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    The Suffolk Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army with a history dating back to 1685. It saw service for three centuries,...
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    new large infantry regiments, through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the East Anglian Brigade: 1st (Norfolk and Suffolk) Battalion from the...
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  • The 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. As a result of the Defence Review, the 1st Battalion...
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  • General Francis Rawdon. In 1782 the regiment was designated the 63rd (the West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot. In 1794 the regiment joined British forces already...
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    The Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. Originally formed as a volunteer cavalry force in 1793, it fought...
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    the Royal Norfolk Regiment was amalgamated with the Suffolk Regiment, to become the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk); this later amalgamated...
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    The 11th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (Cambridgeshire) was a 'Pals battalion' raised in Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely for 'Kitchener's Army'...
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  • 96th Regiment of Foot was a British Army regiment, raised in 1798. Under the Childers reforms it amalgamated with the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot...
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    Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St Edmunds (category Suffolk Regiment)
    battalions of the 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot. Following the Childers Reforms, the regiment evolved to become the Suffolk Regiment with its depot in the...
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    battalion of the Suffolk Regiment. In 1887 the unit was renamed as the 3rd (Cambridgeshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment. The 3rd Volunteer...
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    Devonshire Regiment 11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot Suffolk Regiment 12th (The East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light...
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  • Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot as the 1st and 2nd battalions; the 6th Royal...
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  • in all of Britain's major wars. It later became a battalion of the Suffolk Regiment and supplied thousands of recruits to the fighting battalions during...
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    and Suffolk Brigade 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment 5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment East...
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  • officers and men for the British Army. It later became a battalion of the Suffolk Regiment until its final disbandment in 1908. The English militia was descended...
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    Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions from 1808-1816 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions from 1811-1818 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of...
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    The 1st Suffolk & Harwich Volunteer Artillery, later the Essex & Suffolk Royal Garrison Artillery was an auxiliary coastal artillery unit of the British...
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  • foot regiment allocated to the Beccles division Suffolk Horse Militia under the Earl of Suffolk During this period of the Anglo-Dutch wars Suffolk was...
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  • Volunteer battalions, the 4th and 5th, of the Norfolk Regiment and two, the 4th and 5th, of the Suffolk Regiment. The division was mobilised on 5 August 1914,...
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  • later the Suffolk Regiment 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot, later the West Yorkshire Regiment 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot...
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    James Collis (category Suffolk Regiment soldiers)
    November 1895 after being convicted of bigamy. He enlisted in the Suffolk Regiment, in which he served as Private, service number 16525, in World War...
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    to the 25th Regiment of Foot 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, as successors to the Suffolk Regiment, successors 12th Regiment of Foot HQ Company...
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  • Edith Pretty (category Archaeological sites in Suffolk)
    [failed verification] After the War, Pretty continued to serve the Suffolk Regiment, obtaining the rank of lieutenant colonel and commander of the 4th...
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    Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (category Suffolk Regiment officers)
    entered the House of Lords. From 1766 until 1805, he was colonel of the 33rd Regiment of Foot. Cornwallis next saw military action in 1776 in the American War...
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  • The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) (LANCS) is an infantry regiment of the line within the British Army, part of the King's...
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  • The 142nd (Suffolk) Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (142 RAC) was an armoured regiment of the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps that was raised in World...
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    codenamed Hillman by the British, was attacked on 6 June 1944 by the Suffolk Regiment and the fortress finally surrendered the following morning. The delay...
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    Charles Sorley (category Suffolk Regiment officers)
    volunteered for military service in the British Army. He joined the Suffolk Regiment as a second lieutenant and was posted to the 7th (Service) Battalion...
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  • Woodrow Wyatt (category Suffolk Regiment officers)
    service ten days before the outbreak of the Second World War with the Suffolk Regiment and rose to the rank of major. Wyatt was posted to Normandy on D-Day...
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    Nevil Shute (category Suffolk Regiment soldiers)
    believed was because of his stammer. He served as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment, enlisting in the ranks in August 1918. He guarded the Isle of Grain...
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