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  • Border Regiment
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  • The Border Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, which was 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. Its lineage is continued today by the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
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Branch
  • Army
Country
Type
  • Infantry
Caption
  • Cap Badge of the Border Regt
Dates
  • 1881
Unit Name
  • The Border Regiment
Anniversaries
  • --10-28
battle honours
  • The Relief of Ladysmith 1900, South Africa 1899-1902, France and Flanders 1914-1918, Ypres 1914,15,17,18, Langemark 1914,17, Gallipoli 1915,16, Somme 1916,18, Arras 1917,18, Cambrai 1917,18, Lys 1918, Macedonia 1915,18, Vittorio Veneto 1918, Afghanistan 1919, Dunkirk 1940, Tobruk 1941, Meiktila, Landing In Sicily, Chindits 1944, Arnhem 1944, Imphal, Myinmu Bridgehead Burma 1943-45, North West Europe 1940–44
March
  • John Peel John Peel Audio Clip
abstract
  • The Border Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, which was 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. Its lineage is continued today by the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
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