The East Lancashire Regiment

The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers

1689:	Viscount Castleton’s Regiment of Foot │
1694:	Thomas Saunderson’s │
1698:	disbanded
1702:	Thomas Saunderson’s Regiment of Marines │
1704:	Thomas Pownall’s │
1705:	Charles Wills’s │
1714:	Charles Wills’s Regiment of Foot │
1716:	George Forrester’s │
1717:	Thomas Stanwix’s │
1717:	Andrew Bissett’s │ │		Richard Philipp’s Regiment of Foot │
1742:	Henry de Garngues’s │		│ │
1743:	Charles Frampton’s │		│ │
1743:	Earl of Loudoun’s │		│ │
1750:	│ │		Edward Cornwallis’s │
1751:	30th Regiment of Foot │		40th Regiment of Foot │
1755:	│ │	61st Regiment of Foot │	│ │
1757:	│ │	59th Regiment of Foot │	│ │
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1782:	30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot │	59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot │	40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot │
1793:	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │	│ │ │ │ │	82nd (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) Regiment of Foot 2nd Bn raised │
1795:	│ │	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1799:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1802:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │
1803:	2nd Bn raised │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1804:	│ │	2nd Bn raised │	2nd Bn raised │	2nd Bn raised │
1815:	│ │	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1816:	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │
1817:	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │	│ │	│ │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,
	The West LancashireRegiment │ │		The South LancashireRegiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) │
	The East Lancashire Regiment		The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
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1922:	│ │ │		The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire) │
1938:	│ │ │		The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) │
1948:	2nd Bn disbanded │		2nd Bn disbanded │
1948:	part of The Lancastrian Brigade │		part of The Lancastrian Brigade │
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1958:	1st Battalion, The Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)
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1968:	part of The King’s Division │
1970:	merged into 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment