Hertfordshire Regiment

This article is about the Territorial Army regiment. For the regular infantry regiment raised in 1744, and which became the 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) in 1881, see 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot.

Hertfordshire Regiment
Badge of the Hertfordshire Regiment
Active1908–1961
Country United Kingdom
Allegiance British Army
BranchInfantry
TypeTerritorial
Size1 battalion (peacetime)
Garrison/HQPort Hill drill hall, Hertford
Nickname(s)The Hertfordshire Guards[1]
ColorsWhite
March‘The Young May Moon’[2]
EngagementsSecond Boer War, First World War, Second World War, Palestine Mandate
Commanders
Colonel-In-ChiefQueen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Notable
commanders		Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft,

The Hertfordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army. Originating in units of Rifle Volunteers formed in 1859, the regiment served in the Second Anglo-Boer War and the First and Second World Wars before losing its separate identity in 1961.[3] Its lineage is continued today by the Royal Anglian Regiment.[4]

  1. ^ "1914-1918.net – Hertfordshire Regiment.".
  2. ^ I.F.W. Beckett (2003), p.51.
  3. ^ Mills, T F. "The Hertfordshire Regiment". Regiments.Org. Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  4. ^ "The Hertfordshire Regiment, An Illustrated History". Hertfordshire Genealogy. Retrieved 11 August 2012.