A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
June
1st 1940 1st Battalion begins its evacuation from Dunkirk.
1953 HRH The Princess Margaret appointed Colonel-in-Chief.
3rd 1944 Recce Troop 142 Regiment RAC effects the junction between 8th Army and US 5th Army at Valmontone, Italy.
5th 1948 The Regiment is granted the Freedom of Ipswich.
6th 1916 12th (Service) Battalion - 'Bantams' - joins the BEF.
1944 D Day: 1st Battalion lands on QUEEN WHITE beach at Hermanville-sur-Mer.
9th 1944 2nd Battalion captures objective ISAAC during the Seige of Imphal.
10th 1949 1st Battalion sails for Malaya from Salonika.
1947 Colonel W.N. Nicholson retires as Colonel of the Regiment. He is succeeded by Brigadier E.H.W. Backhouse.
1957 Brigadier Backhouse retires as Colonel of the Regiment to be succeeded by Brigadier R.H. Maxwell, the last Colonel of the Suffolk Regiment.
19th 1948 1st Battalion arrives in Greece.
20th 1685 The Regiment is formed at Norwich.
21st 1947 2nd Battalion, now a Cadre only, sails home from India.
1958 Colonel-in-Chief attends the Dedication of the Cambridgeshire Regiment WW2 Roll of Honour in Ely Cathedral.
22nd 1935 LNER locomotive is named The Suffolk Regiment.
23rd 1935 Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the formation of the Regiment. The Chapel in St Mary's Church is re-dedicated and the 2nd Battalion's Colours laid-up.
26th 1917 2nd and 8th (Service) Battalions meet at Famechon in France.
27th 1743 Battle of Dettingen.
27th 1919 15th (Yeomanry) Battalion disbands at Bury St Edmunds.
28th 1827 New Colours presented to the 1st Battalion at Gibraltar.
28th 1917 General Allenby assumes command of Empire Forces in Palestine. (1/5th and 15th Battalions).
28th 1944 1st Battalion's attack at the Chateau de la Londe, Normandy.
