Great Britain

The Gloucestershire Regiment

The Hampshire Regiment

This page is about the 1970 merge that did not take place!
The correct lineage of both regiments can be found at the pages The Gloucestershire Regiment and The Hampshire Regiment.

1694:	Gibson’s Regiment of Foot │
1702:	John Gibson’s Regiment of Foot │		Thomas Meredith’s Regiment of Foot │
1751:	28th Regiment of Foot │		37th Regiment of Foot │
1756:	│ │	2nd Bn, 3rd Regiment of Foot │	2nd Bn raised │	2nd Bn, 20th Regiment of Foot │
1758:	│ │	61rd Regiment of Foot │	2nd Bn → 75th Foot │	67th Regiment of Foot │
	│ │	│ │	│ │	│ │
1782:	28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot │	61rd (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot │	37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot │	67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot │
1803:	2nd Bn raised │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │	2nd Bn raised │
1813:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1814:	2nd Bn disbanded │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │	│ │
1817:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │	2nd Bn disbanded │
	│	│	│	│
	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
	│	│	│	│
1881:	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,
	The Gloucestershire Regiment		The Hampshire Regiment
	│		│
	│		│
1946:	│		The Royal Hampshire Regiment
	│		│
1947:	2nd Bn disbanded │		│ │
1948:	│ │		2nd Bn disbanded │
1948:	part of The Wessex Brigade │		part of The Wessex Brigade │
1959:	│		│
1968:	part of The Prince of Wales’s Division │		part of The Prince of Wales’s Division │
	│		│
1970:	this merge never took place!
	The Royal Regiment of Gloucestershire and Hampshire