The Duke Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire & Wiltshire)
derrcatterick
The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Old Comrades Association
1st Battalion, Catterick 1990s
colours_parade
The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Old Comrades Association
Presentation of new Colours, Canterbury
DERRMinden
The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Old Comrades Association
1st Battalion Minden, West Germany
colours
The Regimental Emblazon
The Farmer’s Boys
The regiment was part of The British Army’s Order of Battle (ORBAT) from 1959 to 1994. It was formed by the amalgamation of two great county regiments, The Royal Berkshire Regiment and The Wiltshire Regiment, and served with distinction around the world.
The Regiment’s recruiting area was from Berkshire and Wiltshire however during its existence, among its ranks were soldiers from throughout the country in fact throughout the commonwealth from afar afield as the Caribbean to Fiji to South Africa and Australia.
belowThe Regiments most recognised nickname was “The Farmers Boys” which was taken from it’s Regimental march *The Farmers Boy”, the verse of which you can see scrolling across the top of the site. Other nicknames that were used were, The DERRs, The Wunders (1DERR).
Left over from the Farmers Boys 65th anniversary are some DERR Trainer Shorts held by the museum; 3 times medium size… Read More »Trainer Shorts for Sale
.60 years ago, the 1st Bn The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire & Wiltshire’s) took part in Malta’s Independence… Read More »60th MALTA INDEPENDENCE DAY
Mr Denis Lock. The family of Mr Denis Lock have informed us of his death before Christmas 2023, after a… Read More »Mr Denis Lock.
Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
