Border Regiment

The Border Regiment
The Border Regiment
	; Cap Badge of the Border Regt
Active	1881-1959
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Army
Type	Infantry
March	John Peel John Peel Audio Clip
Anniversaries	28 October Arroyo Day Commemorates an action in Spain when the 34th Foot captured the Drums of their French opposite numbers.
Battle honours	The Relief of Ladysmith 1900, South Africa 1899-1902, France and Flanders 1914-1918, Ypres 1914,15,17,18, Langemark 1914,17, Gallipoli 1915,16, Somme 1916,18, Arras 1917,18, Cambrai 1917,18, Lys 1918, Macedonia 1915,18, Vittorio Veneto 1918, Afghanistan 1919, Dunkirk 1940, Tobruk 1941, Meiktila, Landing In Sicily, Chindits 1944, Arnhem 1944, Imphal, Myinmu Bridgehead Burma 1943-45, North West Europe 1940-44

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The Border Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot.

After service in the First and Second World Wars, it was amalgamated into The King's Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959. Its lineage is continued today by the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.

[edit] Victoria Crosses

Five men of the Border Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross, all during World War I:

Private James Alexander Smith (21 December 1914)
Private Abraham Acton (21 December 1914)
Sergeant Edward John Mott (27 January 1917)
Sergeant Charles Edward Spackman (20 November 1917)
Captain (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) James Forbes-Robertson (11/12 April 1918)

Sutherland, Douglas (1972). Tried and Valiant: The Story of the Border Regiment 1702-1959. London: Leo Cooper Ltd. ISBN 0-85052-042-8.

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Mills, T.F.. "The Border Regiment". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 28 August 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060828212424/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/034Bordr.htm. Retrieved 9 February 2007. Includes chronological index of titles.
2nd Battalion Border Regiment Living History and reenactment unit portraying the 2/Border during the Great War 1914-1918.
"Victoria Cross Archive". The National Archives. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/victoriacross.asp. Retrieved 19 July 2008.
The Regimental Museum at Carlisle Castle

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The Border Regiment
Cap Badge of the Border Regt
Active	1881-1959
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Army
Type	Infantry
March	John Peel John Peel Audio Clip
Anniversaries	28 October Arroyo Day Commemorates an action in Spain when the 34th Foot captured the Drums of their French opposite numbers.
Battle honours	The Relief of Ladysmith 1900, South Africa 1899-1902, France and Flanders 1914-1918, Ypres 1914,15,17,18, Langemark 1914,17, Gallipoli 1915,16, Somme 1916,18, Arras 1917,18, Cambrai 1917,18, Lys 1918, Macedonia 1915,18, Vittorio Veneto 1918, Afghanistan 1919, Dunkirk 1940, Tobruk 1941, Meiktila, Landing In Sicily, Chindits 1944, Arnhem 1944, Imphal, Myinmu Bridgehead Burma 1943-45, North West Europe 1940-44