Authors and Contributors this page: Wienand Drenth, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 1999. Corrected and updated 24.02.2005
 
4th/5th Battalion,
The Northamptonshire Regiment
1961-present
 
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
   
  1961.05.01 4th/5th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
formed by amalgamation of 4th Battalion and 5th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
  1967.04.01 disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as:
   
  1969.01.01 TAVR III element reduced to cadre at Northampton as The Northamptonshire Regiment, sponsored by 118 Army Recovery Company, REME (V)
  1971.04.01 two companies reconstituted from cadre (and Northamptonshire Yeomanry lineage discontinued):
   

C (Northamptonshire) Company
at Northampton

 } 7th (V) Battalion,
The Royal Anglian Regiment
HQ at Northampton
D (Northamptonshire) Company
at Wellingborough
   
     
     
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
Col. The Earl Spencer, TD
  The Northamptonshire Regiment (T):
1967.04.01 Capt. (Hon. Col.) The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Althorp, MVO, DL, JP
Deputy Honorary Colonel, 7th (V) Bn, The Royal Anglian Regiment:
Capt. (Hon. Col.) The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Althorp, MVO, DL, JP
Deputy Honorary Colonel, The Royal Anglian Regiment (Northamptonshire):
1972.04.01 Capt. (Hon. Col.) The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Althorp, MVO, DL, JP
Capt. (Hon. Col.) The Rt. Hon. The Earl Spencer, MVO, JP, DL
1979.04.01 Lt-Col. (Bt. Col.) Robert Charles Jeffery, TD, DL
1986.05.18 Capt. John Luke Lowther, CBE, JP [Lord Lt Northamptonshire]
1989.11.17 Lt.-Col. Peter Worthy
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books