Search

  • Allied Formations

    Description

    4th Indian Armoured Division The Badge of this unit was a charging buffalo in black with red horns, hooves and eyes on a white background within a black circular border. The Badge contained an …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    The Badge of this unit was a red ball on a black background, it has been said that it was derived from the fact that the red ball was painted on hurriedly to comply with the order that the formation …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    The badge of this unit was a yellow arrow on a black background and they were known as ""The Golden Arrow” Division. The badge was chosen to indicate the direction of line of  advance in the protecti …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    The Badge of this unit was a black tarantula spider on a yellow circular background, (in West African folklore the spider always comes out on top)   This formation was the first division ever to be f …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    The badge of this unit was two spears on a native carriers headband set on a yellow shield.   They were dispatched to India in July 1944, serving as part of the ""Fourteenth Army"", they joined up wi …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    The 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Supplementary Reserve), was founded in the wake of the Munich crisis, and recruited mainly in the spring of 1939 from young men of the …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    The Regiment has been in existence for 296 years and today is one of the handful that have not been disbanded or amalgamated since the Infantry of the Line was reorganised in 1881. At that time the 3 …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    Report in SEAC Souvenir Newspaper (Price 1 Anna)   With the end of the Monsoon in 1944 came the long-awaited moment for the British to return in force to Burma, liberate Mandalav, its ancient capital …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    The following is a report about the Division's contribution to the Burma Campaign by S.E.A.C. (South East Asia Command).  It was published in the SEAC Souvenir Newspaper just after the surrender by t …

    Allied Formations
  • Allied Formations

    Description

    It was the great General Marlborough who, in 1702, recommended the 23rd Foot to Queen Anne for the honour of her approval that the Regiment should become one of the three original fusilier regiments a …

    Allied Formations
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity
  • Personnel Entity