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The 48thFoot raised in 1741 as Cholmondeley's regiment became the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1782, the 58thFoot was raised in 1755.

1881.07.01 The Northamptonshire Regiment
organised as the county regiment of Northamptonshire, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
1st Battalion, redesignation of 48th (the Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
2nd Battalion, redesignation of 58th (the Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot

1960.06.01 amalgamated with The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)

The Northamptonshire Regiment was the last British regiment to carry its colours into action during the Boer War, that Colour is in the National Army Museum.

The two regiments linked in 1881 and wore white facings. 1960.06.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, to form 1st Bn, 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)

Battle Honours WW1

Great War [13 battalions]: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Ypres 1914 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Amiens, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St. Quentin Canal, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18

Battle Honours WW2

Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, North-West Europe 1940, '45, Djedeida, Djebel Djaffa, Oued Zarga, Djebel Tanngoucha, Sidi Ahmed, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Adrano, Sicily 1943, Sangro, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Cassino II, Monte Gabbione, Trasimene Line, Monte La Pieve, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Madagascar, Yu, Imphal, Tamu Road, Bishenpur, Monywa 1945, Myinmu Bridgehead, Irrawaddy, Burma 1943-45

 

The Northamptonshire Regimental Museum, Northampton (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1st Battalion

1741 James Cholmondeley's Regiment of Foot



1751.07.01 48th Regiment of Foot



<1776> West Indies
1778 West Indies (det captured at Dominica Sep. 1778)
1781 England
1783.10 Ireland



1817 New South Wales
1824 India
1834 Coorg war
1834 England
1837 Ireland
1838 Gibraltar
1844 Jamaica
1847 Ireland
1852 Wales
1853 Ionian Islands: Corfu
1855 Crimea
1856 Malta
1857 Gibraltar
1858 India
1865 England
1866 Ireland
1867 Malta
1872 India
1880 Ireland
1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
1881 Ireland: Tipperary
1884 England: Preston
1887 Warley
1890 England: Aldershot
1892.10.05 at sea
1892 India: Bangalore
<1897> Secunderabad
<1899> Fyzabad
1902 Dagshai
<1904> Jullunder
1907 Poona
1910 Aden
1911 England: Devonport
1913 England: Aldershot 2 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
1919 Ireland: Templemore
1922 England: Shorncliffe
1925 England: Aldershot 6 Bde
1927 Shanghai
1928 Malta
1929 Palestine
1931 Egypt
1932.06 Iraq
1932.12 India: Jullunder
1936 Razmak
1936 NW Frontier
1938.01 Dinapore
1939 Dinapore
1942.06 Ceylon
1943.12 India/Burma 36 Inf Div
1946 UK
1947 reduced to cadre
1948.08.30 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1948.08 Germany
1949 Trieste
1952 Germany: Wuppertal
1954.04 Korea Commonwealth Contingent
1954.12 Advance Party to Hong Kong
1955.01 Hong Kong
1957.04 England: Watchett
1959.01 Aden
1960.02 at sea ship: Dilwara
1960.03 England: Doniford Camp (Somerset)
1960.06.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, to form 1st Bn, 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)

2nd Battalion

1755.12.28 60th Regiment of Foot
1755 England
1756.10 58th Regiment of Foot
1757 North America
1762 at sea 8 coys captured by French
1762 Cuba
1762 England
1763 Ireland
1770 Gibraltar
1779.06 Gibraltar
1783 Gibraltar
1784 England
1787 Ireland
1793 West Indies
1795 England
1797 Channel Islands: Jersey
1798 England
1798 Gibraltar
1798.11 Minorca
1800 Malta
1801 Egypt
1802 Ireland
1803 Channel Islands: Jersey
1804.08.28 1st Battalion, 58th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
1805 England
1805 Gibraltar
1805 Malta
1805 Sicily
1806 Italy
1812 Spain & France C Bde, 6 Div
1812 Canada Power Bde
1815 Netherlands
1815 Ireland
1815.12 58th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion and absorbed its personnel)
1816 Jamaica
1822 England
1824 Ireland
1826 England
1828 Ceylon
1839 England
1841 Ireland
1841 England
1843 at sea escort to prison ships
1843 New South Wales
1845.03 New Zealand
1859 England
1862 Ireland
1864 India
1874 England
1879 Natal
1879 Zulu War
1880 South Africa
1881 Natal
1881.01 South Africa last battalion to carry Colours in battle
1881.03 Natal
1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
1885 Hong Kong
1889 Singapore
1892.12.26 England: Colchester
1895 Jersey
1897 England: Aldershot
1899 Ireland: ?
1899.11 South Africa 9 Bde
1902 England: Bordon
1904 England: Colchester
1911 Malta
1914 Egypt
1914.11 France and Flanders 8 Div
1919 Lahore
1923 Karachi
1926 Sudan
1927 England: Colchester
1931 England: Aldershot 2 Bde
1935 Northern Ireland: Ballykinler
1939.09 France & Belgium 5 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK
1940.06 UK
1942.03.20 at sea 17 Bde, Force 121
1942.05.05 Madagascar 17 Bde, Force 121
1942.06.10 at sea
1942.06.22 India 17 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1942.09 Persia/Iraq
1943.07 Sicily
1943 Italy
1945.02 Germany
1945 Germany
1948.08.30 amalgamated with 1st Battalion

 


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