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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/95/a5967895.shtml Belated award [wanted<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Ronald Rae,  2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, who were engaged in internal defence duties and were then the first soldiers to leave India after independence. BBC’s WW2 People’s War.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/95/a5967895.shtml Belated award [wanted<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Ronald Rae,  2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, who were engaged in internal defence duties and were then the first soldiers to leave India after independence. BBC’s WW2 People’s War.
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19470818&id=a2hAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j5QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3090,6345664 '"British Troops Leave"] ''The Glasgow Herald''  August 18, 1947 Google News
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19470818&id=a2hAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j5QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3090,6345664 '"British Troops Leave"] ''The Glasgow Herald''  August 18, 1947 Google News
*[http://www.mid-day.com/photos/independence-day-special-reliving-history-in-pictures/5861/56226 Photograph: August 17, 1947, soldiers from The Royal Norfolk Regiment embark on the S.S. Georgic bound for Britain] on the quayside in Mumbai, the first British Army unit to leave Indian soil after the country achieved independence. mid-day.com
*[http://www.mid-day.com/photos/independence-day-special-reliving-history-in-pictures/5861/56226 Photograph: August 17, 1947, soldiers from The Royal Norfolk Regiment embark on the S.S. Georgic bound for Britain] on the quayside in Mumbai, the first British Army unit to leave Indian soil after the country achieved independence. mid-day.com. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxckDsWPko  Video: British Troops Leave India 1947]  British Pathe on YouTube . This video appears to be of the same troops as in the photograph although they are  unnamed. They are however sailing on the 'Georgic.'


[[Category: British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category: British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 06:52, 4 March 2015

The Norfolk Regiment

Chronology

  • 1685 raised as Henry Cornewall's Regiment of Foot by James II
  • 1751 became the 9th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 became the Norfolk Regiment;
  • 1935 became the Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • 1959 amalgamated with The Suffolk Regiment to become the 1st Battalion 1st East Anglian Regiment.
  • 1964 became 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

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