The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s

The Duke of Edinburgh’s

1743: Edward Trelawney’s
Regiment of Foot
1747: ranked as 63rd Foot
1751: 49th Regiment of Foot
1756:
2nd Bn, 19th Regiment of Foot
2nd Bn, 4th Regiment of Foot
1758:
66th Regiment of Foot
62nd Regiment of Foot

49th-Foot

66th-Foot

62th-Foot
1782: 49th (Hertfordshire)
Regiment of Foot

66th (Berkshire)
Regiment of Foot

62nd (Wiltshire)
Regiment of Foot

1799:

2nd Bn raised
1802:

2nd Bn disbanded
1803:
2nd Bn raised

1804:

2nd Bn raised
1806:
2nd Bn disbanded

1813: 2nd Bn raised


1814: 2nd Bn disbanded


1816:

2nd Bn disbanded
1816: 49th (Princess Charlotte
of Wales’s)
(Hertfordshire)
Regiment of Foot









1824:


99th Regiment of Foot
1831:





99th (Lanarkshire)
Regiment of Foot

1874:





99th (Duke of Edinburgh’s)
Regiment of Foot

49th Foot
66th Foot
62nd Foot
99th Foot
49th Foot
layout
62nd Foot
layout
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout layout layout layout
1881: 1st Bn, 2nd Bn, 1st Bn, 2nd Bn,
The Berkshire Regiment
(Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)
The Wiltshire Regiment
(Duke of Edinburg’s)
The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s
(Berkshire Regiment)
The Duke of Edinburg’s
(Wiltshire Regiment)
Berkshire
Wiltshire
1884: The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s
(Royal Berkshire Regiment)
Royal-Berkshire
layout
Berks
Wilts
1921: The Royal Berkshire Regiment
(Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)

The Wiltshire Regiment
(Duke of Edinburgh’s)

1948:
2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Wessex Brigade
part of
The Wessex Brigade
1949: 2nd Bn disbanded

1954: layout
Wilts
layout layout
1959: 1st Battalion,
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment
(Berkshire and Wiltshire)
Wessex
1948:
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
DERR
1994: merged into
1st Battalion,
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
RGBWR
2006: 1st Battalion,
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry
transferred to
The Light Division
2007: merged into
1st Battalion,
The Rifles
RIFLES