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2nd Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian
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Years active:
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unknown – unknown
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Country:
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India
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Service:
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Indian Army
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Branch:
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unknown
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Type:
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Infantry
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Specific type:
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Infantry battalion
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Full size:
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1,000
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Sources for overview:
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Created:
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unknown.
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Sources for created:
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Name1:
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2nd Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles
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Name1 Start:
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unknown
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Name1 End:
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unknown
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Reason for change:
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Alternate names:
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Disbanded:
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unknown.
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For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.
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Command structure
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Relationship type:
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Tactical
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Parent unit:
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20th Indian Infantry Brigade
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Parent level:
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Brigade
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Start date:
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01/08/1914
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End date:
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30/11/1915
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Sources:
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Command structure
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Relationship type:
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Tactical
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Parent unit:
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12th Indian Infantry Brigade
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Parent level:
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Brigade
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Start date:
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01/03/1917
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End date:
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30/09/1918
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Sources:
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Command structure
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Relationship type:
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Tactical
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Parent unit:
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84th Infantry Brigade, UK
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Parent level:
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Brigade
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Start date:
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01/10/1918
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End date:
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31/03/1919
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Sources:
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Command structure
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Relationship type:
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Tactical
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Parent unit:
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85th Infantry Brigade, UK
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Parent level:
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Brigade
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Start date:
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01/04/1919
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End date:
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30/11/1919
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Sources:
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Command structure
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Relationship type:
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Tactical
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Parent unit:
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9th Indian Infantry Brigade
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Parent level:
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Brigade
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Start date:
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01/12/1921
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End date:
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31/07/1923
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Sources:
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Theatre of war
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Theatre name:
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France, Belgium and Germany
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Date entered:
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01/08/1914
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Date left:
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30/11/1915
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Sources:
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Theatre of war
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Theatre name:
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Mesopotamia and North Persia
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Date entered:
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01/03/1917
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Date left:
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30/09/1918
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Sources:
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Theatre of war
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Theatre name:
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Salonika, Black Sea and South Russia
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Date entered:
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01/10/1918
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Date left:
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30/11/1919
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Sources:
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Theatre of war
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Theatre name:
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India and East Persia
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Date entered:
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01/12/1921
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Date left:
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31/07/1923
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Sources:
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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:
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