view. War broke out again in 1848 and the Sikhs were defeated, the entire kingdom of the Punjab being ceded to the British. At its formation the regiment comprised two regular, two militia and two volunteer battalions, and saw its first action during the Second Boer War. “The Warrant for the establishment of half-pay to officers of the eight regiments of Foot, lately disbanded. We were prisoners. The 28th’s headquarters was at Parramatta, now a suburb of Sydney, but contingents were despatched elsewhere in New South Wales and Queensland, including Hassan’s Wells, Illawarra, Tonrang, Harper’s Hill, Enim Plain, Seventeen Mile Hollow, Newcastle, Maitland, Bloxland Station, Port Philip and Moreton Bay. With Sir John Moore in Spain The numbers of Volunteers fluctuated according to the perceived level of the threat of invasion, as well as the economic conditions… [141][f], By the afternoon of 24 April, the Glosters, with C Troop 170th Mortar Battery now fighting alongside as infantry, had been reduced to an effective fighting force of 400–450 men. Of the four great battles fought by the Duke of Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession, (Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet) De Lalo’s Regiment was present at only one of them – the greatest of them all, Ramillies, 1706. Fewer than fifty men from the forward Companies had broken through the Chinese forces which had encircled the battalion. Carne received permission to attempt a breakout at 06:05. In a skilfully executed combined operation, the Royal Navy and the Army captured the island of St Lucia in December 1778. The 28th suffered 101 casualties in killed wounded and missing at St Pierre in another of Sir Rowland Hill’s expert little victories. The final action of the 1/5th Battalion came in November, during the Battle of the Sambre. 29th Brigade Group…, On 1st October 1950, 890 officers and men of 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, led by Lieutenant-Colonel J.P. “Fred” Carne, set sail from Southampton bound for Korea. The battalion fought in the Battle of Paardeberg, a nine-day battle which ended on 27 February with the capture of the Boer general Piet Cronjé and his force of some 4,000 men. Riflemen form!” Ensign James Williams of the 28th wrote to his cousin Sophy before the Regiment left England: “A line in adieu before leaving old England to fight the Roosians. [53] In March and April 1917, the three battalions saw action in the advance to the Hindenburg Line south of the Somme. 1866 1881 Major-General Julius E. Goodwyn CB (Last colonel of the 28th Regiment of Foot), 1883 General John William Sidney Smith CB, 1897 Lieutenant-General Sir John Patrick Redmond CB, 1902 Lieutenant-General William Roberts CB, 1921 Lieutenant-General Right Honourable Sir, 1931 Brigadier-General Alexander W. Pagan DSO, 1964 Brigadier Philip C. S. Heidenstam CBE, 1971 Brigadier Anthony P. A. Arengo-Jones OBE, 1991–1994 Major-General Robin Digby Grist OBE (to RGBW), This page was last edited on 24 December 2020, at 06:02. When the Japanese threatened Monywa, Bagot took command of all the troops in the area, which included the 1st Battalion, to form Bagot Force. He had been serving with 447 Battery, 66 Searchlight Regiment (4th battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment) Royal Aryillery. A year later 50th Royal Tank Regiment was…, On 2nd October 1939 2nd Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment landed in France with the British Expeditionary Force, as part of 3rd Infantry (Iron) Division commanded by Major-General Bernard Law Montgomery. Gibson had served for many years with the Dutch army under the Prince of Orange, later King William III of England and Scotland. Read more A year later 50th Royal Tank Regiment was… John Gibson Beats The Drum However, everything was thrown into turmoil with Napoleon’s escape to France a year later. The battalion fought its first action on 8 August in the Battle of Chunuk Bair, during which it suffered over 820 casualties, including all of its officers, warrant officers and senior non-commissioned officers. The act was part of a series of reforms instigated by the Secretary of War, Edward Cardwell, which included the abolition of purchase for commissions, and improved conditions of service for the ordinary soldier. 9th Battalion, 1831 On 7th January 1936 2nd Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment left Southampton and arrived at Alexandria nine days later. [41] The division was transferred to XII Corps of the British Salonika Army in November 1915, and the battalion held the line around Tumba, north of Salonika, until July 1916, when the division relieved the French south of Lake Dojran. The first action in which the Regiment was engaged was the Siege and Capture of Louisbourg, a strongly fortified post on the Eastern Seaboard of Nova Scotia. On 20th February, 2/4th and 2/6th Battalions were also disbanded, their surviving personnel transferring to 2/5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment and 24th Entrenching Battalion. My word, as soon as the order was given the Gloucesters were out and over the parapet and soon doing great havoc among the Germans. On 11th November 1893 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment landed in Malta, not for the first nor last time. [30] By the war's end the regiment had lost 2 officers and 94 other ranks killed, 13 officers and 201 men wounded, and suffered 250 deaths from sickness.