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| 1688: | Solomon Richard’s Regiment of Foot │ |
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| 1689: | George St. George’s │ |
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| 1695: | John Courthorpe’s │ |
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| 1695: | Matthew Bridge’s │ |
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| 1703: | Holcroft Blood’s │ |
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| 1707: | Kingdom of Great Britain | |
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| 1707: | Joseph Wightman’s │ |
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| 1722: | Thomas Ferrers’s │ |
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| 1722: | James Tyrrell’s │ |
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| 1742: | John Wynyard’s │ |
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| 1751: | 17th Regiment of Foot │ |
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| 1782: | 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot │ |
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| 1799: | 2nd Bn raised │ |
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| 1801: | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | |
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| 1802: | 2nd Bn disbanded │ |
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| 1858: | 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, | |
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| 1922: | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | |
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| 1946: | The Royal Leicestershire Regiment | |
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| 1948: | 2nd Bn disbanded │ |
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| 1958: |
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| 1963: |
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| 1964: | 4th Battalion (Leicestershire), The Royal Anglian Regiment |
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| 1968: | 4th Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment |
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| 4th Battalion ‘The Tigers’ The Royal Anglian Regiment │ |
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| 1970: | reduced to Tiger Company │ |
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| 1972: | 4th Battalion re-formed │ |
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| 1975: | disbanded | |