Great Britain

The Devonshire Regiment

The Dorsetshire Regiment

	Kingdom of England
1685:	Duke of Beaufort’s Regiment of Foot │
1685:	Marquess of Worcester’s │
1687:	Marquess of Powis’s │
1688:	John Hanmer’s │
1702:	Earl of Stanhope’s │ │	Richard Coote’s Regiment of Foot │
1703:	│ │	Nicolas Sankey’s │
1705:	John Hill’s │	│ │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1715:	Edward Montague’s │	│ │
1719:	│ │	Thomas Ferrer’s │
1722:	│ │	William Newton’s │
1730:	│ │	John Cope’s │
1732:	│ │	Thomas Wentworth’s │
1737:	│ │	Duke of Argyll’s │
1738:	Stephen Cornwalis’s │	Richard Onslow’s │
1739:	│ │	Robert Dalway’s │
1740:	│ │	Samuel Walter Whitshed’s │
1742:	ranked as 11th Foot │	ranked as 39th Foot │
1743:	Robinson Sowle’s │	Edward Richbell’s │
1746:	William Graham’s │	│ │
1747:	Maurice Bocland’s │	│ │
1751:	11th Regiment of Foot │	39th Regiment of Foot │
1755:	│ │	│ │	56th Regiment of Foot │
1756:	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │	│ │
1757:	│ │	│ │	54th Regiment of Foot │
1758:	2nd Battalion → 64th Regiment of Foot │	│ │	│ │
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1782:	11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot │	39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot │	54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot │
1800:	│ │	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1802:	│ │	│ │	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1803:	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │
1807:	│ │ │	39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │
1808:	2nd Battalion raised │	│ │	│ │
1815:	│ │	2nd Battalion disbanded │	│ │
1816:	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,	1st Battalion,	2nd Battalion,
	The Devonshire Regiment see also the Militia Battalions and the Volunteer Battalions	The Dorsetshire 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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1948:	2nd Battalion disbanded │	2nd Battalion disbanded │
1948:	part of The Wessex Brigade │	part of The Wessex Brigade │
1951:	│ │	2nd Battalion raised │
1951:	│	The Dorset Regiment
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1952:	│ │	2nd Battalion disbanded │
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1958:	1st Battalion, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
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1968:	part of The Prince of Wales’s Division │
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2005:	1st Battalion, The Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
	transferred to The Light Division │
2007:	merged into 1st Battalion, The Rifles

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