1880[1] |
1881 Childers Reforms[1] |
1921 Name changes |
1957 Defence White Paper |
1966 Defence White Paper |
1990 Options for Change |
2003 Delivering Security in a Changing World
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1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
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The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
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The Royal Regiment of Scotland
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25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot
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The King's Own Borderers renamed in 1887: The King's Own Scottish Borderers
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21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Scots Fusiliers
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The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
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71st (Highland) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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The Highland Light Infantry renamed in 1923: The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
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74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
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42nd (Royal Highland, The Black Watch) Regiment of Foot
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The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
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73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
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72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
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Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) renamed on 22 November 1881: Seaforth Highlanders (Ross–shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)[2]
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The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)
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The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
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78th (Highlanders) (Ross-shire Buffs) Regiment of Foot
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79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
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The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
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75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Gordon Highlanders
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92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
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91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
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Princess Louise's (Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders) renamed on 2 June 1882: Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)[3]
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93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
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2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot
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The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
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The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
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The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
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The Queen's Regiment
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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
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31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot
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The East Surrey Regiment
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70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
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3rd (East Kent, The Buff's) Regiment of Foot
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The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) renamed in 1935: The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
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The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
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50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot
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The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
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The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
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97th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot
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35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Sussex Regiment
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107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
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The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
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The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
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77th (East Middlesex) (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regiment of Foot
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37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Hampshire Regiment renamed in 1946: The Royal Hampshire Regiment
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67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
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4th (King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
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The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
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The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
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The King's Own Royal Border Regiment
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The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
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34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot
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The Border Regiment
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55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot
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8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
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The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
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King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester)
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63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
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The Manchester Regiment
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96th Regiment of Foot
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30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
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The East Lancashire Regiment
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The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
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The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
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59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
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40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) renamed in 1938: The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
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82nd (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
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47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot
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The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
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The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
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81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
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5th (Northumberland) (Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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The Northumberland Fusiliers renamed in 1935: The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
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The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
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6th (Royal First Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Warwickshire Regiment renamed in 1963: The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
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7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
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20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Lancashire Fusiliers
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9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
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The Norfolk Regiment renamed in 1935: The Royal Norfolk Regiment
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1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk)
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The Royal Anglian Regiment
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12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
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The Suffolk Regiment
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10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
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The Lincolnshire Regiment renamed in 1946: The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
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2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
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48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Northamptonshire Regiment
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58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot
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16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Bedfordshire Regiment renamed in 1919: The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
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3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
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44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot
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The Essex Regiment
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56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot
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17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
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The Leicestershire Regiment renamed in 1946: The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
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14th (Buckinghamshire) (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
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The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
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Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
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Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)
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15th (York, East Riding) Regiment of Foot
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The East Yorkshire Regiment renamed in 1935: The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
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19th (1st York, North Riding) (Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
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The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) renamed in 1902: Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
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Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
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33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
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The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
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76th Regiment of Foot
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22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Cheshire Regiment
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The Mercian Regiment
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29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
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The Worcestershire Regiment
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The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
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36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
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45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot
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The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) renamed in 1902: The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
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95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
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38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
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The South Staffordshire Regiment
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The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)
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80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
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64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)
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The North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)
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98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot
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23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
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The Royal Welch Fusiliers
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The Royal Welsh
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24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
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The South Wales Borderers
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Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
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41st (The Welsh) Regiment of Foot
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The Welsh Regiment
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The Welch Regiment
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69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
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27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
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The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th)
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The Royal Irish Regiment
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108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Irish Rifles
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The Royal Ulster Rifles
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86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
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87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
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The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)
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89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot
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The Ulster Defence Regiment
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11th (North Devon) Regiment of Foot
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The Devonshire Regiment
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The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
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The Rifles
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39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Dorsetshire Regiment
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54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
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13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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Prince Albert's Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment)
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The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
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The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
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The Light Infantry
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32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
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46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
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51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding, King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)
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King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
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105th (Madras Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot
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The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
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The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
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85th (Bucks Volunteers) (King's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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68th (Durham) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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The Durham Light Infantry
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106th (Bombay Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
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The Gloucestershire Regiment
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The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
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61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
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49th (Hertfordshire) (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Regiment of Foot
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Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment)
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The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
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The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
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66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot
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62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
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The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
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The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
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99th (Duke of Edinburgh's) Regiment of Foot
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43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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The Oxfordshire Light Infantry renamed in 1908: The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd)
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The Royal Green Jackets
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52nd (Oxfordshire) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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60th (King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot
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The King's Royal Rifle Corps
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2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
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Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
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The Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)
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3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade
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18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Irish Regiment
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disbanded 1922
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26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot
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The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles) renamed on 22 November 1881: The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)[4]
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disbanded 1968
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90th (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot
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The York and Lancaster Regiment
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disbanded 1968
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84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot
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88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment of Foot
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The Connaught Rangers
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disbanded 1922
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94th Regiment of Foot
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100th (or Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot
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Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
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disbanded 1922
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109th (Bombay Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Munster Fusiliers
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disbanded 1922
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104th (Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
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disbanded 1922
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103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
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