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The 1st Battalion would serve with the 3rd Infantry Brigade, part of the 1st Infantry Division for the entire war. [2] Corporal Thomas Priday was killed by a land mine near Metz on 9 December 1939 when the 1st Battalion was based near the Maginot Line as part of the original British Expeditionary Force that was sent to France at the outbreak of ...
He died at the age of 27 while serving as a corporal with the 1st Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI). [9] His death was reported in The Times on 1 January 1940 under the headline 'First British Soldier Killed in Action'. [2] Priday's younger brother Archibald served with the same battalion. [2] His family reside in ...
Grover was born in British India, the son of General Sir Malcolm Grover and Helen Grace Lawrence, granddaughter of Sir George St Patrick Lawrence. [2] [3] Educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Grover was, at the age of 17, commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) on 15 December 1914, four months after the outbreak ...
The battalion then pursued the French Army into France and fought at the Battle of the Pyrenees in July 1813, [29] the Siege of San Sebastián in autumn 1813 [30] and the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813 [31] as well as the Battle of Toulouse in April 1814. [32] The battalion returned home in July 1814. [33]
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 ...
The 1st Battalion formed part of 159th Brigade in the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division [5] until 159th Brigade joined 11th Armoured Division in May 1942 and participated in the invasion of Normandy and Northwestern Europe. Some 223 men from the 1st Battalion were killed during operations in North-West Europe. [6]
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
In 2002, Colonel Jim Calvin and his men were awarded the Commander-in-Chief Unit Commendation for their bravery. A battle group drawn mostly from 1st Battalion PPCLI replaced the 2nd in 1994; the 2nd Battalion also served with the stabilization force in 1997, 2000 and 2003, the 3rd Battalion in 2000, and the 1st Battalion in 2002 and 2003.