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British Malaya Command Territorial Army Gold Beach D-Day British Brigades in WWII British Divisions in WWII Charles Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie Naval Battle of Balikpapan Anglo-Persian War British 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division Ronald Scobie John Anderson Barstow Berthold Wells Key Merton Beckwith-Smith Ian MacAlister Stewart, 13th Laird of Achnacone Archibald Paris Lord Gray British 8th Armoured Brigade List of pirates East African Campaign (WWI) Noel Beresford-Peirse Francis Tuker Vivian Evelegh Alfred Godwin-Austen Douglas Alexander Henry Graham William Havelock Ramsden 1st Battalion, Black Watch 2nd Battalion, Black Watch 10th Battalion, Black Watch 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment Battle of Leros Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders


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 * Military History Society: Links
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 * 5th Airborne Brigade Site
 * British,Canadian and U.S. Order of Battle at Salerno
 * History of Chindit Operations
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 * 9th Indian, 11th Indian and 18th British Division Badges
 * BBC Story on Royal Irish Fusiliers on Leros
 * Land Battle of Narvik
 * My page on Wikinfo, User:Jets
 * British Badges WWII in Belgium 1944 - 1945
 * WWI Orders of Battle
 * Badges and Order of Battle - British Eighth Army

List of British regular Battalions destroyed during WWII
I have discovered 23 regular battalions to have been destroyed during the war so far.


 * 2nd Bn. Scots Guards -
 * Surrendered at Tobruk 20th June 1942.
 * (reformed in Egypt Aug.1942) (1)
 * 2nd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders -
 * Surrendered in Singapore 15 Feb.'42
 * (reformed from 15th Bn) (1)
 * 1st Bn. Black Watch -
 * Surrendered at St Valery-en-Caux 15th June 1940
 * (reformed 15th Sep.1940) (2)
 * 1st Bn. The Border Regiment -
 * Mostly destroyed at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden.
 * 1st Bn. D.C.L.I -
 * Mostly destroyed at Knightsbridge 5th June 1942(Gazala)
 * Remaing personnel to 1st Bn, King's Own Royal Regt.
 * (Reformed) (4)
 * 2nd Bn, The East Surrey Regiment -
 * Surrendered at Battle of Singapore 15th Feb.'42 British Battalion
 * (Reformed from 11th Bn.) (4)
 * 1st Bn, The Gordon Highlanders -
 * Surrendered at St Valery 12th June'40
 * (Reformed) (2)
 * 2nd Bn, Gordon Highlanders -
 * Surrendered at Singapore 15th Feb.'42
 * (Reformed from 11th Bn.) (1)
 * 2nd Bn, Highland Light Infantry -
 * Overrun at Fuka 28th June'42, Bn reduced and placed under GHQ Middle East.
 * (Reformed?) (?)
 * 1st Bn, The King's Own Royal Regiment -
 * Surrendered on Leros 16th Nov.'43
 * (Reformed from 8th Bn.) (?)
 * 2nd Bn, The King's Royal Rifle Corps -
 * Destroyed defending Calais 26th May '40
 * (Reformed) (2)
 * 1st Bn, The Leicestershire Regiment -
 * Surrendered at Singapore 15th Feb.'42 British Battalion
 * (Reformed from 8th Bn.) (1)
 * 2nd Bn, The Loyal Regiment -
 * Surrendered at Singapore 15th Feb.'42
 * (Reformed) (2)
 * 1st Bn, The Manchester Regiment -
 * Surrendered at Singapore 15th Feb.'42
 * (Reformed) (1)
 * 1st Bn, The Middlesex Regiment -
 * Surrendered to Japanese in Hong Kong 25th Dec.'41
 * (Reformed) (1) - 15th Scottish Division
 * 2nd Bn, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment -
 * Surrendered at Leros 16th Nov.'43
 * (Reformed) (4)
 * 1st Bn, The Rifle Brigade -
 * Destroyed by Germans in defence of Calais. 26th May '40
 * (Reformed) (2)
 * 1st Bn, The Royal Fusiliers -
 * Captured by the Vichy French in Syria. 16th June 1941
 * Reformed in Palestine (3)
 * 2nd Bn, The Royal Irish Fusiliers -
 * Surrendered on Leros 16th Nov.'43
 * (Reformed) (4)
 * 2nd Bn, The Royal Scots -
 * Surrendered on Hong Kong 25th Dec.'41
 * (Reformed) (2)
 * 1st Bn, The Sherwood Foresters -
 * Destroyed in fighting during the Battle of Gazala. June 1942
 * (Reformed in UK) (4)
 * 2nd Bn, The South Staffordshire Regiment -
 * Mostly destroyed during Operation Market Garden Sept.'44
 * (Reformed?)
 * 1st Bn, The South Wales Borderers -
 * Surrounded and surrendered to Germans in Western Desert.
 * (Reformed) (4)
 * 1st Bn, The Worcestershire Regiment -
 * Surrendered at Tobruk 22nd June '42
 * (Reformed from 11th Bn.) (1)


 * 1) Served in Northwest Europe after being reformed.
 * 2) Served throughout the war in other theatres.
 * 3) Served in the Italian Campaign.
 * 4) Saw no further active service during the war.

