Authors and Contributors this page:
Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
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Page created
1 July 2002
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Corrected and updated
06.11.2005
Disclaimers
1st Battalion,
34th Regiment of Foot
1702-1881
1st Battalion,
The Border Regiment
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.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
1702.02.12
Lord Lucas's Regiment of Foot
raised in East Anglia
1702
England
1705
Iberian Peninsula
1707
England
1707?
at sea
service as marines
1710
Flanders
1713
England
1713
disbanded
1715.07?
Thomas Chudleigh 's Regiment of Foot
re-formed without loss of precedence and officers restored to former rank
1717
Ireland
1719
Spanish coast
1719
Ireland
1727
Gibraltar
1728
Ireland
1740.11.04
at sea (embarked at
Portsmouth)
1741.01.03
St. Rupert's Bay, Dominica
1741.01
Jamaica
1741.03.15
Cartagena
1741.05
Jamaica
1741.08.29
Cuba
1741.11
Jamaica
1742?
England
1745?
Flanders
1745
England
1745
Scotland: Jacobite rebellion
1746
Scotland
1748
England?
1751.07.01
34th Regiment of Foot
1752
Minorca
1756.04
Minorca
1756.07
Gibraltar
1756.07?
England
1756
1st Battalion,
34th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on raising of
2nd Battalion
1757
England
1758.04.28
34th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on conversion of 2nd Bn as
73rd 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
1758.08.08
French coast
: Cherbourg
1758.09
England
1762.06
Cuba
1763?
Florida: Mobile
1767
Ireland
1776
Canada
1776
American revolution
1776.05
North Carolina: Cape Fear
1776
American revolution
(flank coys captured at Saratoga)
1777
Canada
1783
Canada
1786
England
1793
England
1796
West Indies
1800
Cape of Good Hope
1800
Kaffir war
1800
Cape of Good Hope
1802
India
1805.04.25
1st Battalion,
34th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on formation of
2nd Battalion
1805
India
1817.04
34th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on disbandment of
2nd Battalion
1817.11
Pindari war
1819
India
1823
England
1824
Ireland
1829
North America
1830
Nova Scotia: Halifax
1833
New Brunswick: St. John's
1838
Upper Canada Rebellion
garrison at Amherstburg (Fort Malden)
1838
Lower Canada: Quebec
1839
Montreal
1842
England
1842
Ireland
1845
Ionian Islands
1848
West Indies
1854
Ionian Islands
1855
Crimea
1856
England
1857
Sepoy rebellion
1859
India
1867
England
1872
Ireland
1875
India
1881.07.01
1st Battalion,
The Border Regiment
1881
India: Agra
1885
Sialkot
1889
Burma
1890
England: Dover
1893
England: Aldershot
1897
Malta
1899.09.27
at sea
1899.10.21
Cape Colony: Cape Town
1899.10
South Africa
5 Bde
1902.05
South Africa
1902
England: Plymouth
1906
Gibraltar
1908
Madras
1910
Burma: Maymyo
1915.01
Rugby
87 Bde, 29 Div
1915.03
Egypt
1915.04
Gallipoli
1916.01
Egypt
1916.03
France and Flanders
1919
India: Karachi
1922.01
NW Frontier
: Kohat
1924
Aden
1925
England: York
1927
Shanghai
1927
England: York
1929
Bordon
3 Bde
1933
Northern Ireland: Belfast
1936
Palestine
1937
England: Catterick
1939.09
France & Belgium
2 Inf Div, BEF
1940.05
France & Belgium
42 Ind Div
1940.06
UK
1940.06
UK
31 Inf Bde
1941.11
UK
1 Abn Div
1943.04
Tunisia
1943.07
Sicily
1943
Italy
1943.11
1944.09
NW Europe
1945
Norway
1946
Trieste
1947
Palestine
1948
Somaliland
1950
England: Dover
39 Bde
1950.10.28
amalgamated with
2nd Battalion
without change of title
1951
Egypt & Cyprus
1955.03
Germany: Gottingen
1956.04
Gottingen
12 Bde
1957.11
Berlin
1959.10.01
amalgamated with
1st Bn, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
,
to form
1st Bn, The King's Own Royal Border Regiment