Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 26.10.2005
1st Battalion,
64th Regiment of Foot
1756-1881
1881-1959
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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Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
 
     
  1756.12.10 2nd Battalion, 11th Regiment of Foot
raised at Southampton
  1757 England  
1758.04.21 64th Regiment of Foot
  1759 West Indies
  1759 Guadeloupe
  1763 Ireland
  1768 at sea
  1769.01 Massachusetts: Boston  
  1775 American revolution  
  1779 at sea
  1779.12 South Carolina: Charleston
  1779.12 American revolution: southern campaign
  1782.10 at sea (embarked at Charleston)
  1782 West Indies  
  1783 Jamaica  
  1783 England
  1787 Ireland
  1793 West Indies
  1795 England
  1795 Gibraltar
  1796 Ireland
  1800 England
  1801 West Indies
  1802 West Indies
  1802 West Indies
  1804 Surinam
  1813 Barbados
  1813 Canada
  1813 American war: Canadian frontier
  1815 France: Paris Army of Occupation
  1816 England
  1818 Gibraltar
  1827 Ireland
  1834 Jamaica
  1840 Canada
  1843 England
  1845 Ireland
  1848 India  
  1856 Persia  
  1857 India  
1861 England: Dover  
  1863 England: Aldershot  
  1864 Gosport  
1865 Portsmouth  
  1866 Manchester  
  1867 Parkhurst  
  1867 Malta  
  1872 Ireland: Templemore  
  1875 Limerick  
  1874 Scotland: Glasgow  
  1875 England: Portsmouth  
  1877 England: Aldershot  
  1878 England: Colchester  
  1878 Jersey  
  1879 Ireland: Curragh  
  1881 Athlone  
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)
  1883 England:
  1884 West Indies: Barbados
  1887 Natal
  1890 Mauritius
  1893 Malta
  1895 Egypt
  1896 Sudan
  1897 India: Dagshai
  1898 Subathu
  1901 Bombay
  1903 England: Lichfield
  1906 England: Aldershot
  1909 Shorncliffe
  1912 Ireland: Buttevant
  1914.09 France and Flanders 6 Div
  1915.10 France and Flanders 24 Div
  1919 Ireland: Curragh
  1921.01.01 1st Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
  1921 Gibraltar
  1922 Turkey Army of Occupation
  1923.03 India: Secunderabad
  1925 Presidency/Assam
  1929 Nasirabad
  1931 Madras
  1933 Kemptee
  1936 Trimulgherry
  1939 Trimulgherry
  1942.10 Burma
  1943.09 India
  1945 India
  1947 reduced to cadre
  1949.10.01 amalgamated in Egypt with 2nd Battalion without change of title
  1948 Middle East  
  1948 UK  
  1951 Trieste  
  1953.09 Korea 29 Inf Bde Gp
  1954.11 China: Hong Kong  
  1957 Germany: Minden  
  1959.01.31 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The South Staffordshire Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)