3/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army
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3/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army | |
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Years active: | – |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Service: | British Army |
Branch: | Territorial Force |
Type: | Infantry |
Specific type: | Infantry battalion |
Full size: | 1,000 |
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Name1: | 3/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment |
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Relationship type: | Administrative |
Parent unit: | Gloucestershire Regiment, UK |
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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)
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- 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.
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