received his education at Malvern College and commissioned into the Dorset Regiment in 1942. Woodhouse was...
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  • Cedric Delves (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
    Special Air Service Regiment. Delves was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment of the Prince of...
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  • Plymouth area". The term was also used for members of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. From March 1902 until November 1905 the Devon and Exeter Gazette ran...
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    Barnstaple. When the Devonshire Regiment and the Dorset Regiment merged in 1958 to create the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the TA battalion was redesignated...
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    Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (category Dorset Regiment officers)
    in the Dorset Regiment on 14 October 1914, and arrived back in Britain in December. He was posted to a reserve unit at Wyke Regis on the Dorset coast where...
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  • 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment) C Company (Dorset), at Dorchester and Poole (from 4th Battalion, Dorset Regiment) D Company (Berkshire), at Reading...
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    other countries including Denmark, Brazil and Lebanon. The stripes vary by regiment and corps, identifying the wearer's unit. In Brazil and Lebanon they are...
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    Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets to form The Rifles. The regiment was one...
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  • Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. (The field gun competition was discontinued in 1999 after a hundred years of competition and the infantry regiment folded into...
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  • Ed Stafford (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
    after a year's training he was commissioned in the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment of the British Army as a subaltern on 7 August 1999: he was granted...
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    Rupert Jones (British Army officer) (category Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers)
    in 1987 and was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, his father's former regiment. He served his early career in Germany, Northern Ireland...
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    Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, which later amalgamated with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Green Jackets and The Light...
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  • the amalgamation of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. The Wessex Brigade had previously rejected...
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  • Dorsets may refer to: Dorset culture Dorset Regiment This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dorsets. If an internal link led...
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  • Cedric Delves (late Devonshire and Dorset Regiment) 1996–1999 Brigadier John Sutherell (late Royal Anglian Regiment) 1999–2001 Brigadier John Holmes (late...
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    Brian Urquhart (category Dorset Regiment officers)
    Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Urquhart was born in Bridport, Dorset, England, the son of the artist Murray McNeel Caird Urquhart (1880–1972)...
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    Dorchester (/ˈdɔːrtʃɛstər/ DOR-ches-tər) is the county town of Dorset, England. It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic...
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