The troubles at Gaya were not serious and we returned to Ranchi after two weeks. 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 . 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. 01 FEB 44; 21 July - 10 AUG 44 ; 01 APR 45- 22 JUN 45; 19 FEB 45; 01 FEB 44. The hotel served the best curry we had ever tasted. In 1947, 1st Battalion moved to Palestine. Alongside this, the 4th (Militia) Battalion was also disbanded in 1908. In the advance into Burma, 2 Border crossed the Irrawaddy on February 13, whilst in April, 1945, 9 Border fought in the battles for Meiktila. was established in a school and detachments were sent out to areas north of here, right up to the Nepalese border. It mentions that Churchill and the Ministry of Information kept the disaster of this evacuation quiet at that time. To give the reader some idea of the preparedness for, and the attitude of the British Indian Establishment, it is of interest to relate that the first action of the authorities was to try to carry out a customs examination of a mobilised British division arriving in the country complete with weapons and transport from a war zone to a potential war zone. All this was in support of the civil police and little or no force was required. There was much suffering but also much success, including the taking of many prisoners. 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 Hudson John. We subsequently moved across the Ganges to Muzzaffapur, where H.Q. 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. 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. Historical records of events in France, post Operation Dynamo, are sketchy. to land in Gallipoli in April, 1915. and for reinforcement, which eventually led to the amalgamation of 4th and 9th Bn., The Border Regiment. Now began a period of intensive jungle training on Chindit lines. The battalion was moved to Dehra Dun to concentrate 23rd Bde. Faulkner James Edward . As patrolling was the means of harassment of the Japanese, I will describe one patrol, which I accompanied. Meanwhile, 2nd Battalion had moved from England to Ireland shortly after the regiments formation. Sadly he died on 6th. had attacked a strongpoint ahead of us and occupied it and we passed through them with a squadron of Matilda tanks and, by daylight, had occupied an escarpment short of El Adam. Under orders from the 10th French Army Commander, the 4th Border moved North-West to the line of the River Bresle. Fighting in the Forest continued for two days in support of the 5th Sherwood Foresters. The problem at this time is that there is only just over a week before the site is closing down for furter postings! 1st battalion, 8th infantry, 4th infantry division vietnam. those of the BBC. Platoon, with Major Douglas Scott in command, attacked various areas around the village itself. WO 169 / 1705 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment At nighttime, the Companies sent out patrols between their fronts and the enemy but no major clashes occurred before November 18th. Line of Communication troops were brigaded together as infantry to act as support to those two Divisions. After re-training for D-Day, the battalion eventually had to wait until August 1944 to deploy to North-West Europe. So, once again, we moved from Bangalore to the Jhansi-Sangor area of Central India. Inter-war The inter-war period saw 1st Battalion fighting on the North West Frontier in 1921, garrisoning India and then moving to Palestine. It was also atthis time that the 'Lancastria' was hit. 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 seems to be some accounts in the Public Records Office about what happened. Recognition of the corps by the authorities brought regulation and as the war continued the small corps were formed into battalion sized units of the county Volunteer Regiment. 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. moved, shortly afterwards, into billets in Hereford, a nice city with a fine cathedral. By then, they were surrounded. Alongside the Borders were the 4th 'Buffs' who ran into bombardment in the streets of Fcamp. The 4th Battalion was a 1st Line Territorial Army unit, originally assigned to the 126th Infantry Brigade, 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division. [All the above relieved the Australian infantry. Pte. In the Army reforms of 1881, the 4th Kings Own Royal Regt was territorially affiliated to Lancaster, and recruited in Furness and North Lancashire. (d.5th December 1943) Hutchinson J. Pte. The other regular battalion were hastily brought home from the East, Kings Own to fight in France, and Border to join the Incomparable 29th Div. I used to go in a truck to visit a different Company each day from Aleppo, so that I really saw a lot of the country. 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. 41 The battalion was disbanded on 4 April 1946. