4th battalion border regiment ww2
The 34th fought with General Burgoyne and was present at the disaster of Saratoga. Part of the new brigade was the 4th Battalion The Border Regiment. As there is as yet so much more to learn about incident I ask perchance does your Mr Hutchinson have any knowledge of that incident? 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry The regiment's territorial components formed duplicate second and third line battalions. The Brigade now moved into Imphal and was thereafter moved by truck to railhead at Dimapur. 'D Company' held on to Incheville for several days until they ran short of ammunition. The Volunteer Training Corps were raised with overage or reserved occupation men early in the war, and were initially self-organised into many small corps, with a wide variety of names. All three regiments were involved in minor wars on the frontiers of India, and the 4th in the Zulu War of 1879. 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. Pte. He was R.M.O. This regiment was formed in 1881 by amalgamating the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot. In addition 12 battalions of the Home Guard were affiliated to the regiment, wearing its cap badge. 4 March 1915 : sailed from Avonmouth for India. 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. Perhaps to the dismay of animal lovers I must relate that the braying of mules could be of great danger to the columns during operations, so a massive devoicing programme was organised throughout the brigade. Now, with some air cover, the Battalion reached the shelter of woods on the outskirts of that town, 'Radio Normandie' being situated there. referenced. It was the last east-bound convoy before the liner was converted to troop carrying and the accommodation was of the 1st Class passenger variety, as was the food, though the troops mess decks were fairly cramped. Thank you for your detailed reply to my query and I await any further information. National Defence Companies were combined to create a new "Home Defence" battalion. As the Bn. By January 1915, it was back in Britain and later that year fought at Gallipoli. It had been from this airfield of El Adem that the garrison of Tobruk had suffered the attentions of the Luftwaffe dive-bombers almost daily. They were highly thought of by the Australian troops and the commander, General Leslie Morshead. The long and illustrious history of the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines began in April of 1914 during WWI when it was activated as one of the three battalions of the Fourth Marine Regiment This record is held by King's Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum. Pte. We spent a very pleasant few weeks in Kirkee Barracks, which in peacetime was an R.A. Barracks and in the Officers Mess was the longest dining table of any British Army Officers Mess in the world. During the day there were frequent attacks on the Company positions by Stuka dive-bombers, but I only remember two fatal casualties from all these attacks. At nighttime, the Companies sent out patrols between their fronts and the enemy but no major clashes occurred before November 18th. They were also given the task of relieving the Black Watch Battalion who were in the village of Incheville. WO 169 / 1737 1st Northumberland Fusiliers It was still there two years later, when it was amalgamated with the Kings Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) to form the Kings Own Royal Border Regiment. The regiment also raised 14 Territorial, New Army and Garrison battalions. After a few days, an H.Q. By the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-45), 1st Battalion was back in Britain. 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. It was like Beau Geste excepting instead of arriving on camels, they came in the latest American cars. Hello Joseph, On this day in 1944 Captain D.V. Whilst waiting to board the riverboat, a Japanese Zero fighter flew over but did not attack and that was all we saw of the Japanese during this period. They were joined by the 34th in the siege and capture of Sebastopol. The regiment lost over 7,700 men during the war. We arrived at Avonmouth Docks in Bristol and embarked on the liner Orontes. With reference to the siege of Tobruk, I append a list of North Country Regiments below. One of these brigades of infantry was named the 23rd Brigade and attached to the 1st Armoured Division. 2nd Kings Own and 2, 4 and 9 Border all fought in Burma as explained in the beginning of this article. Later we moved forward to Mersah Matruh itself with even nicer sea bathing and I accompanied our C.O. Stretchers and litters were constructed of bamboo and casualties were evacuated with Nagas acting as stretcher-bearers. National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London, SW3 4HTRegistered Charity Number: 237902, The Kings Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). Moving off into the town street fighting began. In 1857 they fought at the Relief of Lucknow. The 4th Kings Own formed a part of General Napiers Army that fought the Abyssinian War of 1867-68. In Suez Harbour lay the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, which were transporting Australians to Egypt and Italian prisoners to Australia, and the Mauritania. Pte. But then, on hearing that Rouen had fallen into enemy hands, Fcamp became the destination. 