9th Infantry Regiment (United States) | Military Wiki | Fandom This infantry regiment was formed in 1959. There seems to be some accounts in the Public Records Office about what happened. In October 1940 I joined 4 Border at Kington Camp, Hereford, where I had been posted as Regimental M.O., following my officer recruitment training at RAMC Depot, Crookham, Aldershot. Moving out from the Brittany towns of Brest, Morlaix and St Malo, and then finally arriving at Aumale, the 4th Border was allotted the task of capturing three bridges west of Amiens on the River Somme. Normal infantry training was resumed and included two weeks jungle warfare training, which gave us a welcome change of location from our camp area. It was air-dropped on Arnhem the following month and suffered such heavy casualties during Operation Market Garden that it saw no further action for the rest of the conflict. From there patrols were sent out, during which areas occupied by the Japanese were attacked and in all cases the enemy were routed with many casualties and few casualties sustained by our troops. Having fought in the West Indies in the early years of the French Revolutionary War in the 1790s, the 55th were in the Army of the Duke of York in his campaign in the Low Countries in 1799, showing particular gallantry at the Battle of Egmont-op-Zee. was in good shape, an efficient unit, discipline and morale were good, and the unit well trained. Trouble with Mexico caused the regiment to be stationed on the Texas border in 1913. Thought the presentation & interpretation made the subject accessible". KOSB A3/1-3. This was the old date for 'Empire Day'. Alongside the Borders were the 4th 'Buffs' who ran into bombardment in the streets of Fcamp. Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the At first they headed towards Dieppe. We looked up and saw a Japanese officer looking down at us. We were deposited in a paddy field area around the village of Khunti, which was 20 miles from Ranchi and had never before been occupied by troops and we proceeded to set up camp. If I get a better reply I've got your e-mail and I will send a message to you that way. It was after the last battle that the enemy finally broke and made for the . 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment - Wikipedia In 1756, the 4th and 34th were both included in the small garrison on the island of Minorca. Fighting in the Forest continued for two days in support of the 5th Sherwood Foresters. Almost the last sight of land which we had before going out into the Atlantic Ocean was the coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where my wife, Hazel, was then living and where she stayed for most of the war. As I am a volunteer story-gatherer, and no doubt because I have done some research about the war in France, I was asked to type it out and post it to the website. The regiment also raised 13 Territorial Army and New Army battalions during the war. The withdrawal of the Japanese from the Imphal/Kohima area had begun. The Loyal Edmonton Regiment is part of 3rd Canadian Division 's 41 Canadian Brigade Group. whose name, curiously, was the same as mine, Capt. Correspondence. The 4th Border lads were split into 2 groups and didn't meet up until they got back into Britain. 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines - GlobalSecurity.org We were actually on the train on Christmas Day, 1944, and it stopped all day at Delhi Station platform. Carrying the lineage of Battery C, 16th Field Artillery Regiment, the battalion carries campaign streamers from World War I, World War II, and Vietnam, and has served with the 4th Infantry Division and . Under orders from the 10th French Army Commander, the 4th Border moved North-West to the line of the River Bresle. Humphreys William. Amongst all this chaos we noticed a guard mounting of the Durham Light Infantry, complete with blancoed equipment this within a week or so of one of the bitterest battles of WW2. and in 1944, fought at Arnhem. and for reinforcement, which eventually led to the amalgamation of 4th and 9th Bn., The Border Regiment. Cpl. The 3d Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment was reactivated on 16 October 2009 in Germany as part of the 170th Infantry . 6 Royal Ulster Rifles, (T.A.) A total of 13,167 of the regiment were killed in action. Thanks again for your reply and interest, you have been most helpful. As we were not now in touch with the two platoons on roadblocks, and as I was not an infantry officer and Major Scott was wounded, it was decided to withdraw as the party was no longer large enough to carry out an assault on the strong point on the hill from which the LMG fire had come. The 4th Battalion of the Borders were given the task of clearing the woods that were partially held by the Germans. at that time had no other role than a training role, we set off in motor transport and arrived at Patna on the River Ganges, where we were billeted at Patna University, which was not operating and without students. My feeling is that someone in the Rennes area will have researched the people who died on 17 June. Historical records of events in France, post Operation Dynamo, are sketchy. Three months later, it became the first British unit to join a major engagement by glider, when it landed in Sicily as part of 1st Airborne Division. The relief of Tobruk, the capture of Sidi Rezegh and the capture of El Adem was thus the second defeat of the German land forces. Platoon, with Major Douglas Scott in command, attacked various areas around the village itself. It was against a Japanese occupied village named Phakedzumi. During World War II, the regiment fought German forces on three fronts, North Africa, Italy, and Northwest Europe. Our H.Q. They were referred to as the New Army or Kitchener's Army. Orders soon arrived for us to move south towards the area of the Japanese L. of C. Our first objective was Mokokchung in the Naga Hills, east of Kohima. Here in the Basse Fort d'Eu, supported by the artillery of the 51st Highland Division. In addition 12 battalions of the Home Guard were affiliated to the regiment, wearing its cap badge. 