Military

Table of Actions

30th Foot (Cambridgeshire) 1701-1881

1702-13	Peninsula
1704 & 1727	Gibraltar
1705	Barcelona
1759	Cherbourg
1775-1782	North America
1793	Toulon
1794	Corsica
1800	Malta
1801	Egypt
1808-1814	Peninsular
1815	Waterloo
1854	Alma
1854	Inkerman
1855	Redan
1855	Sevastopol

The Cambridgeshire Regiment

1900-1901	South Africa
1915-1917	Ypres
1915-1918	France & Flanders
1916-1918	Somme
1916	Ancre
1918	Albert
1918	Bapaume
1940-45	Singapore
1942	Malaya

There is a site that provides information on all formations - battalions, brigades, divisions etc, including the Cambs Rgt, who were in the 27th, 39th and 12th Divs in the First World War.

Second World War

18th Division - Order of Battle

Officer commanding: Major-General M B Beckworth-Smith.

Royal Artillery: 88th, 118th, 135th & 148th Field Rgts, 85th & 125th Anti-Tank Rgts.

Royal Engineers: 287, 288 & 560 Field Coys, 251 Field Park Coy.

Royal Army Service Corps: Headquarters, 53rd, 54th, & 55th Brigade Group Coys; 18th Division Troops Coy, 16th Mobile Bath Unit.

Royal Army Ordance Corps: 18th Division Ordnance Workshops, 18th Division Field Park.

Royal Army Medical Corps: 186th, 197th & 198th Field Ambulances.

53rd Infantry Brigade: Brigadier C L Duke
Headquarters
5th Royal Norfolk Rgt, 6th Royal Norfolk Rgt, 2nd Cambridgeshire Rgt.

54th Infantry Brigade: Brigadier E H W Backhouse
Headquarters
4th Royal Norfolk Rgt, 4th Suffolk Rgt, 5th Suffolk Rgt.

55th Infantry Brigade: Brigadier T H Massey-Beresford
Headquarters
5th Beds and Herts Rgt, 1/5th Sherwood Foresters, 1st Cambridgeshire Rgt.

18th Divisional Troops

9th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.

Recce Corps (5th Loyals).