The Worcestershire Regiment was a line infantry regiment in the British Army , formed in under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 29th Worcestershire Regiment of Foot and the 36th Herefordshire Regiment of Foot.
The regiment was formed in under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 29th Worcestershire Regiment of Foot and the 36th Herefordshire Regiment of Foot. The 2nd Battalion saw heavy fighting near the Modder River. As the war in South Africa dragged on, a number of regiments containing large centres of population formed additional regular battalions.
The Worcestershire regiment formed 3rd and 4th regular Battalions in February , [ 5 ] when the existing militia battalions were relabeled as the 5th and 6th battalions. The 6th battalion was embodied in May , disembodied in October that year, and later re-embodied for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War. In , the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve ; [ 9 ] the regiment now had two Reserve and two Territorial battalions.
Wodehouse, who was killed in action. Quentin Canal in September The 4th Battalion landed in Gallipoli as part of the 88th Brigade in the 29th Division in March ; the battalion was evacuated from Gallipoli to Egypt in January and then landed at Marseille for service in on the Western Front in March In December , the regiment was used to suppress the Taranto Revolt , executing one of the rebels by firing squad.
During the Second World War , officers and other ranks of the Worcestershire Regiment were killed in action or died of their wounds, the average age being The 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment was a Regular Army battalion that was stationed in the Middle East on the outbreak of the Second World War , having been stationed there since due to the โ39 Arab revolt in Palestine.
