26th Regiment of Foot - The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

1688
The Cameronian Guard.
19th April 1689The Earl of Angus's Regiment.
Entered British service under King William III. Also known as The Cameronians and by the names of six other colonels until 1751.
1st July 1751
26th Regiment of Foot. 
16th February 1786
26th (The Cameronian) Regiment of Foot. 1881
Together with the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry) becomes The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). This regiment - and the Highland Light Infantry - are organised as the county regiments for Lanarkshire
14th May 1968
Cameronians are disbanded and the King's Own Scottish Borderers absorbs the south Lanarkshire recruiting area.

24th Regiment of Foot - South Wales Borderers

8th March 1689
Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot.
Until 1751 it was also known by the names of other colonels.
1747
Ranked as 24th Foot.
1st July 1751
24th (the 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot 
1st July 1881
The South Wales Borderers
Re-organised as the county regiment of Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, and Radnor
11th June 1969
Amalgamated with the Welsh Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot).
1st March 2006
Amalgamated with the Royal Welch Fusiliers to form the Royal Welsh. It becomes the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh whilst the Royal Welch Fusiliers became the 1st Battalion.

The image on this post, courtesy of the Historum, shows 24th Foot veterans of Rorke's Drift in 1934.

23rd Regiment of Foot - Royal Welch Fusiliers

16th March 1689
Lord Herbert's Regiment of Foot.
Until 1751 it was also known by the names of twelve other colonels. 5th Earl of Mar pictured above.
1702
The Welsh Regiment of Fuzileers
Converted to fusiliers for the protection of artillery
1713
The Royal Regiment of Welch Fuzileers
The "Royal" accolade was granted in recognition of the regiment's service in the war of the Spanish Succession.
1714
The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welch Fuzileers
Named for the future King George II
April 1723
The Royal Regiment of Welch Fuzileers
1747
Ranked as 23rd Foot.
1st July 1751
23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fuzileers)
1st July 1881
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Re-organised as the county regiment for Cheshire.
1st January 1921
The Royal Welch Fusiliers
1st March 2006
Amalgamated with the Royal Regiment of Wales to form the Royal Welsh. It becomes the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh. whilst the Royal Regiment of Wales becomes the 2nd Battalion.

20th Regiment of Foot - Lancashire Fusiliers

20th November 1688
Sir Richard Peyton's Regiment of Foot.
The regiment was raised in Devonshire. Until 1751 it was also known by the names of ten other colonels.
1st July 1751
20th Regiment of Foot
31st August 1782
20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot.
1st July 1881
The Lancashire Fusiliers
23rd April 1968
Merged with The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) to form The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

The image on this post shows Archibald Arnott M.D. (1771-1855). Surgeon to the 20th Regiment of Foot. I've borrowed this image from John Tyrell's excellent, Reflections on A Journey to St Helena.

17th Regiment of Foot - Leicestershire Regiment

27th September 1688
Solomon Richard's Regiment of Foot. The regiment was raised at London. Until 1751 it was also known by the names of other colonels.
1st July 1751
17th Regiment of Foot
31st August 1782
17th (the Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot.1st July 1881
The Leicestershire Regiment. Designated as the county regiment for Leicestershire, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
28th November 1946
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
1st September 1964
Merges with the 1st East Anglian Regiment, 2nd East Anglian Regiment and 3rd East Anglian Regiment to form the Royal Anglian Regiment.

16th Regiment of Foot

 

9th October 1688
Archibald Douglas’s Regiment of Foot. The regiment was raised at Reading from southern counties. Until 1751 it was also known by the names of other colonels.

1747
Ranked as the 16th Foot
1st July 1751
16th Regiment of Foot
31st August 1782
16th (the Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot.
May 1809
Exchanged county titles with the 14th Foot
1st July 1881
The Bedfordshire Regiment. Designated as the county regiment for Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
29th July 1919
The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment  
2nd June 1958
Amalgamated with the Essex Regiment to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment
1st September 1964
3rd East Anglian Regiment merges with the 1st East Anglian Regiment, 2nd East Anglian Regiment and The Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the Royal Anglian Regiment.

Image courtesy of The Military Gentleman.

15th Regiment of Foot - East Yorkshire Regiment

22nd June 1685
Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot. The regiment was raised at Nottingham. Until 1751 it was also known by the names of other colonels.
1st July 1751
15th Regiment of Foot
31st August 1782
15th (the Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot.
1st July 1881
The East Yorkshire Regiment. Designated as the county regiment for the East Riding, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
6th May 1935
The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own).
25th April 1958
Amalgamated with the West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own) to form the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire.
6th June 2006
Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire. merges with the Green Howards and The Duke Of Wellington's Regiment to form The Yorkshire Regiment. The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire becomes the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.

The image, courtesy of Wikipedia, shows John Theophilus Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd son of the 1st Earl of Moira, in the uniform of the 15th Regiment of Foot (1776) with a flintlock gun (and two adoring dogs).

14th Regiment of Foot - The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)

22nd June 1685
Sir Edward Hales's Regiment of Foot. The regiment was raised at Canterbury. Until 1751 it was also known by the names of other colonels.
1st July 1751
14th Regiment of Foot
31st August 1782
14th (the Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot. Exchanged county titles with the 16th Regiment of Foot.
6th June 1876
14th (Buckinghamshire - The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
1st July 1881
The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment). Designated as the county regiment for West Yorkshire, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
1st January 1921
The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own).
25th April 1958
Amalgamated with the East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) to form the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire.
6th June 2006
Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire. merges with the Green Howards and The Duke Of Wellington's Regiment to form The Yorkshire Regiment. The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire becomes the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.

