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  2. 243 (Wessex) Multi-Role Medical Regiment - Wikipedia

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    128 Support Squadron, at Keynsham and Gloucester; 219 Hospital Squadron, at Wyvern Barracks, Exeter; 211 Hospital Squadron, at Plymouth and Truro; 129 Medical Squadron, at Portsmouth; Uniform. The Wessex Wyvern Division Sign was used by the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division during the two world wars: a mythical creature said to lurk in the West ...

  3. Wessex Brigade - Wikipedia

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    Wessex Brigade. The Wessex Brigade was an administrative formation of the British Army from 1948 to 1968. The Brigade administered the regular infantry regiments of the Wessex area of south and south west England . After the Second World War the British Army had fourteen infantry depots, each bearing a letter.

  4. 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division - Wikipedia

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    The 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division was an infantry division of Britain's Territorial Army (TA). The division was first formed in 1908, as the Wessex Division. During the First World War, it was broken-up and never served as a complete formation. It was reformed in the TA in 1920, and then served in the campaign in North West Europe from June ...

  5. Wessex culture - Wikipedia

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    The Wessex culture is the predominant prehistoric culture of central and southern Britain during the early Bronze Age, originally defined by the British archaeologist Stuart Piggott in 1938. [1] The culture is related to the Hilversum culture of the southern Netherlands, Belgium and northern France, and linked to the Armorican Tumulus culture ...

  6. Gewisse - Wikipedia

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    Kingdom of Wessex. The Gewisse ( Old English: [jeˈwisːe] ye-WEES-se; Latin: Geuissæ) were a tribe or ruling clan of the Anglo-Saxons. Their first location, mentioned in early medieval sources was the upper Thames region, around Dorchester on Thames. [1] However, some scholars suggest that the Gewisse had origins among the ancient Britons at ...

  7. Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Wessex. The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until England was unified in 927. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse, though this is considered by some to be a legend.

  8. Viking activity in the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    Coin of King Cnut. Viking activity in the British Isles occurred during the Early Middle Ages, the 8th to the 11th centuries CE, when Scandinavians travelled to the British Isles to raid, conquer, settle and trade. They are generally referred to as Vikings, [1] [2] but some scholars debate whether the term Viking [a] represented all ...

  9. Heptarchy - Wikipedia

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    The Heptarchy were the seven petty kingdoms [1] [2] [3] of Anglo-Saxon England that flourished from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century until they were consolidated in the 8th century into the four kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex . The term 'Heptarchy' (from the Greek ἑπταρχία, 'heptarchia ...

  10. Alfred the Great - Wikipedia

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    Alfred was a son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").

  11. Egdon Heath - Wikipedia

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    Egdon Heath. Egdon Heath is a fictitious area of Thomas Hardy 's Wessex inhabited sparsely by the people who cut the furze ( gorse) that grows there. The entire action of Hardy's novel The Return of the Native takes place on Egdon Heath, and it also features in The Mayor of Casterbridge and the short story The Withered Arm (1888).