Great Britain

The Devonshire Regiment

The Dorsetshire Regiment

	Kingdom of England
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 │	│ │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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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 Bn → 64th Foot │	│ │	│ │
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1782:	11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot │	39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot │	54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot │
1800:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn raised │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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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 │	│ │	│ │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Bn,    2nd Bn,	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,
	The Devonshire Regiment	The Dorsetshire Regiment
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1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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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
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1952:	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
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1958:	1st Battalion, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
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1968:	part of The Prince of Wales’s Division │
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2005:	1st Battalion, The Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
	transferred to The Light Division │
2007:	merged into 1st Battalion, The Rifles