Gloucestershire Regt at Fall of France & Dunkirk, May 1940. (General)

by HarryBrook , Monday, June 10, 2013, 09:05 (4179 days ago) @ downunder

I believe the only active Battalions of The Gloucestershire Regt. in WW2 were 1st Battalion which served in India and Burma, 2nd in N. W. Europe, 5th which, after returning from Dunkirk, became part of 43rd Regt. The Reconnaissance Corp., and 10th Battalion in India and Burma.
The local Home Guard detachments also wore the Gloucestershire Regt. cap badge. They may have belonged to a numbered battalion.
The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum website offers no help directly on the subject.
In the Great War, WW1, there was a definite Forest of Dean Battalion, raised in 1914 by Harry Webb M.P. - 13th (Service) Battalion (Forest of Dean) (Pioneers) The Gloucestershire Regt. to give it its full title. Although (Forest of Dean) there were large groups of men from other parts of the country.