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created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 30.03.2005
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Note:This
is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental
page for full lineage and other information.
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Colour Key
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| 1702.03.14 | George Villiers' Regiment of Marines | ||
| 1702 | War of Spanish Succession: Iberia | ||
| 1711 | England | ||
| 1714 | converted to infantry of line | ||
| 1715 | Jacobite rebellion: Scotland | ||
| 1716 | Ireland | ||
| 1739 | England | ||
| 1742 | War of Austrian Succession: Flanders | ||
| 1745 | England | ||
| 1749 | Minorca | ||
| 1751.07.01 | 31st Regiment of Foot | ||
| 1752 | England | ||
| 1756 | 1st
Battalion, 31st
Regiment of Foot redesignated on raising of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1756 | Scotland | ||
| 1758.04.28 | 31st
Regiment of Foot redesignated on conversion of 2nd Bn as 70th Regiment of Foot |
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| 1763 | UK | ||
| 1765 | West Florida | ||
| 1772 | West Indies | ||
| 1772 | St. Vincent: Carib war | ||
| 1774 | England | ||
| 1774 | Ireland | ||
| 1776.05 | Lower Canada: Quebec | garrison duty | |
| 1777 | American Revolution | (flank coys captured at Saratoga) | |
| 1777 | Quebec | garrison duty | |
| 1783 | Quebec | ||
| 1787 | England | ||
| 1792 | Ireland | ||
| 1793 | West Indies (flank coys) | ||
| 1794 | Holland | ||
| 1795 | West Indies | ||
| 1797 | England | ||
| 1799 | Helder campaign | ||
| 1800 | Ireland | ||
| 1800.06 | at sea | ||
| 1800.06.03? | French coast: Quiberon Bay | ||
| 1800.07. | Isle de Houat | ||
| 1800.08 | Spanish coast | ||
| 1801? | at sea | ||
| 1801 | Minorca | ||
| 1802 | England | ||
| 1803 | Channel Islands: Jersey | ||
| 1804 | England | ||
| 1805.07 | 1st
Battalion, 31st
Regiment of Foot redesignated on raising of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1806 | Sicily | ||
| 1807.03 | Egypt | Meade Bde | |
| 1808 | Sicily | ||
| 1808 | Malta | ||
| 1810 | Sicily | ||
| 1811 | Malta | ||
| 1811 | Sicily | ||
| 1814 | Genoa | ||
| 1814 | Corsica | ||
| 1814 | Sicily | ||
| 1814.10.24 | 31st
Regiment of Foot redesignated upon absorbing 2nd Battalion in Sicily |
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| 1815 | Naples | ||
| 1815 | Genoa | ||
| 1816 | Malta | ||
| 1818 | England | ||
| 1821 | Ireland | ||
| 1824 | England | ||
| 1825 | India | ||
| 1839 | Afghanistan | ||
| 1840 | India | ||
| 1845 | Sikh war | ||
| 1846 | England | ||
| 1848 | Ireland | ||
| 1853 | Ionian Islands | ||
| 1855 | Crimea | ||
| 1856 | Gozo | ||
| 1857 | Malta | ||
| 1857 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1858 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1858 | India | ||
| 1860 | China (Opium war) | ||
| 1860 | China (Taiping rebellion) | ||
| 1863 | England | ||
| 1866 | Ireland | ||
| 1867 | Malta | ||
| 1872 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1876 | England | ||
| 1880 | Ireland | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 1st Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment | ||
| 1881 | Ireland: Buttevant | ||
| 1882 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1884.12.22 | at sea | ||
| 1884 | India: Rhaniket | ||
| <1889> | Allahabad | ||
| <1894> | Agra | ||
| <1897> | Jhansi | ||
| 1903 | England: Aldershot | ||
| 1906 | Channel Islands: Jersey | ||
| 1908 | England: Plymouth | ||
| 1910 | Ireland: Kinsale | ||
| 1912 | Dublin | ||
| 1914 | Curragh | ||
| 1914.08 | France and Flanders | 5 Div | |
| 1917.11 | Italy | ||
| 1918.04 | France and Flanders | ||
| 1918.06 | North Russia | ||
| 1919 | England | ||
| 1919 | Ireland: Dublin | ||
| 1921 | Palestine | ||
| 1922 | Egypt | ||
| 1923 | China: Hong Kong | ||
| 1926 | India: Rawalpindi | ||
| 1928 | Garhial | ||
| 1931 | Lahore | ||
| 1935 | Fyzabad | ||
| 1937 | Sudan | ||
| 1939.01 | England: Colchester | ||
| 1939.09 | France & Belgium | 4 Inf Div, BEF | |
| 1940.06 | UK | ||
| 1943.03 | North Africa (Tunisia) | 11 Bde, 78 Inf Div | |
| 1944.01 | Italy | 11 Bde, 78 Inf Div | |
| 1945.01 | Greece | ||
| 1945.05 | Greece | ||
| 1948.07.12 | amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title | ||
| 1949 | British Somaliland | ||
| 1950 | England: Colchester | 19 Bde | |
| 1951 | Libya & Egypt | ||
| 1955 | Germany: Osnabrück | 31 Bde | |
| 1956.04 | Osnabrück | 12 Bde | |
| 1958.01 | UK | ||
| 1958.07 | Cyprus | ||
| 1958 | Libya | ||
| 1958.09 | UK | ||
| 1959.10.14 | amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), to form 1st Bn, The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment | ||
