The Lancashire Fusiliers

layout
1688: Robert Peyton’s
Regiment of Foot
1789: Viscount Boyne’s
1706: John Newton’s
1714: Thomas Meredith’s
1719: William Egerton’s
1732: Earl of Effingham’s
1737: Richard St. George’s
1740: Alexander Rose’s
1740: Thomas Bligh’s
1746: Viscount Sackville’s
1749: Earl of Albemarle’s
1751: 20th Regiment of Foot

1756: 2nd Bn raised
1758: 2nd Bn67th Foot

20th-Foot
1782: 20th (East Devonshire)
Regiment of Foot

1799: 2nd Bn raised
1802: 2nd Bn disbanded
1842: Reserve Bn raised
1849: Reserve Bn disbanded
1858: 2nd Bn raised
20th Foot
20th Foot
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn,
The Lancashire Fusiliers
Lancashire-Fusiliers
LancasF
1898: 3rd Bn raised
1900: 4th Bn raised
1906: 3rd Bn and 4th Bn disbanded
1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Lancastrian Brigade
1952: 2nd Bn raised
1955: 2nd Bn disbanded
1958:
transferred to
The Fusilier Brigade
Fusilier
1968: 4th Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
part of
The Queen’s Division
1969: disbanded