The 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ...

As a result of defence cuts implemented in the late 1950s, the 1st Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment and the 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment amalgamated on 29 August 1959 to form the 1st Battalion, 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk). Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Regiment was based in West Germany where the Royal Norfolks were based, and was based in West Berlin, an exclave surrounded by Communist East Germany. In 1961 the Regiment returned to the UK for the first since its creation, being based in Harwich. The following year the 1st East Anglians deployed to the South American colony of British Guiana (now the state of Guyana) after violence erupted between the African and Indian ethnic groups there. The Regiment returned to the UK later that year. Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a socialist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... (This article is about the town in England. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... British Guiana was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana. ...

In February 1964 the Regiment arrived in Aden as part of the Aden Brigade, seeing active sevrice in the Radfan on the border with South Yemen as part of Radforce, fighting Egyptian-supported guerillas, losing a number of its soldiers in the process. In September that year, while still based there, the Regiment amalgamated with the three other remaining regiments of the East Anglian Brigade on 1 September to form one of the new 'large' regiments, the Royal Anglian Regiment; the 1st East Anglians became the 1st Battalion (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk). 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Port of Aden (around 1910) Aden is a city in Yemen, 105 miles East of Bab-el-Mandeb. ... National motto: ??? Official language Arabic Capital Aden Area 287,680 km² Population  - Total (1973)  - Density 1,590,275 5. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... The Royal Anglian Regiment (RAR) is an infantry regiment of the British Army. ...

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• Colonel-in-Chief: HRH Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
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