Dates: 1919 - 1958

The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (known as The Bedfordshire Regiment until 1919) was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army.When the Bedfordshire Regiment was formed on July 1, 1881 it consisted of two regular, two militia and three volunteer battalions.Under the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 the reserve battalions were reorganised in 1908.On July 29, 1919 the regiment was renamed the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in recognition of the contribution of men from Hertfordshire during the Great War.When the regiment was formed in 1881 the badges of the 16th Foot and Hertfordshire Militia were combined. The badge for the full dress helmet plate featured a Maltese cross superimposed on an eight-pointed star, in the centre of which was a hart crossing a ford. A similar design was used for the cap badge adopted in 1898, with the addition of a representation of the Garter around the central device, and a scroll with the regiment’s title. The collar badge was also the hart in a ford.The regiment wore a black and primrose lanyard on the battle-dress blouse. The lanyard was later worn by territorial units of the Royal Anglian Regiment based in the former regimental area.The regiment was awarded more than seventy honours for service in the Great War in 1925, and eighteen for the Second World War in 1957.In common with other regiments, ten honours from each war were selected to be borne on the queen’s colour.

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Added on 16/11/2009

originally the beds and hearts known as 16th of foot. and amalgamated with the essex regiment - 44th of foot in 1958 in dortmund west germany. and formed 1/3 east anglian regt. went to malaya in 1958 came back in 1962 named 3rd east anglian regt, which became the 3 royal anglian regiment.

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"my dad served with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in the far east between 1939-1944. Can any one out there remember a Horace William Holland.I think he may have been a lance corpral looking at an old foto.."

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