Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 03.04.2005
1st Battalion,
11th Regiment of Foot
1685-1881
1881-1958
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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  1685.06.20 The Duke of Beaufort's Regiment of Foot
raised at Bristol
  1685 Monmouth rebellion: York, Hull
  1685 England
  1689 Ireland: Jacobite war
  1698 Ireland
  1703 England
  1703 Flanders
  1704 Portugal
  1704 Iberian Peninsula
  1704. captured by the French at Portalegre and sent to France; exchanged
  1705 England
  1706 Portugal
  1707 Iberian Peninsula
  1708 England
  1708 Flanders
  1711 America
  1711 Walker expedition
  1711 England
  1712 France
  1714 England
  1714 Scotland
  1715 Ireland
  1715 Scotland: Jacobite war
  1715 Scotland
  1719 Scotland: Jacobite war
  1719 Scotland
  1722 England
  1742 Flanders & Germany
  1745 England
  1746 Flanders
  1747 England
  1751.07.01 11th Regiment of Foot
  1756 England
  1756 1st Battalion, 11th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on raising of 2nd Battalion
  1756 England
  1758.04.21 11th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on conversion of 2nd Bn as 64th Regiment of Foot
  1760 Germany
  1763 England
  1764 Minorca
  1771 England
  1775 Ireland
  1783 Ireland
  1783 Gibraltar
  1793 England
  1793 Mediterranean dets serving with fleet
  1798 Belgium: Ostend
  1800 West Indies
  1806 England
  1807 Madeira
  1808.08.25 1st Battalion, 11th Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon formation of 2nd Battalion
  1809 Portugal
  1809 Peninsular war
  1814.04 France
  1814 Ireland
  1816 Gibraltar
  1816.03.16 11th Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon disbandment of 2nd Battalion
  1820 England
  1821 Ireland
  1826.12 Portugal
  1828.07? Ionian Islands
  1835 Ireland
  1838 Canada
  1839 Canada
  1840 England
  1843 Ireland
  1844 England
  1845 New South Wales
  1857 England
  1858.01.08 1st Battalion, 11th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on formation of 1st Battalion
  1864 India
1877 England: Devonport
1878 Chester  
1879 Manchester  
1880 Preston  
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
  1881 England: Colchester
  1882 Ireland: Newry
  1888 England: Aldershot
  1891 Egypt
  1892 India: Thobba
  1896 Cherat
  1897.06 Tirah
  1897 Punjab
  1898.04 India  
  1899.10 South Africa
  1902.01 India: Rhaniket
  1904 Chaubattia
  1905 Burma: Rangoon
  1908 England: Tidworth
  1911 Jersey
  1914.08 France and Flanders 3 Div
  1914.09 France and Flanders 5 Div
  1917.11 Italy
  1918.04 France and Flanders
  1919 Ireland: Waterford
  1922 England: Blackdown 6 Bde
  1927 China: Shanghai
  1928 Malta
  1929.10 India: Quetta
  1932 Razmak
  1934 Calcutta
  1936 Lucknow
  1937 Rawalpindi
  1942.05 Ceylon
  1943.07 India/Burma 80 Bde
  1944.09 Burma/India 36 Inf div
  1945 Singapore
  1947 Hong Kong
  1948 Malaya  
  1951.02 England: Colchester 19 Bde
  1953.04 Kenya  
  1955.01 Germany: Celle 7 Bde
  1958.05.17 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Dorset Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment