A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
July
1st 1690 Battle of the Boyne.
1881 32nd Brigade/District is abolished and the Corps formed into the Suffolk Regiment (two regular and two militia Battalions).
1916 Battle of the Somme until 18 November; six Suffolk Battalions - 11th (Service) on the first day are followed by 2nd, 1/4th, 7th (Service), and 9th (Service).
1956 1st Battalion leaves Wuppertal.
1956 629 Para Lt Regt RA (TA) converts to 1st Battalion The Cambridgeshire Regiment (TA).
5th 1918 12th (Service) Battalion re-forms and returns to France.
6th 1952 Patrol from 5 Platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion kills Liew Kon Kim, Kuala Langat South Forest Reserve (2lt L.R. Hands).
9th 1909 Colours presented to 4th and 5th Battalions at Windsor by King Edward VII.
12th 1947 2nd Battalion Cadre returns to a Civic Welcome in Bury St Edmunds.
13th 1743 James Wolfe becomes Adjutant.
14th 1849 New Colours presented to the 1st Battalion at Weedon, replacing those of 1827 and to be carried until 1955.
1919 11th Battalion represent the BEF at the French Peace Parade in Rouen.
1st Battalion's Colours carried in the Victory Parade in Paris.
19th 1915 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Hooge until 22nd.
1948 1st Battalion arrives at Sungei Besi.
20th 1919 The Regiment participates in the Peace Parade in London
22nd 1879 2nd Battalion's 1858 Colours laid-up in St Mary's Church.
22nd 1951 1st Battalion's first 100 kills in Malaya.
22nd 1949 The Cambridgeshire Regiment is granted the Freedom of Wisbech.
25th 1915 8th (Service) Battalion joins the BEF.
1954 The Colonel-in-Chief is presented with her Regimental Brooch at the Depot's Minden Reunion.
31st 1917 8th (Service) Battalion at the Battle of Ypres.