1/4th Border Regiment 2/4th Border Regiment (home service battalion) 3/4th Border Regiment (depot/training battalion) Roll of Honour[edit| edit source| hide] Some days afterwards the Bn. 4th Battalion (Territorial Force) Border Regiment (Cumberland Bangalore was a comfortable station where we were in a semi-permanent camping site but where I discovered that I was suffering from amoebic dysentery. The 8th U.S. Infantry reactivated in 1947, assigned to Ft. Ord, California, remaining assigned to the 4th Infantry Division. They are colloquially known as "The Loyal Eddies". 2nd Battalion The Border Regiment on the North-West Frontier of India, c1933. 1 Kings Own later fought in Italy with the 10th Indian Div. Inter-war The inter-war period saw 1st Battalion fighting on the North West Frontier in 1921, garrisoning India and then moving to Palestine. was established in a school and detachments were sent out to areas north of here, right up to the Nepalese border. I only know a little about that area and that incident, but if 'Ouest France' has featured the story, then I am sure there must be many details available about what happened. Both battalions marched many miles over the veldt during the Guerilla war that followed. The 4th and 5th landed with the Army in the Crimea in 1854 and fought at the Battles of Alma and Inkerman. On the subject of the environment, I would like to make a comment here on the conditions in which the columns were operating. Between 1809 and 1814, 11 battle honours were won by the regiment. The 9th Battalion The Border Regiment took part in several such actions, notably at Wetlet, Yindaw, Kinde and Pywabwe. All volunteer battalions were renumbered to create a single sequential order. It also served in the Sudan and China in the 1920s, and in India again throughout the 1930s. Another of the companies reached the north bank of the Somme and were engaged in mortar machine gun and rifle exchanges with the Germans. Deolali has always been a time-honoured name in the army, associated with the expression The Deolali Tap. In the immediate post-war period, the army was significantly reduced: nearly all infantry regiments had their first and second battalions amalgamated and the Supplementary Reserve disbanded. The regiment raised in 1680 as one of the Tangier regiments, was granted the name Kings Own and the distinction of The Lion of England as a badge, by William of Orange in 1688. We then returned to Chittagong where we remained for a further few weeks, before joining a troop train for an 11-day journey to Bangalore in South India. those of the BBC. Bangalore was a fine town and the climate was temperate for India. Simply enter your email address below to start receiving our monthly email newsletter. 6 Border were a beach landing group at the Normandy landings. Here, the 6th British Division was relieving the Australians who had been besieged there since the previous April and who had inflicted the very first defeat of German arms on land. But then at night, the Australian artillery returned the compliment tenfold! The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not By 1920, all of the regiment's war-raised battalions had disbanded. Military Digest: Sudan evacuation a reminder of India's World War II ties At this time, the Japanese advance into India west of the Chindwin had begun and we were quite ignorant of the exact location of the forward Japanese troops and felt that there was a threat to the railway line with its many bridges, but we arrived safely without incident at Mariani. This regiment was formed in 1881 by amalgamating the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot. The battalion spent an unpleasant time bivouacking without cover, but eventually formed up for embarkation on river transport. We did not go ashore there, nor at Cape Town, where we lay off Table Mountain for a day, but we had four very pleasant days in Durban, entertained royally by the very hospitable residents. Whilst 1 Border served in BAOR and Berlin, the Kings Own served in Aden and Kenya. This infantry regiment was raised in 1755. After we had travelled a mile or two from the village, Major Scott said that there was a wounded NCO left in the village and would I return there with a section of ten men and try to recover him. From the recollections of The 4th and 5th landed with the Army in the Crimea in 1854 and fought at the Battles of Alma and Inkerman. RECORDS DOWN TO 1805. moved, shortly afterwards, into billets in Hereford, a nice city with a fine cathedral. Be the first to hear about our latest events, exhibitions and offers. By then, they were surrounded. 6th Rajputana Rifles, 4th Bn. As darkness fell and both battalions having prevented the German attempt at encirclement, they moved out on the road to Goderville and finally to the woods and port of Le Havre. It was the only British Division of infantry in the Middle East at the time. A. Many men from 'D Company' of the Borders were killed or captured. 