3/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army

3/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army
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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Unit war diaries

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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.