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created 15 November 2002. Corrected and updated
27.03.2005
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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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| 1756.08.17 | 2nd
Battalion, 24th
Regiment of Foot raised in Lancashire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire |
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| 1756 | England | ||
| 1758.04.23 | 69th Regiment of Foot | ||
| 1758.05 | Isle of Wight | ||
| 1758.06.01 | at sea | ||
| 1758.06.05 | French coast: St. Malo | ||
| 1758.06.07 | at sea | several raids on French coast aborted | |
| 1758.07.01 | England: Portsmouth | ||
| 1761.04 | French coast: Belleisle | ||
| 1761.06 | England | ||
| 1761 | West Indies | ||
| 1763 | Ireland | ||
| 1768 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1775 | England | ||
| 1781.01 | Barbados | ||
| 1781.09 | New York | ||
| 1781 | American revolution | ||
| 1781.11 | West Indies | service as marines; det captured by the French at St. Kitts Jan. 1782 | |
| 1783? | West Indies? | ||
| 1785 | England | ||
| 1793 | Mediterranean
Fleet (det) Channel Fleet (one coy) |
service
as marines (Agamemnon, later Captain) service as marines (Leviathan) |
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| 1794.02.07 | Corsica: Mortella Point | ||
| 1795.03.18 | 1st Battalion,
69th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1796.12.18 | det from Corsica drowned when Courageux sank off Gibraltar | ||
| 1796 | 69th
Regiment of Foot absorbed 2nd Battalion at Gibraltar |
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| 1795 | at sea | ||
| 1796.01.01 | Santo Domingo | ||
| 1798.10? | Jamaica | ||
| 1798 | Ireland | ||
| 1799 | Holland: Helder expedition | ||
| 1800 | Jamaica | ||
| 1802 | England | ||
| 1803.07.09 | 1st Battalion,
69th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1805 | India | ||
| 1806 | Vellore mutiny | ||
| 1806 | India | ||
| 1809 | Travancore rebellion | ||
| 1809 | India | ||
| 1810 | Bourbon | ||
| 1810 | Mauritius | ||
| 1810.12.26 | at sea (embarked at Port Louis) | ||
| 1811 | Java | ||
| 1816? | India | ||
| 1816 | 69th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1825 | England | ||
| 1831 | West Indies | ||
| 1839 | Nova Scotia | ||
| 1842 | England | ||
| 1847 | Malta | ||
| 1851 | Barbados | ||
| 1857 | England | ||
| 1857 | Burma | ||
| 1862 | India | ||
| 1864 | England | ||
| 1866 | Channel Islands | ||
| 1867 | Ireland | ||
| 1867 | Canada | ||
| 1867 | Fenian raids | ||
| 1868 | Canada | ||
| 1870 | Bermuda | ||
| 1873 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1878 | England | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 2nd Battalion, The Welsh Regiment | ||
| 1881 | England: Sheffield | ||
| 1883 | Ireland: Mullingar | ||
| 1888 | Cork | ||
| 1891 | England: Devonport | ||
| 1892.09.04 | at sea | ||
| 1892 | India: Secunderabad | ||
| 1897 | Bellary | ||
| 1899 | Ahmednagar | ||
| 1901 | Subathu | ||
| 1904 | Quetta | ||
| 1906 | South Africa | ||
| 1910 | England: Pembroke Dock | ||
| 1912 | Bordon | 3 Bde | |
| 1914.08 | France and Flanders | 1 Div | |
| 1919 | England: Pembroke Dock | ||
| 1920.01 | Ireland: Dublin | ||
| 1921.01.01 | 2nd Battalion, The Welch Regiment | ||
| 1922.12 | England: Colchester | ||
| 1925 | England: Tidworth | ||
| 1927 | Shanghai | ||
| 1928 | Singapore | ||
| 1931.03 | India: Rawalpindi | ||
| 1933 | Landi Kotal | ||
| 1935 | NW Frontier | ||
| 1936.03 | Agra | ||
| 1937 | Delhi | ||
| 1939 | Bombay | ||
| 1942.08 | Burma | 19 Ind Div | |
| 1945 | Burma | ||
| 1947 | UK | ||
| 1948.06.14 | amalgamated with 1st Battalion | ||
