The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment Cap Badge (F&S)

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THE DEVONSHIRE & DORSET REGIMENT CAP BADGE (F&S)

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The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Cap Badge (F&S)

This Sale is for a pair of Collar Badges as formerly worn by the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment.

Brand new staybrite anodised Cap Badge in a Silver and Gold finish, approx. 38mm high, complete with it's mounted slider, and made by Firmin & Sons (London). 

 Guaranteed new and unissued, in mint condition.  

Brief Regimental History The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment , usually just known as the Devon and Dorsets, was the  Senior County Infantry Regiment  in the  British Army . It was formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of two County Regiments :
  • The Devonshire Regiment .
  • The Dorset Regiment 
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  was only in existence for forty eight years  from amalgamation of its predecessor Regiments  in 1958 through to another amalgamation, this time into The Rifles , a "large Regiment ", in February 2007.  

Formation As part of the 1957 Defence Review, it was announced that there would be a reduction in the number of Infantry Battalions in the  British Army . The reduction was to be effected by the merging of a number of pairs of Regiments . Among the mergers to be carried out were those of the Regiments  of the two  neighbouring Counties of  Devon and   Dorset .
  • The Devonshire Regiment  (the former 11th Regiment of Foot , originally raised in 1685)
  • The Dorset Regiment  (the successor to the 39th Foot , raised in 1702; and the 54th Foot , dating from 1755)
The amalgamation took place in Minden , West Germany , on 17 May 1958. The new 1st Battalion , Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Young , formerly commanding officer of the 1st Devonshires , while the Colonel of the Regiment  was Major-General George Neville Wood , formerly of the Dorsets .

Service 1 958-1966 In November 1958 the 1st Battalion  moved to  Cyprus , where they carried out  anti-insurgency activities  against the paramilitary  EOKA  organisation. A ceasefire was called in December 1959, and the island achieved Independence  from Britain  in August 1960. Following the ending of the conflict  the Battalion  carried out exercises in  Libya  before returning to the United Kingdom  in 1961.   From 1961 to 1963 the Battalion  was based in  Plymouth , taking part in exercises  on  Salisbury Plain  and in recruitment activities following the ending of  National Service . In May 1962 the Regiment  was given the  Freedom  of the City of Exeter , and were presented with a  Stand of  Colours  by the  Colonel-in-Chief ,  Princess Marina , Duchess of Kent .    From July 1963 the Battalion  was based in  Holywood ,  County Down . Placed on twenty four hours travel notice, in May 1964 they moved to  British Guiana  where there was political  and  civil unrest .  Elections  were held in December of that year, a first step in the Independence  of the Colony . The Battalion  returned to Hollywood  in January 1965. 1966-1971 In February 1966 the Battalion  joined the  British Army of the Rhine  (BAOR ) as part of  6th Infantry Brigade  based in  Münster .  In 1967 disturbances spread throughout the Arab world  in the wake of the  Six-Day War . The Battalion  were dispatched to  Benghazi  in Libya  to evacuate isolated British personnel .  In January 1968 the Regiment  were transferred within the BAOR  to the  12th Infantry Brigade  based in  Osnabrück .  In 1970 the Battalion  moved to  Malta .  Following the outbreak of " The Troubles " in  Northern Ireland , the Devon and  Dorsets  were moved to  Belfast  with less than twenty four hours notice in June 1970.  They found themselves involved in the " Battle of the Falls ".  They returned to Malta  in August 1970. 1971-1976 In 1971 the Battalion  moved to Gordon Barracks  in  Gillingham , Kent . As an Air-portable unit , elements  of the Devon & Dorsets  were frequently dispatched to various locations at short notice: In January 1972 they moved to  County Armagh , to  British Honduras  in August 1972, to West Belfast  in October 1973, to Cyprus  in October 1974 and to  Belize  in November 1975.   1976-1980 In May 1976 the Battalion  rejoined the  12th Mechanised Brigade  in  Osnabrück .  They did two tours of  duty  in Northern Ireland : in North Belfast  from January to May 1977 and in Central Belfast  from January to May 1979. 1980-1987 In April 1980 the  Battalion moved to   Colchester . From July to November 1981 they did another tour  in County Armagh  under  Operation Banner , and in 1982 took part in training exercises  in  Kenya .  In the summer of 1982, the Regiment  provided a Ceremonial Guard  for the Tower of London . In March 1983 the Devon & Dorsets  became a Resident Battalion  at  Ballykinler  in  Northern Ireland  as part of the  39th Infantry Brigade , remaining there until 1985.  In 1985 they joined the  Berlin Brigade , remaining in the city until 1987. 1987-1995 From February 1987 the Battalion  formed part of  1st Brigade  at  Bulford .  Elements of the Regiment  were sent to the  Falkland Islands  and   Belize  in 1987 and 1988. From April to August 1989 they did another tour of  duty  in County Armagh .  The Regimental Band  were sent to the Gulf  between October 1990 and March 1991 as part of Op Granby .  In August 1991 the Battalion returned to Germany  and was based in  Werl  and   Paderborn .  In 1993 they had another tour of  duty in  Belfast .  In 1994 they moved to Paderborn  as part of the  20th Armoured Brigade .  In 1994, the Regimental Band  was disbanded as part of "Options for Change". Bosnia 1995 In May 1995 the Battalion  the  United Nations Protection Force  intervening in the  Bosnian War . Corporal Simon Harvey  was awarded the  Military Cross  for twice extracting his  Warrior  tracked armoured vehicle  from enemy fire on the  Mount  Igman  route  into  Sarajevo .  For part of the campaign  they served alongside the  French  2e Régiment Étranger d'Infanterie , and a Bond of Friendship  was later established between the two units . 1995-2005 The Battalion  returned to Paderborn  in November 1995 and was based there until 1998. Parts  of the unit  spent time in  Fermanagh  between December 1996 and June 1997. In March 1998 they moved to  Warminster  where they assumed responsibility for teaching Infantry Tactics  at the Combined Arms Tactics Centre Battle Group . They moved to the  Cavalry Barracks , Hounslow  in 2000.  After intensive training, the Battalion  performed  Public Duties  in  London  and  Windsor  which included providing the  Queen's Guard  at  Buckingham Palace  and attending the  State Funeral  of  Elizabeth , the Queen Mother . The Devon & Dorsets  was again the Resident Battalion at Ballykinler  from 2002 to 2004. In 2004 the Battalion  moved to  Catterick Garrison .  

Conversion to Light Infantry In 2003 a  Defence  White Paper ,  Delivering Security in a Changing World , was published. Among the changes proposed was the amalgamation of all single-Battalion Infantry Regiments  into  multi-Battalion  large Regiments . In December 2004 details of the amalgamations to be carried out were announced. The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  would cease to exist; it would be amalgamated with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment  to form a new Battalion of The Light Infantry . As part of the preparation for this, the Regiment   moved from the  Prince of Wales' Division  to the Light Division , and was renamed the  Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry , on 22 July 2005.  

Amalgamation On 24 November 2005, the  MOD  announced further changes to the amalgamations. The Regiment would still merge with the  Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment  r esulting in a single Battalion ; however they were now to join a new large Regiment  created by the amalgamation of The Light Infantry  and the Royal Green Jackets. This new Regiment  was to be called The Rifles  and was to be formed in February 2007. The  Battalion  that resulted from the merger of the  Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  and the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment   was designated  1st Battalion ,  The Rifles . On becoming part of a  Rifle Regiment , the D and D  no longer carried their Colours ; these were laid up in Exeter Cathedral on 27 January 2007.

        Victoria Cross Winners

The Victoria Cross  (VC ) is the highest Military Decoration  awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of Various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories.

The Dorset Regiment  

  • Private Samuel Vickery VC (6 February 1873 - 20 June 1952) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross .
​Vickery was 24 years old , and a Private  in the 1st Battalion , The Dorsetshire Regiment , British Army  during theTirah Campaign  in British India  when the following deed  took place for which he was awarded  the VC . On 20 October 1897 during the attack on the Dargai Heights , Tirah , Private Vickery  ran down the slope and rescued  a wounded comrade  under heavy fire , bringing him back to cover. He subsequently distinguished himself in the Waran Valley , killing three  of the enemy who attacked  him when he was separated  from his Company . He fought in the Second Boer War  and World War I  and achieved the rank of Corporal .  His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Keep Military Musuem , Dorchester, Dorset,, England.      The Devonshire Regiment  
  • Major James Edward Ignatius Masterson  VC  (20 June 1862 – 24 December 1935) was an Irish  recipient of the Victoria Cross .                             Masterson entered the  Royal Irish Fusiliers  in 1881. He  served  in the  1882 Anglo-Egyptian War , including the  Battle of Tel-el-Kebir . He was  commissioned  into the  2nd  Devonshire Regiment  on 15 July 1891. He  served  in  Burma  from 1891 to 1892 and the  North-West Frontier  of  India  from 1897 to 1898, He became  Captain  in 1900.
Masterson  was 37 years old , and a L ieutenant  in the 1st Battalion , The Devonshire Regiment , British Army  during the Second Boer War  when the following deed  took place on 6 January 1900, at Wagon Hill , Ladysmith , South Africa  for which he was awarded the VC : During the action  at Wagon Hill , on the 6th January, 1900, Lieutenant Masterson  commanded,  with the greatest gallantry  and dash , one  of thethree Companies  of his Regiment which charged  a ridge held  by the enemy and captured  their position . The Companies  were then exposed to a most heavy  and galling fire  from the right and left front. Lieutenant Masterson  undertook to give a message  to the Imperial Light Horse , who were holding  a ridge  some hundred yards behind, to fire  to the left front  and endeavour to check  the enemy's fire . In taking this message he crossed an open space of a hundred yards which was swept by a most heavy cross fire , and although badly wounded  in both thighs , managed to crawl in  and deliver  his message  before falling  exhausted  into the Imperial Light Horse  trench. His unselfish heroism  was undoubtedly the means of saving several lives. In February 1900 he was promoted to Captain. He transferred  to the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment  as a Major  in 1911 and retired  in 1912. In 1914 he returned  to the Army  as a Deputy Director of Railway Transport . He died  at Waterlooville , Hampshire , England , on 24 December 1935, aged 73. His Victoria Cross  is displayed at the Military Museum of Devon and Dorset , Dorchester , Dorset ,  England . His ancestor , also surnamed Masterson , captured  a Napoleonic Eagle  at Barossa  in 1811 and was given a Field Commission  - this is portrayed in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Fury .
  • Private Theodore William Henry Veale   VC  (11 November 1892 – 6 November 1980) was an  English  recipient of the  Victoria Cross . Veale  was 23 years old , and a  Private  in the 8th Battalion ,  The Devonshire Regiment ,  British Army  during the  First World War  when the following deed  took place for which he was awarded  the VC .
On 20 July 1916 east of  High Wood ,  France , Private Veale , hearing that a wounded Officer  was lying  in the open  within 50 yards of the enemy, went out and dragged  him into a shell hole  and then took him water . As he could not carry  the Officer  by himself, he fetched volunteers , one  of whom  was killed  almost at once, and heavy fire  necessitated leaving  the wounded man  in a shell hole  until dusk when Private Veale  went out again with volunteers . When an enemy patrol approached , he went back  for a Lewis gun  with which he covered  the party  while the Officer  was carried  to safety . He later achieved the rank of  Corporal . His Victoria Cross  is displayed at  The Keep Military Museum ,  Dorchester ,  Dorset .  
  • Lance Corporal George Onions   VC  (2 March 1883 – 2 April 1944) was an  English  recipient of the  Victoria Cross . Onions  first served  with the  3rd Hussars  and was involved in the  Easter Rising  in Dublin  in 1916.
Onions  was 35 years old , and a  Lance-Corporal  in the 1st Battalion ,  The Devonshire Regiment ,  British Army  during the  First World War  when the following deed  took place for which he was awarded the VC .   On 22 August 1918 south of  Achiet-le-Petit ,  France, Lance-Corporal Onions , having been sent o ut with one man  to get in touch  with the Battalion  on the right flank , saw the enemy advancing  in large numbers.  Seizing his opportunity, he boldly placed himself and his comrade on the flank of the advancing enemy and opened fire . When the enemy were about 100 yards from him the line wavered and some hands were thrown up,  were thrown up, whereupon the Lance-Corporal  rushed forward  and  helped by his comrade , took about  200  of the  enemy prisoners  and  marched  them back to his  Company Commander . He was later Commissioned  into the  Rifle Brigade.  After World War I , Onions  served  in the  Auxiliary Division of the  Royal Irish Constabulary.   In 1939 he was Commissioned a Captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment for National Defence , but resigned his commission in 1941. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Keep Military Museum , Dorchester, Dorset, England.   Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert JonesVC , OBE  (14 May 1940 - 28 May 1982), known as H. Jones , was a British Army Officer  and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross . He was awarded the VC  after being killed in action  during the Battle of Goose Green  for his actions  as C ommanding Officer  of 2 Battalion , Parachute Regiment  during the Falklands War .
