Royal Leicestershire Regiment
17th Regiment of Foot 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot Leicestershire Regiment Royal Leicestershire Regiment | |
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Active | 1688–1964 |
Country | Kingdom of England (1688–1707) Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom (1801–1964) |
Branch | British Army |
Type | Infantry |
Role | Line infantry |
Garrison/HQ | Glen Parva Barracks |
Nickname(s) | The Tigers |
The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to 1688. The regiment saw service for three centuries, in numerous wars and conflicts such as both World War I and World War II, before being amalgamated, in September 1964, with the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) and the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) to form the present day Royal Anglian Regiment, of which B Company of the 2nd Battalion continues the lineage of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment.
History
Early wars
On 27 September 1688 a commission was issued to Colonel Solomon Richards to raise a regiment of foot in the London area.[1] In its early years, like other regiments, it was known by the name of its various colonels. Following a failed attempt to break the siege of Derry in 1689, Richards was dismissed and replaced by the Irishman George St George.[2] The regiment embarked for Flanders in 1693 for service in the Nine Years' War[3] and took part in the attack of Fort Knokke in June 1695 and the siege of Namur in summer 1695[4] before returning home in 1697.[5]
In 1701 the regiment moved to
In 1726 the regiment moved to Menorca,[13] assisting the garrison at Gibraltar during its siege in 1727. The regiment remained on duty in the Balearic Islands until 1748,[13] where it moved to Ireland.[14]
On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant assigned numbers to the regiments of the line, and the unit became the 17th Regiment of Foot.[14]
The regiment embarked for
By 1769, the regiment was back at full strength and declared "fit for service" at its annual inspection,[19] and was augmented in 1771 with 20 men added to each company, and the addition of a dedicated light company, ordered by the King on December 25, 1770.[a]
American War of Independence
After the outbreak of hostilities at the
Heroes of Princeton
The regiment also took part in the Battle of Princeton in January 1777. Not knowing that he was facing a superior force, Mawhood ordered an attack, Captain William Leslie was killed,[25][26] but the regiment routed a militia division, and killed rebel General Hugh Mercer. However, the rest of the rebel army was brought up and the regiment quickly found themselves surrounded. With superior rebel numbers, the regiment was forced to retreat. Mawhood ordered a desperate bayonet charge to break out of their encirclement, which succeeded. At the same time, Captain William Scott of the 17th Regiment, with just 40 men, successfully defended the 4th Brigade's baggage train against superior numbers of rebel attackers. Thomas Sullivan of the 49th Regiment of Foot remarked:[27]
"He formed his men upon commanding ground, and after refusing to deliver the Baggage, fought with his men back-to-back; and forced the Enemy to withdraw, bringing off the Baggage safe to Brunswick."
Performance in the battle was mentioned in dispatches,[c] Later, the regiment was lauded as "The Heroes of Prince-town" in British recruiting adverts.[29]
It went on to fight at the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777,[30] the Battle of Germantown in October 1777,[30] and the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778. In September 1778, the regiment took part in Grey's raid at New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard, destroying rebel stores and making off with forage and plunder.[31]
Several companies and the regimental colours were captured[d] at the Battle of Stony Point in July 1779[33][34] by a daring night-time bayonet charge by "Mad" Anthony Wayne.[35] The remaining companies of grenadiers and light infantry were detached to composite flank battalions, while the remaining men, drafts, and recruits from England were formed into the "17th Company" under Captain-Lieutenant George Cuppaidge, who was on business in New York during the action at Stony point. The 17th Company was tasked with fighting partisans in South Carolina in 1780.[e]
The reformed regiment was in action again at the Battle of Guilford Court House in March 1781 and surrendered with the rest of Cornwallis's army at the siege of Yorktown in September 1781.[36]
The 17th Company, still in South Carolina during the events of Yorktown, fought in the last major action of the war at the Battle of the Combahee River, where the famous rebel Colonel John Laurens lost his life.[37]
The Leicestershire Regiment
A royal warrant dated 31 August 1782 bestowed county titles on all regiments of foot that did not already have a special designation "to cultivate a connection with the County which might at all times be useful towards recruiting". The regiment became the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot.[36] The regiment was withdrawn from New York at the end of the war to Nova Scotia in 1783 before returning to England in 1786.[36]
