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created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 30.05.2005
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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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Colour Key
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| 1742.03.29 | John Batereau's Regiment of Foot | ||
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1742.04 | England | |
| 1743.06. | Flanders | ||
| 1745 | Scotland: Jacobite war | ||
| 1746 | Scotland | ||
| 1748 | disbanded at Stirling | ||
| 1756.12.10 | 2nd
Battalion, 4th
Regiment of Foot raised at Exeter |
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| 1757 | England: Plymouth | ||
| 1758.01 | at sea (4 coys; embarked at Plymouth) | 6 coys to Ireland | |
| 1758 | French North America (4 coys) | ||
| 1758.04.21 | 62nd Regiment of Foot | ||
| 1760 | Ireland (regt reunited) | ||
| 1764 | West Indies: Dominica | ||
| 1769 | Ireland | ||
| 1776.04 | at sea (embarked at Cork) | ||
| 1776.05 | Lower Canada: Quebec | ||
| 1776 | American revolution | ||
| 1777.10.17 | surrendered to the Americans at Saratoga and interned at Cambridge, Mass. (6 Nov. 1777), then Rutland, Mass., (to Nov 1778), then Charlottesville, Va. (to June 1781), then Lancaster, Penn. (to Apr. 1783) | ||
| 1783.04 | at sea | ||
| 1783.05 | England | ||
| 1784.02 | Scotland | ||
| 1784.10 | Ireland | ||
| 1791 | West Indies: Jamaica, San Domingo | ||
| 1794 | West Indies | ||
| 1798 | England | ||
| 1799.11.25 | 1st
Battalion, 62nd
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1800 | Ireland: Fermoy | ||
| 1802 | 62nd
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1802 | Ireland: Cork | ||
| 1803 | Dublin, Fullamore, Kilbeggan, Ballinasloe | ||
| 1804 | Birr | ||
| 1804 | England: Devizes | ||
| 1804.08.01 | 1st
Battalion, 62nd
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1805 | Ireland: Middleton | ||
| 1805 | at sea (embarked at Middleton) | embarked for the West Indies, but orders countermanded and bn returned | |
| 1805 | Ireland: Mallow | ||
| 1806.01? | Cork | ||
| 1806.02? | at sea (embarked at Cork) | destined for Hanover, but Army there was about to return | |
| 1806.02? | England: Brayborne Lees, Shorncliff, Ramsgate, Plymouth | ||
| 1806 | at sea | ||
| 1807 | Sicily: Messina | ||
| 1807.05.25 | Egypt | ||
| 1807.09 | Sicily | ||
| 1808 | Italy: Calabria (3 coys) | ||
| 1809 | Sicily: Melazzo | ||
| 1809 | Italy: Naples | ||
| 1810 | Sicily: Messina | ||
| 1811 | Italy: Naples | ||
| 1812 | Peninsular war: east coast (GrenCoy) | ||
| 1813 | Italy | ||
| 1814 | Nova Scotia: Halifax | ||
| 1814 | North America: Atlantic coast (Maine) | ||
| 1815 | Nova Scotia: Halifax | ||
| 1815 | Bermuda (Left Wing) | ||
| 1816 | 62nd
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1818 | Nova Scotia: Halifax (regt reunited) | dets at PEI (Annapolis and Windsor) | |
| 1823 | Ireland | ||
| 1830 | India | ||
| 1832.10.28 | Bangalore mutiny | suppressed mutiny | |
| 1832 | India | ||
| 1845 | Sikh war | ||
| 1846 | India | ||
| 1847 | England | ||
| 1854 | Ireland | ||
| 1854 | Malta | ||
| 1854 | Crimea | ||
| 1856 | England? | ||
| 1857 | Nova Scotia: Halifax | ||
| 1861.11 | Trent Affair: Kingston, Quebec | ||
| 1862 | Canada | ||
| 1864 | England | ||
| 1867 | Ireland | ||
| 1868 | India | ||
| 1880 | Aden | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 1st Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) | ||
| 1882 | England: Aldershot | ||
| 1885 | Jersey | ||
| 1887 | Ireland: Athlone | ||
| 1890 | Curragh | ||
| 1893 | England: Aldershot | ||
| 1895 | India: Karachi | ||
| 1898 | Quetta | ||
| 1901 | Cherat | ||
| 1903 | Upper Topa | ||
| 1904 | Rawalpindi | ||
| 1906 | Dagshai | ||
| 1907 | Jhansi | ||
| 1908 | South Africa | ||
| 1913 | England: Tidworth | ||
| 1914.08 | France and Flanders | 3 Div | |
| 1915.11 | France and Flanders | 25 Div | |
| 1918.06 | France and Flanders | 21 Div | |
| 1919 | Dublin | ||
| 1921.01.01 | 2nd Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) | ||
| 1923 | England: Tidworth | ||
| 1927 | Plymouth | ||
| 1930 | Egypt | ||
| 1931 | China: Shanghai | ||
| 1932 | Singapore | ||
| 1936.03 | India: Bangalore | ||
| 1939 | Madras | ||
| 1943.10 | Burma | ||
| 1944.10 | India | ||
| 1945.08 | India | ||
| 1947 | UK | ||
| 1948.11.25 | amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title | ||
| 1949 | Germany: Krefeld | 2 Div | |
| 1950.04 | Hong Kong | ||
| 1953 | England: Warminster | Inf Demo Bn | |
| 1956.02 | Cyprus | ||
| 1959.01 | England: Parkhurst, IOW | ||
| 1959.06.09 | amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), to form 1st Bn, The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) | ||
