The Leicestershire Regiment

1688: Solomon Richard’s
Regiment of Foot
1689: George St. George’s
1695: John Courthorpe’s
1695: Matthew Bridge’s
1703: Holcroft Blood’s
1707: Joseph Wightman’s
1722: Thomas Ferrers’s
1722: James Tyrrell’s
1742: John Wynyard’s
1751: 17th Regiment of Foot

17th-Foot
1782: 17th (Leicestershire)
Regiment of Foot

1799: 2nd Bn raised
1802: 2nd Bn disbanded
1858: 2nd Bn raised
17th Foot
17th Foot
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn,
The Leicestershire Regiment
Leicestershire
Leicesters
1946: The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Leicesters
1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Midland Brigade
1958:
brigade renamed in
The Forester Brigade
Forester
1963:
transferred to
The East Anglian Brigade
East-Anglia
1964: 4th Battalion
(Leicestershire),
The Royal Anglian Regiment
RAR
1968: 4th Battalion
The Royal Anglian Regiment
part of
The Queen’s Division
4th Battalion ‘The Tigers’
The Royal Anglian Regiment
1970: reduced to
Tiger Company
1972: 4th Battalion re-formed
1975: disbanded