Gen. Sir Charles William Dunbar Staveley 1896–1897: Gen. Sir Archibald Alison Bt, GCB 1897–1904: Lt-Gen. Hon. John Jocelyn Bourke, CB 1904–1929: Maj-Gen. Francis Ventris, CB 1929–1935: Maj-Gen. John Cartwright Harding-Newman, CB, CMG 1935–1946: Lt-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Weston Howard, KCB, CMG, DSO 1946–1950: Brig. Graham Horace Wilmer, DSO, MC 1950–1958: Brig. Charles Morgan Paton, CVO, CBE 1956: Regiment amalgamated with The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment to form 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) Essex Regiment Chapel The Essex Regiment Chapel is located in Eagle Way, Warley (). The chapel was built in 1857 and is a Grade II listed building. It was originally constructed for the British East India Company, but with the establishment of the Essex Regiment Depot at Warley, the chapel became the regiment's "home" church. The chapel's interior contains displays of regimental history, memorials, heraldry, and old regimental colours. The chapel is open by appointment, and on regimental heritage days. The chapel is near to the Warley (Brentwood) Army Reserve drill hall, which is the headquarters of 124 Petroleum Squadron, part of the Royal Logistic Corps' 151 (London) Transport Regiment. The site of the old regimental depot and barracks at Warley is now the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company in the UK. Most of the barracks have been demolished and only the chapel, the officer's mess (now the Marillac Nursing Home) and one of the regimental gyms (Keys Hall), remain. Uniform The Essex Regiment had inherited a unique facing colour from the 56th Foot: a shade of purple originally described as "deep crimson" and later "Pompadour". From 1881 the standard white facings of English non-royal regiments were in use but the historic purple was readopted in 1902. In other respects the regiment followed the normal progression from red coats, to scarlet tunics, to khaki service dress and battledress, of the British line infantry. Notes References Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a: The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56), London: HM Stationery Office, 1935/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . Ian F.W. Beckett, Riflemen Form: A study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908, Aldershot: