Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 07.02.2005
 
The Huntingdonshire Battalion
1860-1961
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 Bibliography

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.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
 
1860 1st Huntingdonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
raised at Huntingdon
1880.06 J Company, 1st Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
at St. Neots
  1889 J Company disbanded
 
  1900.12.04 4th Volunteer Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment
raised with HQ at Huntingdon, and eight companies at Huntingdon, St. Ives, Fletton, St. Neots
  1901.04 4th (Huntingdonshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment
  190u reduced to six companies (E Company at Ramsey?)
  1908.04.01 amalgamated with 3rd VB, The Bedfordshire Regiment, to form
5th Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment
 
  1914.02.27 The Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion
raised with HQ at Huntingdon (?two coys transferred from 5th Bn, The Bedfordshire Regt?):
   
  • A Company at Huntingdon and Godmanchester
  • B Company at Huntingdon and Godmanchester
  • C Company at St. Ives and Somersham
  • D Company at St. Neots and Kimbolton
  • E Company at Ramsey and Warboys
  • F Company at Fletton (dets at Stanground and Peterborough)
  • G Company at Fletton (dets at Stanground and Peterborough)
  • H Company at Yaxley and Farcet
  1919.04.14 disembodied
  1920.02.07 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Peterborough
  1946.09.15 suspended animation
  1947.01.01 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Peterborough and amalgamated with 4th Battalion without change of title
  1961.05.01 amalgamated with 438 LAA Regiment RA, to form 4th/5th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
     
     
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
The Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion, by Martyn Smith.
The Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion, by C.F. Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
The Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion ... movements ... during the Great War, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
   
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

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  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges:
Uniform: scarlet; facings: white
   
   
     
   
   
  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
1914.02.27 Col. The Rt. Hon.Edward George Henry (Montagu), 8th Earl of Sandwich, DSO, KCVO
1916.11.11 Lt-Gen. Sir A.G. Hunter-Weston, KCB, DSO
 
Deputy Honorary Colonel, The Royal Anglian Regiment (Huntingdonshire and Peterborough):
1972.04.01 Col. Frank George Barber, OBE, TD, DL [appointment discontinued 1980; continued in Cambridgeshire]
 
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books
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