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The KSLI was to participate in Korean War and was the longest-serving British regiment, alongside the King's Own Scottish Borderers. [ 24 ] In 1968, the Brigade's four regiments (the KSLI, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry , King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and Durham Light Infantry ) were amalgamated to form The Light Infantry , with the ...
Attacks by the 11th Welsh Regiment and 9th Border Regiment did not go well either. The British 66th Brigade's 12th Cheshire Regiment, followed by the 9th South Lancashire Regiment and 8th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI), advanced into Bulgarian artillery and machine-gun fire. The 66th Brigade lost 65% of its soldiers. [7]
For the overall action the 4th KSLI received a unit award of the French Croix de Guerre. [ 38 ] 18 June – The U.S. Navy submarine chasers USS SC-94 and USS SC-151 opened gunfire on the British destroyers HMS Defender and HMS Nymphe in the Strait of Otranto after mistaking them for enemy submarines, SC-94 firing two rounds and SC-151 firing one.
Top row, left to right, top row: 6th OBLI, 6th KSLI, 12th KRRC, 12th Rifle Brigade; bottom row: brigade HQ, 60th MG Co and 60th TM Bty. The formation sign of 20th (L) Division was a white circle bearing a black cross with a red bull's-eye at the centre. [ 6 ]
The 10th KSLI remained with 231st Brigade in 74th (Yeomanry) Division for the rest of the war. [13] It took part in the invasion of Palestine in 1917 and 1918, including the Second (17–19 April 1917) and Third Battles of Gaza (27 October–7 November) – including the capture of Beersheba on 31 October and the Sheria Position on 6 November.
The Battle of Polygon Wood took place from 26 September to 3 October 1917, during the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War.The battle was fought near Ypres in Belgium, in the area from the Menin road to Polygon Wood and thence north, to the area beyond St Julien.
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 ...
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