ISLE of WIGHT

9th June1959 Amalgamation parade
Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) and Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s)
Amalgamate to form the
Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)

TIDWORTH 1959 – 1962

1960
Libya (Ex Starlight March 1960)
Bahamas, June 1960, (B Coy)

1961
British Guiana, Feb 1962 (A Coy)

1961
Canada, Ex Pond Jump 1 (June 1961)

MALTA 1962 - 65
1963
Libya ( Ex Drumbeat August) Plus a
number of other desert exercises in Libya

1964 & 1965
Cyprus - Handed over to UN

1965
Sardinia

MINDEN
(Mechanised Infantry) 1965 – 69

1967
Libya - Mechanised live firing training

1968
France (Larzac)

CATTERICK
(Air Portable) 1969 – 71

1969
Londonderry - Northern Ireland ‘C’ Coy

1970
Belfast - Northern Ireland ‘B’ Coy

1971
D.E.R.R. Londonderry - Northern Ireland

1969
British Honduras ‘B’ Coy

1969/70
British Honduras ‘A’ Coy,

1970
British Honduras ‘C’ Coy

1970
Canada Bn less ‘C’ Coy.

1969
Malaysia ‘A’ Coy

BERLIN 1971 – 73

1971 and 1972
Schleswig – Holstein

1972
France

BALLYKINLER 1973 – 75

1973 (October)
Maze Prison Riot

1973 (October)
Sandes Explosion

1974
Battle of the Hump VCP.

SHOEBURYNESS 1975 – 76

Aug 75/Feb 76
Cyprus (Emergency tour)

WARMINSTER
(Demonstration Battalion)

1976 – 78 Fire fighting Scotland (Operation Burbury)

OSNABRUCK
(Mechanised Infantry) 1978 – 83

1979 (9th July/8th Nov)
Londonderry - Northern Ireland

1980 (May)
Canada (Ex Medicine Man)

1981 (April)
Canada (Ex Medicine man)

CANTERBURY 1983 – 85

1983
South Armagh - Northern Ireland

1983 (Nov)
Greenham Common (Aid to the Civil Power, Cruise Missiles)

84/85
Cyprus(U.N. Tour)

1984
Canada

ALDERGROVE 1985 – 88
Aldergrove Northern Ireland
Rent a Troop' - Numerous actions and incidents.

HONG KONG 1988 – 90

1989
Sabah (Ex Eastern Tamu)
A Coy January for seven weeks
Malaysia B Coy for Exercise Western
Tamu 6 weeks

1989
Composite platoon to Korea for 10 weeks from Feb

1989
D Coy to Hawaii (Ex Union Pacific)

1990 (May)
A Coy to Hawaii (Ex Union Pacific)

CATTERICK
(Air Mobile) 1990 – 94

1990 – 91
Fermanagh (Op Banner)

1991
Ex Certain Shield (West Germany)
Air Mobile

1992
Ex Trumpet Dance U.S.A.

1993
South Armagh Northern Ireland

1994- Amalgamate with Gloucestershire
Regiment