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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox military unit | unit_name = Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | image = | image_size = | caption = | dates = 1958 β 2007 | country = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} | type = [[Line infantry]] | role = [[Infantry]] | size = Two [[battalion]]s | command_structure = [[Prince of Wales' Division]] | garrison = | current_commander = | Regimental Headquarters = | ceremonial_chief = | ceremonial_chief_label = Colonel-in-Chief | colonel_of_the_regiment = | nickname = | identification_symbol = [[Image:D&D TRF.svg|75px]] | identification_symbol_label = Tactical Recognition Flash | identification_symbol_2 = [[File:Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 ribbon.svg|106px]]<br/>Croix de Guerre<br><small>From Devonshire Regiment</small> | identification_symbol_2_label = Arm Badge | motto = ''[[Semper Fidelis]]'' Latin: "Always Faithful" | march = Quick β ''Widdecombe Fair/We've Lived and Loved Together/The Maid of Glenconnel'' | anniversaries = }} The '''Devonshire and Dorset Regiment''' (11th, 39th and 54th), usually just known as the '''Devon and Dorsets''', was an [[infantry]] [[regiment]] of the [[British Army]] formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of two county regiments, the [[Devonshire Regiment]] and the [[Dorset Regiment]]. In 2007 it was itself merged into [[The Rifles]], a "[[large regiment]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org/devonanddorset/history.php?&dx=1&ob=3&rpn=index|title=History|publisher=The Keep Military Museum|access-date=3 January 2012}}</ref><ref name=regts>{{cite web|url=http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/011DD.htm|title=The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment|last=Mills|first=T F|date=16 July 2006|work=regiments.org: Land Forces of Britain the Empire and the Commonwealth|access-date=3 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013145300/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/011DD.htm|archive-date=13 October 2007}}</ref> Members of the regiments referred to themselves as being a [[Janner]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.devondorsetregiment.co.uk/publications|title=Publications|publisher=The Regimental Association of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment|access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
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