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Actions, Movements and Quarters
1800-1914
For more information we recommend
The King's Own The Story of a Royal
Regiment Volume 2 1814-1914 by Colonel Lionel I Cowper - the
best history of the King's Own. On a CD-rom, viewable through a
computer. Price including UK postage £12.75
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March 1800 |
Colchester |
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April 1800 |
Ashford and
Chatham |
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June 1800 |
Swinley Camp |
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September 1800 |
Barnstaple and
Exeter |
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November 1800 |
Winchester |
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September 1801 |
Horsham and
Lewes |
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February 1802 |
Horsham,
Chatham, Bexhill, Lewes and Portsmouth |
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May 1802 |
Chatham,
Portsmouth and Winchester |
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October 1802 |
Dover |
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May 1803 |
Deal |
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July 1803 |
Shorncliffe |
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November 1803 |
Hythe |
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July 1804 |
Horsham |
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October 1804 |
Canterbury |
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April 1805 |
Horsham |
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July 1805 |
Beachy Head |
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October 1805 |
Deal |
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November
1805 |
On Active
Service in Hanover |
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February 1806 |
Woodbridge |
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April 1806 |
Chelmsford |
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May 1806 |
Colchester |
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June 1807 |
Jersey |
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July 1807 |
Harwich |
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August 1807 |
On Active
Service at Copenhagen |
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August -
October 1807 |
Expedition
to Copehagen |
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October 1807 |
Deal |
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November 1807 |
Colchester |
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April 1808 |
On Active
Service at Gothenburg |
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July 1808 |
On Active
Service in Portugal |
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16 January
1809 |
Battle of
Corunna |
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January 1809 |
Portsmouth |
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February 1809 |
Colchester |
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June 1809 |
Deal |
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July 1809 |
On Active
Service in Walcheren |
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July -
September 1809 |
Expedition
to Walcheren |
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September 1809 |
Colchester |
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January 1810 |
2nd Battalion
On Active Service in North
Africa |
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January 1810
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1st Battalion
Gosport |
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October 1810 |
Harwich |
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November 1810 |
On Active
Service in Spain and Portugal |
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3 April 1811 |
Action at
Sabugal |
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3 May 1811 |
Battle of
Fuentes d'Onoro |
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11 May 1811 |
Skirmish at
Barba del Puerco |
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April 1812 |
2nd Battalion
On Active Service in Spain
and Portugal |
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6 April 1812 |
Capture of
Badajoz |
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22 July 1812 |
Battle of
Salamanca |
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20 October -
19 Nov 1812 |
Retreat from
Burgos |
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February 1813 |
Portsmouth |
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21 June 1813 |
Battle of
Vittoria |
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July 1813 |
Siege of San
Sebastian |
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26 July - 2
August 1813 |
Battles of
the Pyrenees |
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31 August
1813 |
Capture of
San Sebastian |
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7 October
1813 |
Passage of
the Bidassoa |
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10 November
1813 |
Battle of
the Nivelle |
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9 - 13
December 1813 |
Battle of
the Nive |
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January -
Feburary 1814 |
Blockade of
Bayonne (France) |
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February 1814 |
2nd Battalion
Colchester |
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May 1814 |
1st Battalion
On Active Service in
America |
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Autumn 1814 |
2nd Battalion
Deal |
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23 August
1814 |
Battle of
Bladensburg |
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12 September
1814 |
Battle of
Godley Wood |
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23 December
1814 |
Skirmish on
the Mississippi |
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28 December
1814 - 8 January 1815 |
Battle of
New Orleans |
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8 - 12
February 1815 |
Attack on
Mobile |
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May 1815 |
1st Battalion
Deal |
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June 1815 |
On Active
Service in the Netherlands |
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18 June 1815 |
Battle of
Waterloo |
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July 1815 |
In France with
the British Army of Occupation |
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October 1818 |
Winchester |
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January 1819 |
Portsmouth |
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April 1819 |
Grenada,
Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados |
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March 1821 |
Barbados |
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December 1823 |
Antigua, St.
