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Ramillies 1706, Louisburg 1758, Guadaloupe 1759, Belleisle, Havannah 1762, Martinique 1762–1794, Hindoostan 1780–1823, Surinam 1804, Monte Video 1807, Rolica 1808, Corunna 1809, Talavera 1809, Albuhera 1811, Badajoz 1812, Vittoria 1813, Peninsula 1809–14, Ava 1824–6, Meeanee 1843, Hyderabad 1843, Scinde 1843, Ferozeshah 1845, Sobroan 1846, South Africa 1846–7, Pegu 1852–3, Alma 1854, Inkerman 1854, Sevastopol 1855, Persia 1856–7, Lucknow 1857, Central India 1858, Abysinnia 1868, South Africa 1878–79, Eygpt 1882, Nile 1884–85, Hafir 1896, Tirah 1897–8, South Africa 1899–1902, Afghanistan 1919, Gulf 1991
The Mercian Regiment
(Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords)
Colonel in Chief
HRH The Prince of Wales KG, KT, GCB, OM, AK, QSO, PC, ADC
Colonel of The Regiment
Brigadier A P Williams OBE
Regimental Mascot
Pte Derby XXX
Allied Regiments
The Antigua & Barbuda Defence Force Grey and Simcoe Foresters (Canada) Jamaica Defence Force
The Cape Breton Highlanders
4e Battalion 22e Regiment (Chateauguay) 7th Battalion, The Baluch Regiment 8th/7th Battalion, The Royal Victoria Regiment 13th Battalion, The Punjab Regiment
Affiliated Regiments
5th Battalion (Napiers), The Rajputana Rifles
The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales’s Own Cavalry)
N Battery (The Eagle Troop), 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery Madras Engineers Group
Affiliated Ships
HMS Albion
Bond of Friendship
21ème Régiment d’Infanterie de Marine
1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment 4th Battalion The Mercian Regiment
RHQ The Mercian Regiment
RHQ The Mercian Regiment (Chester) RHQ The Mercian Regiment (Nottingham)
Picton Barracks, Bulford
Dale Barracks, Chester Lumsden Barracks, Germany Fallings Park, Wolverhampton
Whittington Barracks, Lichfield The Castle, Chester
Foresters House, Nottingham
Mons, Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18, Gheluvelt, Neuve Chapelle, Loos, Somme 1916, 18, Arras 1917, 18, Messines 1917, 18, Cambrai 1917, 18, Bapaume 1918, St. Quentin Canal, Italy 1917–18, Vittoria Veneto, Gallipoli 1915–16, Suvla, Doiran 1917,18, Kut Al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Norway 1940, St. Omer – La Bassee, Ypres-Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Caen, Seine 1944, Arnhem 1944,
North West Europe 1940, 44–45, Keren, Capture of Tobruk, Gazala, El Alamein, Mareth, North Africa 1940, 43, Malta 1941–42, Landing in Sicily 1943, Sicily 1943, Salerno, Anzio, Campoleone, Rome, Gothic Line, Chindits 1944, Burma 43, 44, 45