4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment

Between 17th December 1940 and 24th July 1942, 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment was part of 148th Independent Infantry Brigade and spent time in Ulster.

4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment

148th Independent Infantry Brigade

Training on the Maine

On 9th September 1941, soldiers of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade trained between Antrim Town and Ballymena.

Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine with bicycles between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine on a Universal Carrier between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine with a towed 4.5” Howitzer between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine with a towed 4.5” Howitzer between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack forded the River Maine by improvised raft between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine by improvised raft between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins practising new forms of attack and fording the River Maine between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins take position with a Bren Gun next to a railway line between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Members of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins giving orders by wireless telephone between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Brigadier H.B. Hibbert and Lieutenant Colonel B. Hawkins of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade at a training exercise between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Brigadier H.B. Hibbert of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade at a training exercise between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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Brigadier H.B. Hibbert of 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade in conversation with war correspondents at a training exercise between Antrim Town and Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
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