Kitts, Montserrat and Nevis |
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April 1825 |
Depot in
England |
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April 1826 |
Winchester |
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December
1826 |
On Active
Service in Portugal |
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March 1827 |
Depot
Winchester |
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June 1827 |
Depot
Tynemouth |
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March 1828 |
Edinburgh |
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July 1828 |
Glasgow |
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August 1829 |
Newry, Cavan,
Clones and Dublin |
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June 1830 |
Dublin |
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September 1830 |
Stockport,
Bolton and Oldham |
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December 1830 |
Ashton-under-Lyne, Glossop, Stalybridge |
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February 1831 |
Northampton,
Bicester, Glossop, Stalybridge and Wellingborough |
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March 1831 |
Chatham,
Stalybridge, Glossop and Dartford |
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April 1831 |
Dartford |
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May 1831 |
Chatham,
Embarking by detachments for a tour of foreign service in New South
Wales and India |
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November 1831 |
Paramatta, New
South Wales and Norfolk Island |
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May 1833 |
Sydney and
Norfolk Island |
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June 1834 |
Paramatta |
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August 1837 |
Madras and
Paramatta |
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April 1838 |
Madras |
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October 1838 |
Madras and
Bangalore |
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February 1839 |
Bangalore |
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February 1840 |
Bellary |
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November 1840 |
Bellary and
Belgaum, and Badami |
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October 1842 |
Bellary |
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January 1843 |
Secunderabad |
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December 1845 |
Kampti |
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October 1847 |
Madras |
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April 1848 |
Winchester |
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August 1849 |
Portsea and
Weymouth |
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April 1850 |
Devonport,
Pendennis Castle, St. Nicholas Island, Maker Heights and Dartmoor
Prison |
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April 1851 |
Weedon |
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February 1852 |
Ashton under
Lyne, Bury, Burnley, Stockport and Wolverhampton |
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April 1853 |
Edinburgh and
Greenlaw |
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March 1854 |
On Active
Service in the Crimea |
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March-September 1854 |
Travel to
Crimea, via Malta, Gallipoli and Varna |
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14 September
1854 |
Arrival in
the Crimea |
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20 September
1854 |
Battle of
the Alma |
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29 September
1854 to 9 September 1855 |
Siege of
Sevastopol |
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5 November
1854 |
Battle of
Inkerman |
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April 1855 |
Reserve
Malta |
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July 1856 |
Aldershot |
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August 1856 |
Dublin |
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December 1856 |
Colchester |
1st Battalion The
King’s Own 1857-1914
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May 1857 |
Walmer, Kent |
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July 1857 |
Mauritius |
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September 1857 |
Mauritius,
Karachi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Shikarpore |
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April 1858 |
Attack on
Fort Beyt, India |
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August 1858 |
Expedition
into Mahee Kantha |
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November 1858 |
Ahmedabad,
Baroda and Surat |
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February 1860 |
Ahmedabad,
Surat and Aden |
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January 1861 |
Karachi,
Hyderabad and Aden |
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November 1861 |
Chatham |
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November 1862 |
Poona and Aden |
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January 1863 |
Poona |
1865: 4th (or
King’s Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
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November 1865 |
Bombay, Satara
and Asirgarh |
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November 1867 |
Depot
Parkhurst |
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December
1867 |
On Active
Service in Abyssinia |
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10 April
1868 |
Battle of
the Arogie Ravine |
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June 1868 |
Dover |
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March 1870 |
Aldershot |
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September 1871 |
Portsdown Hill
and Marchwood |
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August 1872 |
Portsmouth and
Tipnor |
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March 1874 |
Gosport |
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September 1874 |
Gibraltar |
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April 1878 |
Portsmouth |
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January 1879 |
Barbados,
Jamaica and Trinidad |
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February 1880 |
Depot
Fleetwood |
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June 1880 |
Depot
Lancaster |
1881: The King’s
Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
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October 1881 |
Devonport,
Jamaica and Trinidad |
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May 1882 |
Devonport |
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July 1882 |
Fleetwood,
Preston, Isle of Man, Weedon and Tynemouth |
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September 1884 |
Aldershot |