2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
The 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment was formed from the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot on the 1st July [[1881].

Royal Navy at Crete

 * Crete order of battle - Battle of Crete

Admiral Cunningham, determined that no German troop transports should reach Crete, sent Admiral King's Force C (three cruisers and four destroyers) into the Aegean through the Kaso Straight to attack a second flotilla of transports escorted by the Sagittario. The cruiser sank a caique separated from the main flotilla at 8.30am thus saving it from an air attack that struck HMS Naiad at this time. The pilots were trying to avoid killing their troops in the water. King's sqaudron, still under constant air attack and running short of anti-aircraft ammunition, then steamed on toward Milos sighting the Sagittario at ten o'clock. King made the difficult decision not to attack due to the shortage of ammunition and he had succeeded in forcing the Germans to withdraw this seaborne attack. During the search and withdrawal from the area Force suffered heavy losses. Naiad was damaged by near misses and the cruiser HMS Carlisle was hit.
 * 22nd May 1941

Force C met up with Rear Admiral Rawling's Force A1 at the Kithera channel where more air attacks inflicted damage on both forces. A bomb struck Warspite and then the destroyer Greyhound was sunk. King sent Kandahar and Kingston to pick up survivors while the cruisers Gloucester and Fiji provided anti-aircraft support, forgetting their amunnition shortage. Gloucester was hit by several bombs while the fleet was withdrawing and had to be left behind due to the intense air attacks. Seven hundred and twenty-two officers and ratings from this ship lost their lives.

The air attacks on Force A1 and Force C continued. Two bombs hit the battleship Valiant (with Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece on board) and later another hit the Fiji disabling it. A Junkers 88 flown by Lieutenant Gerhard Brenner dropped three bombs on the Fiji sinking it. Five hundred survivors were rescued by the Kandahar and Kingston the next morning. The Royal Navy lost two cruisers and a destroyer sunk but had managed to turn the invasion fleet around.

List of Battles

 * East African Campaign
 * Tanga -
 * Jassin -
 * Bukoba -
 * Salaita -
 * Latema Nek -
 * Kahe -
 * Kilimanjaro -
 * Kondoa Irangi -
 * Dodoma -
 * Mkalamo -
 * Lukigura -
 * Matamondo -
 * Wami -
 * Kilosa -
 * Mlali -
 * Morogoro -
 * Kidodi -
 * Dutumi -
 * Kisaki -
 * Njinjo -
 * Kimbaramba -
 * Kibata (1916) -
 * Behobeho -
 * Kibata (1917) -
 * Mpotona -
 * Utete -
 * Nambanje -
 * Kiawe Bridge -
 * Rumbo -
 * Narungombe -
 * Mahiwa -
 * Nyangao

2nd Battalion, The Black Watch
The officer commanding the leading German parachute battalion said of this action:

" My first surprise was when I found the position was held. My second was when I discovered who the infantry were. The battle continued with great ferocity, but The Black Watch never surrendered. Had it been any other regiment, any other, all would have been well."
 * [Black Watch History]

The defences
The British defences at Kampar were built around the Gunong Brijang Malaka, an imposing little mountain covered in scrub and jungle which the British called Kampar Hill. Acting-Brigadier I.M.Stewart's 12th Infantry Brigade brought the time necessary for the defences to be built with many clever ambushes and delaying actions to slow the Japanese Army's advance.

The hill was an Artillery spotters dream, based 4000 feet above sea level overlooking a plain around it.

