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.infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">22nd Regiment of Foot<br />22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot<br />Cheshire Regiment</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Cheshire_Regiment_Cap_Badge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Cheshire_Regiment_Cap_Badge.jpg/220px-Cheshire_Regiment_Cap_Badge.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Cheshire_Regiment_Cap_Badge.jpg/330px-Cheshire_Regiment_Cap_Badge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Cheshire_Regiment_Cap_Badge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="396" data-file-height="441" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Cap badge of the Cheshire Regiment</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Active</th><td class="infobox-data">1689–2007</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">Kingdom of England</a> (to 1707)<br /> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a> (1707–1800)<br /> </p> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> (1801–2007)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="710" data-file-height="406" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Infantry" title="Infantry">Infantry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Role</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Line_infantry" title="Line infantry">Line infantry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">One battalion</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales%27_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince of Wales' Division">Prince of Wales' Division</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Garrison/HQ</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chester_Castle" title="Chester Castle">Chester Castle</a> (1873–1939)<br /><a href="/wiki/Dale_Barracks" title="Dale Barracks">Dale Barracks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upton-by-Chester" title="Upton-by-Chester">Upton-by-Chester</a> (1939–2007)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>The Old Two-twos<br />The Young Buffs<br />The Peep of Day Boys<br />The Lightning Conductors<br />The Red Knights<br />The Specimens<br />Twos</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Colors</th><td class="infobox-data">Cerise and Buff</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">March</th><td class="infobox-data">Quick – <i>Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie</i><br />Slow – <i>The 22nd Regiment 1772</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Engagements</th><td class="infobox-data">See honours list</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Last Colonel-in-Chief</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">The Prince of Wales</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Colonel of<br />the Regiment</th><td class="infobox-data">Brigadier A.R.D. Sharpe</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Insignia</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Tactical Recognition Flash</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cheshire_Regiment_TRF.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Cheshire_Regiment_TRF.svg/76px-Cheshire_Regiment_TRF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="76" height="91" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Cheshire_Regiment_TRF.svg/114px-Cheshire_Regiment_TRF.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Cheshire_Regiment_TRF.svg/152px-Cheshire_Regiment_TRF.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="513" data-file-height="613" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p>The <b>Cheshire Regiment</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Line_infantry" title="Line infantry">line infantry</a> <a href="/wiki/Regiment" title="Regiment">regiment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales%27_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince of Wales' Division">Prince of Wales' Division</a>. The <b>22nd Regiment of Foot</b> was raised by the <a href="/wiki/Henry_Howard,_7th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk">Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk</a> in 1689 and was able to boast an independent existence of over 300 years. The regiment was expanded in 1881 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Childers_Reforms" title="Childers Reforms">Childers Reforms</a> by the linking of the <b>22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot</b> and the <a href="/wiki/Militia_(United_Kingdom)" title="Militia (United Kingdom)">militia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_Force_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Volunteer Force (Great Britain)">rifle volunteers</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>. The title 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment continued to be used within the regiment. </p><p>On 1 September 2007, the Cheshire Regiment was merged with the <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire_and_Sherwood_Foresters_Regiment" title="Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment">Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire_Regiment" title="Staffordshire Regiment">Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)</a> to form a new <a href="/wiki/Large_regiment" title="Large regiment">large regiment</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mercian_Regiment" title="Mercian Regiment">Mercian Regiment</a>, becoming the 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_wars">Early wars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:6thDukeOfNorfolk.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/6thDukeOfNorfolk.jpg/220px-6thDukeOfNorfolk.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/6thDukeOfNorfolk.jpg/330px-6thDukeOfNorfolk.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/6thDukeOfNorfolk.jpg/440px-6thDukeOfNorfolk.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1264" data-file-height="1496" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Henry_Howard,_7th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk">Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk</a>, founder of the regiment</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Soldier_of_22nd_regiment_1742.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Soldier_of_22nd_regiment_1742.jpg/220px-Soldier_of_22nd_regiment_1742.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="338" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Soldier_of_22nd_regiment_1742.jpg/330px-Soldier_of_22nd_regiment_1742.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Soldier_of_22nd_regiment_1742.jpg 2x" data-file-width="397" data-file-height="610" /></a><figcaption>Soldier of 22nd regiment, 1742</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the 1688 <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a> and the exile of <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Howard,_7th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk">Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk</a>, raised a regiment at <a href="/wiki/Chester_Racecourse" title="Chester Racecourse">Chester</a> on behalf of the new regime.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The experience of the 1638-1652 <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Three_Kingdoms" title="Wars of the Three Kingdoms">Wars of the Three Kingdoms</a> meant many considered standing armies a danger to individual liberties and a threat to society itself.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until the mid-18th century, regiments were considered the property of their <a href="/wiki/Colonel#Colonel_of_the_regiment" title="Colonel">Colonel</a>, changed names when transferred and were disbanded as soon as possible.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 1689, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Belasyse_(died_1717)" title="Henry Belasyse (died 1717)">Sir Henry Belasyse</a> became Colonel and as <b>Belasyse's Regiment of Foot</b>, the unit went to Ireland as part of an Anglo-Dutch force commanded by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Schomberg,_1st_Duke_of_Schomberg" title="Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg">Frederick Schomberg</a>. When inspected at <a href="/wiki/Dundalk" title="Dundalk">Dundalk</a> in October 1689, it was reported as having '...hardly any good officers and an entire absence of good order...but Belasyse expected to work reforms.'<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1689-1691 <a href="/wiki/Williamite_War_in_Ireland" title="Williamite War in Ireland">Williamite War in Ireland</a>, it fought at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne" title="Battle of the Boyne">The Boyne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aughrim" title="Battle of Aughrim">Aughrim</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Limerick_(1691)" title="Siege of Limerick (1691)">Second Siege of Limerick</a> that ended the war in August 1691.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment was transferred to <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a> in October, where it spent the rest of the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Years_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Nine Years War">Nine Years War</a>, fighting at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Landen" title="Battle of Landen">Battle of Landen</a> in 1693 and during the 1695 Allied <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Namur_(1695)" title="Siege of Namur (1695)">siege of Namur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the 1697 <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Ryswick" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Ryswick">Treaty of Ryswick</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a> majority in <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament</a> was determined to reduce costs and by 1699, the English military was less than 7,000 men.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, England, Ireland and Scotland were then separate entities with their own Parliaments and funding; Belasyse's Regiment of Foot avoided disbandment by being transferred onto the Irish military establishment.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">War of the Spanish Succession</a> in 1701, the regiment was posted to <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>; this was a notoriously unhealthy location and Sir Henry Belasyse transferred his Colonelcy to <a href="/wiki/William_Selwyn_(British_Army_officer)" title="William Selwyn (British Army officer)">William Selwyn</a>. The regiment spent the next twelve years in the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>; soon after arrival in April 1702, Selwyn died and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Handasyd" title="Thomas Handasyd">Thomas Handasyd</a>, both as Colonel and Governor of Jamaica.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thomas returned to England and was succeeded as Colonel by his son <a href="/wiki/Roger_Handasyd" title="Roger Handasyd">Roger Handasyd</a> in 1712, a position he retained until 1730.<sup id="cite_ref-regiments_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1726, the regiment was posted to <a href="/wiki/Menorca" title="Menorca">Menorca</a>, where it remained for the next 22 years,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although a detachment was present at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dettingen" title="Battle of Dettingen">Battle of Dettingen</a> in June 1743, during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-museum_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museum-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1751, the regiment had become the <b>22nd Regiment of Foot</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1758, it took part in the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Louisbourg_(1758)" title="Siege of Louisbourg (1758)">Siege of Louisbourg</a> in French Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment also took part in General <a href="/wiki/James_Wolfe" title="James Wolfe">Wolfe</a>'s victory over the French at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham" title="Battle of the Plains of Abraham">Battle of the Plains of Abraham</a> in September 1759.<sup id="cite_ref-cannon9_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cannon9-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They then took part in the conclusive <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Montreal Campaign">three pronged attack against Montréal</a> which capitulated in September 1760.<sup id="cite_ref-cannon9_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cannon9-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The regiment received two battle honours for taking part in the capture of <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Martinique_(1762)" title="Invasion of Martinique (1762)">Martinique</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Havana_(1762)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Havana (1762)">British expedition against Cuba</a> during 1762.