4 Border Regt., 1940-1945 and R.M.O. We set off up the hill to join a track running into the village. This infantry regiment was formed in 1881. Bombing and shelling here in Tobruk became the daily and nightly portion. The 8th Army then got involved in very heavy fighting at Sidi Resegh, south of Tobruk, and our battalion was ordered to make a frontal assault from our side. It served on the Western Front until November 1917, when it was sent to Italy. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not Todays regiment remembers with pride the four battalions who served in Burma. Part of the new brigade was the 4th Battalion The Border Regiment. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. This article was written by my father to record his personal experiences of WW2. It continued in British Army service until 1959, when it merged with The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) to form The King's Own Royal Border Regiment. At the same time, the 34th Cumberland and the 55th Westmorland Regts became the 1st and 2nd Bns The Border Regt. 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). It was always a view held amongst commentators that Deolali was a centre where those who had become mentally deranged after long service in crab stations were congregated prior to repatriation to an appropriate institution for their disablement, hence the anxiety of anyone posted to Deolali as to whether they would survive to arrive home or not, a view supported by the fact that the camp area allotted to us was just over a wall around the graveyard which contained graves of servicemen, extending well back into the last century. As casualties were left for my attention, I and my orderly marched at the rear of the column and, rather than be left behind, we carried the casualtys pack ourselves as well as our own, and it sometimes happened that I arrived at the midday or evening rendezvous with two 80 lb. At the time of the merger, 1st Battalion was in India. A total of 13,167 of the regiment were killed in action. There were so many that the newspapers at home dubbed Kendal, the hometown of most of them, 'The Town of Missing Men'. From there, they went by troop camels up the desert to Sidi Barrani. I've just looked through some of my notes and various books in French and English to refresh my memory of what went on. The 2nd Bn The Kings Own and the 1st Bn The Border Regt fought in the Boer War and both were present at the Relief of Ladysmith in 1900 and in the battles before the Relief. On one occasion I was present in Djerablus for a conference with the Mayor of the town and a gathering of Bedouin sheikhs. The date of the first contact with the enemy was early on the morning of 24th May 1940. [All the above were present throughout the siege]. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. From there we travelled by road up the length of Palestine through Tiberias and past the Sea of Galilee to Khiyam in Southern Lebanon. It was also atthis time that the 'Lancastria' was hit. Arroyo dos Molinos is unique to the regiment, mainly on account of the fact that the English 34th met and defeated in battle the French 34th, capturing their drums and drum-majors mace, both of which are still in possession of the regiment and trooped every year on the anniversary of the battle. The 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery battalion assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. 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. The result was that, although no ground was secured by the attack, the next day the enemy had moved off westward. I will try to have it completed for contribution in advance of the imminent closure. During the siege, after being the Western Desert Force the Division became the 70th British Division. Evacuation of casualties was a further problem. The two Divisions were the 51st Highland Division and the 1st Armoured Brigade. moved by road the whole length of the Lebanon and Syria to Aleppo, where we were billeted in the aerodrome with companies on detachment to towns on the Turkish frontier - Djerablus, Actarine and Azzaz. 51st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery We carried out our diversionary attacks but the 8th Army never appeared. The 2nd Bn The Kings Own formed 41 and 46 Columns in 111 Bde in the Chindits; 2nd 13n The Border Regt in 20th Indian Division; 4th Bn The Border Regt in 23 Brigade forming 34 and 55 Columns; and the 9th Bn The Border Regt in 17th Indian Division. Even though suppressive Mepacrine tablets were regularly taken, malaria was not entirely suppressed. Sadly he died on 6th. Often for this kind of enquiry I've asked at the Town Hall and someone there can usually know where to start or who to contact. 