Cheshire Regiment
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The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by the Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk in 1689 and
Cap badge of the Cheshire Regiment
The Duke of Norfolk, the regiment's founder
c. 1742 engraving of a regimental private
The Battle of Meeanee by Edward Armitage, 1847
Staffordshire Regiment
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The Staffordshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales's Division. The regiment was formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of the South Staffordshire Regiment
Cheshire Regiment
…the regiment. On 1 September 2007, the Cheshire Regiment was merged with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) and the Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) to form a new large regiment, the Mercian Regiment, becoming the 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment. Following the 1688 Glorious Revolution and the exile…
Troops from C Company, 1st Battalion, engaged in a live firing exercise during Operation Granby, 6 January 1991.
Graves of two soldiers of the South Staffordshire Regiment, killed 1918, in the Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France