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created 1 July 2002. Corrected and updated
06.11.2005
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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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| 1702.02.12 | Lord
Lucas's Regiment of Foot raised in East Anglia |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1757 | England | ||
| 1758.04.28 | 34th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on conversion of 2nd Bn as 73rd Regiment of Foot |
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| 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 |
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| 1805 | India | ||
| 1817.04 | 34th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 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 |
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