The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry
28th Regiment of Foot ( 1751 )
The 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was a British infantry regiment from 1782 to 1881.
From 1751 to 1782 they were the 28th Regiment of Foot, and in 1881 they merged with the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gloucestershire Regiment.
The 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, created in 1758 and amalgamated into The Gloucestershire Regiment in 1881.
the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. During the Childers Reforms it was united with the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot to form Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Berkshire Regiment.
The 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated with the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot into Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Berkshire Regiment) in 1881.
The regiment was raised by the redesignation of the 2nd Battalion, 19th Regiment of Foot in April 1758, ranked as the 66th Regiment of Foot. In 1782 they took a county title as the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot.
The 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, which was raised as a line regiment in 1756 and saw service through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As part of the Haldane Reforms, it was amalgamated with the 99th Duke of Edinburgh’s (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot in 1881, to form the Wiltshire Regiment.
The 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1824 and amalgamated into The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) in 1881.
The regiment was raised in 1824 as the 99th Regiment of Foot, taking a county title in 1836 as the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot. In 1874 it was renamed to the 99th Duke of Edinburgh’s (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot, taking its title from Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959.
The Wiltshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot and the 99th Duke of Edinburgh’s (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot.
The regiment was originally formed as the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), taking the county affiliation from the 62nd Foot (which became the 1st Battalion) and the honorific from the 99th Foot (which became the 2nd Battalion). In 1921, the titles switched to become the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s).
The Gloucestershire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. Nicknamed “The Glorious Glosters”, the regiment carried more battle honours on their regimental colours than any other British Army line regiment. The Gloucestershire Regiment existed from 1881 until 1994 when it was amalgamated with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) to form the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) was an infantry regiment of the British Army.
The regiment was formed on 9th June 1959 after defence cuts implemented in the late 1950s saw the amalgamation of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) and Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s), forming the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire).
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment was a short-lived infantry regiment of the British Army
The regiment was formed in 1994 by the amalgamation of the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire).
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