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66th (Berkshire)
Regiment of Foot |
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| 1758.04.21 | 66th Regiment
of Foot formed by redesignation of 2nd Battalion, 19th Regiment of Foot |
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| 1782.08.31 | 66th (the Berkshire) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1881.07.01 | united with 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (or the Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot , to form The Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment) | |
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66th Regiment, 1756-1881, by The Wardrobe. | |
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Regimental Timeline, by The Wardrobe | |
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History (to 1881) [49th, 62nd, 66th, and 99th Foot] by The Wardrobe (Museum site) | |
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| [1st Battalion] [1758-1881] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1803-1816] | ||
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? Depot Battalion
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| 41st Brigade Depot at Reading [1873-1881] | ||
| Douro, Talavera, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula, Kandahar 1880, Afghanistan 1879-80 | |
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| 1758.04.21 | Lt-Gen. Edward Sandford [also 10th Foot, 26th Foot, 52nd Foot] | |
| 1758.08.24 | Maj-Gen. John La Fausille | |
| 1763.01.19 | Gen. Lord Adam Gordon | |
| 1776.01.13 | Lt-Gen. Joseph Gabbett | |
| 1794.11.27 | Gen. John Thomas (de Burgh), 13th Earl of Clanricarde | |
| 1808.08.03 | Gen. Olvier Nicolls | |
| 1829.12.07 | Gen. Sir William Anson, Bt., KCB | |
| 1835.03.25 | Gen. Richard Blunt | |
| 1859.12.26 | Gen. Edward Welles Bell | |
| 1870.10.10 | Gen. Thomas Henry Johnston | |
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Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment Salisbury Museum, Salisbury (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Museum of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment, Salisbury (Simonides listing) | |
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The Wardrobe: RGBW Regimental Museum, Salisbury (Museum site) | |
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