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. The National Army Museum works with a network of Regimental and Corps Museums across the UK to help preserve and share the history and traditions of the Army and its soldiers. Meanwhile, 2nd Battalion was in India on the outbreak of the war. Just then the monsoon broke and all military operations became static. As the war progressed and further horsed regiments were . As winter was approaching the Bn. Fighting had broken out at this time in Syria and the Lebanon, so the Bn. (d.5th Dec 1941) Grant James Alexander. Anyway, I hope this helps you, David. (d.5th December 1943) Hutchinson J. Pte. However all good things must come to an end, so we left Poona and travelled by troop train across India to Ranchi in the State of Bihar, which was to be our home for the best part of a year, with a few short breaks. The column commander, Major Scott, was wounded in the arm and, as I was dressing his wound, we were fired upon by a machine gun from the top of the hill. It continued in British Army service until 1958, when it was amalgamated with The South Lancashire Regiment to form The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Waless Volunteers). 1940 1945 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. This was a regimental formation of men drawn from the towns and villages of Cumberland and Westmorland: Carlisle, Penrith, Keswick, Grasmere, Longtown, Brampton, Hexham, Alston and many others. In 1959, it was amalgamated with The Border Regiment to form The Kings Own Royal Border Regiment. Raising of the Regiment. When we had an airdrop, with five days rations, our packs weighed 80 lbs., which, along with the troops equipment and weapons was a considerable weight to carry up and down the hills. included our brigade, 23 Bde., and the 4th Border Regiment. The casualties were mainly exhaustion with malaria. After Napoleons escape from Elba in 1815, the Kings Own crossed from England to Belgium, and by marching 48 miles in 30 hours, took part in the Battle of Waterloo. The Kings Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) and The Border Regiment (Carlisle) amalgamated to form The Kings Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959. FEB '44 - JUN '45. After some delay, the 4th Battalion left the port and moved to Rennes by rail. 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 . to Ceylon. These became the new units 1st and 2nd Battalions respectively. Regimental Orders. The 4th Battalion of the Borders were given the task of clearing the woods that were partially held by the Germans. This immediately changed the role of 23rd Brigade. Nowhere in the Naga Hills was there 50 yards of flat terrain. We looked up and saw a Japanese officer looking down at us. Leaving the desert, the 70th Division, including the 4th Battalion The Border Regiment, were now went to India and Burma. 6 Border were a beach landing group at the Normandy landings. It is no longer possible to leave messages here. Lucia 1778.. 41 The battalion was disbanded on 4 April 1946. The regiment assaulted Utah Beach on 6 June 1944, as part of VII Corps in the D-Day Invasion, and arrived in the vicinity of Pavenoville, France by the end of D-day. It deployed to the Western Front in March 1916, remaining there for the rest of the conflict. that Tobruk Force, as we were called, would make diversionary incidents on the night of November 18th and that the real assault would be by the 8th Army to relieve Tobruk, which they expected would be on November 20th. Capstick William. "First time @NAM_London today. In 1947, 1st Battalion moved to Palestine. From the recollections of 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. 10th Parachute Battalion 11th Parachute Battalion 2nd (Oban) Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, RA 4th Parachute Squadron, RE 133 Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC 1st Airlanding Brigade Brigade Headquarters 1st Battalion The Border Regiment 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment 7th (Galloway) Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers . Passing through Kohima was like viewing a scene of Flanders in the 1914-18 War with skeletons of trees with no leaves on them. After its posting in India and Burma from 1890, it moved on to South Africa in 1905. They are colloquially known as "The Loyal Eddies". In October 1941, they were taken by destroyer to Tobruk. Battalion - A battalion comprised three or more companies and was commanded by a lieutenant colonel. It was the only British Division of infantry in the Middle East at the time. Usually relief of the pack enabled the casualty to finish the days march to the rest area, but we had a small number of ponies in the column on which we transported the more serious casualties. After re-training for D-Day, the battalion eventually had to wait until August 1944 to deploy to North-West Europe. It mentions that Churchill and the Ministry of Information kept the disaster of this evacuation quiet at that time. During World War II, the regiment fought German forces on three fronts, North Africa, Italy, and Northwest Europe. This infantry regiment was formed in 1959. But even so, the fighting patrols still went out, many of them at night. 