43rd Regiment of Foot

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Also known as The Ox and Bucks

Chronology

  • 1741 raised as Thomas Fowke's Regiment of Foot
  • 1747 renamed the 54th Regiment of Foot
  • 1747 became the 43rd Regiment of Foot
  • 1751 became the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot, to become the 1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
  • 1908 became the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • 1958 re-titled as the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd)
  • 1966 amalgamated with the two other regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade to become the 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets
  • 1992 1st Battalion disbanded

External Links

43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Wikipedia
Royal Green Jackets Wikipedia

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