A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
May
1st 1919 King's Colour presented to the 7th (Service) Battalion at Le Havre
4th 1799 Capture of Seringapatam and the death of Tippoo Sultan.
6th 1918 12th (Service) Battalion disbands at Klinderbeik, Flanders, but re-forms on 5th July.
7th 1842 Reserve Battalion forms later to become the 2nd Battalion.
1918 7th (Service) Battalion amalgamates with 1st/1st CAMBS (TF).
1918 15th Battalion (Yeomanry) returns to France from Palestine.
8th 1915 1st Battalion is overwhelmed at the battle for Frezenberg Ridge, First Ypres.
1945 End of WW2 in Europe (VE Day).
9th 1915 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Aubers Ridge, near Arras.
11th 1745 The Battle of Fontenoy
1922 King's Colour of the 11th (Service) Battalion is laid up in Ely Cathedral.
13th 1948 1st Battalion is the last unit to withdraw from Palestine at the end of the UN Mandate.
17th 1953 1st Battalion arrives in Trieste.
18th 1940 1st Battalion's first contact with the enemy near Brussels.
19th 1959 1st Battalion arrives home from Cyprus.
22nd 1944 142 Regiment RAC at the breach of the Adolf Hitler Line in Italy.
23rd 1955 New Colours are presented to the 1st Battalion by the Colonel-in-Chief at Wuppertal.
26th 1940 Evacuation from Dunkirk begins.
27th 1880 1st Battalion returns to India from Afghanistan.
28th 1940 8th Battalion forms at Bury St Edmunds.
29th 1919 2nd Corps Memorial at Le Cateau is un-veiled 2nd Battalion.
30th 1915 9th (Service) Battalion arrives in France.
31st 1902 End of the South African War (the Boer War).