Cap Badge - The Bedfordshire Regiment The Bedfordshire Regiment can be traced back to 1688. In 1881 the Regiment avoided amalgamation under the Childers Reforms but the numerical titles of seniority were dropped and the Regiment became The Bedfordshire Regiment. It went on to serve during the Burma Campaign, the Boer War and two World Wars. During the Great War 1914-1918 he regiment saw action in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine as well as France and Flanders including at the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, Marne, Ypres, Suvla, Somme, Passchendaele and Arras. In 1919 the regiment was renamed to The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, in recognition of the Hertfordshire men who served with the Regiment during the First World War. In 1958 the British Army was reduced in size and the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment was merged with the Essex Regiment to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment. In 1964 it was further merged with The Royal Leicester Regiment, The Norfolk and Suffolk Regiments, The Duchess of Gloucester’s Own Lincolnshire Regiment and the Northampton Regiment to form the Royal Anglian Regiment.