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Page
created 15 December 2000. Corrected and updated
23.08.2004
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Raiding
Support Regiment
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1943.10.10 |
Raiding Support
Regiment
formed at Camp ta Azzeb, Palestine, with A-E
Squadrons, composed chiefly of British, South African and
Rhodesian volunteers, and equipped with heavy weapons to provide
small detachment support to other special forces |
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- A Squadron, equipped with .50 Vickers
heavy machine guns mounted on jeeps
- B Squadron, equipped with with three
inch mortars
- C Squadron, equipped with anti-tank
guns
- D Squadron, equipped with 75 millimetre
gun Howitzers (three four-gun batteries)
- E Squadron
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1945.07? |
disbanded |
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Deployment and Service: |
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War service
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Overseas service
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Home service
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1943.10.10 |
formed
at Camp ta Azzeb, Palestine |
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1943 |
Syria |
ski
training |
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1943 |
Ramat David |
para
training |
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1943.12 |
at
sea (embarked at Port Said) |
ship:
Devonshire |
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1943.01 |
Italy:
Taranto |
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1943.01? |
San
Materno |
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1943.01 |
Yugoslavia:
Vis (C Bty) |
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1943.07 |
Italy |
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1944 |
Italy:
Bari |
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1944 |
Adriatic
(raids in Balkans) |
2
SS Bde |
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1945 |
Italy |
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1945.05 |
Trieste:
Zara |
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1945.06 |
Italy |
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1945.07? |
England:
Harrogate |
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1945.07? |
disbanded
at Harrogate |
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Badges: |
A winged mailed
fist (armed help from the air) grasping a hand (coming to the aid
of local forces) raised from a castle turret (beleagued in their stronghold);
below, a scroll inscribed QUIT YOU LIKE MEN. |
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Uniform: |
headdress:
brown beret (later beige beret) |
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Awards
(Allied Special Forces Association site) |
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Roll
of Honour (Allied Special Forces Association site) |
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Motto: |
Quit you like
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Anniversaries: |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Full Histories:
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[no known published history] |
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Special Topics:
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Gage, Jack. Greek adventure.
Cape Town : Unie-Volkspers Beperk, 1950. |
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Reid, Francis. I was in Noah's ark.
London : Chambers, 1950. |
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Links: |
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Raiding
Support Regiment Library (Allied Special Forces Association site) |
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