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Exeter was little affected during the Blitz, the German night-bombing offensive against Britain's cities, though nearby Plymouth was severely damaged in early 1941. This changed in 1942 when Exeter became the first target of the so-called " Baedeker Blitz ", a campaign to attack targets of cultural and historical, rather than military or ...
On 15 November 2019, the Polish 307 night fighter squadron was honoured for defending the British city of Exeter from a German blitz campaign during the second World War. A Polish white-and-red flag flew over the city in the South West England honouring the pilots who prevented the complete destruction of Exeter in the 1942 Luftwaffe attack. [14]
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 ...
1st (Exeter and South Devon) Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 1st Administrative Battalion, Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps 1st Administrative Brigade, Devonshire Artillery Volunteers
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
See Post-World War II Supplementary Reserve 3rd 1908 See Post-World War II Territorial Army [19] 4th 1853 Gibraltar, Britain 5th (Prince of Wales's) 1908 Britain Converted to 86th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, in 1941 [20] 6th 1860 Britain, Ireland Converted to 628th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, in January 1947 7th (Haytor) 1939
Cloth Maps of World War 2, John G. Doll, Western Association of Map Libraries, Vol 20, No.1, Nov 1988, pp24–35. US Navy Handkerchief Charts of World War 2, John G. Doll, UNKNOWN PUB, pp 190–192. The Making of Military Maps, William H. Nicholas, National Geographic, Jun 1943, pp764–778.
The site was established as an artillery barracks for the Board of Ordnance under the name of Topsham Barracks around 1800. [1] In 1873 a system of recruiting areas based on counties was instituted under the Cardwell Reforms and the barracks became the depot for the two battalions of the 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot. [2]