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="American_Revolutionary_War">American Revolutionary War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: American Revolutionary War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The regiment was sent to <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a> for service in the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> in 1775.<sup id="cite_ref-cannon12_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cannon12-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lieutenant Colonel <a href="/wiki/James_Abercrombie_(British_Army_officer,_born_1732)" title="James Abercrombie (British Army officer, born 1732)">James Abercrombie</a>, commanding the regiment, embarked in advance of the rest of the regiment at the request of General <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gage" title="Thomas Gage">Thomas Gage</a> and arrived in <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston</a> just before the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill" title="Battle of Bunker Hill">Battle of Bunker Hill</a>, where he was killed in action.<sup id="cite_ref-cannon12_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cannon12-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment later evacuated from Boston to <a href="/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" title="Halifax, Nova Scotia">Halifax</a> and then took part in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_and_New_Jersey_campaign" title="New York and New Jersey campaign">New York and New Jersey campaign</a> of 1776. The Battalion Companies participated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rhode_Island" title="Battle of Rhode Island">Battle of Rhode Island</a> in August 1778<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then returned to New York City in 1779; the bulk of the regiment remained there until the end of the War.<sup id="cite_ref-cannon15_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cannon15-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the County designation existed unofficially as early as 1772, the regiment was retitled the <b>22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot</b> in 1782.<sup id="cite_ref-cannon15_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cannon15-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_Revolutionary_and_Napoleonic_Wars">French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The regiment deployed to the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a> in September 1793, where it took part in expeditions against <a href="/wiki/Martinique" title="Martinique">Martinique</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia" title="Saint Lucia">Saint Lucia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe" title="Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Saint-Domingue" title="Saint-Domingue">Saint-Domingue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 1800 the regiment was posted to <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before moving to India. There it suffered heavy losses during the assault on <a href="/wiki/Bharatpur,_Rajasthan" title="Bharatpur, Rajasthan">Bhurtpore</a> in 1805.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1810, the regiment took part in the occupation of <a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Victorian_era">The Victorian era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Victorian era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The regiment took part in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Meeanee" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Meeanee">Battle of Meeanee</a> in February 1843, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hyderabad" title="Battle of Hyderabad">Battle of Hyderabad</a> in March 1843 and the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> in summer 1843 during further Indian service.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the <a href="/wiki/Cardwell_Reforms" title="Cardwell Reforms">Cardwell Reforms</a> of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at <a href="/wiki/Chester_Castle" title="Chester Castle">Chester Castle</a> from 1873, or by the <a href="/wiki/Childers_reforms" class="mw-redirect" title="Childers reforms">Childers reforms</a> of 1881 – as it already possessed two battalions, there was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the reforms the regiment became <b>The Cheshire Regiment</b> on 1 July 1881.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reforms added the following units: 1st Royal Cheshire Light Infantry Militia, <a href="/wiki/2nd_Royal_Cheshire_Militia" title="2nd Royal Cheshire Militia">2nd Royal Cheshire Militia</a>, 1st Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 2nd (Earl of Chester's) Cheshire RVC, 3rd Cheshire RVC, <a href="/wiki/6th_Battalion,_Cheshire_Regiment" title="6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment">4th Cheshire (Cheshire and Derbyshire) RVC</a>, and the 5th Cheshire RVC. Its recruiting area was confirmed as being the County of <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Memorial_to_the_Cheshire_Regiment_in_Chester_Cathedral.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Memorial_to_the_Cheshire_Regiment_in_Chester_Cathedral.JPG/220px-Memorial_to_the_Cheshire_Regiment_in_Chester_Cathedral.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Memorial_to_the_Cheshire_Regiment_in_Chester_Cathedral.JPG/330px-Memorial_to_the_Cheshire_Regiment_in_Chester_Cathedral.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Memorial_to_the_Cheshire_Regiment_in_Chester_Cathedral.JPG/440px-Memorial_to_the_Cheshire_Regiment_in_Chester_Cathedral.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1663" data-file-height="1533" /></a><figcaption>Memorial in <a href="/wiki/Chester_Cathedral" title="Chester Cathedral">Chester Cathedral</a> to the men of the Cheshire Regiment who died in South Africa</figcaption></figure> <p>Both battalions of the regiment served in Burma between 1887 and 1891, while the 2nd Battalion saw active service in <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> from 1900 to 1902, during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-museum_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museum-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the end of the war, 376 officers and men of the battalion returned home in October 1902, and were stationed at <a href="/wiki/Aldershot_Barracks" class="mw-redirect" title="Aldershot Barracks">Aldershot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 3rd (Militia) battalion was also embodied for active duty in South Africa, with 450 men reported as returning home after the end of the war in September 1902.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Force" title="Territorial Force">Territorial Force</a> and the latter the <a href="/wiki/Special_Reserve_(militia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Reserve (militia)">Special Reserve</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the regiment now had one Reserve and four Territorial battalions.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-regiments_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_World_War">First World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Battalions_of_the_Cheshire_Regiment#First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Battalions of the Cheshire Regiment">List of Battalions of the Cheshire Regiment § First World War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916.jpg/220px-Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916.jpg/330px-Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916.jpg/440px-Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1069" /></a><figcaption>A British trench near the <a href="/wiki/Albert,_Somme" title="Albert, Somme">Albert</a>-<a href="/wiki/Bapaume" title="Bapaume">Bapaume</a> road at <a href="/wiki/Ovillers-la-Boisselle" title="Ovillers-la-Boisselle">Ovillers-la-Boisselle</a>, July 1916 during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme" title="Battle of the Somme">Battle of the Somme</a>. The men are from A Company, 11th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Don%27t_be_alarmed_WWI_postcard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Don%27t_be_alarmed_WWI_postcard.jpg/220px-Don%27t_be_alarmed_WWI_postcard.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="351" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Don%27t_be_alarmed_WWI_postcard.jpg/330px-Don%27t_be_alarmed_WWI_postcard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Don%27t_be_alarmed_WWI_postcard.jpg/440px-Don%27t_be_alarmed_WWI_postcard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1001" data-file-height="1595" /></a><figcaption>Cheshire Regiment postcard from the First World War.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Regular_Army">Regular Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Regular Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1st battalion landed at <a href="/wiki/Le_Havre" title="Le Havre">Le Havre</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/15th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="15th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">15th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/5th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)">5th Division</a> in August 1914 for service on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It took part in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mons" title="Battle of Mons">Battle of Mons</a> in August 1914, the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Marne" title="First Battle of the Marne">First Battle of the Marne</a> in September 1914, the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Aisne" title="First Battle of the Aisne">First Battle of the Aisne</a> also in September 1914, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Bass%C3%A9e" title="Battle of La Bassée">Battle of La Bassée</a> in October 1914, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Messines_(1914)" title="Battle of Messines (1914)">Battle of Messines</a> also in October 1914 and in the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres" title="First Battle of Ypres">First Battle of Ypres</a> also in October 1914. It also saw action at the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Ypres" title="Second Battle of Ypres">Second Battle of Ypres</a> in April 1915 and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hill_60_(Western_Front)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Hill 60 (Western Front)">Battle of Hill 60</a> also in April 1915. In 1917 they fought at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Arras_(1917)" title="Battle of Arras (1917)">Battle of Arras</a> in April 1917 and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele" title="Battle of Passchendaele">Battle of Passchendaele</a> in July 1917. It then took part in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lys_(1918)" title="Battle of the Lys (1918)">Battle of the Lys</a> in April 1918 and the Battles of the <a href="/wiki/Hindenburg_Line" title="Hindenburg Line">Hindenburg Line</a> and the Final Advance in <a href="/wiki/Picardy" title="Picardy">Picardy</a> later in the year.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2nd battalion, which was recalled from India in December 1914, landed at Le Havre as part of the <a href="/wiki/84th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="84th Brigade (United Kingdom)">84th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/28th_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="28th Division (United Kingdom)">28th Division</a> in January 1915 for service on the Western Front; it moved to <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> in October 1915 and then on to <a href="/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Salonika</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Territorial_Force">Territorial Force</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Territorial Force"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1/4th Battalion landed in <a href="/wiki/Gallipoli" title="Gallipoli">Gallipoli</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/159th_(Cheshire)_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="159th (Cheshire) Brigade">159th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/53rd_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division" title="53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division">53rd (Welsh) Division</a> in August 1915; after being evacuated to <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> in December 1915 the battalion landed in France in May 1918 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1/5th (Earl of Chester's) Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the <a href="/wiki/14th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="14th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">14th Brigade</a> in the 5th Division in February 1915 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/6th_Battalion,_Cheshire_Regiment" title="6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment">1/6th Battalion</a> landed in France as GHQ Troops and saw considerable action on the Western Front under a number of different formations.