​Jones was born in Putney the eldest of three sons of Herbert Jones (1888-1957), an American artist , and his Welsh wife , Olwen Pritchard (1902-1990), a Nurse . He attended St. Peter's Preparatory School in Seaford, Sussex and Eton College . He joined the British Army on leaving school and on graduation from the Royal Military Academy , Sandhurst on 23 July 1960, was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment as a Second Lieutenant . He was promoted to Lieutenant on 23 January 1962, Captain on 23 July 1966, and Major on 31 December 1972. At this time he was Brigade Major at HQ 3rd Infantry Brigade in Northen Ireland . As such he was responsible for the efforts to find Captain Robert Nairac who had been abducted by the Provisional IRA. Nairac and Jones had become friends and would sometimes go to the Jones household for supper. After a four day search, the Garda Siochana  confirmed that Nairac had been shot and killed in the Republic of Ireland after being smuggled over the border. On 13 December 1977 he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE ) for his services in Northern Ireland that year. On the 30 June 1979 he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, and on 1 December 1979 was transferred to the Parachute Regiment . In the 1981 New Year Honours he was promoted to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE ).      During the Falklands War he was in Command of 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA ). During an attack against entenched Argentinian positions, with his unit pinned down by heavy fire of MAG  and FAL , he led a charge against the nearest position. He was killed while doing so but the Argentinian unit surrendered shortly afterwards. For his actions he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London, England. Command of 2 PARA passed to Major Chris Keeble , and Jones was buried at Ajax Bay on 30 May near where he died of wounds. After the war his body was exhumed and re-buried at the Blue Beach War Cemetery in Port San Carlos on 25 October. George Cross      Awards  of the 'Medal of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire Medal for Gallantry  (EGM ) was made to four members  of the 2nd Battalion The Dorset Regiment  during the 1921 Malabar Campaign . The awards  were gazetted on 2 June 1923. This order was subsequently subsumed  into the George Cross  when it was created  in September 1940. As 2nd Dorsets  remained overseas  until after the Second World War  all four  were presented  with the George Cross  rather than the EGM .    
  • 5718748 Private Frederick Chant  GC
Private Chant  showed rare coolness and disregard of danger. On one occasion  when he had been using  his Lewis Gun  at a range of about twenty yards against the enemy, who were occupying  a house and firing  at him at the closest range his Gun  failed . He calmly got up and fetched a Rifle and  Bayonet  and maintained his fire  on the target  he had been originally given  with coolness and  deliberation . The George Cross  was presented to Private Chant  at Buckingham Palace  on 29 February 1947. Fredrick Chant  was born at Sherborne  in 1900.  
  • 5178907 Private Thomas Frank Miller  GC
At Nilambur  on 24th September, 1921, this man displayed  great gallantry  by going forward towards a Rebel ambush and firing  on it at close range. He was instrumental in dislodging several snipers who were causing casualties  to our troops . The George Cross  was presented to Private Miller  at Buckingham Palace  on 29 February 1947. Thomas Miller  was born on 7 October 1887, as one  of sixteen children  and son  of a Prison Warder  at Portland Jail .  
  • 5179290 Private Henry Frederick Troake  GC
This man showed conspicuous gallantry  in advancing  close up to the fence surrounding a house in which Rebels had been located and in covering  the rush  of Lieutenant Woodhouse  and Corporal Collins  who fired  the roof . Both these men subsequently showed  great courage  in clearing  the garden and  jungle  round the house . The George Cross  was also presented  to Private Troake  at Buckingham Palace  on 29 February 1947. Henry Troake  was on born on the 4th September 1896, at Uplowman ,  Devon.  
  • 5718234 Serjeant William George Hand  GC . MM
Showed  great gallantry and  coolness  on 24th September, 1921, near Nilambur  when the Advanced Guard  of the column  was ambushed  by the enemy. Whilst subjected to close fire  at about fifteen yards range Serjeant Hand  successfully bombed  the enemy and by his coolness and initiative  materially assisted in clearing up  the situation .   The George Cross  was presented to Serjeant Hand  at Buckingham Palace  on 3rd February 1942. George Hand  was born on 17th October 1896, Nunton , Wiltshire .   

