| Manchester Regiment | |
|---|---|
 Cap badge of the Manchester Regiment during the First World War. | |
| Active | 1 July 1881 – 1 September 1958 |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Branch |  British Army |
| Type | Infantry |
| Size | Line infantry |
| Garrison/HQ | Ladysmith Barracks, Ashton-under-Lyne |
| Anniversaries | Ladysmith, 23 February Kohima, 15 May Guadeloupe, 10 June Inkerman, 5 November |
| Commanders | |
| Colonel-in-Chief | HM King George V (1930) HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1947) |
| Colonel of the Regiment | Edmund Richard Jeffreys (1881) John MacNeill Walter (1889) Sir Henry Radford Norman (1895) Vere Hunt Bowles (1899) William Osborne Barnard (1904) Sir Vere Bonamy Fane (1920) Sir Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin (1924) Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence (1925) Wilfrid Keith Evans (1932) Francis Holland Dorling (1934) Charles Dawson Moorhead (1947) Eric Boyd Costin (1948) Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill (1954) |
The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot as the 1st and 2nd battalions; the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia became the 3rd (Reserve) and 4th (Extra Reserve) battalions and the Volunteer battalions became the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th battalions.
After distinguished service in both the First and the Second World Wars, the Manchester Regiment was amalgamated with the King's Regiment (Liverpool) in 1958, to form the King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool), which was, in 2006, amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the present Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Regiment
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