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*'''1885''' became the Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment
*'''1885''' became the Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment
*'''1920''' became The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)
*'''1920''' became The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)
== Service in British India ==
*'''1804''' [[Ceylon]]
*'''1814''' India
*'''1815''' [[Gurkha War|Nepal]]
*'''1817''' India
*'''1857''' India
*'''1870''' India
*'''1880''' [[2nd Afghan War|Afghanistan]]
:*[[Battle of Maiwand]]
*'''1906''' Subathu
*'''1909''' [[Meerut]]
*'''1906''' [[Jhansi]]
*'''1937''' [[Lucknow]]
*'''1941''' [[Bombay]]
*'''1943''' [[Burma]]


== External Links ==
== External Links ==

Revision as of 09:54, 10 November 2010

Also known as The Royal Berkshire Regiment

Chronology

  • 1758 2nd Battalion the 19th Regiment of Foot formed in 1756 became the 66th Regiment
  • 1782 became the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment.
  • 1803 2nd Battalion raised. Fought in the Peninsular War
  • 1881 under the Cardwell reforms became 2nd Battalion of Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Berkshire) Regiment
  • 1885 became the Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment
  • 1920 became The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)

Service in British India

External Links

66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
The Royal Berkshire Regiment Wikipedia
66th at Maiwand history.farmersboys.com
66th Regiment of Foot Regiments.org (archived site)
The Wardrobe : The Rifles ( Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum-The Story of the Infantry of Berkshire and Wiltshire
Regimental Time Line. The Wardrobe.org.uk . Extensive details of deployments.

Historical Books Online

Events of a military life: being recollections after service in the Peninsular war, invasion of France, the East Indies, St. Helena, Canada, and elsewhere Volume 1 by Walter Henry, Surgeon to the Forces 1843 The author leaves for India page 213 in 1815

Recommended reading

Maiwand: The Last Stand of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment in Afghanistan, 1880 by Richard J. Stacpoole-Ryding from Anglo Afghan War. This book may be bought from the FIBIS Shop through Amazon.co.uk