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	Mercian Regiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Mercian Regiment is one of the new large infantry regiments of the British Army.
		The regiment's formation was announced on 16 December 2004 by Geoff Hoon and General Sir Mike Jackson as part of the restructuring of the infantry - it will be formed of three regular battalions, plus a TA battalion, and will be created through the merger of three single battalion regiments:
		It is called the Mercian Regiment as it is generally located within the ancient English kingdom of Mercia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercian_Regiment (144 words)

	Cheshire Regiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division.
		Amongst the duties performed was the mounting of the Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace.
		In 2004, as part of the restructuring of the infantry, it was announced that the Cheshire Regiment would be amalgamated with the Staffordshire Regiment and the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters to form the new Mercian Regiment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheshire_Regiment (201 words)

	BRITISH ARMY CAP BADGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The regiment recruits from Lancashire and Greater Manchester in the north, and Hampshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, the Isle of Wight and Channel Islands in the south.
		It is the Infantry County Regiment of London, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Middlesex, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands.
		The Royal Anglian Regiment is the regiment of ten counties of East Anglia and the East Midlands.
	www.angelfire.com /mi2/angela764/military/british_cap_badges.html (1117 words)

	Royal Welch Fusiliers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is one of the oldest regiments in the regular army, hence the archaic spelling of the word Welch instead of Welsh.
		The archaic method was officially restored to the Regiment's title in 1921 though the it had maintained the usage of the archaic spelling unofficially.
		Soldiers of this regiment are distinguishable by the unique feature of the "flash", consisting of five overlapping fl silk ribbons (seven inches long for soldiers and nine inches long for officers) on the back of the uniform jacket at neck level http://www.rwfnet.co.uk/images/rwf_flash.jpg.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Royal-Welch-Fusiliers.htm (432 words)

	The Cheshire Regiment [UK]
		The Cheshire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
		VCs in the Cheshire Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
		The Cheshire Regiment or 22nd Regiment of Foot.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/inf/022Ches.htm (1094 words)

	Cheshire Regiment
		04 Aug 1914 at Grange Road West, Birkenhead in the Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division (53rd Div).
		04 Aug 1914 at the Armoury, Stockport in the Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division (53rd).
		04 Aug 1914 at the Drill Hall, Macclesfield in the Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division (53rd Div).
	www.warpath.orbat.com /regts/cheshire.htm (384 words)

	York and Lancaster Regiment
		Yorkshire North Riding Regiment” in 1782, a title it retained until the present territorialisation system was introduced.
		After routine duty at the Cape in 1801, the regiment sailed for India, and fought under Lake at Guzert, Mawla, and Bhurtpore; after which, in 1809, it saw active service against the Wahabees, in the Persian Gulf, and assisted to destroy Ras-ul-Khynah and other piratical holds.
		The rest of the regiment was also in the first relief of Lucknow, and its defence; at the battle of Alumbagh and the capture of Lucknow, and finally with the Azimghur column.
	regimental-art.com /yorks_and_lancs.htm (1056 words)

	The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is unique in county titled regiments in never having been amalgamated.
		The Regimental badge, the Acorn and Oakleaf, is traditionally said to be derived from an incident during the Battle of Dettingen, 1743.
		The true origins, however, must remain shrouded in the mists of the past as no evidence can be found of the presence of any members of the 22nd at Dettingen, it being quartered in Minorca at the time.
	www.flintlockpublishing.co.uk /flint11.html (148 words)

	Operation Telic: Details of British Casualties
		It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm the death of Sergeant Norman Patterson, Cheshire Regiment, in a road traffic accident in Baghdad early on 1 January.
		His positive outlook, quick wit and enthusiasm for everything he undertook enhanced the lives of all those he met, and this zeal for life will be remembered with deep respect and affection by all with whom he served.
		The thoughts of his many friends in the Regiment are with his family, for the loss of such a proud soldier and dedicated son."
	www.operations.mod.uk /telic/patterson.htm (259 words)

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		The forerunners of the Corps of Drums were almost certainly on the first parade of the Cheshire Regiment on the Roodee at Chester in March 1689.
		That of Scinde is borne by The Cheshire Regiment alone.
		The Regiment was directly instrumental in preserving the West Indies for Crown and Country by supplying drafts of soldiers to man the Fleet and so enable the Royal Navy to maintain command of the seas.
	www.ledder.plus.com /prod01.htm (1153 words)

	icCheshireOnline - Regimental identity crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		OFFICIAL sources connected to the Cheshire Regiment have refused to comment on newspaper speculation that the 300-year-old unit could soon be fighting for its existence.
		The regiment - formerly known as the 22nd Regiment of Foot - is said to be among five infantry battalions which could lose their identities in an attempt by Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon to solve a 'recruitment problem'.
		This week neither officials based at the regiment's 'home' in Chester Castle or of the Ellesmere Port branch of the Cheshire Regiment Association were prepared to comment.
	iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/ellesmereportpioneer/content_objectid=13370323_method=full_siteid=50020_headline=-Regimental-identity-crisis-name_page.html (435 words)

