Your go-to guide to understanding British Army regiments
30 July 2019
For the purpose of this article, I am going to concentrate on a British Army infantry regiment, The Essex Regiment, before and during World War 1.In 1909 The Essex Regiment had two regular battalions of career soldiers: the 2nd Battalion stationed at the Curragh in Ireland and the 1st Battalion stationed overseas in Quetta, India (now Pakistan). In the case of the Essex Regiment, the 2nd Battalion was the home battalion. New recruits, having been posted from the regimental depot in
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