Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 July 2002. Corrected and updated 06.11.2005
1st Battalion,
48th Regiment of Foot
1741-1881
1881-1960
United Kingdom  
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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  1741.01.31 James Cholmondeley's Regiment of Foot
raised at Norwich
  1741 England
  1743 England
  1744 Flanders
  1745 England
  1745 Scotland: Jacobite war
  1747? Flanders
  1748 Ireland
  1751.07.01 48th Regiment of Foot
  1755.01 at sea (embarked at Cork)  
  1755.02 Virginia: Hampton Roads
  1756 French and Indian war
  1761 West Indies
  1763 England
  1763 Ireland
  1773 West Indies
  1778 West Indies (det captured at Dominica Sep. 1778)
  1781 England
  1783.10 Ireland
  1788 West Indies
  1794 England
  1796 West Indies
  1797 England
  1799 Gibraltar
  1800 Minorca
  1800 Malta
  1802 England
  1803.07.09 1st Battalion, 48th Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon formation of 2nd Battalion
  1805 Gibraltar
  1809.07? Portugal
  1809 Peninsular war
  1811.06.06 absorbed 2nd Battalion, less cadre sent home to re-form
  1811 Peninsular war
  1814.04 France
  1814 Ireland
  1814 48th Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon disbandment of 2nd Battalion
  1817.03 at sea (embarked at Cork) ships: Matilda, Lloyds, Dick
  1817.08.03 New South Wales: Sydney convict escorts & guards
  1824.03 at sea (four coys) ships: Greenock, Asia, Sir Geoffrey Webster (three companies remained in NSW until 1825)
  1824 India
  1834 Coorg war
  1834 England
  1837 Ireland
  1838 Gibraltar
  1844 Jamaica
  1847 Ireland
  1852 Wales
  1853 Ionian Islands: Corfu
  1855 Crimea
  1856 Malta
  1857 Gibraltar
  1858 India
  1865 England
  1866 Ireland
  1867 Malta
  1872 India
  1880 Ireland
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
  1881 Ireland: Tipperary
  1884 England: Preston
  1887 Warley
  1890 Aldershot
  1892.10.05 at sea  
  1892 India: Bangalore
  <1897> Secunderabad
  1897.06 Tirah
  1898.04 Secunderabad  
  <1899> Fyzabad
  1902 Dagshai
  <1904> Jullunder
  1907 Poona
  1910 Aden
  1911 England: Devonport
  1913 Aldershot 2 Bde
  1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
  1919 Ireland: Templemore
  1922 England: Shorncliffe
  1925 Aldershot 6 Bde
  1927 China: Shanghai
  1928 Malta
  1929 Palestine
  1931 Egypt
  1932.06 Iraq
  1932.12 India: Jullunder
  1936 Razmak
  1936 NW Frontier
  1938.01 Dinapore
  1939 Dinapore
  1942.06 Ceylon
  1943.12 India/Burma 36 Inf Div
  1946 UK
  1947 reduced to cadre
  1948.08.30 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
  1948.08 Germany  
  1949 Trieste  
  1952 Germany: Wuppertal  
  1954.04 UK?  
  1954.11 Korea Commonwealth Contingent
  1955.01 Hong Kong  
  1957.04 England: Watchett  
  1959.01 Aden  
  1960.02 at sea ship: Dilwara
  1960.03 England: Doniford Camp (Somerset)  
  1960.06.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, to form 1st Bn, 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)