The Cheshire Regiment

1689: Duke of Norfolk’s
Regiment of Foot
1689: Henry Bellasis’s
1701: William Selwyn’s
1702: Thomas Handasyde’s
1712: Roger Handasyde’s
1730: William Barrell’s
1734: James St. Clair’s
1737: John Moyle’s
1738: Thomas Paget’s
1741: Richard O’Farrell’s
1751: 22nd Regiment of Foot

22nd-Foot
1782: 22nd (Cheshire)
Regiment of Foot

1814: 2nd Bn raised
1814: 2nd Bn disbanded
1858: 2nd Bn raised
22nd Foot
22nd Foot
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn,
The Cheshire Regiment
Cheshire
Cheshire
1922: Cheshire
1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Mercian Brigade
1958: Mercian
1968:
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
Cheshire
2007: 1st Battalion,
The Mercian Regiment
(Cheshire)
MERCIAN
2014: 1st Battalion,
The Mercian Regiment
(Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffordshire)