Great Britain

The Bedfordshire Regiment

The Essex Regiment

	Kingdom of England
1688:	Archibald Douglas’s Regiment of Foot │
1688:	Robert Hodges’s │
1692:	Earl of Derby’s │
1705:	Francis Godfrey’s │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1711:	Henry Durell’s │
1713:	Hans Hamilton’s │
1715:	Viscount Irvine’s │
1717:	John Cholmley’s │
1724:	Earl of Deloraine’s │
1730:	Roger Handasyde’s │
1740:	│ │ │	James Long’s Regiment of Foot │
1743:	│ │	John Lee’s │
1747:	ranked as 16th Foot │	ranked as 55th Foot │
1751:	│ │	Peter Halkett’s │
1751:	16th Regiment of Foot │	44th Regiment of Foot │
1755:	│ │	│ │	58th Regiment of Foot │
1757:	│ │	│ │	56th Regiment of Foot │
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1782:	16th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot │	44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot │	56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1803:	│ │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1804:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn raised │
1809:	16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │	│ │ │
1815:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1816:	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │
1846:	│ │	│ │	Reserve Bn raised │
1847:	│ │	Reserve Bn raised │	│ │
1848:	│ │	│ │	Reserve Bn disbanded │
1850:	│ │	Reserve Bn disbanded │	│ │
1859:	2nd Bn raised │	│ │	│ │
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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 Bedfordshire Regiment	The Essex Regiment
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1919:	The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment	│ │
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1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1948:	2nd Bn disbanded │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1948:	part of The East Anglian Brigade │	part of The East Anglian Brigade │
1958:	1st Battalion, 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
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1964:	3rd Battalion (16th/44th Foot), The Royal Anglian Regiment
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1968:	3rd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
	part of The Queen’s Division │
	3rd Battalion ‘The Pompadours’, The Royal Anglian Regiment │
1992:	disbanded