Regiment The Gloucestershire (28th and 61 st) 12 Nicknames: "The Back Numbers"—"The Slashers""The Old Braggs""The Fore and Afts." Battle Honours: Ramillies - Louisburg - Guadaloupe - QUEBEC, 1759 - Martinique - Havannah - St. Lucia - Maida - CORUNNA - Talavera - Busaco - Barrosa - Albuhera - Salamanca - Vittoria - Pyrenees - Nivelle - Nive - Orthes - Toulouse - Peninsula - WATERLOO, 1815 - Chillianwallah - Goojerat - Punjaub - Alma - Sevastopol - Delhi - Defence of Ladysmith - Relief of Kimberley - Paardeberg - South Africa, 1899-1902. Great War: MONS - Retreat from Mons - Marne, 1914 - Aisne, 1914 - YPRES, 1914- 1915, 1917 - Langemarck, 1914, 1917 - Gheluvelt - Nonne Bosschen - Givenchy, 1914 - Gravenstafel - St. Julien - Frezenberg - Bellewarde - Aubers - LOOS - SOMME, 1916, 1918 - Albert, 1916, 1918 - Bazentin - Delville Wood - Pozieres - Guillemont - Flers Courcelette - Morval - Ancre Heights - Ancre, 1916 - Arras, 1917, 1918 - Vimy, 1917 - Scarpe, 1917 - Messines, 1917, 1918 - Pilckem - Menin Road - Polygon Wood - Broodseinde - Poelcapelle - Passchendaele - Cambrai, 1917, 1918 - St. Quentin - Bapaume, 1918 - Rosieres - Avre - Estaires - LYS - Hazebrouck - Bailleul - Kemmel - Bethune - Drocourt-Queant - Hindenberg Line - Epéhy - Canal du Nord - St. Quentin Canal - Beaurevoir - SELLE - Valenciennes - Sambre - France and Flanders, 1914-1918 - V1TTORIO VENETO - Italy, 1917, 1918 - Struma - DOIRAN, 1917 - Macedonia, 1915, 1918 - Suvla - SARI BAIR - Scimitar Hill - Gallipoli, 1915, 1916 - Egypt, 1916 - Tigris, 1916 - Kutalamara, 1917 - BAGHDAD - Mesopotamia, 1916, 1918 - Persia, 1918. Uniform: Scarlet, facings white; Head-dressHelmet, Cap, blue. Regimental March: "KYNEGAD SLASHERS." Note.Names in Capitals in great war Battle Honours are borne on the King's Colour. When Captain de Trafford, the indefatigable Secretary of the Ypres League invited me to write a brief history of the Gloucesters, with whom I had the high honour and privilege to serve during the Great War, I pointed out that there was a danger of exalting one particular regiment unless my article was used with the hope that further contributions setting forth the glorious traditions of other regiments of the British Army followed mine, de Trafford assured me that it was his intention to publish in future editions of The Ypres Times as many articles as he could secure dealing with different regiments. THE 28th Regiment was raised in 1694 by Sir John Gibson. As usual in those days it was called Gibson's after the Colonel. In 1705, the Regiment, then De Sal's Regiment, first saw service under Marlborough at Huy, near Liége in Flanders. 1706, it distinguished itself at the Battle of Ramifies. In 1734, Phillip Bragg became Colonel and commanded until 1759. "Old Braggs" is still heard as an honourable nickname of the Regiment. In 1759, as Townsends', it took a glorious part in the capture of Quebec (13th of September). The immortal General Wolfe died at the moment of victory in the arms of Lieut. Brown of the 28th Regiment. In 1773, the Colonel's name to designate regiments fell out of use. In 1775, the Regiment gained the title of "The Slashers" for their gallantry at the Battle of White Plains, and passage of the Bronx River in North America, through the use they made of their sword bayonets when they had run out of ammunition. I have seen the memorial at White Plains and also buttons from Gloucester tunics in a museum dedicated to Washington in New York.

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