Shoulder flash Royal Berkshire Regiment

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The 4th Battalion was a 1st Line Territorial Army unit serving in 145th Infantry Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Infantry Division. It was sent overseas to France in early January 1940 with the rest of 48th Division and, in February, it was exchanged for the 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment to the 8th Infantry Brigade, part of 3rd Infantry Division under Major-General Bernard Montgomery before, with the rest of the BEF, being evacuated to Dunkirk. After Dunkirk the battalion was posted away and was not part of a field unit but trained intensively for future combat operations, gaining a high standard of fitness and morale. However, in December 1940 the battalion transferred to the 148th Independent Infantry Brigade and served with it in Northern Ireland, and remained with the brigade for the rest of the war. In mid-1942 the battalion moved to Wrotham in Kent and then became an officer cadet training unit for the rest of the war.

The 5th (Hackney) Battalion was, in 1937, redesignated from the 10th (Hackney) Battalion, London Regiment when the London Regiment itself was broken up in 1937. On the outbreak of war the battalion was serving with its duplicate 7th Battalion in the 161st (Essex) Infantry Brigade, 54th (East Anglian) Division. Originally the battalion was an ordinary infantry battalion until 1942 when they were converted to No. 8 Beach Group and played an important part in the Normandy landings where they landed with the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division at Juno Beach on D-Day itself and were responsible for the landing ground. Although still technically a Beach Group they served as infantry in the Battle of Normandy where they were down to 16 officers and 136 other ranks by August 1944 and were disbanded. In February 1945 they were reformed and re-designated as a Bank Group and assisted the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division across the Rhine in March 1945. After this they served as normal infantry until the battalion was disbanded in June 1945. Throughout its existence, the battalion was allegedly nicknamed The Hackney Ghurkhas.

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