The regiment was increased to two battalions in 1799 and both battalions took part in the
Australian frontier wars
During the early years of the Moreton Bay penal colony, in the area of Australia now known as South East Queensland, the 17th Regiment was involved in two documented incidents of Aboriginal massacre.[43]
The first was on Moreton Island, traditional home of the Ngugi people. On 1 July 1831, the then Commandant of the colony, Captain Clunie with a detachment of the 17th Regiment surrounded a Ngugi camp at dawn on the edge of the freshwater lagoon close to the island's southern extremity, killing up to twenty of them. George Watkins recorded: ‘nearly all were shot down. My informant, a young boy at the time, escaped with a few others by hiding in a clump of bushes’[44][43]
The second documented massacre was the following year in late December 1832, on the neighbouring island of Minjerribah. Six members of the local Nunukul tribe were killed at the hands of Captain Clunie and the 17th Regiment in a reprisal attack for the alleged Aboriginal attack on a ship.[45][46][43]
In the mid 1830s, the
The Victorian era
The regiment returned to India in 1837, and then took part in the
- See main article Leicester Town Rifles
An invasion scare in 1859 led to the emergence of the
Childers reforms
The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the
The regiment also incorporated the local
- The 1st and 2nd Battalions (formerly the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 17th Foot)
- 3rd (Militia) Battalion (formerly the Leicestershire Militia)
- 1st Leicestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps, redesignated as the 1st Volunteer Battalion in 1883.[59][54]
The 1887 execution of a Leicestershire Regiment private for murdering a sergeant in India may have inspired Rudyard Kipling to write his poem "Danny Deever".[60]
The 1st and 3rd battalions fought in the Second Boer War 1899 – 1902, and the 1st Volunteer Battalion provided a detachment of volunteers to serve alongside the Regulars. The 2nd Battalion was stationed as a garrison regiment in Ireland from 1896, and in Egypt from February 1900.[56][61]
Following the end of the war in South Africa, the 1st battalion was in late 1902 transferred to Fort St. George in Madras Presidency,[62] 540 officers and men leaving Port Natal on the SS Ortona arriving in Madras in late November.[63] The 2nd battalion was stationed at Guernsey at the same time.[64]
In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the
The First World War
In the
Regular Army
The 1st Battalion landed at
The 2nd Battalion, commanded by
Territorial Force
The 1/4th Battalion and 1/5th Battalion landed at
The 2/4th Battalion and 2/5th Battalion landed in France as part of the 2nd Lincoln and Leicester Brigade in the 2nd North Midland Division in February 1917 also for service on the Western Front.[70]
New Army battalions
The 6th (Service); 7th (Service); 8th (Service); and 9th (Service) Battalions landed in France as part of the 110th Brigade in the 37th Division in July 1915 for service on the Western Front.[70] The battalions took part in the attacks on High Wood at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.[74] Lieutenant Colonel Philip Bent was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions while in command of the 9th (Service) Battalion at the Battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917.[75]
The 11th (Service) Battalion (Midland Pioneers) landed in France as the pioneer battalion for the
Inter-war
The regiment reverted to its pre-war establishment in 1919. The 1st Battalion was involved in the Irish War of Independence from 1920 to 1922, before moving to various overseas garrisons including Cyprus, Egypt and India. The 2nd Battalion was in India, Sudan, Germany and Palestine.[76]
In 1931 the regimental facing colour was changed from white to pearl grey. Previous to 1881 the 17th foot had "greyish white" facings.[67]
The 3rd (Militia) Battalion was placed in "suspended animation" in 1921, eventually being formally disbanded in 1953. In 1936 the 4th Battalion was converted into a searchlight unit as 44th (The Leicestershire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion of the Royal Engineers.[54] The size of the Territorial Army was doubled in 1939, and consequently the 1/5th and 2/5th Battalions were formed from the existing 5th.[74]
The Second World War
Regular Army battalions
The 1st Battalion was a
The 2nd Battalion, as part of the
Territorial Army battalions
The 1/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, initially commanded by Lieutenant Colonel
The 2/5th Battalion, created in 1939 as a duplicate of the 1/5th Battalion, and containing many formers of that battalion, was part of the
The 44th AA Battalion transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1940, becoming 44th (The Leicestershire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, in which role it served through the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. In 1942 it changed role again, becoming 121st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, which served in North West Europe from Operation Overlord to Germany.[54][80][81][82]
War Service battalions
