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This is a list of battalions of the Devonshire Regiment, ... See Post-World War II Territorial Army [19] 4th 1853 Gibraltar, Britain 5th (Prince of Wales's)
The 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment was a Regular Army unit and, after absorbing some 500 reservists, departed for France, landing at Le Havre on 21 August 1914, just 17 days since Britain's entry into the war, as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
The 3/4th Battalion Devonshire Regiment was formed at Exeter on 23 March 1915 and in the autumn it went with the other 3rd Line battalions of the Devons to Bournemouth. It was renamed the 4th (Reserve) Battalion on 8 April 1916, and when the Training Reserve (TR) was formed on 1 September it absorbed the 5th (Reserve) (Prince of Wales's) and ...
0–9. 1st (Exeter and South Devon) Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment; 2nd (Prince of Wales's) Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment; 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
It was formed in the Territorial Force in 1908 by amalgamating two existing Volunteer Battalions of the Devonshire Regiment. The battalion served in India and fought in Palestine and on the Western Front during World War I. In World War II it provided two anti-tank artillery units, which served in Tunisia, Italy and North West Europe. They were ...
Lewis, 9th Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, VD, the CO of the 5th (Hay Tor) VB, Devons, took command of the Plymouth Brigade as a Temporary Colonel in 1901, and shortly afterwards it was renamed the Devonshire Brigade when the HQ moved to Exeter and the two DCLI battalions transferred to the Cornwall & Somerset Brigade (also headquartered at Exeter).
The 1st or East Devon Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England.The Militia had always been important in the county, which was vulnerable to invasion, and from its formal creation in 1758 the regiment served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars until 1908, after which it became a ...
R. Raiding Support Regiment; Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) 108 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps; 109th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps; 110th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps