A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
October
1st 1858 2nd Battalion is formed at Fort George, Inverness.
7th 1939 1st Battalion joins the BEF.
11th 1919 1/4th Battalion returns to Ipswich from France.
12th 1899 Outbreak of the South African (Boer) War.
1944 1st Battalion at the Battle of Overloon.
16th 1944 1st Battalion at the Battle of Venray to the 19th.
17th 1955 1st Battalion Guard at Overloon Military Cemetery to mark the tenth Anniversary of VE-Day.
23rd 1943 2nd Battalion arrives in the Burma Theatre.
24th 1915 1st Battalion embarks at Marseilles for Egypt.
29th 1941 4th and 5th Battalions and 1st and 2nd CAMBS sail for the Far East.
30th 1871 The purchase of Commissions in the Army is abolished.
1915 1st Battalion disembarks at Alexandria.
1918 Armistice with Turkey.
