1/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, British Army

1/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, British Army
Years active:	1/4/1908 –
Country:	United Kingdom
Service:	British Army
Branch:	Territorial Force (British Army)
Type:	Infantry
Specific type:	Infantry battalion
Full size:	1,000
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Created:	1/4/1908.
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Name1:	6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment
Name1 Start:	1/4/1908
Name1 End:	1915
Reason for change:	Renumbering of Territorial battalions
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Name2:	1/6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment
Name2 Start:	1915
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For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.

Command structure
Relationship type:	Administrative
Parent unit:	East Surrey Regiment, British Army
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Start date:	1/4/1908
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Theatre of war
Theatre name:	India and East Persia
Date entered:	2/12/1914
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Official sources

Unit war diaries

No war diaries exist for this unit. This could be because:

• units and formations were only required to keep official war diaries when operating in a theatre of war.
• war diaries were created but no longer survive.
• some unit pages on this site that represent groups of formation troops don't correspond to a unit or staff department that kept war diaries.

Other sources

• Follow the Drum – The Terriers far from home: blog post about this battalion's experiences in India by Patricia Moloney of Richmond library.