Border Regiment
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The Border Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 34th Regiment of Foot and the 55th Regiment of Foot
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Colours of the Border Regiment
Player's cigarette card showing a lance corporal of the 5th (Cumberland) Battalion, The Border Regiment in 1914 while in France.
Troops of the Border Regiment resting in a front line trench in Thiepval Wood, France, August 1916.
George MacDonald Fraser
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George MacDonald Fraser was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven novels and one
Border Regiment
…raised in June 1940. In October, it was redesignated as the 9th Battalion and was assigned to the 225th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home). The author George MacDonald Fraser served with the 9th Battalion in Burma; this forms the subject of his memoir Quartered Safe Out Here (1993). In 1945, the 1st Battalion formed part of…
George Macdonald Fraser