Great Britain

The Cheshire Regiment

	Kingdom of England
1689:	Duke of Norfolk’s Regiment of Foot │
1689:	Henry Bellasis’s │
1701:	William Selwyn’s │
1702:	Thomas Handasyde’s │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1712:	Roger Handasyde’s │
1730:	William Barrell’s │
1734:	James St. Clair’s │
1737:	John Moyle’s │
1738:	Thomas Paget’s │
1741:	Richard O’Farrell’s │
1742:	ranked as 22nd Foot │
1751:	22nd Regiment of Foot │
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1782:	22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1814:	2nd Battalion raised │
1814:	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 Cheshire Regiment see also the Militia Battalions and the Volunteer Battalions
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1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1922:	│
1948:	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1948:	part of The Mercian Brigade │
1958:	│
1968:	part of The Prince of Wales’s Division │
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2007:	1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire)
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2014:	1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffordshire) │

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