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The King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the Childers Reforms of 1881, but with antecedents dating back to 1755. It served in the Second Boer War , World War I , World War II and Korean War .
The 181st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery ('The Shropshire Gunners') was a unit of the Royal Artillery, raised by the British Army during World War II.First raised as infantry of the 6th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry from the Welsh Borders, it was converted to the field artillery role, serving in a Scottish formation in the North West Europe campaign in which it was the first ...
2nd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry; 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment; 3rd Recce Regiment, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers; 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; Royal Artillery 131st Field Regiment; 181st Field Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel R.B.W. Bethell, DSO; 190th Field Regiment; 97th Anti-Tank Regiment; 119th Light AA ...
This was probably the only unit of conventional tanks landed that day on Sword. The advance was to be led by a mobile column of the 2nd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) riding on the Staffordshire Yeomanry's tanks but at noon the heavy weapons of the battalion were held up on the congested beaches and the tanks by a minefield ...
Troops of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry continued down the Hermanville-Caen road, reaching Biéville-Beuville, close to Caen, but were supported by only a few self-propelled guns, their flanks exposed. During the afternoon, the 21st Panzer Division, based around Caen, launched the only major German counterattack of D-Day.
The Shropshire Gunners – 181st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – on conversion from a battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, there was a shortage of RA insignia, so the men were ordered to cut the 'KING'S' and 'L.I.' from their shoulder titles, leaving the word 'Shropshire' [90]
Universal Carriers of the 4th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry pass through the burning village of Levern, 4 April 1945. Divisional units continued toward the Osnabrück canal. After crossing via a captured bridge, it moved towards the Weser, reached by leading elements near Stolzenau on 5 April.
159th Infantry Brigade was constituted as follows during the war: [5] 4th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry; 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (left 3 April 1945) 1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment; 159th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (formed 29 June 1940, left 15 February 1941 to join 53rd (Welsh) Reconnaissance Battalion ...