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August 1886 |
Buttevant and
Kinsale |
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April 1888 |
Dublin |
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March 1890 |
Curragh and
Dublin |
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November 1891 |
Aldershot |
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June 1893 |
Portsdown Hill |
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December 1894 |
Portsmouth |
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September 1895 |
Malta |
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November 1897 |
Hong Kong |
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January 1899 |
Singapore |
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February 1900 |
Aldershot (Tournay
Barracks, Farnborough) |
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November 1901 |
Malta |
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October 1903 |
Calcutta |
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February 1906 |
Shwebo and
Bhamo |
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December 1907 |
Lebong |
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December 1908 |
Lucknow |
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December 1912 |
Dover |
2nd Battalion The
King’s Own 1857 - 1914
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October 1857 |
Newport,
Monmouthshire |
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April 1858 |
Chichester |
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February 1859 |
Aldershot |
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May 1859 |
Depot Walmer |
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May 1859 |
Corfu |
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December 1861 |
Argostoli &
Cephalonia, Zante and Corfu |
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April 1862 |
Corfu |
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June 1864 |
Malta |
1865: 4th (or
King’s Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
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June 1866 |
Halifax and
Prince Edward Isle |
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June 1868 |
Dublin and
Mullingar |
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May 1869 |
Chester |
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June 1869 |
Weedon and
Chester |
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October 1870 |
Chester,
Liverpool and Weedon |
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March 1871 |
Aldershot
(North Camp, Farnborough) |
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August 1872 |
Woolwich |
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July 1874 |
Cork and Spike
Island |
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June 1875 |
Curragh |
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August 1875 |
Athlone,
Ballina, Castle Bar, Ballinrobe and Curragh |
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May 1876 |
Curragh |
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May 1877 |
Dublin |
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July 1877 |
Aldershot |
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April 1878 |
Depot
Portsmouth |
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December
1878 |
On Active
Service in South Africa |
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28 March
1879 |
Battle of
Inhlobana Hill |
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29 March
1879 |
Battle of
Kambula |
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3 July 1879 |
Reconnaissance before Ulundi |
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4 July 1879 |
Battle of
Ulundi |
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8 September
1879 |
Attack on
Manyanyoba's Cave |
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February 1880 |
Poona, Bombay,
Karachi, Hyderabad and Kirkee |
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February 1880 |
Depot Fleetwood |
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June 1880 |
Depot to
Lancaster |
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October 1880 |
Bombay, Baroda
and Ahmedabad |
1881: The King’s
Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
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December 1885 |
Poona, Satara
and Kirkee |
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January 1886 |
Quetta |
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March 1888 |
Karachi and
Hyderabad |
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January 1890 |
Ahmednagar,
Satara and Kirkee |
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March 1894 |
Nasirabad and
Neemuch |
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February 1896 |
Tregantle,
Millbay and Bull Point |
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November 1896 |
Devonport |
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November 1897 |
Manchester and
Lichfield |
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July 1898 |
Lichfield |
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December
1899 |
On Active
Service in South Africa |
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17 January
1900 |
Trichard's
Drift |
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20 January
1900 |
Venter's
Spruit |
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23 January
1900 |
Spion Kop |
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5 February
1900 |
Vaal Krantz |
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22 February
1900 |
Onderbrook
Hill |
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28 February
1900 |
Pieter's
Hill |
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Relief of
Ladysmith |
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8 June 1900 |
Botha's Pass |
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11 June 1900 |
Alleman's
Nek |
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14 June 1900 |
Zand River
(3rd Militia
Battalion) |
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11 December
1900 |
Defence of
Vryheid |
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23 February
1901 |
Fish River
(4th Militia Battalion) |
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16 September
1901 |
Itala
(2nd Battalion Mounted
Infantry) |
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April 1903 |
Blackdown |
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October 1905 |
Colchester
On 8 August 1908 the 2nd Battalion proceeded to the
New Forest for 5 weeks manoeuvres. |
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November 1908 |
Jersey |
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September 1911 |
Dover |
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November 1912 |
Calcutta |
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March 1913 |
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