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**[http://www.glosters.org.uk/textonly_timeline/6#item4 1942 - Rearguard in Burma]
**[http://www.glosters.org.uk/textonly_timeline/6#item4 1942 - Rearguard in Burma]
**[http://www.glosters.org.uk/exhibition.php?id=6 The Gloucesters in India]
**[http://www.glosters.org.uk/exhibition.php?id=6 The Gloucesters in India]
* Steve Lewis' excellent website, now archived [http://web.archive.org/web/20060527150434/http://members.tripod.com/~Glosters/index.html   The Glorious Glosters]. Appears to be connected with the site of the same name below. Includes
* Steve Lewis' excellent website, now archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20070521072527/http://www.redcoat.info/    The Glorious Glosters]. Appears to be connected with the site of the same name below. Includes
**[http://web.archive.org/web/20060615060703/http://www.redcoat.info/61stindexA.htm 61st Foot (South Gloucestershire Regiment)] includes
**[http://web.archive.org/web/20060615060703/http://www.redcoat.info/61stindexA.htm 61st Foot (South Gloucestershire Regiment)] includes
***[http://web.archive.org/web/20070818190751/http://members.tripod.com/~Glosters/post61.htm Regimental postings to 1947]
***[http://web.archive.org/web/20070818190751/http://members.tripod.com/~Glosters/post61.htm Regimental postings to 1947]

Revision as of 08:27, 8 August 2019

Also known as 61st Rifles

Chronology

  • 1758 2nd Battalion 3rd Regiment of Foot redesignation as the 61st Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 renamed 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the two-battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
  • 2005 amalgamated with the Light Infantry, The Royal Green Jackets and the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment to form the 1st Battalion The Rifles

Second World War

10th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, arrived Bombay December 17th, 1942, and moved from India to the Arakan on January 13th, 1944. It served in Shillong, and again in Burma until May 16th, 1945 and then returned to India.[1]

External Links

Historical books online

Other

References

  1. dryan67 10th Btn, Glosters In India/Burma 'WW2Talk Forum 26 October 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2019. David A Ryan is co author of books on the Indian Army in WW2, see the WW2Talk Forum post Indian Army: An Organisational History. Retrieved 25 April 2019.