Battle Honours The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment   The practice of awarding Battle Honours  began in the Eighteenth Century , with just a few being awarded retrospectively but not including those fought in the British Isles  such as the Boyne . 'Dettingen ', is therefore, the senior Battle Honour of West Country Regiments  and is born on the Regimental Colour .   The first three groups  of Battle Honours  listed below are borne on the Regimental Colours  of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  and those of the Twentieth Century  wars  are emblazoned on the Queen's Colour .   Those in bold type are carried on the Colours . Regimental Colour   Dettingen, Plassey, Martinique 1794, Marabout, Albuhera, Salanianca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Ava, Maharajpore, Sevastopol, Afghanistan 1879-80, Tirah, Defence of Ladysmith, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902  Queen's Colour   Great War -  Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, 18, La Bassee 1914. Armentieres 1914, Neuve Chapelle. Hill 60. Ypres191517, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, LoosSomme 191618, Albert 1916, 18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval,Ancre 1916,' 18! Arras 1917, Vimy 1917. Scarpe 1917, Bullecourt, Messines 19,17, Pilckem, Langemark 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St Quentin, Rosieres, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bois des Buttes, Marne 1918, Tardenois, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Epehy, Canal du Nord, St QuentinCanal, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918. Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914 -18, Piave, VittorioVeneto, Italy 1917-18, Doiran 191718, Macedonia 19 15-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915. Egypt 1916-17. Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18, Basra, Shaiba, Kut al Amara 1915, 17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Khan BaghdadiMesopotamia 1914-18.   Second World War -  St Omer-La BasseeNormandy Landing, Port en Bessin, Villers Bocage, Tilly sur Seulles, Caen, Mont Pincon, St Pierre La Vieille, Nederrijn, Arnhem 1944AamGeilenkirchen, Roer, Goch, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Twente Canal, North-West Europe 1940, 44 - 45, Landing in Sicily, Agira, Regalbuto, Sicily 1943, Landing at Porto San Venere, Italy 1943, Malta 1940-42Imphal, Tamu Road, Shenam Pass, Kohima, Ukhrul, MandalayMyinmu Bridgehead, Kyaukse 1945, Mt Popa. Burma 1943-45.