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. was an integral part made a major impact on the Japanese to bring about a withdrawal from the Imphal/Kohima area of operations and they did not again attempt an invasion of India. to a Company at an airfield at Side Barrani, where a roving Messerschmidt attacked us. 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. They were referred to as the New Army or Kitchener's Army. As an example, the three-line battalions of the 4th Borderers were numbered as the 1/4th, 2/4th, and 3/4th respectively. 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. Archive List > United Kingdom > Hereford and Worcester. During these engagements the H.Q. Inter-war The inter-war period saw 1st Battalion fighting on the North West Frontier in 1921, garrisoning India and then moving to Palestine. My email address is david05803@yahoo.co.uk and I would really appreciate any information to that address post the closure. I met here one Sheikh Hamoudi, who was a friend of Lawrence of Arabia, and Glubb Pasha. In 1919, 2nd Battalion moved from Italy to Ireland. moved off at 4.55 followed by 5th Btn and arrived in bivouac at 6pm. The whole of the 70th Division became engaged in the fighting on Sidi Rezagh and El Duda. The 4th Battalion was a 1st Line Territorial Army unit, originally assigned to the 126th Infantry Brigade, 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division. Remained in India throughout the war. This is a list of battalions of the Border Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1959. KOSB A1/1& 2. The 4th Battalion was a 1st Line Territorial Army unit, originally assigned to the 126th Infantry Brigade, 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division. Deolali has always been a time-honoured name in the army, associated with the expression The Deolali Tap. The size of a battalion could range from 500 to 1,500 troops. that day. Just at this time the dingdong battles with the Japanese in the Maungdau/Buthidaung area of the Arakom District in Burma flared up and the Bn. First of all we had no cover and just lay and slept in the open excepting when we were in the Naga villages and managed to get some shelter from the veranda type fronts of their wooded buildings. Intensive field training was carried out but, in addition, we enjoyed the considerable amenities of Hereford. "Now little remembered, regarded and even by-passed in the history of the time, there were men who fought on in France after the main force of the B.E.F. Good. The 4th Border Regimentrefers to three individuals battalions of the Territorial Force (Cumberland & Westmorland). Occupying the village of Kiam in the central sector, the battalion were engaged in patrolling. WO 169 / 1705 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment Bob and I had a bathe in the lake the first day we were there, but, as someone told us that a woman had been carried off by a crocodile the previous week, we did not repeat that event. After that it was Suez, Egypt, and a transit camp, until we entrained for the Western Desert. 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. Such was not possible in the Naga Hills. 2 Border soon followed with the 7th Dlv, and fought in the first Battle of Ypres in defence of the Channel Ports. Hudson John. 1947-1959. To find out more about how we collect, store and use your personal information, read our Privacy Policy. 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. Soon, other battalions of the regiment were formed. Delhi, hence Louis Mountbattens action on arrival to take command of S.E.A.C. Meanwhile, 2nd Battalion had returned to Britain from South Africa in 1907 and deployed straight to France in September 1914. This was when your uncle would have been ordered to leave. Between 1809 and 1814, 11 battle honours were won by the regiment. Meanwhile, 2nd Battalion had moved from England to Ireland shortly after the regiments formation. The Battalion began the task of disarming some 2,000 Japanese and controlling the activity of dacoits on the Mokpalin and Bilin areas. This infantry regiment was formed in 1881. They were small, around 5 ft. in height, but wiry and capable of running up and down hills with heavy loads. 