The 5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, was a part-time unit of the British Army recruited in the county of Devon. It was formed in the Territorial Force in 1908 by amalgamating two existing Volunteer
Cap badge of the Devonshire Regiment
Junction Station, captured on 14 November 1917
Formation sign of 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division
German barbed wire at Quéant
The Exeter & South Devon Volunteers was the premier unit of Britain's Volunteer Force. Formed in 1852 it went on to become a battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. Both its active service battalions we
5th (Prince of Wales's) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
…It was renamed the 5th (Reserve) Battalion on 8 April 1916, and when the Training Reserve (TR) was formed on 1 September it was absorbed by the 4th (Reserve) Battalion in the Wessex Reserve Brigade at Hursley Park, Winchester. After the 3rd Line TF battalions were formed in May 1915 the remaining Home Service and unfit…
Officer of the Exeter & South Devon Volunteers in 1852
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt, CO and later Hon Colonel, 3rd Volunteer Battalion.