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created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 10.03.2006
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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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| 1673.12.12 | Sir
Walter Vane's Regiment raised at Bois-le-Duc from Irish troops for Dutch service |
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| Franco-Dutch war | |||
| Holland | |||
| 1685 | England | ||
| 1685 | Holland | ||
| 1688 | England | ||
| 1688 | placed on English Establishment | ||
| 1690 | Jacobite war: Ireland | ||
| 1691 | Flanders | ||
| 1693 | England | ||
| 1695 | Flanders | ||
| 1696 | England | ||
| 1697 | Flanders | ||
| 1697 | England | ||
| 1698 | Ireland | ||
| 1702 | England | ||
| 1702 | Spanish coast raids | ||
| 1703 | Newfoundland | ||
| 1705 | Iberia | ||
| 1708 | Minorca | ||
| 1710 | Iberia | ||
| 1712 | Ireland | ||
| 1714 | Ireland | ||
| 1714 | ordered to disband | ||
| 1715.01 | disbandment cancelled | ||
| 1739 | England | ||
| 1742.02 | Jamaica | ||
| 1742.03.20 | at sea | ||
| 1742.04.08 | Panama | ||
| 1742.04 | at sea | ||
| 1742.05 | Jamaica | ||
| 1743 | England | ||
| 1744 | Scotland | ||
| 1745 | Jacobite Rebellion | annihilated at Prestonpans | |
| 1751 | England | ||
| 1751.07.01 | 6th Regiment of Foot | ||
| 1753 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1756 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1763 | England | ||
| 1772 | West Indies: St. Vincent | ||
| 1772 | Carib war | ||
| 1773 | St. Vincent | ||
| 1776.10 | New York: New York | ||
| 1776.12 | remnants
drafted to other regiments and cadre (158 men) sent home to re-form
(12 coys recruited by 1778) |
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| 1778 | England | ||
| 1781 | Channel Islands: Jersey | ||
| 1783 | Ireland | ||
| 1786 | Nova Scotia | ||
| 1791 | New Brunswick | ||
| 1793 | West Indies | ||
| 1795 | England | ||
| 1796 | Ireland | ||
| 1798 | Irish rebellion | ||
| 1799 | Canada | ||
| 1804.12.25 | 1st
Battalion, 6th
Regiment of Foot redesignated upon formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1806 | England | ||
| 1807 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1808 | Peninsular war | ||
| 1809 | England | ||
| 1809 | Walcheren | ||
| 1810 | Peninsular war | ||
| 1814 | France | ||
| 1814 | American war: Canadian frontier | ||
| 1815 | Belgium | ||
| 1815 | France | Army of Occupation | |
| 1815.12.24 | 6th
Regiment of Foot redesignated upon disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1818 | England | ||
| 1821 | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 1825 | India | ||
| 1841 | England | half bn at Aden | |
| 1842 | England | regt reunited | |
| 1844 | Ireland | ||
| 1846 | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 1846 | Kaffir war | ||
| 1847 | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 1850 | Kaffir war | ||
| 1853 | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 1857.10.23 | 1st
Battalion, 6th
Regiment of Foot redesignated upon formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| at sea | |||
| 1858.01.17 | India: Calcutta | ||
| 1857 | Sepoy rebellion | ||
| 1858 | India | ||
| 1862 | England | ||
| 1865 | Channel Islands: Jersey | ||
| 1866 | Ireland | ||
| 1867 | India | ||
| 1868 | Hazara expedition | ||
| 1868 | India | ||
| 1879 | Aden | ||
| 1880 | England | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 1st Battalion, The Warwickshire Regiment | ||
| 1881 | England: London | ||
| <1885> | England: Plymouth | ||
| 1885 | Ireland: Tipperary | ||
| <1889> | Fermoy | ||
| 1890 | England: Aldershot | ||
| 1895 | Malta | ||
| 1896 | Egypt | ||
| 1898 | Sudan | ||
| 1898 | India: Madras | ||
| 1901 | Belgaum | ||
| 1904 | Quetta | ||
| 1908 | Peshawar | ||
| 1908.02 | NW Frontier | ||
| 1908.05 | Peshawar | ||
| 1910 | Bombay | ||
| 1911 | Aden | ||
| 1912 | England: Shorncliffe | 10 Bde | |
| 1914.08 | France and Flanders | 4 Div | |
| 1919 | England: Catterick | ||
| 1920 | Ireland: Newcastle West | ||
| 1923 | England: Shorncliffe | 10 Bde | |
| 1927 | Woking | 6 Bde | |
| 1931 | Palestine | ||
| 1932 | Egypt | ||
| 1933 | India: Poona | ||
| 1937 | Fyzabad | ||
| 1938 | NW Frontier | ||
| 1939 | Meerut | ||
| 1944.10 | Burma | ||
| 1945.06 | India | ||
| 1947 | England | ||
| 1947 | disbanded in England | ||
| 1948.08.09 | re-formed by redesignation of 2nd Battalion | ||
| 1948 | UK depot | ||
| 1951 | Austria | ||
| 1953.09 | Korea | 28 Commonwealth Bde | |
| 1954.08 | Korea | Commonwealth Contingent | |
| 1954.10 | Egypt | ||
| 1956.02 | Cyprus | ||
| 1959.07 | Aden | ||
| 1960.04 | Hong Kong | ||
| 1962 | Germany: Minden | ||
| 1963 | 1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers | ||
| 1966.04 | Far East | ||
| 1968.04.23 | 2nd
Battalion, The
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers redesignated upon formation of "large" regiment from Fusilier Brigade |
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| 1968 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1968.06 | England: Watchett | ||
| 1970.06 | Berlin | ||
| 1971.10 | England: Catterick | 24 Inf Bde | |
| 1971.10 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1972.02 | Catterick | 24 Inf Bde | |
| 1972.07 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1972.11 | Catterick | 24 Inf Bde | |
| 1973.03 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1973.04 | Catterick | 24 Inf Bde | |
| 1973.06 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1973.10 | Catterick | 24 Inf Bde | |
| 1974.10 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1975.02 | Catterick | 24 Inf Bde | |
| 1975.12 | Germany: Paderborn | 20 Armd Bde | |
| 1977.12 | Hemer | 3 Armd Div | |
| 1976.06 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1976.10 | Hemer | ||
| 1978.07 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 1978.11 | Hemer | ||
| 1979.11 | Northern Ireland: Holywood | 39 Inf Bde | |
| 1981.04 | Berlin | Berlin Bde | |
| 1983.12 | England: Catterick | 24 Inf Bde | |
| 1987.05 | Bulford | ||
| 1991.07 | Northern Ireland: Ballykinlar | 39 Inf Bde | |
| 1992.08.01 | absorbed 3rd Battalion | ||
| 1994.02 | England: Chester | 42 Bde | |
| 1996.02 | Germany: Celle | 7 Armd Bde | |
| 1997.05 | (Bosnia) | ||
| 1997.11 | Germany: Celle | 7 Armd Bde | |
| 2000.03 | (Kosovo) | ||
| 2000.09 | Germany: Celle | 7 Armd Bde | |
| 2001.05 | England: North Luffenham | ||
| 2001.12 | (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 2002.06 | England: North Luffenham | ||
| 2003.08 | Northern Ireland: Belfast | ||
| 2003.10 | England: North Luffenham? | ||
| 2005.12 | Cyprus: Dhekelia | ||
| 2007 | |||
