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=== Unit histories === | === Unit histories === | ||
Revision as of 01:54, 2 April 2016
| 2nd Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian | |
|---|---|
| Years active: | unknown – unknown |
| Country: | India |
| Service: | Indian Army |
| Branch: | unknown |
| Type: | Infantry |
| Specific type: | Infantry battalion |
| Full size: | 1,000 |
| Sources for overview: | |
| Created: | unknown. |
| Sources for created: | |
| Name1: | 2nd Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles |
| Name1 Start: | unknown |
| Name1 End: | unknown |
| Reason for change: | |
| Sources for name1: | |
| Alternate names: | |
| Sources for alternate names: | |
| Disbanded: | unknown. |
| Sources for disbanded: | |
| For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war. | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Parent unit: | 20th Indian Infantry Brigade |
| Parent level: | Brigade |
| Start date: | 01/08/1914 |
| End date: | 30/11/1915 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Parent unit: | 12th Indian Infantry Brigade |
| Parent level: | Brigade |
| Start date: | 01/03/1917 |
| End date: | 30/09/1918 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Parent unit: | 84th Infantry Brigade, UK |
| Parent level: | Brigade |
| Start date: | 01/10/1918 |
| End date: | 31/03/1919 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Parent unit: | 85th Infantry Brigade, UK |
| Parent level: | Brigade |
| Start date: | 01/04/1919 |
| End date: | 30/11/1919 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Parent unit: | 9th Indian Infantry Brigade |
| Parent level: | Brigade |
| Start date: | 01/12/1921 |
| End date: | 31/07/1923 |
| Sources: | |
| Theatre of war | |
|---|---|
| Theatre name: | France, Belgium and Germany |
| Date entered: | 01/08/1914 |
| Date left: | 30/11/1915 |
| Sources: | |
| Theatre of war | |
|---|---|
| Theatre name: | Mesopotamia and North Persia |
| Date entered: | 01/03/1917 |
| Date left: | 30/09/1918 |
| Sources: | |
| Theatre of war | |
|---|---|
| Theatre name: | Salonika, Black Sea and South Russia |
| Date entered: | 01/10/1918 |
| Date left: | 30/11/1919 |
| Sources: | |
| Theatre of war | |
|---|---|
| Theatre name: | India and East Persia |
| Date entered: | 01/12/1921 |
| Date left: | 31/07/1923 |
| Sources: | |
Contents
Personal narratives
Ted Berryman
The Imperial War Museum has a large collection of private papers of Major Template:RefLives.
- Imperial War Museum Documents.17257: original documents including personal letters and diaries, photographs and official orders.
- Ted's letters are being blogged on their 100th anniversary at the Family Letters blog.
- The Berryman family's letters have previously been printed as: Felicite Nesham (ed.), Socks, cigarettes and shipwrecks: a family’s war letters 1914-1918, (Sutton, 1987).
Imperial War Museum catalogue shows that Ted served with these units:
- adjutant, second in command and acting commander of 2nd Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian in India, Mesopotamia and on the Western Front (August 1914 to April 1918)
- 3/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, UK in 1915
- instructor at an infantry officers’ school near Baghdad (April to August 1918)
- Brigade Major of 34th Infantry Brigade, UK (August 1918 to March 1919)
Related media
Official sources
Unit war diaries
- The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/3945/3 (01/08/1914–30/11/1915) seems to cover 1st and 2nd battalions.
- The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5194 (01/03/1917–30/09/1918)
- The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/4919 (01/10/1918–31/03/1919)
- The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/4922 (01/04/1919–30/11/1919)
- The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5400 (01/12/1921–28/02/1922)
- The National Archives of the UK (TNA): WO 95/5400 (01/02/1923–31/07/1923)
Unit histories
Other official documents
Other sources
References
