c1929 Machine Gun Company 'A4' Size 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Real Photograph Gravesend Photographer

1929 MG Coy 2nd (61st Regt) Glosters real picture photograph A4 paper size. Photo stamped tonrae giving photographer's details at Gravesend, Kent. Crease top right otherwise, in good condition.

In 1928, the 2nd Battalion returned to the UK and the 1st Battalion was posted overseas, serving three years in Egypt, a year in Singapore and six years in India before ending up in Burma in 1938. Prompted by concerns of an Italian invasion following the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the 2nd Battalion was sent at short notice to Egypt in January 1936, returning to the UK in January 1937. The following year, the 5th Battalion became the regiment's sole territorial unit when the 4th Battalion was converted to the 66th (Gloucesters) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (RA), and the 6th Battalion converted to the 44th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment. On the eve of the Second World War, the Territorial Army (TA), as the Territorial Force had been renamed, was doubled in size, and the 7th Battalion was created in August 1939 as the second-line duplicate of the 5th Battalion.


Code 12f

Code: 1771