The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment

Image courtesy of James Robinson
 
 

Colonel-in-Chief

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and
Earl of Chester, KG, KT, GCB, AK, QSO, ADC

Reproduced from the painting by Norman Hepple, RA, RP
 
 

Colonel of  The Regiment

Major General K. Skempton CBE
 
 

BATTLE HONOURS
 

Borne on Regimental Colour:
‘Louisburg’, ‘Martinique 1762’, ‘Havannah’,
‘Meanee’, ‘Hyderabad’, ‘Scinde’,
‘South Africa 1900-02’
 

Borne on the Queen’s Colour:
‘Mons’, ‘Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18’, ‘Somme 1916, 18’,
‘Arras1917, 18’, ‘Messines 1917, 18’,
‘Bapaume 1918’, ‘Dorian 1917, 18’, ‘Suvla’,
‘Gaza’, ‘Kut al Amara 1917’

1939-45
‘St. Omer-La Bassee’, ‘Normandy Landing’,
‘Capture of Tobruk’, ‘El Alamein’, ‘Mareth’,
‘Sicily 1943’, ‘Salerno’, ‘Rome’, ‘Gothic Line’,
‘Malta 1941-42’