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1/7th Battalion landed in France as part of the <a href="/wiki/15th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="15th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">15th Brigade</a> in the 5th Division in November 1914 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Second Line (2/4th, 2/5th, <a href="/wiki/6th_Battalion,_Cheshire_Regiment" title="6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment">2/6th</a> and 2/7th) and Third Line (Reserve) (3/4th, 3/5th, <a href="/wiki/6th_Battalion,_Cheshire_Regiment" title="6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment">3/6th</a> and 3/7th) TF battalions did not go overseas, but remained as home defence and training units.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_Armies">New Armies</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: New Armies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 8th (Service) Battalion landed in Gallipoli as part of the <a href="/wiki/40th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="40th Brigade (United Kingdom)">40th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/13th_(Western)_Division" title="13th (Western) Division">13th (Western) Division</a> in June 1915; after evacuation to Egypt in January 1916 it moved to <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> in February 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 9th (Service) Battalion landed at <a href="/wiki/Boulogne-sur-Mer" title="Boulogne-sur-Mer">Boulogne-sur-Mer</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/58th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="58th Brigade (United Kingdom)">58th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/19th_(Western)_Division" title="19th (Western) Division">19th (Western) Division</a> in July 1915 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 10th (Service) Battalion and the 11th (Service) Battalion landed in France as part of the <a href="/wiki/75th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="75th Brigade (United Kingdom)">75th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/25th_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="25th Division (United Kingdom)">25th Division</a> in September 1915 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 12th (Service) Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the <a href="/wiki/66th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="66th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">66th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/22nd_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="22nd Division (United Kingdom)">22nd Division</a> in September 1915 for service on the Western Front but moved to Salonika in November 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 13th (Service) Battalion landed in France as part of the <a href="/wiki/74th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="74th Brigade (United Kingdom)">74th Brigade</a> in the 25th Division in September 1915 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 15th (Service) Battalion (1st Birkenhead) and the 16th (Service) Battalion (2nd Birkenhead) (both '<a href="/wiki/Bantam_(military)" title="Bantam (military)">Bantam battalions</a>') landed at Le Havre as part of the <a href="/wiki/105th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="105th Brigade (United Kingdom)">105th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/35th_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="35th Division (United Kingdom)">35th Division</a> in January 1916 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-trail_32-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trail-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_World_War">Second World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Second World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Battalions_of_the_Cheshire_Regiment#Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Battalions of the Cheshire Regiment">List of Battalions of the Cheshire Regiment § Second World War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Men_of_the_7th_Cheshire_Regiment,_5th_Infantry_Division%27s_machine_gun_battalion,_in_a_captured_German_communications_trench_during_the_offensive_at_Anzio,_Italy,_22_May_1944._NA15298.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Men_of_the_7th_Cheshire_Regiment%2C_5th_Infantry_Division%27s_machine_gun_battalion%2C_in_a_captured_German_communications_trench_during_the_offensive_at_Anzio%2C_Italy%2C_22_May_1944._NA15298.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Men_of_the_7th_Cheshire_Regiment%2C_5th_Infantry_Division%27s_machine_gun_battalion%2C_in_a_captured_German_communications_trench_during_the_offensive_at_Anzio%2C_Italy%2C_22_May_1944._NA15298.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Men_of_the_7th_Cheshire_Regiment%2C_5th_Infantry_Division%27s_machine_gun_battalion%2C_in_a_captured_German_communications_trench_during_the_offensive_at_Anzio%2C_Italy%2C_22_May_1944._NA15298.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Men of the 7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, <a href="/wiki/5th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)">5th Infantry Division</a>'s machine gun battalion, in a captured German communications trench during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio" title="Battle of Anzio">offensive at Anzio</a>, Italy, 22 May 1944.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_British_Army_in_Normandy_1944_B5439.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/The_British_Army_in_Normandy_1944_B5439.jpg/220px-The_British_Army_in_Normandy_1944_B5439.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/The_British_Army_in_Normandy_1944_B5439.jpg/330px-The_British_Army_in_Normandy_1944_B5439.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/The_British_Army_in_Normandy_1944_B5439.jpg/440px-The_British_Army_in_Normandy_1944_B5439.jpg 2x" data-file-width="798" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Vickers_machine_gun" title="Vickers machine gun">Vickers machine gun</a> of 'B' Company of the 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, near Audrieu, France, 13 June 1944.</figcaption></figure> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>, the 2nd Battalion of the Cheshires served in France in 1940 with the rest of the <a href="/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_II)" title="British Expeditionary Force (World War II)">British Expeditionary Force</a> before fighting in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dunkirk" title="Battle of Dunkirk">Battle of Dunkirk</a> and subsequently being evacuated. The 1st Battalion fought in North Africa at <a href="/wiki/Tobruk" title="Tobruk">Tobruk</a> and subsequently took part in the crossing of the Rhine in March 1945. The 2nd Battalion took part in the <a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings">D-Day landings in 1944</a>, as part of the <a href="/wiki/50th_(Northumbrian)_Infantry_Division" title="50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division">50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division</a>, while the 6th and 7th Battalions fought in the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Campaign (World War II)">Italian Campaign</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-museum_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museum-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 6th Battalion served with the <a href="/wiki/44th_(Home_Counties)_Division" title="44th (Home Counties) Division">44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_African_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="North African Campaign">North Africa</a> before transferring to the <a href="/wiki/56th_(London)_Infantry_Division" title="56th (London) Infantry Division">56th (London) Infantry Division</a>. The 5th Battalion remained within the United Kingdom for the duration of the war, providing machine gun support for the <a href="/wiki/38th_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division" title="38th (Welsh) Infantry Division">38th Infantry (Reserve) Division</a>, the <a href="/wiki/53rd_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division" title="53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division">53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/80th_Infantry_(Reserve)_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="80th Infantry (Reserve) Division (United Kingdom)">80th Infantry (Reserve) Division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-war">Post-war</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Post-war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cheshire_Regiment_Memorial.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Cheshire_Regiment_Memorial.JPG/250px-Cheshire_Regiment_Memorial.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Cheshire_Regiment_Memorial.JPG/375px-Cheshire_Regiment_Memorial.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Cheshire_Regiment_Memorial.JPG/500px-Cheshire_Regiment_Memorial.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1984" data-file-height="1488" /></a><figcaption>The First and Second World War memorial to the Cheshire Regiment, Chester Cathedral</figcaption></figure> <p>After the War, the 1st and 2nd Battalions were amalgamated and became a depot battalion in 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment was deployed to <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a> and to <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> in 1951 and to <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Malaya" title="Federation of Malaya">Malaya</a> in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was posted to <a href="/wiki/Abercorn_Barracks" title="Abercorn Barracks">Abercorn Barracks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ballykinler" title="Ballykinler">Ballykinler</a> in 1960 and to Buller Barracks in <a href="/wiki/M%C3%BCnster" title="Münster">Münster</a> in 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While in Munster the regiment was deployed to <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a> under UN command for six months from October 1964 to April 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment moved to <a href="/wiki/Netheravon" title="Netheravon">Netheravon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a> for six months in 1966 and then went to <a href="/wiki/Warminster" title="Warminster">Warminster</a> as Demonstration Battalion.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment moved to <a href="/wiki/Weeton_Barracks" title="Weeton Barracks">Weeton Barracks</a> in 1968; during the latter part of 1968 the regiment was deployed to Bahrain for nine months, and was then sent to <a href="/wiki/Derry" title="Derry">Derry</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> at the start of <a href="/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">the Troubles</a> in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 1970, the regiment was posted to Berlin for two years. The regiment returned to Weeton barracks in 1972 but undertook further tours in the Province throughout the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The regiment moved to Elizabeth Barracks in <a href="/wiki/Minden" title="Minden">Minden</a> in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1978, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Dauncey" title="Michael Dauncey">Mike Dauncey</a> was appointed <a href="/wiki/Colonel_Commandant" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonel Commandant">Colonel Commandant</a><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1979 the regiment moved to <a href="/wiki/Tidworth_Camp" title="Tidworth Camp">Tidworth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment became the resident regiment at <a href="/wiki/Shackleton_Barracks" title="Shackleton Barracks">Shackleton Barracks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ballykelly,_County_Londonderry" title="Ballykelly, County Londonderry">Ballykelly</a> in 1980 and in 1982; eight soldiers from the Cheshires were killed in the <a href="/wiki/Droppin_Well_bombing" title="Droppin Well bombing">Droppin Well bombing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment then spent two years, from 1984 to 1986, in Hong Kong.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1986 and 1988, the regiment was posted to <a href="/wiki/Caterham_Barracks" title="Caterham Barracks">Caterham Barracks</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Public_duties" title="Public duties">public duties</a> battalion and in 1988 it moved to <a href="/wiki/Dale_Barracks" title="Dale Barracks">Dale Barracks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chester" title="Chester">Chester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The regiment was posted to St Barbara's Barracks at <a href="/wiki/Bad_Fallingbostel" title="Bad Fallingbostel">Fallingbostel</a> in 1991. It became the first Armoured Infantry unit to deploy to Bosnia on Operation Grapple 1, as part of <a href="/wiki/7th_Armoured_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)">7th Armoured Brigade</a>, on United Nations peace keeping duties to the former Yugoslavia in 1992. Then, after a period at <a href="/wiki/RAF_Oakington" title="RAF Oakington">Oakington Barracks</a> between 1993 and 1996, it returned to Shackleton Barracks.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It went to <a href="/wiki/Beachley_Barracks" title="Beachley Barracks">Beachley Barracks</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Chepstow" title="Chepstow">Chepstow</a> in 1998 and to Alexander Barracks in <a href="/wiki/Dhekelia_Cantonment" title="Dhekelia Cantonment">Dhekelia</a> in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It returned to Kiwi Barracks at <a href="/wiki/Bulford_Camp" title="Bulford Camp">Bulford Camp</a> in 2002 and was deployed to <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Telic" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Telic">Operation Telic 4</a>) in 2004 before being sent back to Abercorn Barracks in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-bau_35-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bau-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Amalgamation">Amalgamation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Amalgamation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Cheshire Regiment was one of five line infantry regiments never to have been amalgamated in its history. It shared this claim with <a href="/wiki/Royal_Scots" title="Royal Scots">The Royal Scots</a>, <a href="/wiki/Green_Howards" title="Green Howards">The Green Howards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" title="Royal Welch Fusiliers">The Royal Welch Fusiliers</a> and <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Scottish_Borderers" title="King's Own Scottish Borderers">The King's Own Scottish Borderers</a>. In 2004, as a part of the <a href="/wiki/Delivering_Security_in_a_Changing_World" title="Delivering Security in a Changing World">reorganisation</a> of the infantry, it was announced that the Cheshire Regiment would be amalgamated with the <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire_Regiment" title="Staffordshire Regiment">Staffordshire Regiment</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire_and_Sherwood_Foresters_Regiment" title="Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment">Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment</a> to form the new <a href="/wiki/Mercian_Regiment" title="Mercian Regiment">Mercian Regiment</a>. In August 2007, the regiment became the 1st Battalion, the Mercian Regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regimental_museum">Regimental museum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Regimental museum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Cheshire_Military_Museum" title="Cheshire Military Museum">Cheshire Military Museum</a> is based at <a href="/wiki/Chester_Castle" title="Chester Castle">Chester Castle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alliances">Alliances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Alliances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alliances include:<sup id="cite_ref-regiments_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Cape_Breton_Highlanders" title="Cape Breton Highlanders">Cape Breton Highlanders</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> – 2nd Battalion, The <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia_Highlanders" title="Nova Scotia Highlanders">Nova Scotia Highlanders</a> (Cape Breton)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> – 22nd Battalion (The Richmond Regiment)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> – 5th Battalion (Napiers), <a href="/wiki/Rajputana_Rifles" title="Rajputana Rifles">The Rajputana Rifles</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Battle_honours">Battle honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Battle honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The regiment was awarded the following <a href="/wiki/Battle_honours_of_the_British_and_Imperial_Armies" title="Battle honours of the British and Imperial Armies">battle honours</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Louisburg, Martinique 1762, Havannah, Meeanee, Hyderabad, Scinde, South Africa 1900–02</li> <li><i>The Great War (38 battalions)</i>: <b>Mons</b>, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, 18, Aisne 1914, 18, La Bassee 1914, Armentieres 1914, <b>Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18</b>, Nonne Bosschen, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Loos, <b>Somme 1916 '18</b>, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozieres, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, <b>Arras 1917 '18</b>, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Oppy, <b>Messines 1917 '18</b>, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St Quentin, <b>Bapaume 1918</b>, Rosieres, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Soissonais-Ourcq, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Italy 1917–18, Struma, <b>Doiran 1917 '18</b>, Macedonia 1915–18, <b>Suvla</b>, Sari Bair, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915–17, <b>Gaza</b>, El Mughar, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917–18, Tigris 1916, <b>Kut al Amara 1917</b>, Bagdad, Mesopotamia 1916–18</li> <li><i>The Second World War</i>: Dyle, Withdrawal to Escaut, <b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_St_Omer-La_Bass%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of St Omer-La Bassée">St Omer-La Bassée</a></b>, Wormhoudt, Cassel, Dunkirk 1940, <b>Normandy Landing</b>, Mont Pincon, St. Pierre La Vielle, Gheel, Nederrijn, Aam, Aller, North-West Europe 1940, '44–45, Sidi Barrani, <b>Capture of Tobruk</b>, Gazala, Mersa Matruh, Defence of Alamein Line, Deir el Shein, <b>El Alamein</b>, <b>Mareth</b>, Wadi Zeuss East, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Enfidaville, North Africa 1940–43, Landing in Sicily, Primosole Bridge, Simeto Bridgehead, <b>Sicily 1943</b>, Sangro, <b>Salerno</b>, Santa Lucia, Battipaglia, Volturno Crossing, Monte Maro, Teano, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Minturno, Damiano, Anzio, <b>Rome</b>, <b>Gothic Line</b>, Coriano, Gemmano Ridge, Savignano, Senio Floodbank, Rimini Line, Ceriano Ridge, Valli di Comacchio, Italy 1943–45, <b>Malta 1941–42</b></li> <li><i>4th Battalion</i>: South Africa 1901–02</li> <li><i>5th, 6th Battalions</i>: South Africa 1900–02</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Victoria_Crosses">Victoria Crosses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Victoria Crosses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Victoria Crosses awarded to men of the regiment were: </p> <ul><li>Second Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Colvin" title="Hugh Colvin">Hugh Colvin</a>, <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> (20 September 1917)<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Private <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Alfred_Jones" title="Thomas Alfred Jones">Thomas Alfred Jones</a>, First World War (25 September 1916)<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Colonels_of_the_Regiment">Colonels of the Regiment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Colonels of the Regiment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Colonels of the regiment were:<sup id="cite_ref-regiments_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1689: Col. <a href="/wiki/Henry_Howard,_7th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk">Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk</a>, KG</li> <li>1689–1701: Lt-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Henry_Belasyse_(died_1717)" title="Henry Belasyse (died 1717)">Henry Bellasyse</a></li> <li>1701–1702: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/William_Selwyn_(British_Army_officer)" title="William Selwyn (British Army officer)">William Selwyn</a></li> <li>1702–1712: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Handasyd" title="Thomas Handasyd">Thomas Handasyde</a></li> <li>1712–1730: Lt-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Roger_Handasyd" title="Roger Handasyd">Roger Handasyde</a></li> <li>1730–1734: Lt-Gen. <a href="/wiki/William_Barrell" title="William Barrell">William Barrell</a></li> <li>1734–1737: Gen. <a href="/wiki/James_St._Clair" class="mw-redirect" title="James St. Clair">James St. Clair</a></li> <li>1737–1738: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/John_Moyle_(British_Army_officer)" title="John Moyle (British Army officer)">John Moyle</a></li> <li>1738–1741: Brig-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paget_(British_Army_officer)" title="Thomas Paget (British Army officer)">Thomas Paget</a></li> <li>1741–1757: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Richard_O%27Farrell_(British_Army_officer)" title="Richard O'Farrell (British Army officer)">Richard O'Farrell</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_22nd_Regiment_of_Foot">The 22nd Regiment of Foot</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: The 22nd Regiment of Foot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1757–1762: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Edward_Whitmore" title="Edward Whitmore">Edward Whitmore</a></li> <li>1762–1782: Gen. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gage" title="Thomas Gage">Thomas Gage</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_22nd_(Cheshire)_Regiment"><span id="The_22nd_.28Cheshire.29_Regiment"></span>The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1782–1791: Lt-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Charles_O%27Hara" title="Charles O'Hara">Charles O'Hara</a></li> <li>1791–1795: Gen. <a href="/wiki/David_Dundas_(British_Army_officer)" title="David Dundas (British Army officer)">David Dundas</a>, GCB</li> <li>1795–1798: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/William_Crosbie_(British_Army_officer)" title="William Crosbie (British Army officer)">Willam Crosbie</a></li> <li>1798–1806: Lt-Gen. <a href="/wiki/John_Graves_Simcoe" title="John Graves Simcoe">John Graves Simcoe</a></li> <li>1806–1809: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/James_Henry_Craig" title="James Henry Craig">James Henry Craig</a>, KB</li> <li>1809–1843: Gen. <a href="/wiki/Edward_Finch_(MP)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Finch (MP)">Edward Finch</a></li> <li>1843–1853: Lt-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Napier" title="Charles James Napier">Charles James Napier</a>, GCB</li> <li>1853–1860: Lt-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Francis_Patrick_Napier" title="William Francis Patrick Napier">William Francis Patrick Napier</a>, KCB</li> <li>1860–1872: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Pennefather" title="John Pennefather">John Lysaght Pennefather</a>, GCB</li> <li>1872–1873: Lt-Gen. George Thomas Conolly Napier, CB</li> <li>1873–1886: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Chute" title="Trevor Chute">Trevor Chute</a>, KCB</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Cheshire_Regiment">The Cheshire Regiment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: The Cheshire Regiment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1886–1888: Gen. Frederick Darley George, CB</li> <li>1888–1894: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/William_McMurdo" title="William McMurdo">William Montagu Scott McMurdo</a>, GCB</li> <li>1894–1909: Gen. <a href="/wiki/David_Anderson_(British_Army_officer)" title="David Anderson (British Army officer)">David Anderson</a></li> <li>1909–1911: Lt-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Charles_Tucker_(British_Army_officer)" title="Charles Tucker (British Army officer)">Charles Tucker</a>, GCB, GCVO</li> <li>1911–1914: Maj-Gen. William Henry Ralston, CB</li> <li>1914–1928: Maj-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Edward_Graham_(British_Army_officer)" title="Edward Graham (British Army officer)">Edward Ritchie Coryton Graham</a>, KCB, KCMG</li> <li>1928–1930: Lt-Gen. Sir Warren <a href="/wiki/Hastings_Anderson" title="Hastings Anderson">Hastings Anderson</a>, KCB</li> <li>1930–1947: Col. Arthur Crookenden, CBE, DSO</li> <li>1947–1950: Brig. Geoffrey Parker Harding, CBE, DSO, MC</li> <li>1950–1955: Lt-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Percival" title="Arthur Percival">Arthur Ernest Percival</a>, CB, DSO, OBE, MC, DL</li> <li>1955–1962: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brodie" title="Thomas Brodie">Thomas Brodie</a>, CB, CBE, DS0</li> <li>1962–1968: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Charles_Henry_Pepys_Harington" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Henry Pepys Harington">Charles Henry Pepys Harington</a>, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC</li> <li>1968–1971: Lt-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Napier_Crookenden" title="Napier Crookenden">Napier Crookenden</a>, KCB, DSO, OBE</li> <li>1971–1978: Maj-Gen. Peter Lawrence de Carteret Martin, CBE</li> <li>1978–1985: Brig. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Dauncey" title="Michael Dauncey">Michael Donald Keen Dauncey</a>, DSO, DL</li> <li>1985–1992: Brig. William Keith Lloyd Prosser, CBE, MC</li> <li>1992–1999: Brig. Alfred James MacGregor Percival, OBE</li> <li>1999–2006: Maj-Gen. Keith Skempton, CBE</li> <li>2006–2007: Col. Andrew Richard Darwen Sharpe, OBE</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Cheshires_in_literature">The Cheshires in literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: The Cheshires in literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A night-encounter between new recruits to the Cheshires on their way to the Somme and a new Brigade of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_West_Kent_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal West Kent Regiment">West Kents</a>, going the same way, was the subject of a 1935 poem by <a href="/wiki/F._L._Lucas" title="F. L. Lucas">F. L. Lucas</a>, <span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span><i>Morituri</i> - August 1915, on the road from Morlancourt', which ends:<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>A whisper came – "The Cheshires". Unseen on our leaf-hung track,</dd> <dd>Their gay mirth mocked our caution, till the stillness flooded back</dd> <dd>And deep in the sodden woodland we crept to our bivouack.</dd> <dd>But still when grave heads are shaken and sombre seems the day,</dd> <dd>Beyond the years I hear it – faint, phantom, far away –</dd> <dd>That lilt of the Cheshires laughing, down through the dark to Bray.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFChilds1987" class="citation book cs1">Childs, John (1987). <i>The British Army of William III, 1689-1702</i> (1990 ed.). Manchester University Press. p. 184. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0719025524" title="Special:BookSources/0719025524"><bdi>0719025524</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+British+Army+of+William+III%2C+1689-1702&rft.pages=184&rft.edition=1990&rft.pub=Manchester+University+Press&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=0719025524&rft.aulast=Childs&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACheshire+Regiment" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChandler_David1996" class="citation book cs1">Chandler David, Beckett Ian (1996). <i>The Oxford History Of The British Army</i> (2002 ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 52. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-280311-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-280311-5"><bdi>0-19-280311-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+History+Of+The+British+Army&rft.pages=52&rft.edition=2002&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=0-19-280311-5&rft.aulast=Chandler+David&rft.aufirst=Beckett+Ian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACheshire+Regiment" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDalton1896" class="citation book cs1">Dalton, Charles (1896). <i>English army lists and commission registers, 1661-1714 Volume III</i>. 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Andesite Press. pp. 2–4. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1296561828" title="Special:BookSources/1296561828"><bdi>1296561828</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Historical+Record+of+the+Twenty-Second%2C+or+the+Cheshire+Regiment+of+Foot&rft.pages=2-4&rft.edition=2015&rft.pub=Andesite+Press&rft.date=1849&rft.isbn=1296561828&rft.aulast=Cannon&rft.aufirst=Richard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACheshire+Regiment" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChilds1991" class="citation book cs1">Childs, John (1991). <i>The Nine Years' War and the British Army, 1688-1697: The Operations in the Low Countries</i> (2013 ed.). 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+22nd+%28Cheshire%29+Regiment&rft.pub=Cheshire+Military+Museum&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cheshiremilitarymuseum.co.uk%2Fregimental-histories%2Fthe-22nd-%28cheshire%29-regiment.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACheshire+Regiment" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cannon9-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cannon9_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cannon9_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cannon12-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cannon12_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cannon12_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 14</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cannon15-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cannon15_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cannon15_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 17</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 19</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 21</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 23</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cannon, p. 32</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060210172841/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/depot/1873.htm">"Training Depots 1873–1881"</a>. 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L., <i>Poems, 1935</i> (Cambridge, 1935), p.91</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheshire_Regiment&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoslen2003" class="citation book cs1">Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. <i>Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945</i>. 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style="width:1%">Predecessors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1st generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cheshire Regiment</a> <small>(1689–2007)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/29th_(Worcestershire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot">29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1694–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/36th_(Herefordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot">36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1701–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/45th_(Nottinghamshire)_(Sherwood_Foresters)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot">45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1741–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/95th_(Derbyshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot">95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1823–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/38th_(1st_Staffordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot">38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1705–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/80th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Staffordshire_Volunteers)" title="80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)">80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)</a> <small>(1793–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/64th_(2nd_Staffordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot">64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1756–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/98th_(Prince_of_Wales%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot">98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1724–1881)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2nd generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Worcestershire_Regiment" title="Worcestershire Regiment">Worcestershire Regiment</a> <small>(1881–1970)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Foresters" title="Sherwood Foresters">Sherwood Foresters</a> <small>(1881–1970)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Staffordshire_Regiment" title="South Staffordshire Regiment">South Staffordshire Regiment</a> <small>(1881–1959)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Staffordshire_Regiment" title="North Staffordshire Regiment">North Staffordshire Regiment</a> <small>(1881–1959)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">3rd generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Worcestershire_and_Sherwood_Foresters_Regiment" title="Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment">Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment</a> <small>(1970–2007)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staffordshire_Regiment" title="Staffordshire Regiment">Staffordshire Regiment</a> <small>(1959–2007)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Regiments_of_foot_1740–1881" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Regiments_of_Foot" title="Template:Regiments of Foot"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Regiments_of_Foot" title="Template talk:Regiments of Foot"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Regiments_of_Foot" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Regiments of Foot"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Regiments_of_foot_1740–1881" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regiments_of_foot" title="List of regiments of foot">Regiments of foot</a> 1740–1881</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Scots" title="Royal Scots">1st or The Royal Scots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Royal_Regiment_(West_Surrey)" title="Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)">2nd (Queen's Royal)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffs_(Royal_East_Kent_Regiment)" title="Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)">3rd (East Kent – The Buffs)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Royal_Regiment_(Lancaster)" title="King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)">4th (The King's Own Royal)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Northumberland_Fusiliers" title="Royal Northumberland Fusiliers">5th (Northumberland) (Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Warwickshire_Regiment" title="Royal Warwickshire Regiment">6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Fusiliers" title="Royal Fusiliers">7th (Royal Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_(The_King%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot">8th (The King's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Norfolk_Regiment" title="Royal Norfolk Regiment">9th (East Norfolk)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Lincolnshire_Regiment" title="Royal Lincolnshire Regiment">10th (North Lincoln)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devonshire_Regiment" title="Devonshire Regiment">11th (North Devonshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_Regiment" title="Suffolk Regiment">12th (East Suffolk)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry" title="Somerset Light Infantry">13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Regiment" title="West Yorkshire Regiment">14th (Buckinghamshire – The Prince of Wales's Own)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Yorkshire_Regiment" title="East Yorkshire Regiment">15th (York, East Riding)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_and_Hertfordshire_Regiment" title="Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment">16th (Bedfordshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Leicestershire_Regiment" title="Royal Leicestershire Regiment">17th (Leicestershire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Regiment_(1684%E2%80%931922)" title="Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922)">18th (The Royal Irish)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Howards" title="Green Howards">19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding – Princess of Wales's Own)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Fusiliers" title="Lancashire Fusiliers">20th (East Devonshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Scots_Fusiliers" title="Royal Scots Fusiliers">21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">22nd (Cheshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" title="Royal Welch Fusiliers">23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Wales_Borderers" title="South Wales Borderers">24th (2nd Warwickshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Scottish_Borderers" title="King's Own Scottish Borderers">25th (King's Own Borderers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/26th_(Cameronian)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot">26th (Cameronian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/27th_(Inniskilling)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot">27th (Inniskilling)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_(North_Gloucestershire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot">28th (North Gloucestershire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/29th_(Worcestershire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot">29th (Worcestershire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30th_(Cambridgeshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot">30th (Cambridgeshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/31st_(Huntingdonshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot">31st (Huntingdonshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/32nd_(Cornwall)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot">32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington%27s_Regiment" title="Duke of Wellington's Regiment">33rd (The Duke of Wellington's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/34th_(Cumberland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot">34th (Cumberland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/35th_(Royal_Sussex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot">35th (Royal Sussex)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/36th_(Herefordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot">36th (Herefordshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/37th_(North_Hampshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot">37th (North Hampshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/38th_(1st_Staffordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot">38th (1st Staffordshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/39th_(Dorsetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot">39th (Dorsetshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/40th_(the_2nd_Somersetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot">40th (2nd Somersetshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/41st_(Welch)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot">41st (The Welsh)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oglethorpe%27s_Regiment" title="Oglethorpe's Regiment">42nd (Oglethorpe's)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/42nd_Regiment_of_Foot" title="42nd Regiment of Foot">42nd (The Royal Highland) (The Black Watch)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spotswood%27s_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Spotswood's Regiment">43rd (Spotswood's)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/43rd_(Monmouthshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot">43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><i>44th (1st Marines)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/44th_(East_Essex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot">44th (East Essex)</a></li> <li><i>45th (2nd Marines)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/45th_(Nottinghamshire)_(Sherwood_Foresters)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot">45th (Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters)</a></li> <li><i>46th (3rd Marines)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/46th_(South_Devonshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot">46th (South Devonshire)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/4th_Regiment_of_Marines_(British_Army)" title="4th Regiment of Marines (British Army)">47th Regiment (4th Marines)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/47th_(Lancashire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot">47th (Lancashire)</a></li> <li><i>48th (5th Marines)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/48th_(Northamptonshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot">48th (Northamptonshire)</a></li> <li><i>49th (6th Marines)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/49th_(Princess_Charlotte_of_Wales%27s)_(Hertfordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot">49th (Hertfordshire - Princess Charlotte of Wales's)</a></li> <li><i>50th (7th Marines)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shirley%27s_Regiment" title="Shirley's Regiment">50th (American Provincials)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/50th_(Queen%27s_Own)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot">50th (The Queen's Own)</a></li> <li><i>51st (8th Marines)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pepperrell%27s_Regiment" title="Pepperrell's Regiment">51st Regiment of Foot (Cape Breton Regiment)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/51st_(2nd_Yorkshire_West_Riding)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot">51st (2nd York, West Riding, The King's Own Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><i>52nd (9th Marines)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/52nd_(Oxfordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot">52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><i>53rd (10th Marines)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/53rd_(Shropshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot">53rd (Shropshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/54th_(West_Norfolk)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot">54th (West Norfolk)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_(Westmorland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot">55th (Westmorland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/56th_(West_Essex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot">56th (West Essex)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/57th_(West_Middlesex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot">57th (West Middlesex)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/58th_(Rutlandshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot">58th (Rutlandshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/59th_(2nd_Nottinghamshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot">59th (2nd Nottinghamshire)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/De_Grangues%27s_Regiment" title="De Grangues's Regiment">60th (De Grangues's)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Rifle_Corps" title="King's Royal Rifle Corps">60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gooch%27s_American_Regiment" title="Gooch's American Regiment">61st (Gooch's)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/61st_(South_Gloucestershire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot">61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i>62nd (Baterau's)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Rifle_Corps" title="King's Royal Rifle Corps">62nd (Royal American)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/77th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Montgomerie%27s_Highlanders)" title="77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders)">62nd (1st Highland Battalion)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/62nd_(Wiltshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot">62nd (Wiltshire)</a></li> <li><i>63rd (American)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/78th_Fraser_Highlanders" title="78th Fraser Highlanders">63rd (2nd Highland Battalion)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/63rd_(West_Suffolk)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot">63rd (West Suffolk)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Loudon%27s_Highlanders" title="Loudon's Highlanders">64th (Loudon's Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/79th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1757)" title="79th Regiment of Foot (1757)">64th (Draper's)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/64th_(2nd_Staffordshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot">64th (2nd Staffordshire)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shirley%27s_Regiment" title="Shirley's Regiment">65th (Shirley's)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/65th_(2nd_Yorkshire,_North_Riding)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot">65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pepperrell%27s_Regiment" title="Pepperrell's Regiment">66th (Pepperrell's)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/66th_(Berkshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot">66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i>67th (Bolton's)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/67th_(South_Hampshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot">67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i>68th (Bedford's)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/68th_(Durham)_Regiment_of_Foot_(Light_Infantry)" title="68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)">68th (Durham) (Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/69th_(South_Lincolnshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot">69th (South Lincolnshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/70th_(Surrey)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot">70th (Surrey)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/71st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="71st Regiment of Foot (1758)">71st (1758-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/71st_Regiment_of_Foot,_Fraser%27s_Highlanders" title="71st Regiment of Foot, Fraser's Highlanders">71st (Fraser's Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i>71st (Invalids)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot">71st (Highland Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="72nd Regiment of Foot (1758)">72nd (1758–1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="72nd Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">72nd (Invalids)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Manchester_Volunteers)" title="72nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Volunteers)">72nd (Royal Manchester Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment,_Duke_of_Albany%27s_Own_Highlanders" title="72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders">72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/73rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="73rd Regiment of Foot (1758)">73rd (1758–1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/73rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="73rd Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">73rd (Invalids)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/71st_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot">73rd (Highland)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/73rd_(Perthshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot">73rd (Perthshire)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/74th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="74th Regiment of Foot">74th (1758–1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/74th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="74th Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">74th (Invalids)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/74th_Regiment_of_(Highland)_Foot" title="74th Regiment of (Highland) Foot">74th (Argyleshire Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/74th_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot">74th (Highland)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/75th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="75th Regiment of Foot (1758)">75th (1758–1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/75th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="75th Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">75th (Invalids)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/75th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Regiment)" title="75th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Regiment)">75th (Prince of Wales's Regiment)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/75th_(Stirlingshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot">75th (Stirlingshire)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/76th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1756)" title="76th Regiment of Foot (1756)">76th (1758–1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/76th_Regiment_of_Foot_(MacDonald%27s_Highlanders)" title="76th Regiment of Foot (MacDonald's Highlanders)">76th (MacDonald's Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/76th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="76th Regiment of Foot">76th Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/77th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Montgomerie%27s_Highlanders)" title="77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders)">77th (Montgomery's Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atholl_Highlanders" title="Atholl Highlanders">77th (Atholl Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/77th_(East_Middlesex)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot">77th (East Middlesex) (Duke of Cambridge's Own)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/78th_Fraser_Highlanders" title="78th Fraser Highlanders">78th (Fraser's Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment,_Duke_of_Albany%27s_Own_Highlanders" title="72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders">78th (Highland)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/78th_(Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">78th (Highland) (The Ross-shire Buffs)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/79th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1757)" title="79th Regiment of Foot (1757)">79th</a> (1758-1763)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/79th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Liverpool_Volunteers)" title="79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers)">79th (Royal Liverpool Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Own_Cameron_Highlanders" title="Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders">79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/80th_Regiment_of_Light-Armed_Foot" title="80th Regiment of Light-Armed Foot">80th (Light Armed)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/80th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Edinburgh_Volunteers)" title="80th Regiment of Foot (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)">80th (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/80th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Staffordshire_Volunteers)" title="80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)">80th (Staffordshire Volunteers)</a></li> <li><i>81st (Invalids)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/81st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Aberdeenshire_Highland_Regiment)" title="81st Regiment of Foot (Aberdeenshire Highland Regiment)">81st (Aberdeenshire Highland)</a></i></li> <li><i>81st (1793)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/81st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Lincoln_Volunteers)" title="81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)">81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/72nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="72nd Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">82nd (invalids)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/82nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1777)" title="82nd Regiment of Foot (1777)">82nd (1777)</a></i></li> <li><i>82nd (1793)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/82nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Volunteers)" title="82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)">82nd (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/83rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1757)" title="83rd Regiment of Foot (1757)">83rd (1757-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/83rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Glasgow_Volunteers)" title="83rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Glasgow Volunteers)">83rd (Royal Glasgow Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/81st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Lincoln_Volunteers)" title="81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)">83rd (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/83rd_(County_of_Dublin)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot">83rd (County of Dublin)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/84th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1759)" title="84th Regiment of Foot (1759)">84th (1758-1764)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/84th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Highland_Emigrants)" title="84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants)">84th (Royal Highland Emigrants)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/84th_(York_and_Lancaster)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot">84th (York and Lancaster)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/85th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Volunteers)" title="85th Regiment of Foot (Royal Volunteers)">85th (Royal Volontiers Light Infantry)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/85th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Westminster_Volunteers)" title="85th Regiment of Foot (Westminster Volunteers)">85th (1779-1783)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/85th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Bucks_Volunteers)" title="85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers)">85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/86th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1758)" title="86th Regiment of Foot (1758)">86th (1759-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/86th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Rutland_Regiment)" title="86th Regiment of Foot (Rutland Regiment)">86th (1779-1783)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/86th_(Royal_County_Down)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot">86th (Royal County Down)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/87th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Keith%27s_Highlanders)" title="87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders)">87th (Keith's Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/87th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1779)" title="87th Regiment of Foot (1779)">87th (1779-1783)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/87th_(Royal_Irish_Fusiliers)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot">87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/88th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Highland_Volunteers)" title="88th Regiment of Foot (Highland Volunteers)">88th (Highland Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/88th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1779)" title="88th Regiment of Foot (1779)">88th (1779-1783)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/88th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Connaught_Rangers)" title="88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)">88th (Connaught Rangers)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/89th_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="89th (Highland) Regiment of Foot">89th (Highland)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/89th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1779)" title="89th Regiment of Foot (1779)">89th (1779-1783)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/89th_(Princess_Victoria%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot">89th (Princess Victoria's)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/90th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1759)" title="90th Regiment of Foot (1759)">90th (Irish Light Infantry)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/90th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Yorkshire_Volunteers)" title="90th Regiment of Foot (Yorkshire Volunteers)">90th (Yorkshire Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/90th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Perthshire_Volunteers)" title="90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers)">90th (Perthshire Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/91st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1759)" title="91st Regiment of Foot (1759)">91st (1759-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/91st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Shropshire_Volunteers)" title="91st Regiment of Foot (Shropshire Volunteers)">91st (Shropshire Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i>91st (1793-1795)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/91st_(Argyllshire_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/92nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Donegal_Light_Infantry)" title="92nd Regiment of Foot (Donegal Light Infantry)">92nd (Donegal Light Infantry)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/92nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1779)" title="92nd Regiment of Foot (1779)">92nd (1779-1783)</a></i></li> <li><i>92nd (1793-1795)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/92nd_(Gordon_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">92nd (Gordon Highlanders)</a></li> <li><i>93rd (1760-1763)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/93rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1780)" title="93rd Regiment of Foot (1780)">93rd (1779-1783)</a></i></li> <li><i>93rd (Highland) (1793-1798)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/93rd_(Sutherland_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">93rd (Sutherland Highlanders)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/94th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1760)" title="94th Regiment of Foot (1760)">94th (Royal Welsh Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/94th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1780)" title="94th Regiment of Foot (1780)">94th (1780-1783)</a></i></li> <li><i>94th (Irish)</i></li> <li><i>94th (Scots Brigade) </i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/94th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="94th Regiment of Foot">94th</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/95th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Burton%27s)" title="95th Regiment of Foot (Burton's)">95th (1759-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/95th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Reid%27s)" title="95th Regiment of Foot (Reid's)">95th (1780-1783)</a></i></li> <li><i>95th (1794-1796)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rifle_Brigade_(The_Prince_Consort%27s_Own)" title="Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)">95th (Riflemen)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1803)" title="96th Regiment of Foot (1803)">95th (1816-1818)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/95th_(Derbyshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot">95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1760)" title="96th Regiment of Foot (1760)">96th (1760-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot_(British_Musketeers)" title="96th Regiment of Foot (British Musketeers)">96th (British Musketeers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1803)" title="96th Regiment of Foot (1803)">96th (1803-1816)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="96th Regiment of Foot">96th (Queen's Own Germans)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="96th Regiment of Foot">96th Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i>97th (1760-1763)</i></li> <li><i>97th (1780-1784)</i></li> <li><i>97th (Inverness-shire Highlanders)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="96th Regiment of Foot">97th (Queen's Own Germans)</a></i></li> <li><i>97th (1816-1818)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/97th_(The_Earl_of_Ulster%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot">97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i>98th (1760-1763)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/98th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1780)" title="98th Regiment of Foot (1780)">98th (1780-1784)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/91st_(Argyllshire_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">98th (Argyllshire Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i>98th (1804-1816)</i></li> <li><i>98th (Prince of Wales's Tipperary)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/98th_(Prince_of_Wales%27s)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot">98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i>99th (1760-1763)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/99th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Jamaica_Regiment)" title="99th Regiment of Foot (Jamaica Regiment)">99th (Jamaica Regiment)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/99th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="99th Regiment of Foot (1794)">99th (1794-1797)</a></i></li> <li><i>99th (Prince of Wales's Tipperary)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_Regent%27s_County_of_Dublin_Regiment)" title="100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment)">99th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/99th_(Lanarkshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot">99th (Duke of Edinburgh's)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1760)" title="100th Regiment of Foot (1760)">100th (Highland)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Lincolnshire_Regiment)" title="100th Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincolnshire Regiment)">100th (1780-1784)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/92nd_(Gordon_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">100th (Gordon Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_Regent%27s_County_of_Dublin_Regiment)" title="100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment)">100th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Corps" title="New South Wales Corps">100th (New South Wales Corps)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Royal_Canadian)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot">100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/101st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1760)" title="101st Regiment of Foot (1760)">101st (Highland)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/101st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1780)" title="101st Regiment of Foot (1780)">101st (1780-1783)</a></i></li> <li><i>101st (Irish)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/101st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Duke_of_York%27s_Irish)" title="101st