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created 1 July 2002. Corrected and updated
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Note:This
is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental
page for full lineage and other information.
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Colour Key
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| 1741.01.15 | John
Mordaunt's Regiment of Foot raised in Scotland |
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| 1741 | Scotland | ||
| 1745 | Scotland | ||
| 1746 | England | ||
| 1748 | Ireland | ||
| 1750 | Nova Scotia | ||
| 1751.07.01 | 47th Regiment of Foot | ||
| 1758 | French North America | ||
| 1763 | Ireland | ||
| 1773 | New Jersey | ||
| 1774.10 | Massachusetts: Boston | ||
| 1775 | American revolution | ||
| 1776.03 | Lower Canada: Quebec | ||
| 1777 | American revolution | ||
| 1777.10.17 | surrendered to the Americans at Saratoga and interned at Cambridge, Mass. (6 Nov. 1777), then Rutland, Mass., (to Nov 1778), then Charlottesville, Va. (to June 1781), then Lancaster, Penn. (to Apr. 1783) | ||
| 1783.04 | at sea | ||
| 1783.05 | England | ||
| 1783 | Ireland | ||
| 1790 | Nova Scotia | ||
| 1791 | West Indies | ||
| 1794.03.12 | 1st
Battalion, 47th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1794 | West Indies | garrison duty | |
| 1795? | 47th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1803 | England | ||
| 1803.07.09 | 1st
Battalion, 47th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1806 | Cape of Good Hope | garrison duty | |
| 1807 | South America | ||
| 1808 | Cape of Good Hope | garrison duty | |
| 1808 | India | ||
| 1809 | Persian Gulf (flank coys) | ||
| 1809 | India | ||
| 1814.10.24 | 47th
Regiment of Foot redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion |
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| 1817.11 | Pindari war | ||
| 1819 | Persian Gulf | ||
| 1820 | India | ||
| 1824 | Burma | ||
| 1826 | India | ||
| 1829 | England | ||
| 1832 | Ireland | ||
| 1850 | Ionian Islands | ||
| 1853 | Malta | ||
| 1854 | Crimea | ||
| 1856 | Malta | ||
| 1857 | Gibraltar | ||
| 1857 | England | ||
| 1861 | Ireland | ||
| 1861 | Canada | ||
| 1861.11 | Trent Affair | ||
| 1862 | Canada | ||
| 1866 | Nova Scotia | ||
| 1866 | Fenian raids | ||
| 1867 | Canada | ||
| 1868 | West Indies: Barbados | ||
| 1870 | Ireland | ||
| 1872 | England | ||
| 1877 | Channel Islands: Jersey | ||
| 1877 | Ireland | ||
| 1881.07.01 | 1st Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment | ||
| 1881 | Ireland: Dublin | ||
| 1882.07.06 | Gibraltar | ||
| at sea | |||
| 1884.01.15 | India: Bombay | ||
| 1884 | India: Quetta | ||
| <1889> | Mhow | ||
| <1892> | Kemptee | ||
| 1896 | Ceylon | ||
| 1898 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1899.10 | South Africa | ||
| 1902 | England: Devonport | ||
| 1904 | Ireland: Kinsale | ||
| 1906 | Curragh | ||
| 1908 | Tidworth | ||
| 1910 | Aldershot | 2 Bde | |
| 1914.08 | France and Flanders | 1 Div | |
| 1919 | Malta | ||
| 1921 | 1st Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) | ||
| 1922 | Turkey | Army of Occupation | |
| 1922 | Guernsey | ||
| 1923 | China: Tientsin | ||
| 1924 | India: Secunderabad | ||
| 1929 | Calcutta | ||
| 1931 | Waziristan | ||
| 1932 | Cawnpore | ||
| 1936 | Palestine | ||
| 1937 | England: Tidworth | MG bn, 3 Div | |
| 1939 | Aldershot | ||
| 1939.09 | France & Belgium | 1 Inf Div | |
| 1940.06 | UK | ||
| 1943.03 | North Africa : Tunisia | 2 Bde, 1 Inf Div | |
| 1943.12 | Italy | ||
| 1945.02 | Palestine | ||
| 1947 | Cyprus | ||
| 1948 | Eritrea | Occupation force | |
| 1949 | Cyprus | ||
| 1949.03.12 | amalgamated with 2nd Battalion at Nicosia, Cyprus, without change of title | ||
| 1950 | Egypt | ||
| 1951 | UK | ||
| 1953 | Trieste | ||
| 1954 | UK | ||
| 1957.05 | Malaya | 28 Commonwealth Bde | |
| 1960.01 | Germany: Minden | 5 Bde | |
| 1960.11 | Germany: Minden | 6 Bde | |
| 1963.02 | UK | 3 Div | |
| 1966 | Malta | ||
| 1967 | (Aden) (one coy) | ||
| 1967 | Malta | ||
| 1968 | England: Dover | ||
| 1970.03.25 | amalgamated at Connaught Barracks, Dover with 1st Bn, The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers), to form 1st Bn, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment | ||