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. Burma Star Memorial Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales (no 1109753). On this day in 1944 Captain D.V. The casualties were mainly exhaustion with malaria. This article was written by my father to record his personal experiences of WW2. From a health point of view, the area could not have been worse as it was infested with malaria carrying mosquitoes and near a village in which malaria was endemic. Just before Christmas we again moved, this time to Malvern, in the neighbouring county of Worcester, the home of a famous English school. The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry), or L Edmn R, is a Primary Reserve infantry unit of the Canadian Armed Forces based in Edmonton, Alberta. Archive List > United Kingdom > Hereford and Worcester. The set-up for columns entering Burma proper was that a stronghold was formed from which the columns operated and which contained an airstrip. The 34th fought with General Burgoyne and was present at the disaster of Saratoga. 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. It is a tragedy that since Indian independence they have been harassed to this day by the successors to the British Raj. The 2 Kings Own were flown into Broadway on March 10, 1944 and flew out from Myitkyina on July 26, having marched and fought over 1,100 miles behind the Japanese lines. It was after the last battle that the enemy finally broke and made for the . All volunteer battalions were renumbered to create a single sequential order. The 1957 Defence White Paper stated that the Border Regiment was due to amalgamated with The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), to form The King's Own Royal Border Regiment on the 1 October 1959. H.Q. This story has been placed in the following categories. 4th Marine Regiment. Other ranks' cap badge, The Border Regiment, c1905, 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment, in South Africa, 1900. Men of 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment, at Arnhem, 20 September 1944. Find out how you can use this. It was planned at 8th Army H.Q. The Border Regiment's expansion during the Second World War was modest compared to 19141918. This was when your uncle would have been ordered to leave. As a last thumb-to-nose effort the Japanese next day rained artillery shells on Thetsemi, but little damage and no casualties resulted. The main duties of the battalion in this situation were the control of and dispersal of mobs and setting up of roadblocks and checkpoints. The 4th and 5th landed with the Army in the Crimea in 1854 and fought at the Battles of Alma and Inkerman. In 1756, the 4th and 34th were both included in the small garrison on the island of Minorca. I will try to have it completed for contribution in advance of the imminent closure. (d.5th Dec 1941) Grant James Alexander. Timeline of WW2 Raiders EXPLORE THE TIMELINES BELOW . By now part of the 6th British Division, the 4th Battalion of the Border Regiment were moved back to the Western Desert. moved off at 4.55 followed by 5th Btn and arrived in bivouac at 6pm. The date of the first contact with the enemy was early on the morning of 24th May 1940. At one time or another these units were part of the garrison: 1st Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Machine Guns) This immediately changed the role of 23rd Brigade. Pte. In 1982, 4 SAI converted to a mechanised infantry battalion mainly consisting of Ratel-20 IFVs. In 1918 these were linked to county regiments.[9]. I've just looked through some of my notes and various books in French and English to refresh my memory of what went on. It would seem reasonable therefore to assume your Mr. Hutchinson and his comrades transited through Rennes shortly before. But even so, the fighting patrols still went out, many of them at night. I could not imagine a more appropriate ending. To find out more about how we collect, store and use your personal information, read our Privacy Policy. Be the first to hear about our latest events, exhibitions and offers. 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. In 1959, it was amalgamated with The Border Regiment to form The Kings Own Royal Border Regiment. 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. 2nd Kings Own and 2, 4 and 9 Border all fought in Burma as explained in the beginning of this article. This dragon now appears on the regimental buttons. Subsequently we found that this Col. Blimp and N.W. The 4th and 5th landed with the Army in the Crimea in 1854 and fought at the Battles of Alma and Inkerman. Thought the presentation & interpretation made the subject accessible". referenced. The Battalion began the task of disarming some 2,000 Japanese and controlling the activity of dacoits on the Mokpalin and Bilin areas. By the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-45), 1st Battalion was back in Britain. Between 1944 and 1946 I had in all nine attacks, but none after that. Capstick William. The Border Regiments final independent deployment was to West Berlin in 1957. They had not been informed as to our whereabouts. were evacuated. Having read the contribution you have made on behalf of Mr Hutchinson I see a mention of a rail journey through Rennes and arrival in Southampton 18th June 1940 (Tuesday). After a few days, an H.Q. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. National Defence Companies were combined to create a new "Home Defence" battalion. 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 . During the training period from October the only time the Bn. One lot was our battalion and the other lot was the enemy, which we discovered to our cost when they opened up on our truck and ambulance with anti-tank guns. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. The two platoons set up two roadblocks outside the village and H.Q. Bombing and shelling here in Tobruk became the daily and nightly portion. It was like Beau Geste excepting instead of arriving on camels, they came in the latest American cars. 42 PDF version, 681.5 KB Footnotes GO 155/05. The German invaders over-ran Rennes on Tuesday 18th June and currently I have an account of their initial arrival and occupation in translation. 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. Part of the new brigade was the 4th Battalion The Border Regiment. 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 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. Have a look at pages 181-187. The railway complex at Rennes was bombed during mid morning Monday 17th June. Here we took over from 2/13 Bn. Hello Joseph, 'Orontes' bound for Suez. From there we travelled by road up the length of Palestine through Tiberias and past the Sea of Galilee to Khiyam in Southern Lebanon. This regiment was formed in 1881 by amalgamating the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot. The withdrawal of the Japanese from the Imphal/Kohima area had begun. 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. 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. KOSB A3/1-3. Between the wars the regiment was to serve in Ireland, India including the North West Frontier, Burma, China, Egypt and Palestine where Border and Kings Own were involved in the Arab Revolt of 1938-39. 6 Border were a beach landing group at the Normandy landings. 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. 18 It was redesignated '1st Battalion, The South Saskatchewan Regiment, CASF' on 7 November 1940, 19 and on 15 December 1940 it embarked for Great Britain. Burgess. 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). In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. Eighteen battalions were to see active service in the war, in every theatre. 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 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. As the Bn. 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. 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. I know a little about the period and the Brittany area slightly, but not to the fine detail that you are seeking, David. 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. Mr Hutchinson has written the article which was then sent it in to BBC Radio Cumbria, Carlisle. We arrived in the early hours of the morning at the Christian village of Phakedzumi, where the inhabitants gave us hot tea. They were referred to as the New Army or Kitchener's Army. moved north and an armistice was signed on July 14th and we settled in to camping conditions on the outskirts of Qabb Ilyas. 2 Border soon followed with the 7th Dlv, and fought in the first Battle of Ypres in defence of the Channel Ports. The latter service included punitive expeditions against the tribesmen of the North-West Frontier. 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. I would like here to pay tribute to the RAF, who kept us supplied with all the necessities of life from rations to supplementary and replacement equipment, and to the Q side of Force H.Q., for an almost 100% response to requests for such supplies from Column H.Q.. During the whole period of operation from May to August, we missed only one meal, despite most difficult flying conditions due to mountainous terrain, and frequent early morning mists common in this area. It served on the Western Front until November 1917, when it was sent to Italy. Then, after yet another railway journey, this time at night, they arrived at Brest. In the meantime, I've had a look through your postings, and also the CWGC website about their cemetery at Rennes. 20 The battalion took part in the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942. The Border Regiment. 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. It continued in British Army service until 1959, when it merged with The Kings Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) to form The Kings Own Royal Border Regiment. The regiment also raised 13 Territorial Army and New Army battalions during the war. 21 It landed again in public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not Leaving the desert, the 70th Division, including the 4th Battalion The Border Regiment, were now went to India and Burma. 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. 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. A total of 13,167 of the regiment were killed in action. 1947-1959. 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. Todays regiment incorporates the history and traditions of three former regiments. During these engagements the H.Q. 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. 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. It also served in the Sudan and China in the 1920s, and in India again throughout the 1930s. 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. Among the Indian Infantry battalions which formed part of this Division were 3rd Battalion (Bn.) 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!! 