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. It is a tragedy that since Indian independence they have been harassed to this day by the successors to the British Raj. KOSB A4/1. An uncle of mine was killed along with more than 800 others in an air attack on trains in Rennes, Monday 17th June. After returning from the Crimea the 34th were soon on their way to India as reinforcements to fight in the Indian Mutiny. Both predecessor regiments were affiliated with counties just south of the English-Scottish border, in what is now Cumbria, and so the new unit was named The Border Regiment. But it was in the Napoleonic wars, and particularly in the Peninsula War that the regiment gained its battle honours. These messages were added to this story by site members between June 2003 and January 2006. It then spent two years in Somaliland, before returning to Britain in 1950, where it merged with 2nd Battalion in October of that year. We remained here three weeks during which we had the opportunity to visit Beirut, which was a beautiful town with wonderful amenities and it is so sad to think of the horrors that it has suffered in recent years. Find out more about the site contributors. [All the above relieved the Australian infantry. 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Subsequently, in March 1941, the men of the 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment left on the troopship H.M.T. moved, shortly afterwards, into billets in Hereford, a nice city with a fine cathedral. 4th Raider Battalion designated as 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. Regards, Our heavy equipment was transported by mules, who were the most wonderful animals, and the muleteers became most attached to their animals. was in good shape, an efficient unit, discipline and morale were good, and the unit well trained. 42 PDF version, 681.5 KB Footnotes GO 155/05. 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. 21 It landed again in As M.O., I had my own difficulties. The result was that out of a battalion of some 950 strong, we had, in just under a year, 1,500 hospital admissions, mainly from malaria and relapses despite full anti-malaria precautions which, by and large, were rigorously carried out. Cpl. The Tobruk perimeter defences were not a system of continuous trenches like WW1, but consisted of underground concrete strong points built by the Italians before they came into the war. There had been some severe fighting around Marjayoun, a nearby village, but after our arrival the main area of battle moved to the Coastal strip and, apart from twice daily shelling by the Vichy French forces, the only activity on the ground was infantry patrolling in the surrounding villages mostly at night. The hotel served the best curry we had ever tasted. You should be able to get hold of a book in English entitled 'Finest Hour' by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig (1999), Hodder & Stoughton. The German invaders over-ran Rennes on Tuesday 18th June and currently I have an account of their initial arrival and occupation in translation. During that night, and still under constant harassment, embarkation took place on to ships and Naval craft. However we got into the unit lines without casualties, only to be shelled by our own Howitzers from inside Tobruk. Please see my various contributions to this archive on the incident. The 3d Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment was reactivated on 16 October 2009 in Germany as part of the 170th Infantry . On forming up we travelled by train to railhead further south and then by road to Bawli Bazar. This was a regimental formation of men drawn from the towns and villages of Cumberland and Westmorland: Carlisle, Penrith,. 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. Pte. in moving his G.H.Q. Then, after yet another railway journey, this time at night, they arrived at Brest. In May the training period finished and we were transported by the Bengal Assam Railway to Mariani in Assam, passing through one railway town with the Boys Own Paper sounding name of Lumding. had. In 1756, the 4th and 34th were both included in the small garrison on the island of Minorca. at this time. Platoon killed 30 Japanese and wounded 10 more and suffered two casualties only. The Lancastria was sunk during the afternoon of same day. WO 169 / 1713 Durham Light Infantry Thanks again for your reply and interest, you have been most helpful. No ground action was experienced by the Bn. Some weeks later we were off again by train to Suez. As the training took place from October to April, it was not in the heat of summer, nor during the monsoon period, so we did not suffer those discomforts. There were varying degrees of success. packs on my back. Now began a period of intensive jungle training on Chindit lines. H.Q. One Victoria Cross was awarded to the regiment during the Mutiny. 1 Kings Own was posted to Korea in October, 1953, moving on to Hong Kong. A. 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. Discover more about The Border Regiment by visiting Cumbria's Museum of Military Life at Carlisle Castle. Other ranks' cap badge, The Border Regiment, c1905, 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment, in South Africa, 1900. I had been left behind the advance attending an officer of ours who had been wounded by one of our own tanks, and when we were being guided back to join the battalion, as we approached, we saw two crowds like at a football match with about a quarter of a mile between them.
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