	The King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The King's Regiment is proud to maintain its volunteer heritage in the King's Regiment companies of the King's and Cheshire Regiment.
		The King's Regiment traditions of the King's and Cheshire Regiment have their origins in 5th Battalion the King's Regiment (Liverpool), the 8th Battalion the Manchester Regiment and the 10th (Scottish) Battalion the King's Liverpool Regiment.
		By 1999, the 5th/8th (Volunteer) Battalion the King's Regiment was a representative of the proud history of the many volunteer battalions that had fought as a part of the Regiment in the Anglo-Boer war in South Africa and both World Wars.
	www.amlot.freeserve.co.uk /kcr.htm (372 words)

	Brit Forces Face Frequent Attacks In 'Quiet' Basra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Earlier on Sunday two bombs were aimed at an area occupied by two Cheshire Regiment companies, slightly injuring an Iraqi civilian worker.
		In the past three months the Cheshire Regiment battle group has suffered 93 separate threats of one form or another, whether rocket, mortar, rocket-propelled grenade or gunfire.
		Captain Richard Sernberg, of the Cheshire Regiment, said: "The situation is very different from the way it was in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.
	www.rense.com /general54/dsie.htm (541 words)

	Regt Info 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Cheshire Regiment’s official recruiting area continues to be ‘old’ Cheshire including the Wirral (Merseyside) and Trafford, Stockport and Tameside south of the River Mersey (Greater Manchester).
		The Regiment’s connection with the ‘new’ Cheshire areas of Warrington and Widnes (Halton Borough) gains strength by the year, and is reflected by the granting of Freedom of Entry by Halton Borough on 13th December 1988.
		The Cheshire Regiment is the last remaining Regiment, bearing a County name, that has never been amalgamated with another Regiment.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /ewh.bryan/Cheshire-7.htm (387 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Prince visits army exercises
		Prince Charles paid the Cheshire Regiment a visit while it was taking part in exercises on Wednesday.
		The regiment's manoeuvres centred on a mock Serbian village, designed to copy conditions the soldiers would be likely to find when on active duty.
		King George II decreed that the leaf should form part of the regimental badge after soldiers from the Cheshire Regiment saved him from capture.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2003090.stm (278 words)

	Axe Cheshire Regiment
		North West Conservative MEP David Sumberg is throwing his weight behind the campaign to save the Cheshire Regiment from the axe.
		Mrs Moore-Dutton, who is also a Cheshire County Councillor, started a petition with cross-party support because she is concerned about Government plans for a major restructuring of the armed forces.
		Whatever happens, this move will mean the end of the Cheshire Regiment in its current form.
	www.davidsumberg.com /new_page_21.htm (306 words)

	Carl's Cam: Memorial, South Africa 1899 - 1902, Chester Cathedral, Cheshire.
		In the south transept of Chester Cathedral, Cheshire.
		Two memorials to those of the Cheshire Regiment who fell in South Africa during the second Boer War (1899 to 1902).
		A memorial carved into the stone wall of the Chapel of the Cheshire Regiment.
	www.carlscam.com /boer/chester.htm (135 words)

	22nd Regiment of Foot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The regiment was designated the 22nd Regiment of Foot in July of 1751.
		The regiment was present for the French surrender of Montreal in 1760.
		The 22nd Regiment of Foot arrived in Boston in July of 1775.
	www.fifedrum.org /crfd/images/D22.htm (309 words)

	LINKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Territorial Army Battalion of the King's Regiment and the Cheshire Regiment.
		The Liverpool Scottish is an important component of the King's Regiment companies of the King's and Cheshire Regiment.
		The 'King's Regiment in the Canadas' a historical site for the Regiment in Canada at the turn of the 18th century.
	www.amlot.freeserve.co.uk /links.htm (517 words)

	Terms of Use (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Your continued use of the Cheshire Regiment Website after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.
		Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of all material published, the Cheshire Regiment cannot accept liability for loss resulting from any error, misstatement, inaccuracy or omission contained therein.
		By contributing to the Cheshire Regiment Website (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the Cheshire Regiment a right to use your contribution and to incorporate it in other works.
	www.armyeducation.co.uk /22nd_cheshire_regiment/terms_of_use.htm (416 words)