The 7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment was created in July 1940 in Nottingham in the aftermath of Dunkirk, when the BEF had been evacuated from France and a German invasion of England seemed likely. As a result, the British Army underwent a dramatic increase in size, mainly in the infantry, with the formation of numerous war service battalions, similar to the Kitchener battalions created in the Great War. The 7th Leicesters, composed largely of conscripts, and originally unbrigaded, was, in October 1940, assigned to the 205th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home).[74] The battalion's original role was mainly beach defence and anti-invasion duties and, upon the conversion of the 205th Brigade into the 36th Army Tank Brigade in late November 1941, the battalion was transferred to the 204th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home). In September 1942 the 7th Leicesters was sent to India, where the 2nd Battalion already was.[74] The following year the battalion was selected to be part of the Chindits, one of the only two non-Regular units to be chosen.[74] The battalion subsequently participated in the second Chindit expedition, codenamed Operation Thursday, where, by April 1944, the battalion was engaged in harassing the Japanese's rear and disrupting their lines of communication, along with ambushing reinforcements.[74] Relieved from the frontline in late 1944, the battalion returned to India to reform at Bangalore. Due to the heavy losses sustained in Operation Thursday, however, the battalion was disbanded on 31 December 1944, the few remaining men being sent to the 2nd Battalion.[74]
The 8th Battalion was, like the 7th Battalion, created in July 1940 after the Dunkirk evacuation, composed largely of conscripts, and, in late October, was assigned to the 222nd Independent Infantry Brigade and shared much of the same early history of the 7th Leicesters, spending most of its existence committed to beach defence and anti-invasion duties.[74] On 27 May 1942 the battalion was redesignated as the 1st Battalion, after the destruction of the original 1st Battalion in Singapore in February.[74] In mid-December the battalion was transferred to the 162nd Independent Infantry Brigade. In July 1944 the battalion transferred to the 147th Infantry Brigade, part of the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, then fighting, and suffering heavy casualties, in the Normandy Campaign. The reformed 1st Battalion, replacing the disbanded 1/6th Duke of Wellington's Regiment in the 147th Brigade, remained with this formation until the end of the war.[74] The battalion's first major engagement was the Second Battle of the Odon.
Post-war
In 1946 the regiment was granted "royal" status, becoming the Royal Leicestershire Regiment.[83] In 1948, in common with all other infantry regiments, the 2nd Battalion was abolished. The 5th Battalion (TA) had been reformed in 1947.[66] In 1948 the regiment became part of the Forester Brigade, sharing a depot at Budbrooke Barracks in Warwickshire with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Glen Parva was downgraded to regimental headquarters.[84]
The 1st Battalion served in the Korean War from 1951 to 1952. They subsequently moved to England (exercising the freedom of the City of Leicester in 1952), Germany, Sudan, where they operated with the Sudan Defence Force and departed on 16 August 1955,[85] Cyprus, Brunei and Aden.[86]
The Territorial units were reformed in 1947 as 579 (The Royal Leicestershire Regiment) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA and 5th Battalion Royal Leicesters. In 1961 they merged to become the 4th/5th Battalion.[54][66][80][82][87]
In 1963 the Forester Brigade was dissolved, with the Royal Leicesters and Royal Lincolns moving to the East Anglian Brigade where they joined the 1st, 2nd and 3rd East Anglian Regiments.[88]
Amalgamation into the Royal Anglian Regiment
On 1 September 1964 the regiments of the East Anglian Brigade became
The "Leicestershire" subtitle was removed on 1 July 1968 and the battalion was disbanded in 1975. The Royal Leicestershire heritage was included in the new regiment's button design, which features the royal tiger within an unbroken wreath.[91]
When the Territorial Army was converted into the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) in 1967, 4/5th Battalion provided two elements:[92]
- 4th (Leicestershire) Company, 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment in TAVR II (units with a NATO role)
- The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (Territorials) in TAVR III (home defence units). The TAVR regiment was later reduced to B (Royal Leicestershire) Company, 7th (Volunteer) Battalion in the Royal Anglians. In 1978, 4th Coy 5th Bn and B Coy 7th Bn were amalgamated to form HQ (The Royal Leicestershire) Company of 7th Bn Royal Anglians[66]
A further reduction in the TA in 1999 saw HQ Company merged with C (
Regimental museum
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum is part of Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester.[95]
Battle honours
The regiment was awarded the following battle honours:[96][97]
- Earlier Wars
- Sevastopol, Ali Masjid, Afghanistan 1878–79, Defence of Ladysmith, South Africa, 1899–1902
- colours.)
- colours.)
