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1808-1811 1845-1846 1848-1849 1900-1902 1914-1920 1938-1939 1939-1945 1948-1960	Emblems and Badges The Star Badge Firm Motto The Lion Valise Star Irish Harp The Tower Pear Tree Black Drummers More Badges & Emblems Belt Clasps Cloth Badges Shako Plates Helmet Plates	Worcestershire Regiment The First Battalion Fragments of Battle How the Worcesters Save the Day: Gheluvelt Badges of the Worcestershire Regt A quiet little boy goes to war Tales of a disorderly officer 1st Battalion 1944-45 Roll of Honour Operation Clipper The Fighting Wessex Wyverns The 43rd Wessex Division at War Special Commando An Infantry Signaller 1939-1945 Wellington's Army: Uniforms of the British Soldier Jungle Jim Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 The Worcestershire Regiment The Queen's own Worcestershire Hussars 1922 - 1956 Worcestershires In The Great War The Battle for Tripsrath Bringing Uncle Albert Home 3rd and 4th Militia battalions Worcestershire Regt. Brief History 29th Foot History 1694 - 1891 10th Battalion (Great War) No Drums to Beat (Malaya) Stanley Booker's Letters 36th Foot History 1701 - 1852 Recognition - 3rd Bn - Aug. 1917 Brig. Johnston diaries WW1 American Journals of Lt. John Enys
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COLONELS	VC - Bennett - Crowe - Dancox - Grogan - James - Myles - Roberts - Robinson - Turrall GC CB CMG CIE CBE DSO OBE MBE MC AFC DCM MM MSM BEM FOREIGN MID CCC Indian Mutiny Medal William Leefe Robinson V.C. story
Farrington Kerr Disney Albemarle Read Fuller Hopson Boscawen Lord Forbes Evelyn Tryon Harrington Cathcart Forbes Byng Downes Simpson Longfield Staveley Somerset Parke Leith Higginson Jacob Grogan Clarke Gale Nott Bowen