The two battalions alternated between postings at home and overseas, mostly in India, but their first action came in 1899 during the Second Boer War.Deployed to Ladysmith, the 1st Battalion was part of a column sent out on 24 October to cover the withdrawal of a brigade after the Battle of Talana Hill. Between 1st July 1881 and 16th July 1891, the Royal Berkshire Regiment recruited 3,253 men, an average of 323 men each year. F227 Wedding of Sergeant Charles Chamberlain, 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, and Alice Sansom in Chipping Campden on 9 July 1915. Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) ... 1st Battalion August 1914 : in Aldershot. The antecedent Infantry Regiments that originate from the counties of Berkshire and Wiltshire form part of the Golden Thread linking all Regiments to the present day Rifles Regiment. The 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment was a regular Army unit they served with the The Fifth Indian Division. The battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel L.W. The Golden Thread. China Dragon's Tales: The Story of the 1st Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) in World War One Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-19: Princess Charlotte of Wales' (Royal Berkshire Regiment) Age 26. ... Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, inspects men of the 4th Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Newbury Racecourse, October 1914. 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. The Wiltshire Regiment was also known as the Wilts, The Splashers, The Springers, and The Moonrakers. … The Gloucestershire Regiment began life quietly. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. Killed in action, aged 29, at The Battle of Ancre Heights, in the Somme, 1st of October 1916. The Duke of Edinburghs Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) The (Duke of Edinburghs) Wiltshire Regiment 1881-1920 The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburghs) 1920-1959 ... 1st Royal Berkshire: Battalion paraded and marched to Gare du Nord for ... 1914-08-15: 1st Royal Berkshire: 1.15 am Depart Rouen. Royal Berkshire Regiment during WW2 WW2 Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment During WW2 a total of 11 Royal Berkshire Battalions were eventually raised of which six - 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 10th and 30th saw service in France, North West Europe, Italy, Sicily and Burma. 23-07-1918. The Regimental Museum is now part of the Rifles regimental family. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2.We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. A619 Robert Harris of Maidenhead, 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, killed 25 July 1916, aged 19. Members of the 10th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment climbing the heights of Calvi Risorta in the invasion of Italy, October 1943. Move to Salisbury … Courtesy of Paul Hughes. They saw action in the West African Campaign in Eritrea and Ethiopia during 1940 and 41, then moved to Egypt, Cyprus and to Iraq. Of the sixty-nine infantry regiments recruiting at this time, The Royal Berkshire Regiment was the forty-eighth most successful infantry recruiter. The Battalion war diaries of the Royal Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiments for both the First World War and the Second World War have been transcribed and are available on this website but have, along with the relevant Battalion history, now also been published. Royal Berkshire Regiment (d.1st Oct 1916) Joseph Howard Slater enlisted in Hertford and was a private in Hertfordshire Regiment later transferring to the 6th Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales (Royal Berkshire Regiment). The 50th (Holding) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment was another war-formed unit of the regiment raised in May 1940 in Reading, Berkshire. 4th Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's Royal Berkshire Regiment; 8th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company; 9th Infantry Brigade. They were joined in January 1940 by the 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion and the 4th Ox and Bucks, both of which were Territorial units serving alongside the 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, as part of the 145th Infantry Brigade, part of 48th (South Midland) Infantry Division. The 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment was a territorial battalion stationed in Northern Ireland, England, The Orkneys, Sussex and Kent during the years 1943-47. This tradition continued through its descendants, the 1st Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment until it too was amalgamated to form part of The Rifles. 6am Arrive [?] Between 1939 and 1942, the 5th Battalion was stationed in London, Suffolk, Northumberland & Durham, Oxfordshire & Berkshire … Giles, became part of the 31st Independent Brigade Group, serving alongside 1st Battalion, Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment and 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles, all Regular Army battalions, the latter two having also served in British India before the war. The 5th (Hackney) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (formerly the 10th London Regiment Hackney), became the 5th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1937.