A Suffolk Regiment Calendar
Compiled by Patrick Macdonald
September
1st 1939 Mobilisation 1st Battalion at Axminster, 2nd Battalion at Mhow,
Central India. TA also mobilises and includes 4th and 5th Battalions as well as 1st and 2nd Battalions the Cambridgeshire Regiment.
3rd 1939 Outbreak of WW2.
7th 1888 Creation of the Hazara Field Force (including the 1st Battalion) in India to 'punish the Black Mountain tribes'.
13th 1921 1st Battalion deploys with the Malabar Field Force against the Moplar Rebellion, India
18th 1914 2nd Battalion at the Battle of the Aisne.
1916 9th (Service) Battalion at the Battle of Flers-Courcellette to the 22nd - includes tanks for the first time.
1917 2nd and 12th (Service) Battalions at the Battle of Epehy.
19th 1918 1/5th Battalion at the Battle of Megiddo, Palestine.
20th 1944 1st Suffolk liberates Hamont, Belgium.
21st 1935 The Army Council grants the Regiment the right to wear a red and a yellow rose in the headdress on the anniversary of the Battle of Minden.
1944 1st Battalion liberates Weert, Netherlands.
25th 1915 7th (Service) and 9th (Service) Battalions at the Battle of Loos, France.
1915 Suffolk Yeomanry sails for Gallipoli (dismounted).
26th 1915 Sgt Arthur Frederick Saunders, 9th (Service) Battalion, wins his Victoria Cross at Loos.
28th 1918 12th (Service) Battalion at the Battle of Ypres 1918.
29th 1946 The Cambridgeshire Regiment is granted the Freedom of Cambridge.
