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created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 21.03.2005
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1663-?,
1794-97, 1857-1881
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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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Lineage
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War service
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Overseas service
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Home service
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1663.10.08 |
John
Fitzgerald's Regiment of Foot
raised at Tangier as an Irish 2nd
Battalion to Tangier
Regiment |
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166? |
disbanded |
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1794.12.25 |
2nd
Battalion, 2nd
Regiment of Foot
formed at Porstmouth by separation
of coys from 1st
Battalion |
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1795 |
England |
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1795 |
Guernsey |
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1795.11 |
at sea
(embarked at Guernsey) |
heavy
losses in hurricane |
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1796 |
Martinique |
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1796 |
West
Indies |
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1797.10.07 |
disbanded
in Martinique (personnel to 1st
Battalion) |
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1857.08.25 |
2nd
Battalion, 2nd
Regiment of Foot
re-formed at Colchester |
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1857 |
England:
Colchester |
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1858.02.12 |
at sea |
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1858 |
Malta |
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1858 |
Ionian
Islands |
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1862 |
Gibraltar |
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1864 |
Bermuda |
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1865 |
Ireland |
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1868 |
England |
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1873 |
Ireland:
Athlone |
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1876 |
England |
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1877 |
Malta |
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1878 |
India |
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1881.07.01 |
2nd
Battalion, The
Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) |
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1881 |
India:
Bengal |
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1883 |
Subathu
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1885 |
Cawnpore
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1886 |
Burma
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1888 |
India:
Umballa |
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<1892> |
Dinapore
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1894 |
England:
Woking |
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1899.10 |
South
Africa |
2 Inf Bde |
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1904 |
England:
Shorncliffe |
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1906 |
Colchester |
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1910 |
Gibraltar
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1912 |
Bermuda
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1914 |
South Africa
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1914.10 |
France
and Flanders |
7 Div |
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1917.11 |
Italy
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91 Bde,
7 Div |
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1918.11 |
Italy |
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1919 |
India:
Delhi |
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1921 |
2nd
Battalion, The
Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) |
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1921 |
NW
Frontier: Landi Kotal |
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1923 |
Allahabad
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1925 |
Lucknow
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1926 |
Sudan
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1927 |
England:
Dover |
12 Bde |
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1931 |
Aldershot
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1 Bde |
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1935 |
Parkhurst |
9 Bde |
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1939 |
Palestine
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1940.01 |
Middle
East |
16 Inf
Bde |
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1941.06.17 |
Syria |
16 Bde,
6 Div |
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1941.09.19 |
Middle
East |
16 Inf
Bde |
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1942.03 |
Ceylon
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1943.02 |
India
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1944.01 |
Burma
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1944.05 |
India
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1944.10 |
India
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23 Inf
Bde |
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1945.05 |
India
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36 Inf
Bde |
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1947 |
Berlin
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1948.09.09 |
reduced to nil strength (personnel to reconstitute
1st
Battalion in Berlin) |
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1948.11.21 |
disbanded |
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