Badges above from left 37th Foot (The North Hampshire), Courtesy of British Armed Forces; 67th Foot (The South Hampshire); The Hampshire Regiment WW1 and The Royal Hampshire Regiment (1949) - 3&4 Courtesy British Military Badges.

Royal Hampshire Regiment
British Army - Infantry

Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

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20th Foot (General James Wolfe) - 2nd Battalion

37th Foot

37th Foot (2nd Battalion) - (1813-1817)

37th Foot (The North Hampshire)

37th Regiment of Foot

37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

67th Foot (The South Hampshire)

67th Regiment of Foot

67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

75th Foot (1758-1763)

The Hampshire Regiment

Thomas Meredith's/Meredyth's Regiment of Foot

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Royal Hampshire Regiment

The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881. The Regiment existed continuously for 111 years and served in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. In 1946, due to distinguished service in World War II, the regiment was retitled as the Royal Hampshire Regiment.

Active - 1881-1992

Motto -

Colours - Yellow facings from 1904. Adopted from the uniform of the 37th Regiment of foot -

Corps March -

Nick-name - "The Hampshire Tigers"

Ancestry

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The Hampshire Regiment 1st & 2nd Battalions 1881-1898

1898
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Timeline

8.2.2. The Hampshire Regiment

1881 - formed by the amalgamation of ...

8.2.2.1 - 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and

8.2.2.2 - 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot. 1946 - 'Royal' added - the Royal Hampshire Regiment

1992 - as part of the Options for Change reorganisations, the regiment was merged with the Queen's Regiment to become the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

Battle honours

• Burma 1885-87, Paardeberg, South Africa 1900-02
• The Great War (32 battalions): Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy 1917-18, Kosturino, Struma, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Helles, Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915-16, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18, Aden, Shaiba, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915-18, Persia 1918-19, Archangel 1919, Siberia 1918-19
• The Second World War: Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Tilly sur Seulles, Caen, Hill 112, Mont Pincon, Jurques, St. Pierre La Vielle, Nederrijn, Roer, Rhineland, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Tebourba Gap, Sidi Nsir, Hunt's Gap, Montagne Farm, Fondouk, Pichon, El Kourzia, Ber Rabal, North Africa 1940-43, Landing in Sicily, Regalbuto, Sicily 1943, Landing at Porto S. Venere, Salerno, Salerno Hills, Battipaglia, Cava di Tirreni, Volturno Crossing, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Monte Ornito, Cerasola, Cassino II, Massa Vertecchi, Trasimene Line, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Monte Gridolfo, Montegaudio, Coriano, Montilgallo, Capture of Forli, Cosina Canal Crossing, Lamone Crossing, Pideura, Rimini Line, Montescudo, Frisoni, Italy 1943-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Malta 1941-42

8.2.2.1 - 37th Foot (The North Hampshire)

37th Rg soldier 1742 Active - 1702-1881

Timeline

1702 - raised in Ireland as Thomas Meredith's Regiment of Foot
also known by Colonels' names until 1751

1710 - William Windress
1715 - John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland (Baron Catherlough)
1717 - Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke
1722 - Hon. Robert Murray
1735 - Hon. Henry Ponsonby
1745 - Sir Robert Munro, Bt.
1746 - Lewis Dejean

1747 - ranked as 37th Foot
1751 Formally named 37th Regiment of Foot
1776 - embarked for North America for service in the American Revolutionary War; present at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 1782 - Re-designated 37th Foot (The North Hampshire)
1881 - Amalgamated with 67th Foot (The South Hampshire) to form 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Hampshire Regiment.

Battle honours

(all awarded to successor regiment, 1882)

• Minden, Tournay, Peninsula
• Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen

Timeline

8.2.2.2 - 67th Foot (The South Hampshire)

67th Foot 1840sFull Regimental history at WIKI

1756 - A 2nd Battalion 37th Foot was raised.
1756 - 2nd Battalion, 20th Foot (General James Wolfe) was raised
1758 - 2nd Battalion, 20th Foot (General James Wolfe) - Re-designated 67th Regiment of Foot
1758 - 2nd Battalion 37th Foot de-designated 75th Foot
1763 - 75th Foot was disbanded.
1782 - 67th Regiment of Foot re-designated 67th Foot (The South Hampshire) 1881 - Amalgamated with 37th Foot (The North Hampshire) to form 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Hampshire Regiment.

Battle Honours

• Peninsular War: Barrosa, Peninsula
• India
• Second China War: Taku Forts, Pekin 1860
• 2nd Afghan War: Charasiah, Kabul 1879, Afghanistan 1878-80

Notable Personnel

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Recipients of the Victoria Cross

• Lieutenant Nathaniel Burslem Second China War 1860
• Ensign John Worthy Chaplin Second China War 1860
• Hospital Apprentice Andrew Fitzgibbon Second China War 1860
• Private Thomas Lane (VC) Second China War 1860
• Lieutenant Edmund Henry Lenon Second China War 1860
• 2nd Lieutenant George Raymond Dallas Moor, 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Great War
• 2nd Lieutenant Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt, 14th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Great War
• 2nd Lieutenant Montague Shadworth Seymour Moore, 15th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Great War
• Major Wallace Le Patourel, 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Second World War
• Captain Richard Wakeford, 2/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Second World War WIKI
• Lieutenant Gerard Ross Norton, 1/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Second World War

Regimental Colonels

• 1702–1710: Lt-Gen. Thomas Meredyth
• 1710–1715: Col. William Windress
• 1715–1717: Gen. John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland (Baron Catherlough)
• 1717–1722: Col. Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke
• 1722–1735: Brig-Gen. Hon. Robert Murray
• 1735–1745: Maj-Gen. Hon. Henry Ponsonby (killed at the Battle of Fontenoy)
• 1745–1746: Col. Sir Robert Munro, Bt. (killed at the Battle of Falkirk)
• 1746–1752: Lt-Gen. Lewis Dejean

37th Regiment of Foot

• 1752–1768: Lt-Gen. Hon. James Stuart
• 1768–1773: Lt-Gen. Sir George Gray, Bt.
• 1773–1783: Lt-Gen. Sir Eyre Coote, KB

37th (The North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

• 1783–1798: Gen. Sir John Dalling
• 1798–1810: Gen. Sir Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple
• 1810–1814: Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Ross, Bt
• 1814–1831: Gen. Sir Charles Green, Bt
• 1831–1851: Gen. Hon. Sir Alexander Duff, GCH
• 1851–1858: Lt-Gen. William Smelt, CB
• 1858–1862: Lt-Gen. John Fraser
• 1862–1879: Gen. Sir Thomas Simson Pratt, KCB
• 1879–1881: Gen. Sir Edmund Haythorne, KCB

67th Regiment of Foot

• 1758–1759: Maj-Gen. James Wolfe
• 1759–1760: Field Marshall Lord Frederick Cavendish
• 1760–1761: Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Erskine, 5th Baronet
• 1761–1774: Lt-Gen. Hamilton Lambert
• 1774–1803: Gen. Edward Maxwell Browne

67th (the South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot - (1782)

• 1803: Lt-Gen. Francis D'Oyly
• 1803–1811: Gen. Peter Craig
• 1811–1828: Gen. Sir William Keppel, GCB
• 1828–1844: Lt-Gen. Sir John Macdonald, GCB
• 1844–1852: Lt-Gen. John Clitheroe
• 1852–1854: Lt-Gen. John Frederick Ewart, CB
• 1854–1858: F.M. Sir Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, GCB, KCSI
• 1858–1874: Gen. Francis John Davies
• 1874–1877: Gen. Henry Phipps Raymond
• 1877–1881: Gen. William Mark Wood

The Hampshire Regiment - (1881)

• 1881–1888 (1st Bn): Gen. Sir Edmund Haythorne, KCB
• 1881–1883 (2nd Bn): Lt-Gen. William Mark Wood
• 1883–1888 (2nd Bn): Gen. Sir Henry Errington Longden, KCB, CSI
• 1888–1893: Gen. Thomas Edmond Knox, CB
• 1893–1908: Lt-Gen. Sir John Wellesley Thomas, KCB
• 1908–1924: Maj-Gen. Sir Charles Benjamin Knowles, KCB
• 1924–1945: Gen. Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, GBE, KCB, KCMG
• 1945–1948: Gen. Sir George Darell Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, KCB, KCVO, CMG, JP

The Royal Hampshire Regiment - (1946)

• 1948–1954: Brig. Philip Herbert Cadoux-Hudson, MC, DL
• 1954–1964: Brig. Gerald Dominick Browne, CBE, DL
• 1964–1971: Maj-Gen. Richard Hutchinson Batten, CB, CBE, DSO, DL
• 1971–1981: Brig. David John Warren, DSO, OBE, MC, DL
• 1981–1987: Gen. Sir David Fraser, GCB, OBE, DL
• 1987–1992: Brig. Robert George Long, CBE, MC, DL

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Sources, References and Further Reading

• Brereton, J M A Guide to the regiments and Corps of the British Army on the Regular Establishment (Bodley Head) 1985
• Griffin, P D Encyclopedia of Modern British Army Regiments (Sutton Publishers) 2006
• Lumley, Goff Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 (Partizan Press 2009)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hampshire_Regiment

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