A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
January
1st 1917 15th (Yeomanry) Battalion forms from The Loyal Suffolk Hussars (Suffolk Yeomanry).
1947 The Cambridgeshire Regiment reforms post-war as 629 (The Cambridgeshire Regiment) LAA Regiment RA (TA).
2nd 1953 1st Battalion's last successful patrol in Malaya kills two Communist Terrorists (2lt A.K. Catchpole).
5th 1783 End of the Seige of Gibraltar.
6th 1900 Attack on Suffolk Hill, Colesburg, South Africa.
7th 1916 11th Battalion joins the BEF.
9th 1944 2nd Battalion's battle at BAMBOO, Burma.
13th 1942 2nd CAMBS lands at Singapore.
15th 1818 2nd Battalion disbands in Ireland.
16th 1942 2nd CAMBS joins the Battle of Batu Pahat, Jahore, Malaya.
18th 1915 1st Battalion joins the BEF.
19th 1926 2nd Battalion arrives Gibraltar to relieve the 1st Battalion. A unique event.
1957 D Company, 1st Battalion kills Marcus Dracos (EOKA's 2IC) in Cyprus.
22nd 1945 142 Regiment RAC (former 7th Battalion) disbands in northern Italy.
28th 1918 8th Battalion disbands near Ypres.
29th 1942 4th and 5th Battalions and 1st CAMBS land at Singapore.
30th 1913 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, New Zealand Army is allied to the Regiment.
