A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
April
1st 1873 The 12th Regiment establishes its Depot at Bury St Edmunds.
1908 Territorial Force (TF) is created including 4th and 5th Battalions as well as 1st CAMBS. Militia becomes The Special Reserve.
1955 629 LAA Regiment RA (TA) becomes 629 (The Cambridgeshire Regiment) Parachute Light Regiment RA (TA) 4.2-in mortars, the only regiment so equipped in the Army.
1961 4th Battalion amalgamates with 1st CAMBS to become The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment (TA).
7th 1918 7th Battalion at the Battle of the Ancre.
9th 1917 2nd, 1/4th, 7th and 11th Battalions at the Battle of the Scarpe, near Arras.
12th 1915 1st and 2nd Battalions meet while on Active Service at Westoutre, Belgium.
1947 4th Battalion is formally re-embodied (B Company in Cambridgeshire until 1955).
13th 1945 1st Battalion at the capture of Brinkum, northern Germany.
16th 1879 1st Battalion enters Afghanistan (2nd Afghan War) by the Kyber Pass.
17th 1917 1/5th Battalion at the Second Battle of Gaza.
1919 1st Battalion home from the Balkans War.
19th 1917 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Arras.
1943 142 Regiment RAC at the Battle of Medjez-el Bab, Tunisia.
1956 MMG Platoon captures 7 EOKA terrorists, including Georghios Demetriou, a senior EOKA leader.
20th 1944 142 Regiment RAC lands at Naples.
24th 1915 1st Battalion at First Ypres (first gas attack on the Battalion).
25th 1953 The Regiment is granted the Freedom of Sudbury.
26th 1915 1/4th Battalion joins First Ypres.
