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The Border Regiment was a line infantry infantry regiment of the British Army, which was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot.After service in both World War I and World War II, it was amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) into the King's Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959 which was later merged with the King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester) and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the present Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border), which continues the lineage of the Border Regiment.

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  • The Border Regiment was a line infantry infantry regiment of the British Army, which was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot.After service in both World War I and World War II, it was amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) into the King's Own Royal Border Regiment in 1959 which was later merged with the King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester) and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the present Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border), which continues the lineage of the Border Regiment.
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  • Border Regiment
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  • TheRelief of Ladysmith1900,South Africa 1899–1902,France and Flanders 1914–18,Ypres 1914,15,17,18, Langemark 1914,17,Gallipoli1915,16,Somme 1916,18,Arras 1917,18,Cambrai 1917,18,Lys1918,Macedonia 1915,18,Vittorio Veneto 1918,Afghanistan 1919,Dunkirk 1940, Tobruk 1941, Meiktila, Landing In Sicily, Chindits 1944,Arnhem 1944, Imphal, Myinmu BridgeheadBurma 1943–45, North West Europe 1940–44
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