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42nd Indian Brigade
The 42nd Indian Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Indian Army that saw active service with the Indian Army during the First World War. It served in the Mesopotamian Campaign on the Euphrates Front throughout its existence. It was not reformed for the Second World War. History The 42nd Indian Brigade was formed in April 1916 and, on arrival in Mesopotamia, joined the 15th Indian Division when it was formed on 7 May 1916. The division replaced the 12th Indian Division on the Euphrates Front. The brigade remained with the division on the Euphrates Front until the end of the war. It took part in the action of As Sahilan (11 September 1916), the Capture of Ramadi (28 and 29 September 1917), the Occupation of Hīt (9 March 1918) and the action of Khan Baghdadi (26 and 27 March 1918). At the end of the war, the division was rapidly run down and it (along with the brigade) was disbanded in March 1919. Order of battle The brigade had the following composition in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Crown
The Crown is the state (polity), state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, overseas territories, Provinces and territories of Canada#Provinces, provinces, or states and territories of Australia, states). Legally ill-defined, the term has different meanings depending on context. It is used to designate the monarch in either a personal capacity, as Head of the Commonwealth, or as the king or queen of their realms (whereas the monarchy of the United Kingdom and the monarchy of Canada, for example, are distinct although they are in personal union). It can also refer to the rule of law; however, in common parlance 'The Crown' refers to the functions of executive (government), government and the civil service. Thus, in the United Kingdom (one of the Commonwealth realms), the government of the United Kingdom can be distinguished from the Crown and the state, in prec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Of Khan Baghdadi
The action of Khan Baghdadi was an engagement during the Mesopotamian campaign in World War I. Khan Baghdadi The 15th Indian Division had been at Ramadi since its capture of the town in September 1917. On 9 March 1918, it advanced and occupied the town of Hit in a bloodless victory, the Ottoman forces evacuating without a shot being fired. The next objective along the Euphrates was the town of Khan al Baghdadi. Most battles in Mesopotamia had been tied to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. If an attack was successful, the loser would withdraw along the line of the river to prepared positions further back. Securing a proper victory was difficult. In an attempt to break with the usual pattern, the 15th Indian Division were supplied with 300 Ford lorries, the 8th Light Armoured Motor Battery (armoured cars), and the 11th Cavalry Brigade. A mobile blocking force was assembled using divisional infantry in the lorries, the armoured cars, the cavalry brigade, and one of the divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd (Nowshera) Brigade
The 1st (Peshawar) Division was a Regular Division of the British Indian Army formed as a result of the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army in 1903. During World War I, the Division remained in India for local defense, but was mobilized for action on the North West Frontier on several occasions. The Division was a part of the Northern Army, later called the Northern Command. In 1919, the Division was mobilized for operations in Afghanistan during the Third Afghan War. Typical of most Indian Army formations, it contained a mixture of British and Indian units; but, unlike British Divisions, it contained a mixture of cavalry and infantry components. Formation in 1914 1st (Risalpur) Cavalry Brigade : 13th Duke of Connaught's Lancers :14th Murray's Jat Lancers :1st Duke of York's Own Skinner's Horse : Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) Lumsden's) Cavalry :21st Lancers :M Battery, Royal Horse Artillery : 1st Guides Infantry. 1st (Peshawar) Infantry Brigade : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British 22nd Division
The 22nd Division was an infantry division of the British Army during World War I, raised in September 1914, from men volunteering for Lord Kitchener's New Armies. The division moved to France in September 1915, but it was transferred to Greece only one month later. It served in the Balkans Campaign for the duration of the First World War. The 22nd Division's insignia was a solid black bar. Unit history The Division was one of the six created for the Third New Army on 13 September 1914. It moved to France in early September 1915 and then to Salonika in October 1915 seeing action in the Retreat from Serbia in December 1915, the Battle of Horseshoe Hill in August 1916, the Battle of Machukovo in September 1916 and the Battle of Doiran in April / May 1917. The Division was disbanded by 31 March 1919. Order of Battle The following units served with the division: 65th Brigade *9th (Service) Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) *14th (Service) Battalion, King's (Liverp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
65th Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 65th Brigade was a formation of the British Army. It was raised as part of the new army also known as Kitchener's Army and assigned to the 22nd Division and served on the Western Front and the Macedonian Front during the First World War. Formation The infantry battalions did not all serve at once, but all were assigned to the brigade during the war. *14th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) *12th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers *9th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment *8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers The South Wales Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for 280 years. It came into existence in England in 1689, as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot, and afterwards had a variety of names and headquarters. In ... *65th Machine Gun Company *65th SAA Section Ammunition Column *65th Trench Mortar Battery References {{reflist Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Gurkha Rifles
The 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army, before being transferred to the British Army following India's independence. Originally raised in 1817 as part of the army of the British East India Company, the regiment has been known by a number of names throughout its history. Initially the unit did not recruit from the Gurkhas, although after being transferred to the British Indian Army following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, it became a purely Gurkha regiment, in due course with its regimental headquarters at Abbottabad in the North West Frontier Province of British India. After 1947 the regiment was one of only four Gurkha regiments to be transferred to the British Army and this continued up until 1994, when it was amalgamated with other Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles. Over the course of its 177-year history, the regiment was awarded 25 battle honours, although prior to World War I it had only been awarded one and no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd (Rawalpindi) Division
