Border Regiment

Border Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= The Border Regiment


caption= Cap Badge of the Border Regt
dates= 1881-1959
country= United Kingdom
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type= Infantry
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anniversaries= 28th October Arroyo Day Commemorates an action in Spain when the 34th Foot captured the Drums of their French opposite numbers.
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battle_honours=The Relief of Ladysmith 1900, South Africa 1899-1902, France and Flanders 1914-1918, Ypres 1914,15,17,18, Langemark 1914,17, Galliopoli 1915,16, Somme 1916,18, Arras 1917,18, Cambrai 1917,18, Lys 1918, Macedonia 1915,18, Vittorio Veneto 1918, Afghanistan 1919, Dunkirk 1940, Torbruk 1941, Meiktila, Landing In Sicily, Chindits 1944, Arnhem 1944, Imphal, Myinmu Bridgehead Burma 1943-45, North West Europe 1940-44
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The Border Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot.

After service in the First and Second World Wars, it was amalgamated into The King's Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959.

Victoria Crosses

Five men of the Border Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross, all during World War One:
* Private James Alexander Smith (21 December 1914)
* Private Abraham Acton (21 December 1914)
* Sergeant Edward John Mott (27 January 1917)
* Serjeant Charles Edward Spackman (20 November 1917)
* Captain James Forbes-Robertson (1/12 April 1918)

References

*cite web
url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/034Bordr.htm
title=The Border Regiment
accessmonthday=February 09
accessyear=2007
last=Mills
first=T.F.
work=regiments.org Includes chronological index of titles.
* [http://www.ballindalloch-press.com/2ndborder/ 2nd Battalion Border Regiment] Living History and reenactment unit portraying the 2/Border during the Great War 1914-1918.
*cite web
url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/victoriacross.asp
title=Victoria Cross Archive
accessmonthday=July 19
accessyear=2008
work=The National ArchivesThe Regimental Museum at Carlisle Castle http://www.kingsownbordermuseum.btik.com/home.ikml

External links

* [http://www.kerchi.co.uk/ The Border Regiment] wiki project.


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