The Colours As is traditional, each Battalion  holds a Queens Colour , or the Union flag , and a Regimental Colour  based on the Regiments  facing colour, in this case a dark green. There is a laid down maximum number of Honours  permitted on each Colour  and representatives of the two Regiments  agreed, on the basis of equal number, tempered by importance of individual Honours , which of the  Battle Honours  were to be emblazoned on the two Colours . The Regimental Colour  bears the Honours  earned between the raising of the Devons  in 1685 through to the South African War  (Boer War ), at the turn of the Nineteenth Century ). The Queen's Colour  bears a selection of the Battle Honours  earned during the Great War and  Second World War . The difference between the two Battalion's Stands of Colours  is minimal. The 4th Battalion's  Colours  have a Roman numerals 'IV ' and the letters '1st RV ' (1st Rifle Volunteers ), while the 1st Battalion  has a simple Roman I .

The Colours Today The three 1st Battalion Stands of Colours  and the single Stand of 4th Battalion Colours , as is the tradition, are laid-up for the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  in Exeter Cathedral .  

Dress and Ceremonial Tactical Recognition Flash                        Tactical Recognition Flash of the Devon & Dorsets   Cap Badge   On amalgamation in 1958, the new Regiment  took elements of the three predecessor Regiments Badges ; the 11th Foot , later the Devonshire Regiment , and the 39th  and 54th Foot , later the Dorsetshire Regiment .   From the Devonshire Regiment  came the basis of the Badge ; Exeter Castle  (the Castle  was a feature common to both Regiment's Badges ). Also incorporated was the Devon's motto  "Semper Sidelis ''. The Dorsets  contributed the 39th's motto , "Primus in Indis " and the 54th's Marabout Sphinx  on a tablet to the new Badge .  

Motto The Regiment's  motto 's were  "Semper Sidelis "  often translated from Latin as "Ever Faithfull ",  and  'Primus in Indis''  translated from Latin  as "First in India ".   It is easily seen on any of the Regiment's  Badges .

Appointments    Colonels in Chief It is customary for Regiments  of the British Army  to have a member  of the Royal family  as Colonel in Chief  or titular head of the Regiment . On formation of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  in 1958, Her Royal Highness Princess Marina  was appointed by the Her Majesty The Queen  as the Regiment's Colonel in Chief . This was greeted with great satisfaction by the Regiment , as HRH's  appointment continued the link with the House of Kent  that dated back to Christmas Eve  1802, when the 54th of Foot  (later 2nd Dorsets ) saved the then Duke of Kent , Governor of Gibraltar , from the drunken rampages of civilians and troops from other Regiments .     Her Royal Highness's  early duties included presentation of the first Stand of Regimental Colours  to the 1st Battalion  on Plymouth Hoe  in 1962. Thereafter she continued to be a much loved and regular visitor to the Regiment  until her sad death in August 1968.     After the proscribed period of Royal Mourning, HRH the Duke of Kent  was graciously appointed Colonel in Chief  of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment  in 1977 and made his first visit to the 1st Battalion  in Germany  the following year. For the next thirty years, HRH  remain an active participant in the life of the Regiment . His final act as Colonel in Chief  was the laying up of the Regimental Colours  in Exeter Cathedral  in January 2007, just days before the Devon and Dorsets's  amalgamation into the Rifles .

Regimental Appointments 1st Battalion Commanding Officer   Lt Col G R Young  OBE , May 58 - Nov 58 Lt Col R H Wheatley  DSO , Nov 58 - Nov 60 Lt Col P T Willcocks  MBE  MC , Nov 60 - Oct 62 Lt Col J P Randle  MC , Oct 62 - Apr 65 Lt Col A J Archer  OBE , Apr 65 - Sep 67  Lt Col A D Rouse  MBE , Sep 67 - Oct 69 Lt Col D P Lovejoy  MBE , Oct 69 - Mar 72 Lt Col P Burdick , Mar 72 - Sep 74 Lt Col C T Shortis  MBE , Sep 74 - Jun 77 Lt Col C W G Bullocke , Jun 77 - Dec 79 Lt Col J F W Wilsey , Dec 79 - Jun 82 Lt Col P D King-Fretts , Jun 82 - Oct 84 Lt Col B H Dutton  OBE , Oct 84 - Feb 87 Lt Col D C N Shaw  MBE , Feb 87 - Sep 87 Lt Col C J Biles  MBE , Sep 89 - Mar 92 Lt Col S D Young  MBE , Mar 92 - Feb 95 Lt Col J R Cook  MBE  MC , Feb 95 - Sep 97 Lt Col J F Watson  MBE , Sep 97 - Mar 00 Lt Col R H D Toomey  MBE , Mar 00 - Jun 02 Lt Col A J S Storrie  OBE , Jun 02 - Aug 04  Lt Col C J Beattie , Aug 04 - Jan 07   Regimental Sergeant Major   WO1 A T Coombe , May 58 - Jun 59 WO1 R S Pollard , Jun 59 - May 63 WO1 M P Nott , May 63 - Feb 64 WO1 A E Tizzard , May 64 - Jan 65 WO1 W Lucas , Mar 65 - Mar 68 WO1 P E Turney , Mar 68 - Dec 70 WO1 R H Simpson , Dec 70 - Jun 71 WO1 W Thacker , Jun 71 - May 74 WO1 L D Brown , May 74 - Dec 76 WO1 L C Burrlock , Dec 76 - Nov 79 WO1 J Wilding , Nov 79 - Dec 81 WO1 H Jellard , Dec 81 - Sep 83 WO1 M J Henderson , Sep 83 - Apr 85 WO1 P MacPherson , Apr 85 - Jan 88 WO1 G S Titley , Jan 88 - Jul 91 WO1 R J Cleverley , Jul 91 - Dec 93 WO1 K J Fitzgerald , Dec 93 - Jun 96 WO1 K J Finnamore , Jun 96 - Jun 98 WO1 J E Anning , Jun 98 - Apr 00 WO1 C B Smith , Apr 00 - Feb 02 WO1 M A Skinner , Feb 02 - Mar 04 WO1 M Griffiths , Apr 04 - Dec 05 WO1 M Hale , Jan 06 - Feb 06 WO1 R J Hunt , Mar 06 - Jan 07    

Alliances
  • Canada - Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
  • Australia - The Royal New South Wales Regiment
  • Malaysia - 6th Battalion , Royal Malay Regiment
  • South Africa - 5 South African Infantry Battalion  (Bond of Friendship )
  • Royal Navy  - HMS Exeter
  • France - 2e Régiment Étranger d'Infanterie  (Bond of Friendship )
   
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Cap Badge
Active 1958-2007
Country  United Kingdom
Branch  British Army
Type Line Infantry
Role Infantry
Size One Battalion
Part of Prince of Wales' Division
Motto Semper Fidelis (Latin) "Always Faithful "
March Quick - Widdecombe Fair/We've Lived and Loved Together/The Maid of Glenconnel 
Commanders
Last Colonel-in-Chief HRH The Duke of Kent
Last Commanding Officer Lt Col. CJ Beatie
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Arm Badge Croix de Guerre From Devonshire Regiment
 

 

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  • Condition: New
  • Regiment Type: Infantry
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Decade: 2000 to Present
  • Material: Anodised Aluminium
  • Theme: Military
  • Type: Beret/ Cap/ Hat Badges
  • Sub-Theme: British Army

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