The King's Regiment (Men-at-Arms)

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Nine days in Base Hospital near the French coast culminated in transfer to England where he was admitted to the North Evington War Hospital, Leicester on 24th November 1918. Music for the ceremony in the Palace Gardens was provided by His Majesty’s Band of the Royal Marines, the Band of the Grenadier Guards, and the Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment, playing in harmony in tribute to a splendid joint force occasion. Named marches are usually the preserve of Regiments but the only Company in the British Army to be granted its own march is The King's Company. The new “King's Company March”, which now replaces 'The Queen's Company' march, was written by the Band of the Grenadier Guards’ Director of Music Captain Ben Mason, and was premiered at today's auspicious event As one of the oldest Regiments in the British army it took part in much of British Military History including the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), fighting at Nijmegen, the capture of Huy and Limbourg, the capture of the Schellenberg fortress, the Battle of Blenheim, the Battle of Ramillies, the Battle of Oudenarde, the sieges of Ghent, Bruges and Lillie, the Siege of Tournai, and the Battle of Malplaquet.

The note was clearly an afterthought, inserted after the diary entry for the day had been written. So, the 'Liverpool boys' must have arrived at Hénencourt, about three miles west of Albert, in the late evening of 10th April at about the time that the depleted 7th Bn. resumed their march from the front to billets in Toutencourt. Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J. Hobkirk DSO as GOC 14 Australian Brigade, July 1916 The 1stKing’s remained in Korea in and out of line until October 1953 earning the Regiment's last battle honour. The Regiment would then travel onto Hong Kong, joined by their families in their new peacetime role before returning home to Britain in 1958. Battle map used in the King’s Regiment command post in Korea, 1953 After their three weeks intensive battle training they moved to Treux about 3½ miles SW of Albert on 30th July, then into the support line in CLARE RESERVE trench (See map - Figure 18) before moving forward to assemble in the front-line system seven days later. Figure 24: Extract from the Norfolk Regt. Casualty Book showing my Dad's transfer to hospital in Leicester.

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The mystery that I couldn't explain, and that intrigued me more and more as time went on, was the glaring mismatch in those clues. The photo showed my Dad in the uniform of the Kings Liverpool Regiment (the cap badge is unmistakable) yet both the medals and the document appeared to indicate that he served only in the Norfolk Regiment. I have pics of that area as well, but not as good. An aerial picture from 1914/15 showing Becelaere looking towards Polygon Wood is shown in my book "Defending the Ypres Front 1914-1918". Unfortunately the area of Reutel is not very clear. The Branch provides a means of help and support to its members particularly those who find themselves in need and have nowhere else to turn. The King's and Cheshire Regiment". Archived from the original on 7 March 2002 . Retrieved 23 August 2020.

Then, using the same technique at the lower end of the list to explore numbers less than 49070 Jim LITTLER, I determined the lower limit of the sequence. The first man was 49000 Frank COLEMAN - beyond him searches for the next 50 numbers yielded blanks. saw the creation of a Home Service Force company- E (HSF) Company, with platoons spread throughout the company locations. The HSF was disbanded, however, in 1992 at the end of the Cold War, and therefore so was the company. At the same time as E Company disbanded, the battalion was reduced down to three rifle companies, and retained this structure until amalgamation in 1999. [34] [35] The renewed search led me to the Norfolk Regiment Museum via a posting on the Great War Forum [xv] that referred to a "Norfolk Regiment Casualty Book" (NRCB). [xvi] It implied that, uniquely among British military establishments, the Norfolk Regiment had kept a record of its casualties throughout the war - and indeed this proved to be the case. On the walk home in the damp, gas-lit winter dark he said simply "It was just like that", and after a pause he recounted an incident from his own war. In retrospect, I now realise he was telling me how, at the age of 18, he was suddenly made acutely aware of how thin the margin between life and death had become. My father must have developed flu symptoms whilst billeted in Raches, five miles north of Douai, before 5th November, the date that his battalion was moved east to Landas. On admission to 42nd CCS he was assessed as "Dangerously ill". [xxvii]

Forty one Association members and their guests attended the National Memorial Arboretum for a Memorial Service in remembrance of those members of the Regiment who lost their lives in Northern Ireland during ‘Op Banner’. MORE INFO >> The war diary provides no relevant information because names of ‘other ranks' are almost never given and, although the Norfolk Regiment Casualty Book (NRCB) is a unique source of information that has enabled me to put much of my father's experience of World War I into context, sadly the book itself is incomplete. Its last entries are from the first week in September 1918 - details from the last two months of the war are missing. [xxxi]

a b Brooke (1990), House of Commons Hansard Debates, 24 October, publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2007.It lends credence to Michael Stedman's comment in his book "Advance to Victory 1918” referring to the last three months of the war as - "a savage period of conflict during which casualties, amongst British infantry units, rose to some of the highest levels recorded during the war."