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**[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/roll_honour_1921_1939.php Roll of Honour 1921-1939] includes deaths in India
 
**[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/roll_honour_1921_1939.php Roll of Honour 1921-1939] includes deaths in India
 
**[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/PRO_records Worcestershire Regiment Records held at the National Archives, Kew]  
 
**[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/PRO_records Worcestershire Regiment Records held at the National Archives, Kew]  
*[https://worcestershireandmercianregimentmuseum.org/] Mercian Regiment Museum
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*[https://worcestershireandmercianregimentmuseum.org/ Museum ] Mercian Regiment Museum
 
**[https://worcestershireandmercianregimentmuseum.org/worcestershire-regiment-ancestors/ Regimental Archives]
 
**[https://worcestershireandmercianregimentmuseum.org/worcestershire-regiment-ancestors/ Regimental Archives]
  

Revision as of 22:48, 6 April 2021

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

Historical books online