The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (D and D) was formed on 17 May 1958 by the amalgamation of the Devonshire Regiment and The Dorset Regiment.

100 Greatest Military Band Favourites The 4th and 5th Battalions were both part of 130th Infantry Brigade in the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division, participating in the Normandy Campaign, Operation Market Garden and the Rhine Crossing.The 30th Battalion, previously the 6th (Home Defence) Battalion, was with the 43rd Infantry Brigade in North Africa and the invasion of Sicily, after which it spent the rest of the war in Gibraltar.The 7th Battalion, which was raised in 1940, was later converted to the 110th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. The regiment served with the 43rd (Wessex) Division in North-West Europe from June 1944 to May 1945.The 8th Battalion, which was also raised in 1940, was initially assigned to the 210th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) and was on home defence. Just a year later it moved under control of the Dorsetshire Regiment as the volunteer battalion.The Dorsetshire Regiment was established in the Regular Army in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot and the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot.The 2nd Battalion was stationed in Ireland from 1893 to 1897, then in Malta from 1899. The battalion had troops 327 killed and 1,029 wounded.The 2nd Battalion was also a regular army unit and was part of the 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, throughout the war, participating in the Battle of France and the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. 1.7K likes. 27 June 2020: National Armed Forces Day. The regiment was sent to North Africa in late 1942 and fought with the British First Army, It later served in the Italian Campaign with the British Eighth Army.In 1958, the regiment amalgamated with the Devonshire Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment.The regimental collection is displayed in the Keep Military Museum in Dorchester.The regiment was awarded the following battle honours. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations We now have a facebook page Near the end of the Peninsula war, the French Marshall Soult was trying to confine the British and Portugese invaders in the extreme southwest corner of France. Check out Regimental March by 1st Battalion The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, The Corps of Drums of the 1st Battalion, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, The Band of the Prince of Wales's Division, Clive on Amazon Music. Among the mergers to be carried out were those of the regiments of the two neighbouring counties of In March 1983 the Devon & Dorsets became a resident battalion at The battalion returned to Paderborn in November 1995 and was based there until 1998. Having failed to hold Bayonne, he withdrew to Orthes. Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.

During the siege, returning sick and wounded, and the few replacements who had been sent out, were unable to re-join their battalion, so they, and similar drafts of the 2nd Norfolk Regiment, were amalgamated into a scratch battalion forming part of the force attempting to relieve Kut.The 1/4th Battalion of the Territorial Force served in India and Mesopotamia and 2/4th Battalion in India and Egypt.The 5th (Service) Battalion took part in the Gallipoli Campaign, and having been evacuated from there in December 1915, went to Egypt before joining the war on the Western Front in July 1916.On 7 February 1920 4th Battalion was reformed in the Territorial Army with its headquarters in Dorchester and four companies (A-D).The 3/4th Reserve Battalion was moved to Ebrington Barracks in Derry in April 1918.In Summer 1921, the 2nd Battalion served under the command of Major-General John Burnett-Stuart, General Officer Commanding Madras District in India,The Officers and Men from the Dorset Regiment who lost their lives while taking part in the suppression of the revolt are commemorated in a brass tablet at the St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore.In the Second World War, the regiment expanded to eight battalions.The 1st Battalion was a regular army unit and part of the 231st Infantry Brigade, alongside the 1st Hampshires and 2nd Devonshires, for the duration of the war, fighting in Malta between 1940 and 1942, Sicily in August 1943, and Italy in September 1943. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. Welcome to the official Facebook page of The Devon and Dorset Regimental Association. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations The 2nd Devons gallant stand against this German advance at Bois de Buttes is legendary. The 1st Dorsets landed on Gold Beach on D-Day in June 1944 as a part of the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division and fought with the division in the Battle of Normandy and North-West Europe, until the division was withdrawn in late 1944 and used as a training division. Parts of the unit spent time in The Devon and Dorsets was again the resident battalion at Ballykinler from 2002 to 2004. The Devonshire and Dorset Regimental association organised a centenary commeration that took place at the memorial for the battle of Bois Des Buttes in La Ville-aux-Bois-Les-Pontavert in France. In 1944, it took part in the Battle of Kohima during the Burma Campaign of 1944–1945, still with the 2nd Division.The 4th Battalion was an original 1st Line Territorial Army unit and, in 1939, raised a 2nd Line duplicate, the 5th Battalion, when the Territorial Army was doubled in size prior to the commencement of the war. Our Membership of our Association is open to anyone who has served with The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, its antecedent Regiments and members of our successor Regiment - The Rifles.