The King’s

The Manchester Regiment

1685: The Princess Anne of Denmark’s
Regiment of Foot
Lord Ferrer’s
│
1686: Lord Berwick’s
│
1688: John Beaumont’s
│
1695: John Richmond Webb’s
│
1702: The Queen’s Regiment of Foot
John Richmond Webb’s
│
1715: Henry Morrison’s
│
1716: The King’s Regiment of Foot
Henry Morrison’s
│
1720: Charles Hotham’s
│
1721: John Pokock’s
│
1732: Charles Lenoe’s
│
1739: Richard Onslow’s
│
1745: Edward Wolfe’s
│
1751: 8th (The King’s)
Regiment of Foot
│
1756: 2nd Bn raised
│		 2nd Bn, 8th Regiment of Foot
│
1758: 2nd Bn → 63rd Foot →
│		 63rd Regiment of Foot
│
│
8th-Foot
│		 │
63rd-Foot
│
1782: │
│
│		 63rd (West Suffolk)
Regiment of Foot
│
1798: │
│		 │
│		 The Minorca Regiment
│
1802: │
│
│		 │
│
│		 The Queen’s Own
German Regiment
│
1804: 2nd Bn raised
│		 2nd Bn raised
│		 │
│
1805: │
│
│		 │
│
│		 97th (Queen’s Own Germans)
Regiment of Foot
│
1814: │
│		 2nd Bn disbanded
│		 │
│
1815: 2nd Bn disbanded
│		 │
│		 │
│
1816: │
│
│		 │
│
│		 96th (Queen’s Own Germans)
Regiment of Foot
│
1818: │
│
│
│		 │
│
│
│		 disbanded
 
1825: │
│		 │
│		 96th Regiment of Foot
│
1857: 2nd Bn raised
│		 │
│		 │
│
8th Foot
│		 63rd Foot
│		 96th Foot
│
layout
│		 layout
│		 96th Foot
│
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
│ │ │
layout layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn, 1st Bn, 2nd Bn,
The Liverpool Regiment
(The King’s)
│
The King’s
(Liverpool Regiment)		 The Manchester Regiment
Liverpool
│		 Manchester
│
Kings
│		 Manchester
│
1900: 3nd Bn and 4th Bn raised
│		 3nd Bn and 4th Bn raised
│
1901: 3nd Bn and 4th Bn disbanded
│		 │
│
1906: │
│		 3nd Bn and 4th Bn disbanded
│
1921: The King’s Regiment
(Liverpool)
│		 │
│
│
Kings
│		 Manchester
│
1942: │
│		 1st Bn captured
│
1942: 6th Battalion →
The Manchester Regiment		 │
│
│		 → 1st Bn reconstituted
│
│
layout
│		 Manchester
│
layout layout
1945: 15th (The King’s) Battalion,
The Parachute Regiment
│		 ← 1st Bn converted to
│
│		 │
│
│
1945: 15th Battalion,
The Parachute Regiment		 │
│		 │
│
PARA
│		 layout
│		 layout
│
layout layout
1947: converted to → → 1st Battalion
│		 │
│
1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
│		 2nd Bn disbanded
│
1948:
part of
The Lancastrian Brigade
│
part of
The Lancastrian Brigade
│
layout layout
1958: 1st Battalion,
The King’s Regiment
(Manchester and Liverpool)
Lancastrian
│
1968: 1st Battalion,
The King’s Regiment
part of
The King’s Division
│
KLM
│
2006: 2nd Battalion,
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment
(King’s, Lancashire and Border)
LANCS
│
2021: 3rd Battalion,
The Ranger Regiment