29th Regiment of Foot

The Worcestershire Regiment

Chronology

• 1694 raised by Colonel Thomas Farrington with the name of the current colonel
• 1698 disbanded
• 1702 reformed
• 1751 Colonel Peregrine Hopton's Regiment became the 29th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 retitled as the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated with the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot and became the 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment
• 1970 amalgamated with The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) to become Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
• 2004 amalgamated with the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the new Mercian Regiment

External Links

• 29th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
  
• Worcestershire Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Mercian Regiment Wikipedia
• 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived website
• Worcestershire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived website
• Worcestershire Regiment
  • Worcestershire Regiment Records held at the National Archives, Kew
• Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Collections (29th/45th Foot) WRF Museum
  • Regimental Archives