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. The 8th U.S. Infantry reactivated in 1947, assigned to Ft. Ord, California, remaining assigned to the 4th Infantry Division. View this object. The 4th Border group that took the train was headed by Captain J.L. [All the above were present throughout the siege]. Our H.Q. whose name, curiously, was the same as mine, Capt. These messages were added to this story by site members between June 2003 and January 2006. If your French is rusty that might be a problem, but it can be overcome. Later we moved forward to Mersah Matruh itself with even nicer sea bathing and I accompanied our C.O. Our journey was uneventful and our first landfall was at Freetown, Sierra Leone, though we had previously had a glimpse of the Azores. On 23 May they were in action near Amiens. After a week or two of rest at railhead, during which malaria began to take its toll, we once more entrained for the long journey back to our old haunt Bangalore. My feeling is that someone in the Rennes area will have researched the people who died on 17 June. Troops of the 8th Infantry Regiment move out over the seawall on Utah Beach after coming ashore on D-Day, June 6, 1944. If you can find these people I am sure they will share it with you as a relative. It then fought its way up through Italy, before returning to England in November 1943. As M.O., I had my own difficulties. After its posting in India and Burma from 1890, it moved on to South Africa in 1905. When the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot amalgamated with the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot, to become The Border Regiment in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, four pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Cumberland and Westmorland were integrated into the structure of the regiment. 1 Kings Own later fought in Italy with the 10th Indian Div. The HQ of the battalion was in Kendal, then in Westmorland. It deployed to France in September 1939 with the initial British Expeditionary Force, but was evacuated home in June 1940. The following year, 2nd Battalion returned to Britain, while 1st Battalion was sent to occupy Trieste. Pte. referenced. at this time. On 1 January 1914 the regiment was at Galveston, . Such was not possible in the Naga Hills. Meanwhile, 2nd Battalion was in India on the outbreak of the war. After kitting up we were transported one morning to the dockside in Alexandria and boarded R.N. David G. We haven't had a message back from Mr Hutchinson yet I'm afraid. We set sail down the Bristol Channel on 21st March. Here in the Basse Fort d'Eu, supported by the artillery of the 51st Highland Division. 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. We remained in Bangalore until coming up to Christmas and, just before Christmas, we entrained again, this time for Dehra Dun, a military cantonment in north India. 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. Deolali has always been a time-honoured name in the army, associated with the expression The Deolali Tap. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites The regiment lost over 7,700 men during the war. Organised as "rifle volunteer corps", they were independent of the British Army and composed primarily of the middle class. 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. As an example, the three-line battalions of the 4th Borderers were numbered as the 1/4th, 2/4th, and 3/4th respectively. 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. 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. One Victoria Cross was awarded to the regiment during the Mutiny. September 2003. This infantry regiment was formed in 1881. It went on to serve in many British Army campaigns until 1958, when it was merged into The Kings Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool). From the recollections of FEB '44 - JUN '45. A number of Light Anti-Aircraft (LAA) troops were formed from the local battalions to defend specific points, such as factories. You might also try writing to (or visiting) the Town Hall in Rennes and asking what records they might have. While it isn't strictly what you are looking for I thought it might shed a little more light on it. The 4th Battalion of the Borders were given the task of clearing the woods that were partially held by the Germans. At this time things were going well in the second Wavell offensive and the Bn. Before Dunkirk, 1 Border, 4 and 5 Border and 5 Kings Own fought in France. Battalion - A battalion comprised three or more companies and was commanded by a lieutenant colonel. The Chinese Dragon with which the Border Regt was always associated was awarded to the 55th after the First China War of 1841. It was against a Japanese occupied village named Phakedzumi. The 1st Bn The Kings Own fought at Le Cateau and in the retreat from Mons in the first actions in the 1914-18 War. It was the only British Division of infantry in the Middle East at the time. Exhausted, the 4th Battalion of the Border Regiment set sail. It deployed to the Western Front in March 1916, remaining there for the rest of the conflict. It was quite pleasant living in Dehra Dun, a regular peacetime station, but early in February we moved to the transit area for repatriates at Deolali. The column now moved to another hilltop village, Thetsemi, and after many more harassing raids against the Japanese, one night we noticed heavy traffic along a track leading to the Chindwin River crossing into Burma proper.
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