Royal
Anglian Regiment formed in 1964 by the amalgamation of Royal Norfolk
Regiment, Suffolk Regiment, Royal Lincolnshire regiment, Northamptonshire,
Bedfordshire, Leicestershire and Essex regiments. Cranston
Fine Arts has begun to publish these regiments as military uniform
prints by Harry Payne.
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Suffolk Regiment by Harry Payne.
Open edition print. Image size 7 inches x 12 inches (18cm x 31cm). Price £14.00
ITEM CODE UN0027
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Norfolk Regiment by Harry Payne.
Open edition print. Image size 7 inches x 12 inches (18cm x 31cm). Price £14.00
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Leicestershire Regiment by Harry Payne.
Open edition print. Image size 7 inches x 12 inches (18cm x 31cm). Price £14.00
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THE ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT
The Regiment was formed as Cornwell's Regiment in 1785, becoming
the 9th of foot in 1751, and becoming the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1935.
Amalgamating with the Suffolk regiment in 1959 as the 1st East Anglian regiment.
REGIMENTAL BATTLE HONOURS.
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1756 - 1763 Belleisle, Havannah during the Seven Years War |
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1793 - 1802 Martinique During the French Revolutionary
Wars |
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1808 - 1814 Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna,
Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nive, during the Peninsula War |
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1839 - 1842 Cabool during the First Afghan War |
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1845 - 1846 Moodkee,
Ferozeshah, Sobraon during the First
Sikh War |
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1854 - 1855 Sebastopol, during the Crimean War |
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1878 - 1880 Kabul , Second Afghan war |
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1899 - 1902, Paardeburg, during the Boer war |
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1914 - 1918, Mons, Le Cateaux, Marne 1914, Ypres 1914,
1915, 1917, 1918, Somme,1916, 1918, Hindenburg Line, Sulva, Gaza, Shaiba, Kut al
Amara 1915, 1917. |
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1939 - 1945, St Omer-La Bassee, Normandy, Brieux Bridgehead,
Venraij, Rhineland, Singapore, Kohima, Aradura, Burma 1944 -45. |
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1950 -1953 Korean war |
VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.
Six members from the regiment received Victoria Cross's.
One during World war One, and Five during World War Two.
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