A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
November
2nd 1917 1/5th Battalion at the Third Battle of Gaza.
6th 1953 'Black Friday' serious and widespread rioting in Trieste city centre (1st Battalion).
7th 1918 1st Battalion sails from Salonika for Alexandria.
9th 1914 1/4th Battalion joins the BEF.
11th 1888 Hazara Field Force completes operations and returns to Barracks - since 7 September.
1918 Armistice ends WW1.
13th 1916 2nd Battalion at the Battle of the Ancre to the 18th.
18th 1916 End of the Battle of the Somme began on 1st July
20th 1878 Second Afghan War begins.
1916 Battle of Cambrai 7th (Service) and 9th (Service) Battalions.
28th 1918 1/5th Battalion leaves Beirut for Egypt.
29th 1899 1st Battalion disembarks at Cape Town (South African War).
1915 1st Battalion disembarks at Salonika (for the Balkans Campaign).
30th 1918 1/5th Battalion arrives at Cairo from Beirut.
1939 2nd Battalion arrives at Razmak, North-West Frontier, India.
1941 7th Battalion converts to 142 Regiment RAC (Churchill tanks).
1944 1st Battalion captures Geysteren Castle, on the Maas, near Venray.
1962 Colours of the 1st and 4th Battalions are laid-up in St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds.
