A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
August
1st 1759 The Battle of Minden.
1944 The Regiment is granted the Freedom of Bury St Edmunds.
2nd 1879 New colours presented to the 2nd Battalion on Southsea Common, replacing those presented at Glasgow in 1858.
4th 1914 Outbreak of WW1: 1st Battalion at Khartoum, Egypt, 2nd Battalion at Curragh, Ireland, TF mobilises.
5th 1779 Seige of Gibraltar begins (until 1783).
6th 1915 1/5th Battalion lands at Suvla Bay Gallipoli Campaign.
7th 1756 2nd Battalion is raised. Becomes 65th Foot in 1758.
12th 1741 Lieutenant Colonel Scipio Durore is appointed Colonel of the Regiment.
16th 1944 Carrier Platoon, 1st Battalion liberates Flers, Orne.
15th 1945 End of WW2 (VJ Day).
17th 1914 2nd Battalion joins the BEF.
21st 1918 2nd Battalion at the 2nd Battle of the Somme.
1955 1st Battalion arrives in Cyprus.
22nd 1954 1st Battalion's move from Trieste to Wuppertal complete.
23rd 1914 2nd Battlion fights its first action near Mons, Belguim and the beginning of the 'Retreat from Mons'.
24th 1949 1st Battalion's first kills in Malaya (2lt J.G. Starling at Sungei Long).
26th 1914 2nd Battalion's stand at Le Cateau.
1917 Cpl Sidney Day, 11th (Service) Battalion, wins his Victoria Cross near Arras.
28th 1944 142 Regiment RAC at the breaching of the Gothic Line near Rimini.
29th 1959 The Regiment amalgamates with the Royal Norfolk Regiment at Iserlohn, Germany to become the 1st East Anglian Regiment.
30th 1915 9th Battalion joins the BEF.
31st 1782 12th Foot becomes the East Suffolk Regiment.