The 28th Foot was raised in 1694 as Gibsons Regiment, the 61st in 1756.

In 1782 they were affiliated to become North and South Gloucestershires, and in 1881 they became the 1st and 2nd Battalions then reduced in 1948 to one Battalion.

Amalgamated in 1994 with The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment as The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment.

1994.04.27 The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
formed by amalgamation of The Gloucestershire Regiment, and The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
2005.07.22 The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry
2005.07? transferred to Light Division
2006 to be absorbed by The Light Infantry

Battle Honours World War One

The Great War [25 battalions]: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18. St Quentin, Bapaume 1918 Rosières, Avre, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Struma, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla, Sari Bair, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915-16, Egypt 1916, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18, Persia 1918

Battle Honours World War Two

The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, St Omer-La-Bassée, Wormhoudt, Cassel, Villers Bocage, Mont Pincon, Falaise, Risle Crossing, Le Havre, Zetten, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Taukyan, Paungde, Monywa 1942, North Arakan, Mayu Tunnels, Pinwe, Shweli, Myitson, Burma 1942 '44-45

Hill 327, Imjin, Korea 1950-51

 

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, Gloucester (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Museum:

Custom House, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester. Tel: 01452 522682

Private Arthur Pruett 1877 - 1915.

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
1881 Ireland: Birr
1885 England: York
1888 Ireland: Dublin
1891 England: Aldershot
1893 Malta
1895 Egypt
1897 India: Calcutta
1899.10 South Africa
1903 India: Lucknow
1906 Meean Meer
1908 Dalhousie
1910 England: Portsmouth
1914 Bordon 3 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
1919 Ireland
1922.01 Germany Army of Occupation
1923 England: Aldershot 5 Bde
1926 Portsmouth
1928 Egypt
1931 Singapore
1932 India: Mhow
1936 Madras
1938 Burma
1941 Burma
1942.05 India
1945.04 India training bn
1945.08 India
1947 UK
1947 reduced to nil strength in UK
1948.09.22 re-formed by redesignation 2nd Battalion (technically "amalgamated")
1948.09 West Indies
1950.01 England: Colchester
1950.11 Korea 29 Inf Bde Gp
1951.11 at sea
1951.12 UK
1955.03 Kenya
1956.04 Aden
1957.01? Cyprus
1958.04 Germany: Osnabrück BAOR
1960.01 England: Dover
1962.03 Cyprus
1965.03 England: Chester
1965.07 (Swaziland)
1966.04 England: Chester
1966? (Aden) (one coy)
1967.04 Berlin
1969.10 England: Honiton
1969.12 (Northern Ireland)
1970.04 Honiton
1971.01 Germany: Minden 11 Armd Bde
1971.12 (Northern Ireland)
1972.04 Germany: Minden 11 Armd Bde
1973.04 (Northern Ireland)
1973.08 Germany: Minden 11 Armd Bde
1974.08 (Northern Ireland)
1974.12 Germany: Minden 11 Armd Bde
1975.05 England: Weeton 42 or 24 Bde
1977.10 Northern Ireland: Ballykelly
1979.03 Germany: Minden 4 Armd Div
1981.10 England: Tidworth 8 Field Force
1982.01 England: Tidworth 1 Inf Bde
1986.02 Berlin Berlin Bde
1988.03 Northern Ireland: Londonderry 8 Inf Bde
1990.02 England: Catterick 24 Airmobile Bde
1991.12 (Northern Ireland)
1992.01 England: Catterick 24 Airmobile Bde
1993.03 England: Catterick 19 Mech Bde
1993.03 (Northern Ireland)
1994.04 England: Catterick 19 Mech Bde
1994.04.27 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire), to form 1st Bn, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment

2nd Battalion

1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
1881 India: Bombay
1885 Poona
1888 Bombay
1893 Aden
1894 England: Devonport
1897 Jersey
1899 England: Aldershot
1900.01.01 at sea (embarked at Liverpool) ship: Cymric
1900.01.21 Cape: Cape Town
1900.01 South Africa 13 Bde
1904 England: Warley
1906 Aldershot
1910 Malta
1913 China: Tientsin
1914.12 France and Flanders 27 Div
1915.11 Macedonia
1919 India: Gharial
1922 Jhansi
1928 England: Gravesend
1933 Catterick
1936 Egypt
1937 England: Plymouth
1939.09 France & Belgium 3 Inf Div, BEF
1940.02 France & Belgium 48 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK
1942.12 UK 47 Inf Div
1944.02 UK 7 Armd Div
1944.06 NW Europe
1944.08 NW Europe 49 Inf Div
1946 West Indies
1948.09.22 redesignated as 1st Battalion (technically "amalgamated")