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| 1689: | Duke of Norfolk’s Regiment of Foot │ |
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| 1689: | Henry Bellasis’s │ |
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| 1701: | William Selwyn’s │ |
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| 1702: | Thomas Handasyde’s │ |
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| 1707: | Kingdom of Great Britain | |
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| 1712: | Roger Handasyde’s │ |
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| 1730: | William Barrell’s │ |
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| 1734: | James St. Clair’s │ |
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| 1737: | John Moyle’s │ |
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| 1738: | Thomas Paget’s │ |
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| 1741: | Richard O’Farrell’s │ |
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| 1751: | 22nd Regiment of Foot │ |
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| 1782: | 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot │ |
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| 1801: | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | |
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| 1814: | 2nd Bn raised │ |
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| 1814: | 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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| 1922: |  │ |
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| 1948: | 2nd Bn disbanded │ |
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| 1958: |  │ |
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| 1968: |
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| 2007: | 1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) |
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| 2014: | 1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffordshire) │ |
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