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*'''2007''' merged with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and was designated 1st Battalion The Rifles
== Service in British India ==
'''First Battalion'''
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*'''1864''' India
*[http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/DevonReg/TheDevonshireRegimentandtheTirahCampaign.htm The Devonshire Regiment and the Tirah Campaign] Devon Heritage
*This link from Janus (janus.lib.cam.ac.uk) [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3029A Burma Campaigns 1889-91] briefly mentions the 2nd Devons Regiment and the assault on the Kyaing-Kwintaung Stockade during the Wuntho Sawbwa Campaign of 1891, a later part of the [[3rd Burma War]]
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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