The 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division was a regular army division of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1903 after the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army. During World War I it remained in India for local defence but it was mobilised for action on the North West Frontier on several occasions during the period. The Division was mobilised in 1919 for service during the Third Afghan War. Formation in August 1914 Sialkot (2nd) Cavalry Brigade :17th Lancers :6th King Edward's Own Cavalry : 19th Lancers Abbottabad (3rd) Brigade :1st Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles :2nd Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles :1st Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles :2nd Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles :68th, 94th and 104th Companies, Royal Garrison Artillery : VII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery ::4th, 38th and 78th Batteries, RFA Rawalpindi (4th) Brigade :21st Lancers : 5th Cavalry :35th Sikhs : 84th Punjabis :9 Mountain Battery, RGA :W Battery, Royal Horse Artillery :II Mountain Brigade, RGA ::1st and 6th Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd (Abbottabad) Brigade
The 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division was a regular army division of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1903 after the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army. During World War I it remained in India for local defence but it was mobilised for action on the North West Frontier on several occasions during the period. The Division was mobilised in 1919 for service during the Third Afghan War. Formation in August 1914 Sialkot (2nd) Cavalry Brigade :17th Lancers : 6th King Edward's Own Cavalry :19th Lancers Abbottabad (3rd) Brigade :1st Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles :2nd Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles :1st Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles :2nd Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles :68th, 94th and 104th Companies, Royal Garrison Artillery : VII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery ::4th, 38th and 78th Batteries, RFA Rawalpindi (4th) Brigade :21st Lancers : 5th Cavalry :35th Sikhs :84th Punjabis :9 Mountain Battery, RGA :W Battery, Royal Horse Artillery :II Mountain Brigade, RGA ::1st and 6th Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force), also abbreviated as 5 GR(FF) is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army comprising Gurkha soldiers of Nepalese origin. It was formed in 1858 as part of the British Indian Army. The regiment's battalions served in the First World War (Mesopotamia) and Second World War ( Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, Mediterranean, Italian campaign, and in Burma). The regiment was known as the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) when it was one of the Gurkha regiments that was transferred to the Indian Army following independence of Indian and Pakistan in 1947 and given its current name in 1950. Since 1947, the regiment has served in a number of conflicts, including the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It has also participated in peacekeeping operations in Sri Lanka. History 19th century The regiment was raised in 1858 as the 25th Native Punjab Infantry, also known as the " Hazara Goorkha Battalion". The soldiers of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambala Brigade
The Ambala Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Indian Army that formed part of the Indian Army during World War I, Indian Army during the First World War. It was formed in November 1914 to replace the original Ambala Brigade that had been mobilized as the 3rd (Ambala) Cavalry Brigade for service on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front. It remained in India throughout the war. The brigade continued to exist between the World Wars and by September 1939 it was designated Ambala Brigade Area. It was broken up in 1941. History At the outbreak of the First World War, the Ambala Cavalry Brigade was part of the 3rd (Lahore) Division. It was mobilized in August 1914 as the 3rd (Ambala) Cavalry Brigade, assigned to the newly formed 1st Indian Cavalry Division and sailed from Bombay on 16 October for the Western Front (World War I), Western Front. Likewise, the 3rd (Lahore) Division was transferred to France in August 1914. The 3rd Lahore Divisional Area was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorsetshire Regiment
The Dorset Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958, being the county regiment of Dorset. Until 1951, it was formally called the Dorsetshire Regiment, although usually known as "The Dorsets". In 1958, after service in the Second Boer War along with World War I and World War II, the Dorset Regiment was amalgamated with the Devonshire Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. In 2007, it was amalgamated with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, The Light Infantry and the Royal Green Jackets to form a new large regiment, The Rifles. History The Territorials in Dorset trace their origins to the 1st Administrative Battalion, Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteers formed at Dorchester. Its first formation consisted of the following: The first volunteer corps in Dorset had their headquarters in Dorchester. The 1st Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps (1 Dorsetshire RVC) was at Bridport, 2 Dorsetshire RVC at Wareha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
41st Indian Brigade
The 41st Indian Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Indian Army that saw service with the Indian Army during the First World War. It served in the Mesopotamian Campaign on the Euphrates Front throughout its existence. It was not reformed for the Second World War. History The Headquarters 41st Indian Brigade was formed in February 1916 and arrived in Mesopotamia in the following month where it served as an independent formation. On 15 September 1916, it was redesignated as 41st Brigade & H.Q. Euphrates Defences at which time it commanded the 1/4th Battalion, Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry), the 6th Jat Light Infantry and the 1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles. On 19 March 1918, it was further redesignated as H.Q. Euphrates Defences Order of battle The brigade had the following composition in the First World War: * 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles ''(joined in March 1916 from Ambala Brigade, 3rd Lahore Divisional Area; transferred in April to 21st (Bareilly) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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