- Malaya, 1941–42, Chindits, 1944
- Korean War:
- Maryang-San, Korea, 1951–52
Colonels
The colonels of the regiment were as follows:
- 1688-1689: Col Solomon Richards[98]
- 1689-1695: George St George[98]
- 1695: Col James Courthorpe[98]
- 1695: Lt-Col Sir Matthew Bridges[98]
- 1703-1707: Lt-Col Holcroft Blood[98]
- 1707-1722: Lt-Col James Wightman[98]
- 1722: Brig-Gen Thomas Ferrers[98]
- 1722-1742: Col James Tyrrell[98]
- 1742-1752: Col John Wynyard[98]
The 17th Regiment of Foot
- 1752-1757: Brig-Gen Edward Richbell[98]
- 1757-1759: Col John Forbes[98]
- 1759-1782: Brig-Gen Hon. Robert Monckton[98]
The 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment
- 1782-1792: Major-Gen George Morrison[98]
- 1792-1819: Major-Gen George Garth[98]
- 1819-1840: Lt-Gen Sir Josiah Champagné GCH[98]
- 1840-1842: Gen Sir Frederick Augustus Wetherall GCH[98]
- 1843–1854: Lt-Gen Sir Peregrine Maitland KCB[98]
- 1854–1860: Lt-Gen. Thomas James Wemyss, CB[69]
- 1860–1868: Gen. Sir Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey, GCB[69]
- 1868–1871: Lt-Gen. John Grattan, CB[69]
- 1871–1879: Gen. William Raikes Faber, CB[69]
- 1879–1890: Gen. Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe, GCVO, CB[69]
The Leicestershire Regiment
- 1890–1895: Lt-Gen. John Christopher Guise, VC, CB[69]
- 1895–1903: Gen. Sir John Ross, GCB[69]
- 1903–1905: Maj-Gen. George Tito Brice[69]
- 1905–1912: Maj-Gen. Archibald Hammond Utterson, CB[69]
- 1912–1916: Maj-Gen. William Dalrymple Tompson, CB[69]
- 1916–1953: Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Mabbott Woodward, KCMG, CB[69]
- 1943–1948: Gen. Sir Clive Gerard Liddell, KCB, CMG, CBE, DSO[69]
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
- 1948–1954: Brig. Harold Senhouse Pinder, CBE, MC[69]
- 1954–1963: Lt-Gen. Sir Colin Bishop Callander, KCB, KBE, MC[69]
- 1963–1964: Maj-Gen. Douglas Anthony Kendrew, CB, CBE, DSO
Victoria Crosses
The following members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross:
- Lieutenant John Cridlan Barrett, First World War (24 September 1918)
- Lieutenant Colonel Philip Eric Bent, Belgium, First World War (1 October 1917)
- Private William Buckingham, First World War (10/12 March 1915)
- Corporal Philip Smith, Radan, Crimean War (18 June 1855)
See also
- John Sheppard– The first British soldier to destroy enemy tanks in the Second World War.
Notes
- ^ WO 25/3997. National Archive. "20 private men were added to each Company, and a Company of Light Infantry of the same Numbers to each Battalion…amounting to 737, Including Officers & Contingent Men."[20]
- ^ Howe's Orders, Boston, 4th Apr., 1776. “17th. Regiment.—Lieutenant-Colonel Mawhood, of the 19th. Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel Vice Derby 26th. Oct., 1775.”[22]
- ^ "HEAD QUARTERS, New York, Jan. 8th., 1777."[28]
- ^ From MSS. Letter Book of Colonel Febiger: "We took 15 pieces of Artillery, with fixed ammunition for a three months' siege, 2 standards and 1 flag, 10 marquees and a large quantity of tents, Quartermaster's stores, baggage, &c., , Sc."[32]
- ^ Documented in "A British Orderly Book, 1780-1781," North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 9, Jan-Oct 1932
- ^ 24 June 1825: His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the 17th or Leicestershire Regiment of foot bearing on its colours and appointments the figure of the "Royal Tiger," with the word "Hindoostan" superscribed, as a lasting testimony of the exemplary conduct of the Corps during its period of service in India, in the year 1804 to 1823."No. 18149". The London Gazette. 25 June 1825. p. 1105.
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External links
- "The Royal Leicestershire Regiment". Royal Tigers' Association. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth (Regiments.org)
- British Army units from 1945 on.
- Army 2020 Reserve Structure and Basing Changes at British Army site