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Revision as of 10:40, 6 November 2011

Known as The West Essex Regiment

Chronology

  • 1755 raised at Newcastle and Gateshead as the 58th Regiment of Foot under the colonelcy of Lord Charles Manners
  • 1756 became the 58th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 56th Regiment of Foot
  • 1804 2nd Battalion raised
  • 1813 3rd Battalion raised
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot to become 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment
  • 1958 merged with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
  • 1964 became 3rd Battalion of the new Royal Anglian Regiment
  • 1992 3rd Battalion disbanded

Service in British India

External Links

Historical Books Online