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Complete the following:

British Malaya Command
Territorial Army
Gold Beach D-Day
British Brigades in WWII
British Divisions in WWII
Charles Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie
Naval Battle of Balikpapan
Anglo-Persian War
British 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division
Ronald Scobie
John Anderson Barstow
Berthold Wells Key
Merton Beckwith-Smith
Ian MacAlister Stewart, 13th Laird of Achnacone
Archibald Paris
Lord Gray
British 8th Armoured Brigade
List of pirates
East African Campaign (WWI)
Noel Beresford-Peirse
Francis Tuker
Vivian Evelegh
Alfred Godwin-Austen
Douglas Alexander Henry Graham
William Havelock Ramsden
1st Battalion, Black Watch
2nd Battalion, Black Watch
10th Battalion, Black Watch
1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
Battle of Leros
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

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[edit] List of British regular Battalions destroyed during WWII

I have discovered 23 regular battalions to have been destroyed during the war so far.



  1. Served in Northwest Europe after being reformed.
  2. Served throughout the war in other theatres.
  3. Served in the Italian Campaign.
  4. Saw no further active service during the war.

[edit] 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment

The 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment was formed from the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot on the 1st July [[1881] .

[edit] History

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[edit] Battle of Leros

[edit] Royal Navy at Crete

  • 22nd May 1941

Admiral Cunningham, determined that no German troop transports should reach Crete, sent Admiral King's Force C (three cruisers and four destroyers) into the Aegean through the Kaso Straight to attack a second flotilla of transports escorted by the Sagittario. The cruiser sank a caique separated from the main flotilla at 8.30am thus saving it from an air attack that struck HMS Naiad at this time. The pilots were trying to avoid killing their troops in the water. King's sqaudron, still under constant air attack and running short of anti-aircraft ammunition, then steamed on toward Milos sighting the Sagittario at ten o'clock. King made the difficult decision not to attack due to the shortage of ammunition and he had succeeded in forcing the Germans to withdraw this seaborne attack. During the search and withdrawal from the area Force suffered heavy losses. Naiad was damaged by near misses and the cruiser HMS Carlisle was hit.

Force C met up with Rear Admiral Rawling's Force A1 at the Kithera channel where more air attacks inflicted damage on both forces. A bomb struck Warspite and then the destroyer Greyhound was sunk. King sent Kandahar and Kingston to pick up survivors while the cruisers Gloucester and Fiji provided anti-aircraft support, forgetting their amunnition shortage. Gloucester was hit by several bombs while the fleet was withdrawing and had to be left behind due to the intense air attacks. Seven hundred and twenty-two officers and ratings from this ship lost their lives.

The air attacks on Force A1 and Force C continued. Two bombs hit the battleship Valiant (with Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece on board) and later another hit the Fiji disabling it. A Junkers 88 flown by Lieutenant Gerhard Brenner dropped three bombs on the Fiji sinking it. Five hundred survivors were rescued by the Kandahar and Kingston the next morning. The Royal Navy lost two cruisers and a destroyer sunk but had managed to turn the invasion fleet around.

[edit] To do East African battles WWI

[edit] List of Battles

[edit] 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch

The officer commanding the leading German parachute battalion said of this action:


" My first surprise was when I found the position was held. My second was when I discovered who the infantry were. The battle continued with great ferocity, but The Black Watch never surrendered. Had it been any other regiment, any other, all would have been well."

[edit] Battle of Kampar

[edit] The defences

The British defences at Kampar were built around the Gunong Brijang Malaka, an imposing little mountain covered in scrub and jungle which the British called Kampar Hill. Acting-Brigadier I.M.Stewart's 12th Infantry Brigade brought the time necessary for the defences to be built with many clever ambushes and delaying actions to slow the Japanese Army's advance.

The hill was an Artillery spotters dream, based 4000 feet above sea level overlooking a plain around it.

[edit] My score

You scored as A coloring book. Children love you--and so do many adults. They find you approachable, simple and friendly, all of which perfectly describe you. Instead of throwing big words around, you communicate in the international language of pictures. In order to be as open as possible, you present yourself simply, allowing those around you to customize you to their liking. Sometimes this results in you turning into a primitive masterpiece, and other times you resemble a schizophrenic's daydream. So long as the one talking to you understands you, you're happy. Zen and the art of crayon-sharpening.

A coloring book
86%

Poetry
71%

A college textbook
71%

The back of a froot loops box
57%

A classic novel
50%

A paperback romance novel
43%

An electronics user's manual
29%

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