The Queen’s Royal Hussars (The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish) 1993-present The Queen’s Own Hussars 1958-1993 The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars 1958-1993 3rd The King’s Own Hussars 1685-1958 7th Queen’s Own Hussars 1689-1958 4th Queen’s Own Hussars 1658-1958 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars 1693-1958 3rd The King’s Own Hussars Introduction Early in 1685 […]
BERKSHIRE REGIMENTAL HISTORY (From 1881) Cardwell Reforms 1881 In 1881, under the Cardwell reforms, Infantry Regiments were reorganised and the 49th and 66th Regiments became the 1st and 2nd Battalions of Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Berkshire) Regiment and the 62nd and 99th the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regiment. The […]
King’s Regiment (Liverpool) The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) was one of the oldest infantry regiments of the British Army, having been formed in 1685 and numbered as the 8th (The King’s) Regiment of Foot in 1751. Unlike most British infantry regiments, which were associated with a county, the King’s represented the city of Liverpool, one of only four regiments affiliated to a city in the British […]
The London Regiment is a Territorial Army regiment in the British Army. It was first formed in 1908 in order to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions in the newly formed County of London, each battalion having a distinctive uniform. The Volunteer Force was merged with the Yeomanry in 1908 to form the Territorial Army. This resulted from the impending insolvency of the Volunteer Force’s voluntary […]
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was a Irish infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry).It saw service in the South African War, the First World War and the Second World War, before being amalgamated into theRoyal Irish Rangers in 1968. History 1881 – 1914 On 1 July 1881 […]
The Legion of Frontiersmen of the Commonwealth History & Archives The Founder: Roger Pocock born 150 years ago in 1865: Capt. Henry Roger Ashwell Pocock. “A splendid adventure”. Although he liked to claim he was born at the main family home town of Cookham, in fact Roger Pocock was born at Tenby in South Wales, […]