History of the Manchester Regiment; First and Second Battalions 1922-1948
Altringham: John Sherratt and Son, 1954. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xx, 554, [2] pages. Color frontis. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Maps. Appendices. Regimental Marches. Index. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Regimental small cloth patch, approximately one inch by two inches, laid in. The third volume of the history of this Regiment covering the interwar years but mainly service in WW2. The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot as the 1st and 2nd battalions; the Militia became the 3rd (Reserve) and 4th (Extra Reserve) battalions and the Volunteer battalions became the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th battalions. After distinguished service in both World War I and World War II, the Manchester Regiment was amalgamated with the King's Regiment (Liverpool) in 1958, to form the King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool), which was, in 2006, amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the present Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border). More