Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 24.08.2004
 
 
The Cambridgeshire Regiment
1859-1999
 
Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
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  Battle Honours
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  Colonels
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Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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  Titles and Lineage English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
1860. 1st Administrative Battalion, Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers
formed with HQ at March to administer existing corps [see below for 2nd Admin Bn]
 
  • 1st Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Cambridge, raised Jan. 1860, transferred 1862 to 2nd Admin Bn; re-absorbed 1872
  • 2nd Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Wisbech, raised 1860
  • 4th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Whittlesea, raised 1860
  • 5th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at March, raised 1860
  • 6th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Ely, raised 1860
  • 7th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Upwell, raised 1860; disbanded 1872
  • 8th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Cambridge, raised 1860; transferred 1862 to 2nd Admin Bn
  • 6th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Newmarket, raised 1861; absorbed 1862 by 20th Suffolk RVC
  • 10th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Soham, raised 1862; disbanded 1865
1872 absorbed 1st Cambridgeshire RVC at Cambridge and 17th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps at Saffron Walden from 2nd Admin Bn
1880.03.16 1st Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers
1880.06? 1st Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, Essex and Huntingdonshire) Rifle Volunteers
absorbed 1st Huntingdonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at Huntingdon as J Company
1881.07.01 volunteer battalion of The Suffolk Regiment
1887.12 3rd (Cambridgeshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
1889 J Coy [Huntingdonshire] disbanded
1908.04.01 The Cambridgeshire Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Cambridge
 
  • A Company at Cambridge (dets at Great Shelford and Burwell)
  • B Company at Cambridge (det at Sawston)
  • C Company at Cambridge (det at Madingley)
  • D Company at Cambridge
  • E Company at Wisbech
  • F Company at Whittlesea (dets at Coates and Thorney)
  • F Company at March (dets at Benwick and Doddington)
  • H Company at Ely (det at Sutton)
1909.03 1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment
(part of the corps of The Suffolk Regiment)
1920.02.07 reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Cambridge
1947.01.01

629th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (The Cambridgeshire Regiment)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Cambridge
1955.03.10 629th (The Cambridgeshire Regiment) Airborne Light Regiment, RA
amalgamated with 513 LAA/SL Regiment RA
1955.07.27 629th (The Cambridgeshire Regiment) Parachute Light Regiment, RA
1956.10.31 1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment
converted to infantry, part of the corps of The Suffolk Regiment
1959.08.29 transferred to the corps of the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk)
1961.04.01

? Company

} The Suffolk and
Cambridgeshire Regiment
HQ at ?
? Company
  (amalgamated with The Suffolk Regiment)
1964.09.01 transferred to the corps of The Royal Anglian Regiment
1967.04.01 disbanded and concurrently reconstituted in TAVR III as The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorials) with no units in Cambridgeshire
1969.04.01 reduced to cadre at Ipswich
1971.04.01 D (Cambridgeshire) Company, 6th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
at Cambridge and Wisbech, reconstituted from cadre
1975.04.01

D Coy formed pln at Haverhill, transferred from B Coy

1992.04.01 3 (Cambridgeshire) Company, 5th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
at Cambridge with Pln at Wisbech, redesignation of D Coy, 6th Bn
1996.04.01 D (Cambridgeshire) Company, 6th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
at Cambridge and Wisbech
1999.07.01 amalgamated into HQ (Suffolk) Company, The East of England Regiment at Bury St. Edmunds, and Cambridgeshire lineage ceased
Appendix:
 
1862. 2nd Admin Battalion, Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers
formed with HQ at Cambridge? to administer existing corps:
 
  • 1st Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Cambridge, transferred 1862 from 1st Admin Bn
  • 8th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Cambridge, transferred 1862 from 1st Admin Bn; absorbed 1864 by 1st Corps
  • 17th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps at Saffron Walden, raised 1860, brigaded 1863
1872 absorbed by 1st Administrative Battalion
 
  History (Links) & War Service
History:
History of the Cambridgeshire Regiment (Association site)
The Cambridgeshire Regiment, by Martin Edwards
The Cambridgeshire Regiment ... movements ... during the Great War, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
The Cambridgeshire Regiment [in the Great War], by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
The Cambridgeshires in the Far East, 1939-1945, by David Langton.
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
  1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment [1914-1919]
  2/1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment [1915-1918]
  1st (Reserve) Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment [1915-1917]
  Cambridgeshire and Suffolk Reserve Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment [1917-1919]
  4/1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment [1915-1917]
  2nd Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment [1939-1947]
 
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
D Cambridgeshire Company 6v Royal Anglian Regiment (Association site)
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
The Suffolk Regimental Museum, Bury St Edmunds (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
The Suffolk Regimental Museum, Bury St Edmunds (Simonides listing)
The Cambridgeshire Regiment Collection, Royal Anglian Regiment Museum, Duxford (Imperial War Museum Duxford page)
   
   
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-01

The Great War (4 battalions):  Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Somme 1916 '18, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Rosières, Lys, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18

The Second World War:  Johore, Batu Pahat, Singapore Island, Malaya 1942

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
1880.08.28 J.M. Heathcote, VD
1909.04.22 F.M. Sir John Denton Pinkstone (French), 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG [also Colonel, 19 Hussars, Irish Guards, Royal Irish Regt, Gov-Gen Ireland]
1925
1929.12.25 Maj-Gen. Russell Mortimer Luckock, CB, CMG, DSO
  Traditions
 
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