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*'''1758''' 2nd Battalion 3rd Regiment of Foot redesignation as the 61st Regiment of Foot
*'''1782''' renamed 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
*'''1881''' amalgamated with the [[28th Regiment of Foot|28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot]] to form the two-battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. Also sometimes called the '''Gloster''' Regiment, or the '''Glosters'''.
*'''2005''' amalgamated with the Light Infantry, The Royal Green Jackets and the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment to form the 1st Battalion The Rifles
===Second World War===
10th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, arrived Bombay December 17th, 1942, and moved from India to the Arakan on January 13th, 1944. It served in Shillong, and again in Burma until May 16th, 1945 and then returned to India.<ref>dryan67 [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/10th-btn-glosters-in-india-burma.42986/#post-511089 10th Btn, Glosters In India/Burma] '''WW2Talk Forum'' 26 October 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2019. David A Ryan is co author of books on the Indian Army in WW2, see the ''WW2Talk Forum'' post
[http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/indian-army-an-organisational-history.52920/ Indian Army: An Organisational History]. Retrieved 25 April 2019.</ref>
