Authors and Contributors this page:
Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Copyright Notice
Page created
1 March 2001.
Corrected and updated
03.04.2005
Disclaimers
1st Battalion,
11th Regiment of Foot
1685-1881
1st Battalion,
The Devonshire Regiment
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.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
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