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The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot as the 1st and 2nd battalions; the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia became the 3rd (Reserve) and 4th (Extra Reserve) battalions and the ...
63rd Regiment of Foot (2nd Highland Battalion)1757–1758 (Fraser's Highlanders) [102] 1756 Raised late 1756, Renumbered as 78th Foot in 1758 when second battalions of several regiments raised in 1756 were constituted as 61st to 75th Regiments of Foot. [102] 63rd Regiment of Foot 1758–1782. 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 ...
The formation of the regiment was prompted by the expansion of the army as a result of the commencement of the Seven Years' War.On 25 August 1756 it was ordered that a number of existing regiments should raise a second battalion; among those chosen was the 8th Regiment of Foot.
The Bloodsuckers – 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment (Supposedly derived from a regimental emblem worn by officers, the Fleur de Lis, 'which resembled that insect' – (Most commonly said to be a mosquito, associated with the Regiment's frequent service in the Caribbean and America).) [3] [17]
17th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (2nd City) 18th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (3rd City) ... Regiment of Foot; 65th (The Manchester Regiment ...
A portrait of the division's first general officer commanding, Roland Hill, by George Dawe. During the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), the British Army grew in size. On 18 June 1809, Lieutenant-General Arthur Wellesley, commander of the British forces in Spain and Portugal, ordered the creation of four divisions, including the 2nd Division. [7]
It became a light infantry regiment as the 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) in May 1809. [10] It then embarked for the Netherlands in summer 1809 and saw action in the disastrous Walcheren Campaign. [6] The Hangman's Tower at Badajoz, the objective of the siege by men from the regiment, in summer 1811
The 2nd Battalion became the 63rd Regiment of Foot in 1758. [44] When the regiment augmented the Hanoverian Army in 1760, the 8th King's had its grenadier company committed to the battles of Warburg and Kloster Kampen. As a complete regiment, the 8th served at Kirch-Denkern, Paderborn, Wilhelmsthal, and the capture of Cassel. [42]