• The 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, which was raised in 1756 and saw service through the eighteenth and...
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    The Wiltshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 62nd (Wiltshire)...
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  • (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1824. It amalgamated with the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot to form...
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  • American) Regiment of Foot between 1755 and 1757 78th Fraser Highlanders, known as the 62nd Regiment of Foot for a short period in 1757 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment...
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    Baron Heytesbury (category Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
    surname of Holmes. His son the 4th baron commanded a battalion in the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) and was for a time in command of 62nd (Wiltshire)...
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    Le Marchant Barracks (category Military history of Wiltshire)
    Regiment of Foot and the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot. Following the Childers Reforms, the 62nd and 99th Regiments amalgamated to form the Wiltshire Regiment...
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    of Foot King's Royal Rifle Corps 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment...
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    William Knollys (British Army officer) (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    he was made President of the Council of Military Education in 1861. He held the colonelcy of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot from 1858 until its amalgamation...
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  • The Royal Wiltshire Militia was an auxiliary regiment of the British Army from the English county of Wiltshire. From their formal organisation as Trained...
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    This is a list of numbered regiments of foot of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1881, when numbering was abandoned. Foot was the contemporary...
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    The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch. Originally titled Crawford's...
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    Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot, The Queen's Regiment of Foot, and The King's Own Regiment. Authorisation to recruit the regiment was given...
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  • The Rifles (category Rifle regiments)
    amalgamation of the 1st Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and the 1st Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. Initially...
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  • John Forster FitzGerald (category Royal American Regiment officers)
    also colonel of the 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers), of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot and then of the Royal Irish Regiment. He represented...
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    Foot The Springers – 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot – The Wiltshire Regiment – The Lincolnshire Regiment The Staffordshire Knot – 80th Regiment of...
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    Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army...
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    The 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot was an Irish infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1689. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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  • (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1881. The regiment was raised by Colonel Robert Anstruther as the 60th Regiment of Foot in...
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    Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. In 1958 it amalgamated with the East Yorkshire Regiment (15th...
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    American) Regiment of Foot - 8 Battalions from 1813-1819 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1803-1814 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot...
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    The 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment, raised in 1794. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the...
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    The 32nd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 46th (South...
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    The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by...
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    of Bath. In 1751, it was numbered like most other Army regiments and named the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. After the Childers Reforms of 1881...
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    (West Essex) Regiment of Foot to form the Essex Regiment in 1881. The regiment was raised by Colonel James Long as James Long's Regiment of Foot in 1741....
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    King's Division, to form the Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) on 6 June 2006. The regiment was formed during the 1688 Glorious Revolution...
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    East Yorkshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1685 as Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot and later renamed...
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    Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet (category 77th Regiment of Foot officers)
    the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot and in 1840 transferred again to be Colonel of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot, holding the latter post...
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    Edward John Eliot (category Wiltshire Regiment officers)
    62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot. His unit sailed from Ireland in May 1800 to the Île-d'Houat, in Quiberon Bay, where 40 years earlier the Battle of Quiberon...
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    The 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) was an infantry Regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with...
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