• The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers...
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  • 1958 by the amalgamation of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) which had been raised in 1685 and the Manchester Regiment which traced its history to 1758. In...
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  • and is the regiment's Colonel in Chief. The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment is the county regiment for Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside...
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  • auxiliary regiment raised in the county of Lancashire in North West England just before the Crimean War. It later became part of the Manchester Regiment. Although...
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    battalions of the Manchester Regiment. 1st Manchester Pals became 16th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (1st City) 2nd Manchester Pals became 17th...
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  • 21st (Wigan) Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army recruited...
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    The Manchester Regiment was a Jacobite unit raised during the 1745 Rebellion and the only significant number of English recruits willing to fight for...
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    Battalion, Manchester Regiment 1/6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment 1/7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment 1/8th Battalion, Manchester Regiment 1/I East Lancashire...
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    Vineyard. Captain William Thomas Forshaw of the 1/9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in this battle from...
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  • Manchester Regiment in 1958 to form the King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester), which was later amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and...
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  • with the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment. The regiment was raised in Menorca (then called Minorca) by Lieutenant-General...
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  • The 111th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Manchester Regiment) (111 RAC) was an armoured regiment of the British Army, raised by the Royal Armoured Corps...
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  • cancer Manchester Ship Canal Manchester, the name of a variant of the Athlon 64 X2 CPU Manchester Regiment, also The Manchesters, a British Army regiment Manchester...
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    Jack Churchill (category Manchester Regiment officers)
    Military College, Sandhurst, in 1926 and served in Burma with the Manchester Regiment. He enjoyed riding a motorbike in Burma. Churchill left the army...
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    fleur-de-lis was the cap badge of the Manchester Regiment from 1922 until 1958, and also its successor, the King's Regiment up to its amalgamation in 2006....
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  • The 1st Manchester Rifles, later the 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army recruited in and...
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  • amalgamated with the 96th Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment in 1881. The formation of the regiment was prompted by the expansion of the army as a...
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  • accessed and archived 22 July 2019. Museum of the Manchester Regiment: Battle Honours of The Manchester Regiment, Tameside Metropolitan Borough, accessed and...
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  • The 23rd (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (8th City) was a Bantam battalion recruited in 1914 as part of 'Kitchener's Army' from men who were...
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    the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) to form the Duke of Lancaster Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)...
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    Regiment and the 2/9th and 2/10th Manchester Regiment; and the 199th (Manchester) Brigade, composed of the 2/5th, 2/6th, 2/7th and 2/8th Manchester Regiment...
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    Wilfred Owen (category Manchester Regiment officers)
    he was commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) in the Manchester Regiment. Initially Owen held his troops in contempt for their loutish behaviour...
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    Henry Kelly (VC) (category Manchester Regiment soldiers)
    in Collyhurst, Manchester. He was a temporary second lieutenant in the 10th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment during the First...
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    Bernard Manning (category Manchester Regiment soldiers)
    Harpurhey, Lancashire, and raised in Ancoats, both poor districts of Manchester, the second of three brothers and two sisters. He had Russian Jewish ancestry...
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    (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (West of England), and the 23rd (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (8th City) raised in 1915 and sent...
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    Keppoch's regiment was stated to be a deaf-mute; John MacLennan of Glengarry's had club feet; Hugh Johnston and Matthew Matthews of the Manchester Regiment were...
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    5th Battalion, Border Regiment 111th Regiment RAC (Manchester Regiment) from 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment 112th Regiment RAC (Foresters) from 9th...
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  • "Manchester to award Freedom of the City to a Manchester army regiment". The Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 30 October 2021. "Manchester regiment awarded...
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  • Robert Mark (category Manchester Regiment officers)
    War Office, he then transferred to the Manchester Regiment in December 1943, attached to the GHQ Liaison Regiment, known as Phantom, which provided liaison...
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    November, then Manchester on 28th. Here they received the first notable intake of English recruits, which were formed into the Manchester Regiment. Their commander...
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