Great Britain

The Leicestershire Regiment

	Kingdom of England
1688:	Solomon Richard’s Regiment of Foot │
1689:	George St. George’s │
1695:	John Courthorpe’s │
1695:	Matthew Bridge’s │
1703:	Holcroft Blood’s │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1707:	Joseph Wightman’s │
1722:	Thomas Ferrers’s │
1722:	James Tyrrell’s │
1742:	John Wynyard’s │
1742:	ranked as 17th Foot │
1751:	17th Regiment of Foot │
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1782:	17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot │
1799:	2nd Battalion raised │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1802:	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1858:	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,
	The Leicestershire Regiment see also the Militia Battalion and the Volunteer Battalion
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1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1946:	The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
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1948:	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1948:	part of The Midland Brigade │
1958:	brigade renamed in The Forester Brigade │
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1963:	transferred to The East Anglian Brigade │
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1964:	4th Battalion (Leicestershire), The Royal Anglian Regiment
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1968:	4th Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment
	part of The Queen’s Division │
	4th Battalion ‘The Tigers’ The Royal Anglian Regiment │
1970:	reduced to Tiger Company │
1972:	4th Battalion re-formed │
1975:	disbanded

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