1882 at Nowshera. Caribbean, India and North American Wars of Independence. The 2nd Battalion's first action was in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, where it fought at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir under Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet Wolseley. After the Great War the 2nd Battalion were sent to Mesopotamia as part of an occupation force for the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. An archive of First World War research information on soldiers in the Yorkshire Regiment . Wednesday 06-12-1916. 2nd Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, as Chindits, during Operations against the Japanese at Indaw Lake, Burma, 1944 1961 Terence Tenison Cuneo (1907 . The South Devon Militia was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England.The Militia had always been important in the county, which was vulnerable to invasion, and from its formal creation in 1758 the regiment served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars, later as a reserve battalion for the Devonshire Regiment. if (year < 1000) year+=1900 . It contains 30 pages 374463993142 The 2 Battalion diaries arehere at the National Archives. Oft In The Stilly Night. [18] The 14th Brigade was flown into a landing strip (called Aberdeen) cut out of the jungle by the 16th Brigade. based in Chester, 2 YORKS are at the heart of Land Warfare Centres Experimentation and Trials Group. Experts in dismounted close combat, 2 YORKS have set the Army standard for Light-Role Infantry capability, proving themselves after deploying to Afghanistan in 2019 for the second time in as many years and being some of the last soldiers to leave Kabul on Op PITTING. var dailyinfo= new Array(31)