1st battalion, 8th infantry, 4th infantry division vietnam The days 16 - 18 June 1940 were really vital to what happened in France, because it was when De Gaulle was trying to get the French Government to continue fighting the war, and Ptain took over and asked the Germans for an Armistice. It is of interest that one of our officers, who was wounded on a night patrol, was Anthony Steele, who later became a British film star and was married to Anita Ekberg!! In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. H.Q., which was replied to by our R.A. batteries. There was the odd troublesome one, but mostly its own muleteer learned how to control it and to keep it in line. I think he was one of the Burgess newspaper family so he may have written his memoirs somewhere. However, as I was in the Cumbria Archives Office today I went to check a reference book I knew was in there with a little about 4th Border Regiment in WW2 ('The Story of the Border Regiment' by Philip J. Shears). Discover more about The Border Regiment by visiting Cumbria's Museum of Military Life at Carlisle Castle. (d.5th Dec 1941) Grant James Alexander. Evacuation of casualties was a further problem. For any other comments, please Contact Us. 'Orontes' bound for Suez. However we got into the unit lines without casualties, only to be shelled by our own Howitzers from inside Tobruk. This is a list of regiments within the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War.. On the creation of the corps in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, it comprised those regular cavalry and Territorial Army Yeomanry regiments that had been mechanised, together with the Royal Tank Regiment. Find out more about the site contributors. The problem at this time is that there is only just over a week before the site is closing down for furter postings! The Bn. The date of the first contact with the enemy was early on the morning of 24th May 1940. David G. We haven't had a message back from Mr Hutchinson yet I'm afraid. (2d, 3d, and 4th Battalions ordered into active Federal service 2 May 1992 at home stations; released 9 May 1992 from active Federal service and reverted to state control) Reorganized 1 October. Over the six-month period, the Bn. Fighting on in France in 1940 after Dunkirk. Good. Over a period of a few days, an army veterinary team removed the vocal chords of the brigades mules under anaesthetic without causing much distress to the mules, which were given 10 days convalescence and seemed none the worse for their operations, which were a big success. As I had always feared, I had an attack of malaria that morning, but, on taking Mepacrine, and on having my pack carried on a vehicle, I managed to march to the station and duly arrived at Bombay Docks, where we embarked on the Queen of Bermuda. There were varying degrees of success. The regiment was stationed in Egypt and Cyprus for the first half of the 1950s, moving on to West Germany in 1955 where it served with the British Army of the Rhine. Thoroughly enjoyed it. As the troops were pretty tired from lack of sleep and the exertions of the two days march, I doled out a dose of Benzedrine tablets, which had a miraculous effect in shrugging off the inertia. To be perfectly honest, until this last year when I have been a volunteer story-gatherer for this "People's War" project, most of the WW2 research I have done has been in France, and a little bit in Belgium and the Netherlands. It went on to serve in many British Army campaigns until 1958, when it was merged into The Kings Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool). We immediately realised that we were almost caught in an ambush, so, at the double, we made for the rice paddy fields at the side of the track in the direction of a secondary jungle area 100 yards or so lower down. The Chinese Dragon with which the Border Regt was always associated was awarded to the 55th after the First China War of 1841. The disorders soon settled down and we returned to Ranchi, but were shortly called upon again to assist the civil power, this time at Gaya, south of Patna. However, having brushed aside the customs hiccup, we were duly transported to Poona, which may be described as the epitome of the Indian Army. Frontier attitude appeared to exist right up to G.H.Q. The early dawn mist gave way to brilliant unclouded weather as the tanks and infantry moved to the attack. was withdrawn and dispatched across the Canal Zone by troop train to Beit Lid in Palestine. 1940 1945 FEB '44 - JUN '45. We left the Column concentration area at break of day and marched all day through sometimes dense jungle, where we had to cut our way through with machetes. It continued in British Army service until the 1881 reforms, when it was amalgamated with the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot to form The Border Regiment. 