Regiment of Foot (Duke of York's Irish)">101st (Duke of York's Irish)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/101st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Bengal_Fusiliers)" title="101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)">101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><i>102nd (Queen's Royal Volunteers) </i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/102nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1781)" title="102nd Regiment of Foot (1781)">102nd (1780-1783)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/102nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Irish_Rangers)" title="102nd Regiment of Foot (Irish Rangers)">102nd (Irish)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales_Corps" title="New South Wales Corps">102nd (New South Wales Corps)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/102nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Madras_Fusiliers)" title="102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers)">102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Volunteer_Hunters)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (Volunteer Hunters)">103rd Regiment of Foot (Volunteer Hunters)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(King%27s_Irish_Infantry)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (King's Irish Infantry)">103rd Regiment of Foot (King's Irish Infantry)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (1794)">103rd (Loyal Bristol Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1806)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (1806)">103rd (1809-1816)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/103rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Bombay_Fusiliers)" title="103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)">103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_of_Foot_(King%27s_Volunteers)" title="104th Regiment of Foot (King's Volunteers)">104th (King's Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1782)" title="104th Regiment of Foot (1782)">104th (1782-1783)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Manchester_Volunteers)" title="104th Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Volunteers)">104th (Royal Manchester Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/104th_(New_Brunswick)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot">104th (New Brunswick )</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="104th Regiment of Foot">104th Regiment of Foot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/105th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Queen%27s_Own_Royal_Regiment_of_Highlanders)" class="mw-redirect" title="105th Regiment of Foot (Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Highlanders)">105th (Queen's Own Royal Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Volunteers_of_Ireland" title="Volunteers of Ireland">105th (Volunteers of Ireland)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/105th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="105th Regiment of Foot (1794)">105th (1794-1796)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/105th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Madras_Light_Infantry)" title="105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)">105th (Madras Light Infantry)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/106th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Black_Musqueteers)" title="106th Regiment of Foot (Black Musqueteers)">106th (Black Musqueteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/106th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="106th Regiment of Foot (1794)">106th (1794-1796)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/106th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Bombay_Light_Infantry)" title="106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry)">106th (Bombay Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/107th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Queen%27s_Own_Royal_Regiment_of_British_Volunteers)" title="107th Regiment of Foot (Queen's Own Royal Regiment of British Volunteers)">107th (Queen's Own Royal Regiment of British Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/107th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="107th Regiment of Foot (1794)">107th 1794-1795</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/107th_(Bengal_Infantry)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot">107th (Bengal Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/108th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1761)" title="108th Regiment of Foot (1761)">108th (1760-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/108th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="108th Regiment of Foot (1794)">108th (1794-1795)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/108th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Madras_Infantry)" class="mw-redirect" title="108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry)">108th (Madras Infantry)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/109th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1761)" title="109th Regiment of Foot (1761)">109th (1761-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/109th_(Aberdeenshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="109th (Aberdeenshire) Regiment of Foot">109th (Aberdeenshire)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/109th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Bombay_Infantry)" title="109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)">109th (Bombay Infantry)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/110th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Queen%27s_Royal_Musqueteers)" title="110th Regiment of Foot (Queen's Royal Musqueteers)">110th (Queen's Royal Musqueteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/110th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="110th Regiment of Foot (1794)">110th (1794-1795)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/111th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1761)" title="111th Regiment of Foot (1761)">111th (1761-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/111th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Birmingham_Volunteers)" title="111th Regiment of Foot (Loyal Birmingham Volunteers)">111th (Loyal Birmingham Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/112th_Regiment_of_Foot_(King%27s_Royal_Musqueteers)" title="112th Regiment of Foot (King's Royal Musqueteers)">112th (King's Royal Musqueteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/112th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="112th Regiment of Foot (1794)">112th (1794-1795)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/113th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Highlanders)" title="113th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highlanders)">113th (Royal Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/113th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="113th Regiment of Foot (1794)">113th (1794-1795)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/114th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Highlander_Volunteers)" title="114th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highlander Volunteers)">114th (Royal Highlander Volunteers)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/114th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="114th Regiment of Foot (1794)">114th (1794-1795)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/115th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Scotch_Lowlanders)" title="115th Regiment of Foot (Royal Scotch Lowlanders)">115th (Royal Scotch Lowlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/115th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_William%27s)" title="115th Regiment of Foot (Prince William's)">115th (Prince William's)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/73rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="73rd Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">116th (Invalids)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/116th_(Perthshire_Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="116th (Perthshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">116th (Perthshire Highlanders)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/74th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="74th Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">117th (Invalids)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/117th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="117th Regiment of Foot (1794)">117th (1793-1795)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/75th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Invalids)" title="75th Regiment of Foot (Invalids)">118th (Invalids)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/118th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="118th Regiment of Foot (1794)">118th (1794-1795)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/119th_(The_Prince%27s_Own)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="119th (The Prince's Own) Regiment of Foot">119th (The Prince's Own)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/119th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="119th Regiment of Foot (1794)">119th (1794-1796)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/120th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1763)" title="120th Regiment of Foot (1763)">120th (1762-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/120th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="120th Regiment of Foot (1794)">120th (1794-1795)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/121st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1762)" title="121st Regiment of Foot (1762)">121st (1761-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/121st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="121st Regiment of Foot (1794)">121st (1794-1795)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/122nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1762)" title="122nd Regiment of Foot (1762)">122nd (1762-1764)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/122nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794)" title="122nd Regiment of Foot (1794)">122nd (1794-1796)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/123rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(1762)" title="123rd Regiment of Foot (1762)">123rd (1762-1764)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/123rd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Lincolnshire)" title="123rd Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincolnshire)">123rd (1794-1796)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/124th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1762)" title="124th Regiment of Foot (1762)">124th (1762-1763)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/124th_(Waterford)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="124th (Waterford) Regiment of Foot">124th (Waterford)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/125th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="125th Regiment of Foot">125th</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/126th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="126th Regiment of Foot">126th</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/127th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="127th Regiment of Foot">127th</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/128th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="128th Regiment of Foot">128th</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/129th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="129th Regiment of Foot">129th</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/130th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="130th Regiment of Foot">130th</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/131st_Regiment_of_Foot" title="131st Regiment of Foot">131st</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/132nd_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="132nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot">132nd (Highland)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/133rd_(Highland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="133rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot">133rd (Highland)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/134th_(Loyal_Limerick)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="134th (Loyal Limerick) Regiment of Foot">134th (Loyal Limerick)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/135th_(Limerick)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="135th (Limerick) Regiment of Foot">135th (Limerick)</a></i></li></ul> <p>Regimental titles in <i>italics</i> indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881. </p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="British_infantry_regiments_of_the_First_World_War" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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