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Devonshire Regiment

The Devonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that served under various titles and served in many wars and conflicts from 1685 to 1958, such as the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. In 1958 the regiment was amalgamated with the Dorset Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment which, in 2007, was amalgamated with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, the Royal Green Jackets and The Light Infantry to form a new large regiment, The Rifles.

Devonshire Regiment

1685–1958

 Kingdom of England (1685–1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1958)

 British Army

Line infantry

Infantry

1–2 Regular battalions
Up to 2 Militia and Reserve battalions
Up to 5 Volunteer and Territorial battalions
Up to 19 Hostilities-only battalions

Topsham Barracks, Exeter

The Bloody Eleventh[1]

Semper Fidelis (Ever faithful)

Lincoln green facings

We've Lived and We've Loved Together


Croix de Guerre

Regimental museum[edit]

The regimental collection is displayed in the Keep Military Museum in Dorchester.[61]

Dettingen, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Afghanistan 1879–80, Tirah, Defence of Ladysmith, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902

The Great War (25 battalions): Aisne 1914 '18, La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Rosières, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bois des Buttes, Marne 1918, Tardenois, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917–18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915–18, Egypt 1916–17, Gaza, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Tel Asur, Palestine 1917–18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Mesopotamia 1916-18

The Second World War: Normandy Landing, Port en Bessin, Tilly sur Seulles, Caen, St. Pierre la Vielle, Nederrijn, Roer, Rhine, Ibbenburen, North-West Europe 1944–45, Landing in Sicily, Regalbuto, Sicily 1943, Landing at Porto San Venere, Italy 1943, Malta 1940–42, Imphal, Shenam Pass, Tamu Road, Ukhrul, Myinmu Bridgehead, Kyaukse 1945, Burma 1943-45

4th, 5th, 6th Bns: South Africa 1900-01

The regiment was awarded the following battle honours:[62]

1667:

Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester

disbanded

1673: Col

Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort

disbanded

1685: Col

Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort

1685–1687: Col

Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester

1687–1688: Lt-Gen

William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis

1688–1702: Maj-Gen

Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet

1702–1705: Gen

James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope

1705–1715: Maj-Gen

John Hill

1715–1738: Brig-Gen

Edward Montagu

1738–1743: Maj-Gen

Stephen Cornwallis

1743–1746: Col Robinson Sowle

1746–1747: Brig-Gen

William Graham

1747–1765: Lt-Gen

Maurice Bocland

(later Major) James Edward Ignatius Masterson, Second Boer War

Lieutenant

(later Corporal) Theodore Veale, Great War

Private

(later Captain) George Onions, Great War

Lance-Corporal

The following members of the regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross:

Cannon, Richard (1845). . Parker, Furnivall and Parker.*

"Historical Record of the Eleventh Regiment, Or the North Devon Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1845"

The Devonshire Regiment, 1914-1918 (Exeter: Eland Brothers; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1926).

C.T. Atkinson

Regimental museum

1914-1918.net

Being a regimental history of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902, by M. Jacson, from Project Gutenberg. Deals extensively with the siege of Ladysmith.

The Record of a Regiment of the Line