The image on this post is taken from The BBC's Your Paintings website and depicts an officer of the 3rd Battalion, the 14th Regiment of Foot, Army of Occupation, Paris, 1816. Painted by Jean-Pierre-Frédéric Barrois.

13th Regiment of Foot - Somerset Light Infantry

20th June 1685
Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot. Until 1751 it was also known by the names of other colonels.
1st July 1751
13th Regiment of Foot
31st August 1782
13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
25th December 1822
13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
26th August 1842
13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 
1st July 1881
Prince Albert's Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment). Designated as the county regiment for Suffolk, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
13th December 1881
Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
1912
Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
1st January 1921
The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
29th August 1959
Amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
10th July 1968
The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry amalgamates with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, King's Shropshire Light Infantry and Durham Light Infantry to form The Light Infantry.
1st February 2007
The Light Infantry, along with the Devon & Dorset Regiment,  the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets, are amalgamated to create a new regiment, The Rifles.

12th Regiment of Foot - The Suffolk Regiment

20th June 1685
The Duke of Norfolk's Regiment of Foot. The regiment was raised at Norwich from local men living in Norfolk and Suffolk. It also incorporated a detachment, raised in 1660, which had been sent to Virginia in 1667. Until 1751 it was also known by the names of ten other colonels.
1747
Ranked as 12th Foot
1st July 1751
12th Regiment of Foot
31st August 1782
12th (the East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
1st July 1881
The Suffolk Regiment. Designated as the county regiment for Suffolk, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
29th August 1959
Amalgamated with the Royal Norfolk Regiment to form the 1st East Anglian Regiment, (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk).
1st September 1964
1st East Anglian Regiment merges with the 2nd East Anglian Regiment, 3rd East Anglian Regiment and The Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the Royal Anglian Regiment.

Pictured, Major General Sir Thomas Picton who joined the regiment in 1773 and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

11th Regiment of Foot - The Devonshire Regiment

13th June 1667
Marquess of Worcester's Regiment of Foot.
1667
Disbanded
24th January 1673
Marquess of Worcester's Regiment of Foot.
1673
Disbanded
20th June 1685
The Duke of Beaufort's Regiment of Foot. Known until 1751 by the names of ten subsequent colonels.
1st July 1751
11th Regiment of Foot
31st August 1782
11th (the North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
1st July 1881
The Devonshire Regiment. Designated as the county regiment for Lincolnshire, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
17th May 1958
Amalgamated with the Dorset Regiment to form the Devonshire & Dorset Regiment
2007
The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment merged with The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment to form the 1st Battalion, The Rifles.

The image on this post, courtesy Wikipedia, is a portrait by John Hoppner (1758-1810) of an unknown British officer circa 1800, probably from the North Devonshire Regiment of Foot.

8th Regiment of Foot - The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

19th June 1685The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot. Raised in Derbyshire & Hertfordshire and named for the future Queen Anne.
1702
The Queen's Regiment of Foot. Re-designated to recognise Princess Anne becoming Queen Anne.
1716
The King's Regiment of Foot. Re-named to recognise King George I
1st July 1751
8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
1st July 1881
The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Designated as the city regiment of Liverpool, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
1st January 1921
The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
1958
Amalgamated with the Manchester Regiment to form the King's Regiment (Manchester & Liverpool)
1st July 2006
Amalgamates with the Queen's Lancashire Regiment and King's Own Royal Border Regiment to form the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.

7th Regiment of Foot - Royal Fusiliers

11th June 1685
The Ordnance Regiment. Raised in the City of London from two companies of Tower Guards as an escort to the train of Artillery. Also known as the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
1747
Royal English Fuzileers. Ranked as the 7th Regiment of Foot
1st July 1751
7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fuzileers)
1st July 1881
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Two regular battalions. Designated as the city regiment of London, also encompassing militia and volunteer infantry.
1889
County of London formed from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey
1898
3rd (Regular) Battalion formed.
1900
4th (Regular) Battalion formed
1st April 1908
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Volunteer Battalions were transferred to the London Regiment and became the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th (City of London Battalions), The London Regiment, upon the creation of the Territorial Force.
7th July 1916
The four Territorial Force battalions mentioned above were re-affiliated to The Royal Fusiliers
1922
The 3rd (Regular) and 4th (Regular) Battalions are disbanded.
23rd April 1968
Amalgamated with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and the Lancashire Fusiliers to form The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

2nd Regiment of Foot / The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment

1st October 1661
Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Foot
1663
Absorbed Sir Robert Harley's Regiment of Foot, and Lord Rutherford's Regiment of Foot
1685
Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot
(The Queen Dowager is Queen Catherine, widow of King Charles II)
1703
The Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot
1715
The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot
(The Princess of Wales is Princess Caroline, future wife of King George II)
1727
The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot
1747
The Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Foot
1st July 1751
2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot
1st July 1881
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
1st January 1921
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
14th October 1959
Amalgamates with the East Surrey Regiment to form The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
31st December 1966
The Queen's Regiment
9th September 1992
Amalgamates with the Royal Hampshire Regiment to form The Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

Links

Regimental numbers 1881-1918 - 1st and 2nd Queen's - numbers and enlistment dates
The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment - Regimental website
Queen's - war diaries 1914-1918 - First World War diaries in PDF format
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 1914-1918 - From The Long, Long Trail