1 Kings Own were flown from India to Iraq in 1941, and took part in the defence of Habbaniya, one of the earliest examples of a battalion being flown into action. So, following in the footsteps of their fathers and uncles of the Great War, the men of Cumberland and Westmorland went down to the battle alongside the Queen's Bays of the 2nd Armoured Brigade. You might also try writing to (or visiting) the Town Hall in Rennes and asking what records they might have. As an example, the three-line battalions of the 4th Borderers were numbered as the 1/4th, 2/4th, and 3/4th respectively. The railway complex at Rennes was bombed during mid morning Monday 17th June. It is no longer possible to leave messages here. [All the above were present throughout the siege]. After a night of patrolling, the next day the enemy withdrew and we reached El Adam aerodrome where there were 10 New Zealand wounded left with a Medical Orderly. Similar to 1 SAI, 4 SAI's mechanised leaders followed the same training route all students attended the course until the Section Leaders Phase had been completed. On this day in 1944 Captain D.V. Men of the 4th Battalion, Border Regiment travel in the back of a lorry, France, May 1940. The 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery battalion assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Two whole Divisions, plus many lines of communications and troops were drawn into battle with the Germans. Alongside this, the 4th (Militia) Battalion was also disbanded in 1908. 1st Punjab Regiment, 4th (Outram's) Bn. In the American War of Independence, the 4th and 55th fought together in the Army of General Howe, which successfully captured New York in 1776, and Philadelphia in 1777. moved from Aleppo to a town called Idlib, some distance away, where we remained for a further three weeks, and then returned to the military barracks in Aleppo. We arrived in Tobruk Harbour just after dark in the evening, after an uneventful journey, during which we had the nicest English breakfast of bacon and eggs in the Wardroom that we had tasted since coming to Egypt. They were part of the 70th British Infantry Division]". We arrived at Avonmouth Docks in Bristol and embarked on the liner Orontes. were evacuated. It shifted to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in July 1942, before fighting in Burma from November 1943 onwards. The Kings Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) and The Border Regiment (Carlisle) amalgamated to form The Kings Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959. Especially we enjoyed the amenities of the St. Georges Hotel. 4th (Westmoreland & Cumberland) Battalion, Border Regiment 5th (Cumberland) Battalion, Border Regiment 6th (East Cumberland) Battalion, Border Regiment 7th Battalion, Border Regiment 8th (Home Defence) Battalion, Border Regiment 9th Battalion, Border Regiment 30th Battalion, Border Regiment 70th (Young Soldiers) Battalion, Border Regiment We first took over Baqush Box, a defended area east of Mersah Matruh, which was uncomfortable living, excepting for glorious Mediterranean sea bathing, and the companies were on detachment on aerodrome defence further forward. All of the component units were federalized during the Spanish American War as the Second Infantry, Texas Volunteers. The 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment in WW2 2 Border fought in the withdrawal from the Kabaw Valley to the Shenam Pass, where many engagements for the defence of Imphal in April/May, 1944 took place; 9 Border fought with 17 Div. vessels en route by sea to Tobruk. Although up to recent years they have been head-hunters, when we were amongst them, they behaved in a civilised and friendly manner and each village had a detached Christian village where those who were converted went to live and they all lived amicably if separately. The battalion, nicknamed the Magnificent Bastards, is based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and are a part of the 5th Marine Regiment and 1st Marine Division. Timeline of WW2 Raiders EXPLORE THE TIMELINES BELOW . lost a Company as POWs in France but was made up by the time they re-assembled at Kington Camp, including quite a number of newly commissioned officers. As I had an attack of malaria that morning, I was unable to go up to the town and my Christmas dinner consisted of bully beef, army biscuits, pickles, cheese and tinned fruit, whereas all the other officers had their Christmas dinner in the New Imperial Hotel in Delhi. Leaving the desert, the 70th Division, including the 4th Battalion The Border Regiment, were now went to India and Burma. We spent one week in the fleshpots of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay and the second week we spent at Krishnaraja Sagara in Mysore State. As winter was approaching the Bn. It then fought its way up through Italy, before returning to England in November 1943. After Dunkirk, 1 Border were converted to gliderborne troops. I sourced a 1960 local newspaper article, in French, which gives the best account of June 1940 events in Rennes that I have so far found. Abandoned by the fleet and besieged by the French, they were forced to surrender, but were allowed to march out with colours flying as a tribute to their gallant defence. 42 PDF version, 681.5 KB Footnotes GO 155/05. While it isn't strictly what you are looking for I thought it might shed a little more light on it. Over in Europe it seems a lot easier finding out official information about the war and commemoration is taken very seriously. This infantry regiment was created in 1881. There appears to have been strict censorship in operation at the time. The hills were 6,000 to 8,000 feet high and, as we marched up them, so we had to march down them and up the next hill. 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines - Wikipedia The badge of todays regiment includes the Lion of England of the Kings Own and the laurel wreath awarded to the 34th for their part in the rearguard which saved the Army at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745. Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the The training was severe and, apart from the tactical training, consisted, quite frequently, of marching up to 40 miles a day with full equipment.