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Battle of Muar
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Yorkshire Regiments and Militia Regiments

 * The Prince of Wales Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) - West Yorkshire Regiment
 * 14th (Buckinghamshire, Prince of Wales Own) Regiment of Foot
 * The East Yorkshire Regiment
 * 15th (The Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot
 * The Princess of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment) - Green Howards
 * 19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding - Prince of Wales Own) Regiment of Foot
 * 25th (The York) Regiment of Foot (King's Own Borderers) (Scottish regiment with a depot in York for a short time)
 * The Duke Of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
 * 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment Of Foot
 * 76th Regiment of Foot
 * The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) - King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
 * 51st Regiment of Foot (King's Own Light Infantry)
 * 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)
 * The York and Lancaster Regiment
 * 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot
 * 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot


 * 4th/7th Royal Dragoons
 * East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
 * East and West Riding Regiment (TA)
 * Prince of Wales Own Regiment of Yorkshire
 * Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons
 * Yorkshire Hussars
 * Yorkshire Regiment
 * Yorkshire Squadron, Queen's Own Yeomanry

Rhodesian's Killed in Battle of Malaya

 * Major Frank Graham Anderson - 1/15th Punjab Regiment (Died 20 Jan. 1942) of Umtali, S.Rhodesia
 * Captain George Raymond Baskerville Simmons - RASC att. Malaya HQ (Died 13th February 1942) of Bulawayo, S.Rhodesia

Order of Battle Japanese 25th Army on 8 December 1942

 * Commanding Officer - Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita

Imperial Guards Division

 * Lt-Gen Takuma Nishimura
 * 3rd Konoye Regt.
 * 4th Konoye Regt. - Colonel Kentaro Kunishi
 * 5th Konoye Regt. - Colonel Takeo Iwaguro
 * (each regiment was 2,600 strong . Total strength 12,600)

5th Infantry Division

 * Lt-Gen Takuro Matsui
 * (motor transport)
 * 9th Infantry Brigade – Maj.Gen. Saburo Kawamura
 * 11th Regt. - Colonel Tsunahiko Watanabe
 * 41st Regt. - Colonel Kanichi Okabe
 * 21st Infantry Brigade - Major-General Eikichi Sugiura
 * 21st Regt. - Colonel Noriyoshi Harada
 * 42nd Regt. - Colonel Tadao Ando
 * (each regiment 2,600 strong. Total strength 15,300.)

18th Infantry Division

 * Lt-Gen Renya Mutaguchi
 * (horse transport)
 * 23rd Infantry Brigade – Maj.Gen. Hiroshi Takumi
 * 55th Regiment - Colonel Hiroshi Koba
 * 56th Regiment – Col. Yoshio Nasu
 * 35th Infantry Brigade - Major-General K. Kawaguchi
 * 114th Regiment - Colonel Hitashi Kohisa
 * 124th Regiment -
 * (each regiment was 3,500 strong. Total strength 22,200 .)
 * 1st Independent Anti-Tank Battalion.
 * Eight independent anti-tank companies.
 * 3rd Tank Group, consisting of four tank regiments-
 * 1st (Medium), 2nd (Medium) (arrived 29th Jan. ’42) and 6th (Medium) and 14th (Light) Regts.

Artillery

 * 3rd Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment
 * 3rd Heavy Field Artillery Regiment
 * 18th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment - Lt.Col. Katsutoshi Takasu
 * 21st Heavy Field Artillery Battalion.
 * Two trench mortar battalions (3rd and 5th Mortar Battalions) horsed.
 * 14th Independent Mortar Battalion.
 * 17th Field Air Defence Unit (consisting of four field anti-aircraft battalions).
 * Three independent field anti-aircraft companies.
 * 1st Balloon Company.

Engineers

 * Three independent engineer regiments:
 * 4th Engineer Regiment
 * 12th Engineer Regiment - Lt.Col. Ichie Fuji
 * 15th Engineer Regiment - Lt.Col. Yosuke Yokoyama
 * 23rd Engineer Regiment


 * 5th Independent Heavy Bridging Company (two horsed, one mechanised).
 * Three bridging material companies (21st, 22nd and 27th).
 * Two river crossing material companies (10th and 15th), one horsed, one mechanised.
 * 21st River Crossing Company (horsed).


 * 2nd Field Military Police Unit.
 * 2nd Railway Unit (consisting of two railway regiments, one railway material depot, two
 * Railway station offices and two special railway operating units).
 * 25th Army Signal Unit (consisting of one telegraph regiment (horsed), one independent wire company (mechanised), three independent wireless platoons (two mechanized, one horsed )and five stationary wireless units.)

Line of communication (headquarters and units)

 * These included four L. of C. sector units, eight independent motor transport battalions, twelve independent motor transport companies, two horse transport units, ten land service companies, five construction service companies, also survey, water, road, construction, ordnance and medical units.

3rd Tank Group

 * At the beginning of operations the 3rd Tank Group comprised four tank regiments (three medium, one light) and ancillary units . The 2nd (Medium) Tank Regiment was transferred to 26th Army on 29 January 1942. The group then had 79 medium tanks, 100 light tanks, and 238 other vehicles. The medium tanks, weighing 16 tons, each carried one 57-mm gun and Two 7.7-mm machine-guns; the light tanks (8 tons) one 32-mm gun and one 7 .7-mm machine-gun.