Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 08.03.2005
1st Battalion,
24th Regiment of Foot
1689-1881
1881-1969
United Kingdom  
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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Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
 
   
  1689.03.08 Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot
  1689 Ireland
  1691 Ireland?
  1692 French coast service as marines
  1697 England?
  1701 Holland
  1702 Flanders
  1714 Ireland  
  1715 Scotland: Jacobite rebellion  
  1716? Ireland  
  1719.09 Spain  
  1719.10 Ireland  
  1734 England  
  1735 Ireland  
  1739 England  
1740.11.04 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth)
1741.01.03 Dominica: St. Rupert's Bay
1741.01 Jamaica
1741.03.15 Cartagena
1741.05 Jamaica
1741.08.29 Cuba
1741.11 Jamaica
  1742.11? England
  1746 Scotland
  1749 England
  1751.07.01 24th Regiment of Foot
  1752 Minorca
  1756.04 Minorca
  1756.07? England: Manchester
  1756 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on raising of 2nd Battalion
  1757.07 Isle of Wight  
  1757.09.08 at sea  
  1757.09.23 French coast: Rochefort  
  1757.10.01 at sea  
  1757.10 England  
  1758.04.23 24th Regiment of Foot
redesignated on conversion of 2nd Bn as 69th Regiment of Foot
  1758.05 Isle of Wight
  1758.06.01 at sea
  1758.06.05 French coast: St. Malo
  1758.06.07 at sea several raids on French coast aborted
  1758.07.01 England: Portsmouth
  1760 Germany
  1763 Gibraltar
  1769 Ireland
  1776.04 at sea (embarked at Cork)
  1776.05 Lower Canada: Quebec
  1776 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
  1785 Ireland
  1789 Canada
  1799 Nova Scotia
  1800 England
  1801 Egypt
  1801 Malta
  1802 England
  1804.09 1st Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon formation of
2nd Battalion
  1806.01 Cape of Good Hope
  1806.01 Cape of Good Hope
  1810 at sea
  1810 most of bn captured at sea by the French and interned on Mauritius; released 1811
  1811 India
  1814 Nepal
  1814.10.24 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
redesignated upon disbandment of
2nd Battalion
  1818 India
  1823 England
  1825 Ireland
  1829 England
  1829 Canada
  1841 England
  1844 Ireland
  1846 India
  1848 Sikh war
  1849 India
  1861 England
  1865 Ireland
  1866 Malta
  1872 Gibraltar
  1875 South Africa
  1877 South Africa: Kaffir War
  1879 South Africa: Zulu War
  1880 England
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers
  1881 England: Colchester
  1883 Ireland: Kilkenny
  1885 Curragh
  1887 Ireland: Dublin
  1889 England: Aldershot
  1893 Egypt
  1895 Gibraltar
  1897 India: Chakratta
  1903.01 Dalhousie
  1905.03 Karachi
  1909.03 Quetta
  1910.12 England: Chatham
  1913.09 Bordon 3 Bde
  1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
  1919 Ireland: Dunshaughlin
  1922.02 Blackdown
  1923.09 England: Devonport
  1927.02 Lichfield
  1928.09 Egypt
  1930.11 Hong Kong
  1934.12 India: Rawalpindi
  1937 Iraq (temp)
  1938.10 NW Frontier: Landi Kotal
  1940 India
  1940.11 Iraq/Persia 10 Ind Div
  1942 Libya
  1942.08.29 disbanded in Cyprus after heavy casualties (personnel to 1st Bn, The King's Own Royal Regiment, less cadre to UK)
  1942.12.12 re-formed in UK from cadre
  1942.12 UK 38 Inf Div
  1944.09 UK 61 Div
  1945 Palestine
  1946 Cyprus  
  1949.01 Sudan  
  1950.01.04 Eritrea Occupation force
1952.09.16 at sea  
  1952.10 Wales: Brecon  
  1953.01 Germany: Brunswick 11 Armd Div
  1955.10 Malaya  
  1958.05 Wales: Brecon  
  1960.06 Germany: Minden  
  1962.11 England: Worcester  
  1963.06 Hong Kong  
  1966.06 England: Dover/Lydd  
  1967.01 [Aden]  
  1967.11 England: Dover/Lydd  
  1969.06.11 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Welch Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The Royal Regiment of Wales