9th Battalion Essex Regiment & 11th ( Essex) Medium Regiment RA

The 9th Essex was raised on 4 July1940 and served as an infantry Battalion mainly on beach defence duties with 210 Home Brigade then on to the 225th Home Brigade before finally to the 219 Home Brigade.

In November 1942 it was designated as the 11th( Essex ) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery.

The men wore the uniform of the Royal Artillery but retained the Essex Regiment cap badges.

The Regiment landed in Normandy in July 1944 and fought its way through Europe until the end of the war.

It was disbanded in December 1945. 

 

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