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Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment



Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment was known as the Bedfordshire Regiment until 1919. It was an infantry regiment in the British Army from 1881 to 1958. The 16th Regiment of Foot, (first raised in 1688) was joined with the militia regiments and rifle volunteer corps of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. The two English counties which had kept the ranks of the Bedfordshire regiment filled during the 1914-1918 War were Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. On July 29, 1919 the Bedfordshire regiment was renamed the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, to honour the great contribution of the regiment from Hertfordshire. In 1958, the Beds and Herts Regiment was merged with The Essex Regiment to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment.


Battalions during the Second World War.

  • 1st Battalion
  • 2nd Battalion



List of those who served with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment during The Second World War



Joseph Alec Wells No: 6 Commando

I would like any information with regard to my fathers military career I think he enlisted in 1938 possibly in the Royal Engineers transferred to the commandos. Eventually he was commissioned and joined the Beds and Herts Regiment as an Officer serving in Italy & Greece & possibly Yugoslavia. After the war he seved till 1949 in Q section? BAOR.








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