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REGIMENTAL POSTINGS

61st Regiment

1756 - 2nd Battalion, The Buffs raised in Southern England
1758 - Redesignated as the 61st Foot.
1759 - West Indies
1760 - England
1761 - Channel Islands
1763 - Ireland
1771 - Minorca
1782 - England
1783 - Ireland
1792 - Gibraltar
1794 - West Indies
1796 - England
1799 - Cape Colony, South Africa
1801 - Egypt
1803 - Malta
1805 - Italy
1806 - Sicily
1807 - Gibraltar
1809 - Portugal and Spain
1814 - Ireland
1816 - West Indies
1822 - England
1824 - Ireland
1827 - England
1828 - Ceylon
1840 - England
1843 - Ireland
1845 - India
1859 - Mauritius
1860 - England
1863 - Channel Islands
1864 - Ireland
1865 - Newfoundland
1866 - Bermuda
1870 - Nova Scotia
1872 - Ireland
1875 - Channel Islands
1876 - England
1878 - Malta
1880 - Baluchistan, India
1883 - Karachi, India
1883 - Poona, India
1885 - Ahmednagar, India
1888 - Poona and Bombay, India
1891 - Nasirabad, India
1893 - Aden
1894 - Devonport, England
1897 - Portsmouth and Jersey
1899 - Aldershot
1900 - South Africa
1904 - Warley
1906 - Aldershot
1909 - Portsmouth
1910 - Malta
1913 - Tientsin, China
1914 - France and Flanders
1916 - Salonica and Macedonia
1918 - Bulgaria
1919 - Armenia and South Russia
1920 - Rawalpindi, India
1923 - Jhansi, India
1927 - Shanghai, China
1928 - Jhansi, India
1929 - Gravesend, England
1932 - Catterick
1936 - Mersa Matruh, Egypt
1937 - Plymouth
1939 - North West Europe
1940 - England
1944 - North West Europe
1946 - Berlin and Gloucester
1947 - Jamaica, Bermuda and British Honduras


28thFoot..... 1st Battalion (28th/61st)