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Also known as '''The Buffs''' from 1935.
'''The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment'''  


== Chronology ==
== Chronology ==
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*'''1781''' became the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
*'''1781''' became the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
*'''1881''' became The Lincolnshire Regiment  
*'''1881''' became The Lincolnshire Regiment  
*'''1935''' became The Buffs, (Royal East Kent Regiment)
*'''1946''' became '''The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment'''
*'''1961''' amalgamated with 50th/97th The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment to form 3rd/50th/97th The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
*'''1960''' amalgamated with [[48th Regiment of Foot|The Northamptonshire Regiment]], to form 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
*'''1966''' merged and became 2nd Battalion (Queen's Own Buffs), The Queen's Regiment
*'''1964''' united with 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot), and The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, to form The Royal Anglian Regiment
*'''1992''' amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to form The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment


== Service in British India ==
== Service in British India ==

Revision as of 16:01, 7 June 2013

The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

Chronology

  • 1685 raised as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
  • 1751 became the 10th Regiment of Foot
  • 1781 became the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 became The Lincolnshire Regiment
  • 1946 became The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
  • 1960 amalgamated with The Northamptonshire Regiment, to form 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
  • 1964 united with 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot), and The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, to form The Royal Anglian Regiment

Service in British India

External Links

Historical Books Online