Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 06.11.2005
1st Battalion,
28th Regiment of Foot
1702-1881
1881-1994
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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  1694.02.16 Sir John Gibson's Regiment of Foot
raised at Portsmouth
  1694 England
  1697 Newfoundland
  1698 ?
  1701 Ireland
  1704 Flanders
  1707 England
  1707 Iberia
  1708 England
  1714 England  
  1714 ordered to disband  
1715.01 disbandment cancelled  
  1719 Spanish coast
  1719 Ireland
  1743 Flanders
  1745 England
  1747 French coast
  1747 England
  1749 Ireland
  1751.07.01 28th Regiment of Foot
  1757 French North America
  1761 West Indies
  1763 North America
  1767 Ireland
  1776 at sea (embarked at Cork)
  1776.05 North Carolina: Cape Fear
  1776 American revolution
  1778.11 East Florida  
  1778.12 West Indies
  1782.01 captured by the French at St. Kitts
  1783 England
  1786 Ireland
  1793 Channel Islands: Jersey
  1794 Flanders
  1795 England
  1795 at sea part regt returned home during storm
  1795 West Indies: Barbados det at Gibraltar (1798: Minorca)
  1800 Malta
  1801 Egypt
  1802 England
  1805.12 at sea
  1805.12 Hanover
  1806.01 North Germany
  1806.02.15 at sea
  1806.02 England
  1807 Copenhagen
  1808.05.10 at sea  
  1808.05.17 Sweden: Göteborg  
  1808.07.03 at sea  
  1808.07.15 England  
  1808 Portugal
  1808 Peninsular war  
  1809.01 at sea (embarked at Corunna) det remained in Spain
  1809.01 England det in Peninsular war
  1809 Walcheren
  1810 Gibraltar
  1810 Peninsular war
  1814 France
  1814 Ireland
  1815 Belgium
  1815 Waterloo
  1815 France
  1816 England
  1818 Malta & Ionian Islands  
1829.03 Ireland (landed at Cork)  
  1829 Buttevant joined depot
  1829.10 Galway (dets at Gort, Dunmore, Tuam)  
  1831 Dublin  
  1832.04 Naas (dets in Queen's County, Kildare, Wicklow)
  1832.07 Fermoy  
  1832.11 Cork  
  1833.07 Limerick  
  1833.11 Dublin  
  1834 England: Liverpool (dets at Mold and Chester)  
  1834.07 Manchester  
  1834 Chatham  
  1835.02 at sea ( 23 ships with convicts)
  1835 New South Wales: Sydney (Hive wrecked in Wreck Bay)
  1835 Parramatta  
  1841 Sydney (dets at Moreton Bay and Melbourne)
  1842.06.16 at sea ships: John Brewer, Kelso and Arab
  1842.06.30 ran aground on Slasher's Reef, off Queensland (refloated next day)
1842 India: Scinde  
    Bombay  
  1848 UK  
  1854 Malta  
  1854 Turkey  
  1854 Crimea  
  1856.05 Malta  
  1858.11 Egypt  
  1858 India: Bombay  
  1865 UK  
  1869 Gibraltar & Malta  
  1874 Hong Kong  
  1877 Singapore, Malacca & Penang  
  1879 UK  
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
  1881 Ireland: Birr
  1885 England: York
  1888 Ireland: Dublin
  1891 England: Aldershot
  1893 Malta
  1895 Egypt
  1897 India: Calcutta
  1899.10 South Africa
  1903 India: Lucknow
  1906 Meean Meer
  1908 Dalhousie
  1910 England: Portsmouth
  1914 Bordon 3 Bde
  1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
  1919 Ireland
  1922.01 Germany Army of Occupation
  1923 England: Aldershot 5 Bde
  1926 Portsmouth
  1928 Egypt
  1931 Singapore
  1932 India: Mhow
  1936 Madras
  1938 Burma
  1941 Burma
  1942.05 India
  1945.04 India training bn
  1945.08 India
  1947 UK
  1947 reduced to nil strength in UK
  1948.09.22 re-formed by redesignation 2nd Battalion (technically "amalgamated")
  1948.09 West Indies  
  1950.01 England: Colchester  
  1950.11 Korea 29 Inf Bde Gp
  1951.11 at sea
  1951.12 UK  
  1955.03 Kenya  
  1956.04 Aden  
  1957.01? Cyprus  
  1958.04 Germany: Osnabrück BAOR
  1960.01 England: Dover  
  1962.03 Cyprus  
  1965.03 England: Chester  
  1965.07 (Swaziland)  
  1966.04 England: Chester  
  1966? (Aden) (one coy)
  1967.04 Berlin  
  1969.10 England: Honiton  
  1969.12 (Northern Ireland)  
  1970.04 Honiton  
  1971.01 Germany: Minden 11 Armd Bde
  1971.12 (Northern Ireland)  
  1972.04 Germany: Minden 11 Armd Bde
  1973.04 (Northern Ireland)  
  1973.08 Germany: Minden 11 Armd Bde
  1974.08 (Northern Ireland)  
  1974.12 Germany: Minden 11 Armd Bde
  1975.05 England: Weeton 42 or 24 Bde
  1977.10 Northern Ireland: Ballykelly  
  1979.03 Germany: Minden 4 Armd Div
  1981.10 England: Tidworth 8 Field Force
  1982.01 England: Tidworth 1 Inf Bde
  1986.02 Berlin Berlin Bde
  1988.03 Northern Ireland: Londonderry 8 Inf Bde
  1990.02 England: Catterick 24 Airmobile Bde
  1991.12 (Northern Ireland)  
  1992.01 England: Catterick 24 Airmobile Bde
  1993.03 England: Catterick 19 Mech Bde
  1993.03 (Northern Ireland)  
  1994.04 England: Catterick 19 Mech Bde
  1994.04.27 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire), to form 1st Bn, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment