Great Britain

The Gloucestershire Regiment

The Hampshire Regiment

This page is about the 1970 merge that did not take place!
The correct lineage of both regiments can be found at the pages The Gloucestershire Regiment and The Hampshire Regiment.

1694: Gibson’s
Regiment of Foot
│
1702: John Gibson’s
Regiment of Foot
│
Thomas Meredith’s
Regiment of Foot
│
1751: 28th Regiment of Foot
│
37th Regiment of Foot
│
1756: │
│
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2nd Battalion,
3rd Regiment of Foot

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2nd Battalion raised
│
│
2nd Battalion,
20th Regiment of Foot

│
1758: │
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61rd Regiment of Foot
│
2nd Battalion → 75th Regiment of Foot
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67th Regiment of Foot
│
│
28th-Foot
│
│
61st-Foot
│
│
37th-Foot
│
│
67th-Foot
│
1782: 28th (North Gloucestershire)
Regiment of Foot

│
61rd (South Gloucestershire)
Regiment of Foot

│
37th (North Hampshire)
Regiment of Foot

│
67th (South Hampshire)
Regiment of Foot

│
1803: 2nd Battalion raised
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2nd Battalion raised
│
│
│
2nd Battalion raised
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1813: │
│
│
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2nd Battalion raised
│
│
│
1814: 2nd Battalion disbanded
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2nd Battalion raised
│
│
│
│
│
1817: │
│
│
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2nd Battalion disbanded
│
2nd Battalion disbanded
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28th Foot
│
61st Foot
│
37th Foot
│
67th Foot
│
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion,
The Gloucestershire Regiment The Hampshire Regiment
Gloucestershire
│
Hampshire
│
Gloucesters
│
Hants
│
1946: │ The Royal Hampshire Regiment
layout
│
Hants
│
1947: 2nd Battalion disbanded
│
│
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1948: │
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2nd Battalion disbanded
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1948:
part of
The Wessex Brigade
│
part of
The Wessex Brigade
│
1959: Wessex
│
Wessex
│
1968:
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
│
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
│
Gloucesters
│
RHR
│
layout layout
1970: this merge never took place!
The Royal Regiment of Gloucestershire and Hampshire
RRGH

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