Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated 23.01.2005
2nd Battalion,
6th Regiment of Foot
1804-1815, 1857-1881
1881-1948
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
 
     
  1804.12.25 2nd Battalion, 6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
raised at Liverpool
  1804 England
  1811 Ireland
  1811 Channel Islands: Jersey
  1815 England
  1815.12.24 disbanded at Winchester
     
  1846.08.07 Reserve Battalion, 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
raised in Ireland
1846 Canada (5 coys)  
  1849 disbanded
     
  1857.10.23 2nd Battalion, 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
re-formed at Preston
1857 England: Preston
  1858 Gibraltar
  1862 Ionian Islands: Corfu
  1864 Jamaica
  1867 Scotland
  1868 England
  1870 Ireland
  1874 Guernsey
  1875 England
  1878 India
  1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1881 Jubbulpore
<1885> Calcutta
<1889> Subathu
1891 Ceylon
1896 England: Chatham  
  1898 Ireland  
1899.10 South Africa 10 Inf Bde
1901.07 England: Devonport
1904 Portland
1906 Borden
1909 Lichfield
1912 Malta  
1914.10 France and Flanders 7 Div
1917.11 Italy 22 Bde, 7 Div
  1918.11 Italy  
1919 India: Sind  
1922 Landi Kotal  
1924 Nasirabad  
1925 Delhi  
1927 Bombay  
1930 Sudan  
1931 England: Woking 6 Bde
1935 England: Tidworth 7 Bde
1938 England: Aldershot 5 Bde
1939.09 France & Belgium 2 Inf Div, BEF
1940.02 France & Belgium 48 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK
1940.12 UK 24 Gds Bde
1942.06 UK
1942.09 UK 79 Inf Div
1943.04 UK 3 Inf Div
1944.06 NW Europe  
1945 Palestine  
  1947 Egypt  
  1948 England  
  1948.08.09 redesignated as 1st Battalion