The war services of the Regiment may be summed up as follows:

Calais, May, 1940: 2nd and 7th Battalions.

North Africa, 1940-43: 1st, 2nd, 9th and 11th Battalions.

Italy, 1943-45: 1st, 2nd and 11th Battalions.

France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, 1944-45: 2nd and 12th Battalions.

Greece and Crete,1941: 9th Battalion

Officers: killed and died, 159.

Other ranks: killed and died, 986.

The number of wounded and missing probably exceeded 8,000.

 

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