The 30thFoot became the Cambridgeshire Regiment in 1782 and later became the East Lancashire Regiment in 1881. The county of Cambridgeshire was then left without a county regiment.

There were two battalions during the second world war and both were at the fall of Singapore, therafter they endured three and a half years of captivity and lost three quarters of their strength.

The Colours are in Ely Cathedral as the regiment is now disbanded.

Battle Honours WW1

South Africa 1900-01

The Great War (4 battalions): Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Somme 1916 '18, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Rosières, Lys, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18

Battle Honours WW2

Jahore, Batu-Pahat, Singapore Island, Malaya

The Cambridgeshire Regiment Collection, Royal Anglian Regiment Museum, Duxford (Imperial War Museum Duxford page)

Titles and Lineage

1860. 1st Administrative Battalion, Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers
formed with HQ at March to administer existing corps [see below for 2nd Admin Bn]
1st Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Cambridge, raised Jan. 1860, transferred 1862 to 2nd Admin Bn; re-absorbed 1872
2nd Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Wisbech, raised 1860
4th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Whittlesea, raised 1860
5th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at March, raised 1860
6th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Ely, raised 1860
7th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Upwell, raised 1860; disbanded 1872
8th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Cambridge, raised 1860; transferred 1862 to 2nd Admin Bn
6th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Newmarket, raised 1861; absorbed 1862 by 20th Suffolk RVC
10th Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Soham, raised 1862; disbanded 1865

1872 absorbed 1st Cambridgeshire RVC at Cambridge and 17th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps at Saffron Walden from 2nd Admin Bn
1880.03.16 1st Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers
1880.06? 1st Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, Essex and Huntingdonshire) Rifle Volunteers
absorbed 1st Huntingdonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, at Huntingdon as J Company
1881.07.01 volunteer battalion of The Suffolk Regiment
1887.12 3rd (Cambridgeshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
1889 J Coy [Huntingdonshire] disbanded
1908.04.01 The Cambridgeshire Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Cambridge
A Company at Cambridge (dets at Great Shelford and Burwell)
B Company at Cambridge (det at Sawston)
C Company at Cambridge (det at Madingley)
D Company at Cambridge
E Company at Wisbech
F Company at Whittlesea (dets at Coates and Thorney)
F Company at March (dets at Benwick and Doddington)
H Company at Ely (det at Sutton)

1909.03 1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment
(part of the corps of The Suffolk Regiment)
1920.02.07 reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Cambridge
1947.01.01 629th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (The Cambridgeshire Regiment)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Cambridge

1955.03.10 629th (The Cambridgeshire Regiment) Airborne Light Regiment, RA
amalgamated with 513 LAA/SL Regiment RA
1955.07.27 629th (The Cambridgeshire Regiment) Parachute Light Regiment, RA
1956.10.31 1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment
converted to infantry, part of the corps of The Suffolk Regiment
1959.08.29 transferred to the corps of the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk)
1961.04.01 ? Company
} The Suffolk and
Cambridgeshire Regiment
HQ at ?
? Company

(amalgamated with The Suffolk Regiment)
1964.09.01 transferred to the corps of The Royal Anglian Regiment
1967.04.01 disbanded and concurrently reconstituted in TAVR III as The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorials) with no units in Cambridgeshire
1969.04.01 reduced to cadre at Ipswich

1971.04.01 D (Cambridgeshire) Company, 6th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
at Cambridge and Wisbech, reconstituted from cadre
1975.04.01 D Coy formed pln at Haverhill, transferred from B Coy

The 'Haverhill Platoon' was formed by C (Essex) Company, based at Braintree, in the winter of 1974, and when C Company became dispersed in 1975, the Haverhill Platoon was transferred to D (Cambridgeshire) Company, whilst the remainder from Braintree ('Pompadour Detachment') were transferred to B (Bedfordshire) Company.

Thus:
1975: Haverhill Platoon transfers to D (Cambridgeshire) Company, originally part of C (Essex) Coy.


1992.04.01 3 (Cambridgeshire) Company, 5th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
at Cambridge with Pln at Wisbech, redesignation of D Coy, 6th Bn
1996.04.01 D (Cambridgeshire) Company, 6th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
at Cambridge and Wisbech
1999.07.01 amalgamated into HQ (Suffolk) Company, The East of England Regiment at Bury St. Edmunds, and Cambridgeshire lineage ceased