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Heritage of the BETFOR and XIII Corps Formations
Trieste and Venezia Giulia, 1945-1954

This will be, for some time to come, a working document on the heritage of the U.K. Regiments and Corps which served in Venezia Giulia and the Free Territory of Trieste from 1945 to 1954.

This includes both the post-war occupation duty of XIII Corps, from May 1945 to September 1947, and the peacekeeping duty under United Nations auspices of BETFOR, from September 1947 to September 1954.

There are almost certainly errors in the information herein, and it is only by you calling our attention to them that they can be corrected.

More importantly, there are other formations which need to be included, and many links still to be provided for Associations, Museums, Clubs, Chapels, etc., all of which will serve to give a more complete record.

Please direct your additions, suggestions, corrections, and comments to Pat Skelly. Thank you.

Cap Badge	The Coldstream Guards XIII Corps: 2nd Coldstream Guards: May 1945 - May 1946 General Information Regimental Association Current Status
Cap Badge	The Scots Guards XIII Corps: 1st Scots Guards: May 1945 - May 1946 General Information Current Status
Cap Badge	The Royal Regiment of Artillery 5 Field Battery RA General Information Regimental Association Regimental Museum (with sound) Current Status
Cap Badge	The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (1st) XIII Corps: 2nd Royal Scots: Jun 1947 - Sep 1947 BETFOR: 2nd Royal Scots: Sep 1947 - Dec 1948 General Information Regimental Association Regimental Museum Royal Scots Club Current Status
Cap Badge	The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (4th) XIII Corps: 1st Kings Own Regt: May 1945 - Sep 1947 BETFOR: 1st Kings Own Regt: Sep 1947 - May 1950 General Information Memorial Chapel Current Status: King's Own Royal Border Regiment
Cap Badge	The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (5th Foot) XIII Corps: Royal Northumberland Fusiliers: Apr 1946 - Sep 1946 General Information Regimental Museum Current Status: Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Cap Badge	The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (7th Foot) XIII Corps: 9th Royal Fusiliers: May 1945 - Dec 1946 General Information Regimental Association Regimental Association (with music!) Current Status: Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Cap Badge	The Suffolk Regiment (12th) BETFOR: 1st Suffolk Regt: May 1953 - Aug 1954 General Information Current Status: Royal Anglian Regiment
Cap Badge	The Lancashire Fusiliers (20th Foot) BETFOR: 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers: Jun 1953 - Oct 1954 General Information Regimental Association Regimental Museum Current Status: Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Cap Badge	The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (26th/90th) BETFOR: 1st Cameronians: Dec 1948 - Dec 1949 General Information Regimental Association Disbanded 1992: D (Cameronians) Coy, 1st Bn, 52nd Lowland Volunteers (TA)
Cap Badge	The Worcestershire Regiment (29th/36th) XIII Corps: 1st Worcestershire Regt: Aug 1946 - May 1947 General Information Regimental Museum Current Status: Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
Cap Badge	The Border Regiment (34th/55th) XIII Corps: 1st Border Regt: Oct 1946 - Mar 1947 General Information Current Status: King's Own Royal Border Regiment
Cap Badge	The Royal Sussex Regiment (35th/107th) XIII Corps: 1st Royal Sussex Regt: Apr 1946 - Jun 1947 General Information Regimental Museum Current Status: Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
Cap Badge	The Dorsetshire Regiment (39th/54th) XIII Corps: 4th Dorset Regt: Apr 1946 - Sep 1946 General Information Regimental Museum Current Status: Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
Cap Badge	The South Lancashire Regiment (40th/82nd) BETFOR: 2nd South Lancashire Regt: Sep 1947 - Feb 1951 BETFOR: 1st South Lancashire Regt: May 1950 - Feb 1951 General Information Current Status: Queen's Lancashire Regiment
Cap Badge	The Welch Regiment (41st/69th) XIII Corps: 1st Welch Regt: Apr 1946 - Jun 1947 General Information Current Status: Royal Regiment of Wales
Cap Badge	The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd/52nd) XIII Corps: 1st Ox & Bucks Light Infantry: Aug 1946 - May 1947 General Information Current Status: Royal Green Jackets
Cap Badge	The Essex Regiment (44th/56th) XIII Corps: 2nd Essex Regt: Aug 1946 - May 1947 General Information Regimental Association Current Status: Royal Anglian Regiment
Cap Badge	The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (47th/81st) BETFOR: 1st Loyal Regt: Feb 1951 - Oct 1954 General Information Current Status: Queen's Lancashire Regiment
Cap Badge	The Northamptonshire Regiment (48th/58th) BETFOR: 1st Northamptonshire Regt: Nov 1949 - Sep 1952 General Information Current Status: Royal Anglian Regiment
Cap Badge	The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wale's) (64th/98th) XIII Corps: 7th North Staffordshire Regt: Nov 1945 - Jan 1946 XIII Corps: 56 Div: 24 Guards Bde: 7th North Staffordshire Regt: Jan 1946 - Aug 1946 BETFOR: 24 Inf Bde: 1st North Staffordshire Regt: Feb 1951 - Jun 1953 General Information Regimental Museum: Lichfield, Staffordshire Regimental Chapel: Lichfield Cathedral Current Status: Staffordshire Regiment
Cap Badge	The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (79th) XIII Corps: 2nd Queens Own Cameron Highlanders: Aug 1946 - Mar 1947 General Information Current Status: Highlanders
Cap Badge	The London Irish Rifles (18th County of London Battalion) XIII Corps: 1st London Irish Rifles: May 1945 - Dec 1946 General Information Regimental Association Current Status: D (London Irish Rifles) Coy, The London Regiment (TA)
Cap Badge	The London Scottish (14th County of London Battalion) XIII Corps: 1st London Scottish: May 1945 - Dec 1946 General Information Current Status: A (London Scottish) Coy, The London Regiment (TA)
Cap Badge	The Corps of Royal Engineers Commander Royal Engineers Works 66 Independent Field Squadron RE 342 Army Troops Squadron RE General Information Corps Association Corps Museum Current Status
Cap Badge	The Royal Corps of Signals 24 Guards Brigade Signal Squadron BETFOR Signal Squadron General Information Corps Association Corps Museum Current Status
Cap Badge	The Royal Army Service Corps 65 Company RASC General Information Current Status: Royal Logistic Corps
Cap Badge	The Royal Army Medical Corps 83rd General Military Hospital General Information Corps Museum Current Status
Cap Badge	The Royal Army Ordnance Corps General Information Corps Association Current Status: Royal Logistic Corps
Cap Badge 1942 Cap Badge 1948	The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 768 Static Workshops REME 20th Infantry Workshops REME General Information Corps Association Corps Museum Current Status
Cap Badge	Royal Army Pay Corps General Information Corps Association Current Status: Adjutant General's Corp
Cap Badge	Royal Army Educational Corps General Information Current Status: Adjutant General's Corp
Cap Badge	Intelligence Corps Trieste Security Office General Information Corps Association Current Status
Cap Badge	Army Physical Training Corps General Information Current Status
Cap Badge	Army Catering Corps General Information Corps Association Current Status: Royal Logistic Corps
Cap Badge	Corps of Royal Military Police 227 Provost Company General Information Corps Association Corps Museum Current Status: Adjutant General's Corp
Cap Badge	Reconnaissance Corps General Information Current Status: Royal Armoured Corps

Cap Badge images are displayed with the kind permission of E.G. Frames Militaria UK, Tamworth, Staffordshire. 'Clicking' on any image will bring up their web page describing that product; this is a gesture of appreciation, not a product endorsement, by the BETFOR Association.

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