The Devonshire Regiment

The Dorsetshire Regiment

1685: Duke of Beaufort’s
Regiment of Foot
1685: Marquess of Worcester’s
1687: Marquess of Powis’s
1688: John Hanmer’s
1702: Earl of Stanhope’s

Richard Coote’s
Regiment of Foot
1703:
Nicolas Sankey’s
1705: John Hill’s

1715: Edward Montague’s

1719:
Thomas Ferrer’s
1722:
William Newton’s
1730:
John Cope’s
1732:
Thomas Wentworth’s
1737:
Duke of Argyll’s
1738: Stephen Cornwalis’s
Richard Onslow’s
1739:
Robert Dalway’s
1740:
Samuel Walter Whitshed’s
1743: Robinson Sowle’s
Edward Richbell’s
1746: William Graham’s

1747: Maurice Bocland’s

1751: 11th Regiment of Foot
39th Regiment of Foot
1755:

56th Regiment of Foot
1756: 2nd Bn raised


1757:

54th Regiment of Foot
1758: 2nd Bn64th Foot



11th-Foot

39th-Foot

54th-Foot
1782: 11th (North Devonshire)
Regiment of Foot

39th (East Middlesex)
Regiment of Foot

54th (West Norfolk)
Regiment of Foot

1800:

2nd Bn raised
1802:

2nd Bn disbanded
1803:
2nd Bn raised

1807:

39th (Dorsetshire)
Regiment of Foot



1808: 2nd Bn raised


1815:
2nd Bn disbanded

1816: 2nd Bn disbanded


1858: 2nd Bn raised


11th Foot
39th Foot
54th Foot
11th Foot
layout
layout
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn, 1st Bn, 2nd Bn,
The Devonshire Regiment The Dorsetshire Regiment
Devonshire
Dorsetshire
Devons
Dorsets
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Dorsetshire
Devons
Dorsets
1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Wessex Brigade
part of
The Wessex Brigade
1951:
2nd Bn raised
1951: The Dorset Regiment
layout
Dorsets
1952:
2nd Bn disbanded
Devons
layout
layout layout
1958: 1st Battalion,
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
Wessex
1968:
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
DDR
2005: 1st Battalion,
The Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
transferred to
The Light Division
2007: merged into
1st Battalion,
The Rifles
RIFLES