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1673.12.12 Sir Walter Vane's Regiment of Foot.
raised at Bois-le-Duc from Irish troops for Dutch service;
also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels
1688 transferred to English Establishment
1747 ranked as 6th Foot
1751.07.01 6th Regiment of Foot
1782.08.31 6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
1832.06.15 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
1881.07.01 The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
reorganised as the county regiment of Warwickshire, encompassing
also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below]
1963.05.01 The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
1968.04.23 united with The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers,
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), and The Lancashire
Fusiliers, to form The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Battle Honours
Namur 1695, Martinique 1794, Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Vittoria,
Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Peninsula, Niagara, South Africa
1846-7, 1851-2-3, Atbara, Khartoum, South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War (30 battalions): Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons,
Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914
'15 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Neuve Chapelle, St.
Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos,
Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières,
Guillemont, Fleers Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights,
Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux,
Oppy, Bullecourt, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon
Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917
'18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires,
Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Drocourt Quéant,
Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, Beaurevoir,
Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave,
Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli
1915-16, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia
1916-18, Baku, Persia 1918
The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Wormhoudt, Ypres-Comines
Canal, Normandy Landing, Caen, Bourgebus Ridge, Mont Pincon,
Falaise, Venraij, Rhineland, Lingen, Brinkum, Bremen, North-West
Europe 1940 '44-45, Burma 1945
5th, 6th, 7th Battalions: South Africa 1900-02
Royal
Warwickshire Fusiliers Museum, Warwick (Army Museums Ogilby
Trust)
Deployment
1st Battalion
1857.10.23 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon formation of 2nd Battalion
at sea
1858.01.17 India: Calcutta
1857 Sepoy rebellion
1858 India
1862 England
1865 Channel Islands: Jersey
1866 Ireland
1867 India
1868 Hazara expedition
1868 India
1879 Aden
1880 England
1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Warwickshire Regiment
1881 England: London
<1885> England: Plymouth
1885 Ireland: Tipperary
<1889> Fermoy
1890 England: Aldershot
1895 Malta
1896 Egypt
1898 Sudan
1898 India: Madras
1901 Belgaum
1904 Quetta
1908 Peshawar
1910 Bombay
1911 Aden
1912 England: Shorncliffe 10 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 4 Div
1919 England: Catterick
1920 Ireland: Newcastle West
1923 England: Shorncliffe 10 Bde
1927 Woking 6 Bde
1931 Palestine
1932 Egypt
1933 India: Poona
1937 Fyzabad
1938 NW Frontier
1939 Meerut
1944.10 Burma
1945.06 India
1947 England
1947 disbanded in England
1948.08.09 re-formed by redesignation of 2nd Battalion
1948 UK depot
1951 Austria
1953.09 Korea 28 Commonwealth Bde
1954.08 Korea Commonwealth Contingent
1954.10 Egypt
1956.02 Cyprus
1956.08 Return to UK then to Omagh
1956.09 Ballykinlar
1959.07 Aden
1960.04 Hong Kong
1962 Germany: Minden
1963 1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
1966.04 Far East
1968.04.23 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
redesignated upon formation of "large" regiment
from Fusilier Brigade
1968 Gibraltar
1968.06 England: Watchett
1970.06 Berlin
1971.10 England: Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1971.10 (Northern Ireland)
1972.02 Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1972.07 (Northern Ireland)
1972.11 Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1973.03 (Northern Ireland)
1973.04 Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1973.06 (Northern Ireland)
1973.10 Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1974.10 (Northern Ireland)
1975.02 Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1975.12 Germany: Paderborn 20 Armd Bde
1977.12 Hemer 3 Armd Div
1976.06 (Northern Ireland)
1976.10 Hemer
1978.07 (Northern Ireland)
1978.11 Hemer
1979.11 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1981.04 Berlin Berlin Bde
1983.12 England: Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1987.05 Bulford
1991.07 Northern Ireland: Ballykinlar 39 Inf Bde
1992.08.01 absorbed 3rd Battalion
1994.02 England: Chester 42 Bde
1996.02 Germany: Celle 7 Armd Bde
1997.05 (Bosnia)
1997.11 Germany: Celle 7 Armd Bde
2000.03 (Kosovo)
2000.09 Germany: Celle 7 Armd Bde
2001.05 England: North Luffenham
