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The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th Regiment of Foot and the 67th Regiment of Foot.
Cap badge of the Hampshires
The SS River Clyde holds dead of the Hampshire Regiment who were killed while attempting to get ashore at Sedd el Bahr during the Gallipoli campaign.
Men of the 1/9th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment leaving Vladivostock for Omsk, 1918.
Men of the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, part of the 231st Brigade of the 50th Division, crossing the Seine at Vernon, 28 August 1944.
The 67th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 37th Regiment of Foot to form the Hampshire Regiment in 1
Royal Hampshire Regiment
…regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot. The regiment existed continuously for 111 years and served in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. An Army Order of the 28 November 1946…
Colours of the 67th Regiment
James Wolfe, the regiment's first colonel
c. 1771 painting of a regimental grenadier (third from left) in Minorca
The regimental uniform in 1849