	33rd (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment (Volunteers)
		In 1967 the Territorial Army was reorganised and 33rd Signal Regiment (Volunteers) was formed on the 1st April as part of the New Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR), which in August 1979 was re-designated the Territorial Army.
		The Regiment, which has an active operational role in support of the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), was formed by the amalgamation of 42 Signal Regiment TA, 59 Signal Regiment TA, and the Cheshire Yeomanry.
		In January 1995 the Regiment was declared operationally ready and has a notice to move time of 30 days to be deployed on operations anywhere in the world.
	www.army.mod.uk /royalsignals/33sigregt (438 words)

	Cyndi's List - England - Cheshire
		For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the genealogy and history of the town of Birkenhead and the Wirral peninsula, formerly in the county of Cheshire, now (since 1974) in the county of Merseyside, England.
		For anyone with a historical and genealogical interest in the county of Merseyside, England, which was created in 1974 from parts of Cheshire and Lancashire.
		Promotes the study of the history of the Catholic Church in the region west of the Pennines, the old counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Lancashire, and Westmorland.
	www.cyndislist.com /eng-chs.htm (1536 words)

	Cheshire Regiment Association Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Army is made up of Regiments; if the Regiments prosper so does the Army and so does the nation.
		The Colonel of the Regiment continues to face a survival battle under the threat of further possible cuts and our precious connections with the County of Cheshire.
		As a Regiment we have a history of challenging heavy-handed authority, even when it has become necessary to question decisions made in Whitehall.
	www.army.mod.uk /22nd_cheshire_regiment/regimental_association/cheshire_regiment_association_newsletter (612 words)

	Organsation of other units
		The Regiment was raised in 1674 in the service of the Prince of Orange as the Irish Regiment.
		In 1968 by the Regiment was amalgamated with The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) and Lancashire Fusiliers, to form The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
		Just prior to World War II the Regiment was armed with the Vickers Machine Gun and became a Support Regiment for the duration of the war.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/orgothers.htm (2022 words)

	icCheshireOnline - Final salute for regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		THE 1st Battalion of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment marched through Crewe for the final time as the Cheshires on Sunday.
		The event signified the Cheshires' Freedom of the Borough and is one of a series of marches in the county throughout the summer.
		The Cheshire Regiment is to merge with the Staffordshire Regiment and Worcester and Sherwood Foresters to become the Mercian Regiment.
	iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/southcheshirechronicles/tm_objectid=15633976%26method=full%26siteid=50020%26headline=final%2dsalute%2dfor%2dregiment-name_page.html (231 words)

	Cheshire Regiment
		At Ypres, Quartermaster-Sergeant Downs was largely responsible for the training of the machine gunners of the 1st Cheshire Regiment, who did brilliant work in the early stages of the campaign.
		Private A. Callf, of the 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, at once pulled out a box of small arms ammunition, which was burning, and carried it from the trench.
		The Cheshires (22nd Foot) mustered thirty-eight battalions during the course of the war, of which fifteen saw action.
	www.regimental-art.com /cheshire_regiment.htm (1454 words)

	math lessons - The Rifle Volunteers
		The Rifle Volunteers is a regiment of the British Territorial Army.
		The Rifle Volunteers were formed in 1999 by the amalgamation of the amalgamation of the 6th Battalion, The Light Infantry, 4th (V) Battalion, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and elements of the 2nd (V) Battalion, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment in consequence of the reforms implemented due to the Strategic Defence Review.
		In April 2004 a composite company (Salamanca Company) of the Regiment was dispatched to Basra, Iraq attached to the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, as part of 1 Mechanised Brigade, part of the Multi-National Division (South East).
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/The_Rifle_Volunteers (149 words)

	Cheshire Regiment - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Cheshire Regiment - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Army.
		This page was last modified 12:21, 4 Feb 2005.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Cheshire_Regiment (151 words)

	Locations Map
		The Cheshire Regiment is an Infantry unit who’s affiliated TA unit is the Kings/Cheshire Regiment based in the County of Cheshire.
		The QOY’s history may be seen in the Chester Military Museum at the RHQ of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment at the Castle in Chester.
		The detachment because it is based in the Headquarters of the Regiment has many opportunities to meet and sometimes train with the TA unit.
	www.cheshirearmycadets.com /html/locations_map.html (2466 words)

	Kent Air Cadets - Edenbridge Cadets Remember first president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sir Napier was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment and served in the Parachute Regiment during World War II.
		He became Colonel of the Cheshire Regiment in 1968 and following retirement was appointed Chairman of the Council of the Soldier, Sailors and Airmans Families Association.
		After a short prayer by the squadron chaplain, The Rev’d Wendy Izod, during which the guests held a minute’s silence for those who had fallen in the Gulf War, the four course meal was served by cadets of the squadron.
	www.kentwing.com /napier.html (320 words)

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