66th Regiment of Foot

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

• 1804 Ceylon
• 1814 India
• 1815 Nepal
• 1817 India
• 1857 India
• 1870 India
• 1880 Afghanistan

• Battle of Maiwand

• 1906 Subathu
• 1909 Meerut
• 1906 Jhansi
• 1937 Lucknow
• 1941 Bombay
• 1943 Burma

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.
Berkshire Family History Society

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