A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
February
1st 1943 142 Regt RAC (Churchill tanks) lands at Algiers as part of 1st Army.
2nd 1913 Dedication of the Rood Screen in St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, presented by the Officers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions.
7th 1947 2nd Battalion on Internal Security (IS) duties at Amritsar.
13th 1953 1st Battalion returns to England from Malaya.
15th 1942 Fall of Singapore. 4th and 5th Battalions and 1st and 2nd CAMBS become Prisoners of War.
16th 1918 9th Battalion disbands at Courcelles-le-Compte, France.
19th 1959 'Ceasefire' in the Cyprus Emergency.
22nd 1927 2nd Battalion disembarks Shanghai for Internal Security Duties as part of the Shanghai Defence Force.
26th 1852 Wreck of HMS Birkenhead off the South African coast.
