Great Britain

The Bedfordshire Regiment

The Essex Regiment

	Kingdom of England
1688:	Archibald Douglas’s Regiment of Foot │
1688:	Robert Hodges’s │
1692:	Earl of Derby’s │
1705:	Francis Godfrey’s │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1711:	Henry Durell’s │
1713:	Hans Hamilton’s │
1715:	Viscount Irvine’s │
1717:	John Cholmley’s │
1724:	Earl of Deloraine’s │
1730:	Roger Handasyde’s │
1740:	│ │ │	James Long’s Regiment of Foot │
1742:	ranked as 16th Foot │	ranked as 55th Foot │
1743:	│ │	John Lee’s │
1748:	│ │	ranked as 44th Foot │
1751:	│ │	Peter Halkett’s │
1751:	16th Regiment of Foot │	44th Regiment of Foot │
1755:	│ │	│ │	58th Regiment of Foot │
1757:	│ │	│ │	56th Regiment of Foot │
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1782:	16th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot │	44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot │	56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1803:	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │
1804:	│ │	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │
1809:	16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1815:	│ │	│ │	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1816:	│ │	2nd Battalion disbanded │	│ │
1846:	│ │	│ │	Reserve Battalion raised │
1847:	│ │	Reserve Battalion raised │	│ │
1848:	│ │	│ │	Reserve Battalion disbanded │
1850:	│ │	Reserve Battalion disbanded │	│ │
1859:	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │	│ │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Battalion,    2nd Battalion,	1st Battalion,	2nd Battalion,
	The Bedfordshire Regiment see also the Militia Battalions and the Volunteer Battalions	The Essex Regiment see also the Militia Battalions and the Volunteer Battalions
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1919:	The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment	│ │
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1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1948:	2nd Battalion disbanded │	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1948:	part of The East Anglian Brigade │	part of The East Anglian Brigade │
1958:	1st Battalion, 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
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1964:	3rd Battalion (16th/44th Foot), The Royal Anglian Regiment
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1968:	3rd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
	part of The Queen’s Division │
	3rd Battalion ‘The Pompadours’, The Royal Anglian Regiment │
1992:	disbanded

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