1st Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
| Dates | Locations | Higher Formation | Remarks |
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| 1944.09 | Burma/India | 36 Infantry Division | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
| 1945.12 | Malaya: Kluang | | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
1946.07
| Singapore: Selerang Barracks
Jan 47 - May 47: Hong Kong: Stanley Barracks
May 47 - Dec 47: Hong Kong: New Territories | | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
1948.08
| Malaya: Kluang
Jan 49 - Jan 50: Malaya: Temerloh area of Pahang
Jan 50: Malaya: Bentong area of SW Pahang | | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
1951.02
| England: Meanee Barracks, Colchester
Oct 51 - Oct 52: Libya: Tripoli then to Derna | 19 Brigade
| |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
| 1953.04 | Kenya | 39 Infantry Brigade | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
| 1955.02 | England: Seaton Barracks, Plymouth | | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
1955.06
| Germany: Trenchard Barracks, Celle
17 May 58: Amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Dorset Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | 7 Brigade
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2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
Dates | Locations | Higher Formation | Remarks |
| | | |
| 1944.11 | NW Europe | 7 Armoured Division | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
| 1945.07 | Berlin | | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
1946.03
| Germany: Wolfenbuttel
1946: Germany: Uelzen
June 46: Germany: Bristol Barracks, Luneburg | | |
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" |
1947
| England: Topsham Barracks, Exeter?
10 June 48: Disbanded at Topsham Barracks, Exeter | | |
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