Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 02.04.2005
1st Battalion,
65th Regiment of Foot
1758-1881
1881-1968
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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  1756.12.10 2nd Battalion, 12th Regiment of Foot
  1757 England  
1758.04.21 65th Regiment of Foot
  1758? West Indies  
  1762 Cuba  
  1763 Cuba  
  1764 England
  176u Ireland
  1768 at sea  
  1769.01 Massachusetts: Boston
  1775 American revolution
  1776.05 remnants drafted to other regiments and officers sent home to re-form
  1776 England
  1782 Gibraltar
  1783 Ireland
  1784 Canada
  1791 Nova Scotia
  1793 West Indies
  1794 England & Scotland
  1800 Cape of Good Hope
  1802 Cape of Good Hope Ceylon (two coys)
  1802 Cape of Good Hope Kandian war (two coys)
  1803.05 India (regt reunited)
  1803 Mahratta war
  1805 India
  1809 Persian Gulf
  1810? India
  1810.12.01 Mauritius
  1811? Ceylon
  1811? India: Bombay
  1811 Kattiawar
  1812 India
  1814 Guzerat & Kutch
  1815 India
  1817 Pindari war
  1818 India
  1817 absorbed 400 men from 2nd Bn, 56th Foot
  1819 Persian Gulf
  1820 India: Bombay
  1819 Kutch
  1821 Persian Gulf
  1821 India
  1822.08 at sea
  1822 England & Scotland
  1824 Ireland
  1829 West Indies & Demerara
  1837 Nova Scotia
  1838 Canada
  1838 Canada
  1841.08 England
  1843 Ireland
  1845 England
  1845 New South Wales
  1846.11 New Zealand
  1846.11 Maori war
  1847 New Zealand
  1860 Maori wars
  1865 England
  1867 Ireland
  1871 India
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
  1881 India: Bengal
  1882 Aden
  1884 Sudan  
  1884.10 England: Dover
  1885 Sheffield
  1888 Ireland: Birr
  1891 Cork
  1895 England: Colchester
  1899 South Africa 11 Bde
  1902 India: Mhow
  1905 Quetta
  1910 Karachi
  1913 Jubbulpore
  1915.01 France and Flanders 28 Div
  1915.11 Macedonia
  1919 England: Tidworth
  1921 Ireland: Clonmel
  1922 Germany Army of Occupation
  1924 England: Aldershot 3 Bde
  1928 Northern Ireland: Londonderry
  1932 England: Portsmouth
  1935 York
  1936 Egypt
  1937? Palestine
  1937 England: York
1939.10.06 France & Belgium 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div, BEF
  1940.04.16 UK
  1940.04.23 Norway 15 Bde, Sickleforce
  1940.05.06 UK
  1942.03.17 at sea
  1942.05.20 India 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1942.09.12 at sea
  1942.09.21 Iraq 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1942.11.12 Persia 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1943.02.06 Iraq & Palestine in transit
  1943.03.14 Egypt 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1943.04.14 Syria 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1943.06.05 Egypt 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1943.06.29 at sea
  1943.07.10 Sicily 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1943.09.03 Italy 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1944.06.19 at sea
  1944.06.25 Egypt & Palestine & Syria 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1945.02.24 at sea
  1945.03.03 NW Europe 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
  1945 Germany 2 Div
  1948.09.25 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
  1952 Sudan & Egypt  
  1955 UK  
  1956 (Suez)  
  1956 UK  
  1958.06 Aden  
  1959.01 Berlin BAOR
  1962 Germany: Münster  
  1963 (Swaziland)  
  1965.03 Cyprus  
  1966.02 (Aden) (B Coy)
  1966.05 Cyprus
  1968 UK  
  1968.12.07 disbanded at North Weald, Essex