The 2017 Viking Re Union Dinner will take place in the Dukes Head Hotel on Saturday 17th June 2017.
moreThe 1st East Anglian Regiment
The 1st East Anglian Regiment was active from the 29th August 1959 – 1st September 1964. Competing against nearly 300 years of Regimental and military history, this 5 year period has not gained the same recognition as the remainder of the...
moreThe Royal Norfolk Regiment
THE ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT 1685 Raised by King James II and named Colonel Henry Cornwall’s Regiment of Foot. The Royal Norfolk regiment was among the eight new Regiments numbered 8 to 16, raised in order to quell the Monmouth rising. 1689...
moreThe Suffolk Regiment
1685 Raised by Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk. The Suffolk Regiment was amongst the eight new Regiments, numbered 8 to 16, raised in order to quell the Monmouth rising. 1689 to 1691 Service in Ireland, including the Battle of the Boyne. The...
moreThe Essex Regiment
1741 The 44th of Foot raised by Colonel James Long of the 1st (Grenadier) Guards. 1745 The 44th of Foot took part in the Battle of Preston Pans during the short campaign in Scotland against “Bonnie Prince Charlie”. The Regiment was...
moreThe Cambridgeshire Regiment
1860 Formation of The Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps: 1st Cambridge 2nd Wisbech 3rd Cambridge University 4th Whittlesey 5th March 6th Ely 7th Upwell (Disbanded 1872) 8th Cambridge 9th Newmarket 10th Soham (Disbanded 1865) 1872 to...
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