The Gloucestershire Regiment

1694: John Gibson’s
Regiment of Foot
1697: disbanded
 
 
1702: John Gibson’s
Regiment of Foot
1704: Sampson de Lalo’s
1706: John Mordaunt’s
1709: Andrews Windsor’s
1715: William Barell’s
1730: Nicolas Price’s
1734: Philip Bragg’s
1751: 28th Regiment of Foot
1756:
2nd Bn, 3rd Regiment of Foot
1758:
61st Regiment of Foot

28th-Foot

61st-Foot
1782: 28th (North Gloucestershire)
Regiment of Foot

61st (South Gloucestershire)
Regiment of Foot

1803: 2nd Bn raised
2nd Bn raised
1814: 2nd Bn disbanded
2nd Bn disbanded
28th Foot
61st Foot
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout layout
1881: 1st Bn, 2nd Bn,
The Gloucestershire Regiment
Gloucestershire
Gloucesters
1947: 2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Wessex Brigade
1958: Wessex
1968:
part of
The Prince of Wales’s Division
Gloucesters
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