Fact Sheet No. B1
1st Battalion 24th Regiment of Foot, South Wales Borderers
Locations 1689-1969

8 March 1689 Sir Edward Dering Bart receives a commission to raise a Regiment of Foot, Maidstone and Dartford.
June 1689 Lichfield, Tamworth, Walsall and Worcester
July 1689 Service in Ireland
December 1691 Bridgwater, Glastonbury and Wells
May 1692 Guildford
1 August 1692 - September 1694 War with France
September 1694 - March 1695 Maidstone, Essex, Suffolk and London
March 1695 - March 1696 War with France in Mediterranean
March 1696 London, then Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire
1 June 1697 - November 1697 Belgium
November 1697 - 14 May 1700 Ireland
14 May 1701 - 24 June 1713 Flanders and the War of the Spanish Succession - Blenheim (1704), Ramillies 1706), Oudenarde (1708) and Malplaquet (1709).
28 August 1713 - September 1719 Ireland
21 September 1719 - 11 November 1719 Vigo expedition
November 1719 - April 1734 Ireland
April 1734 Dunstable, Woburn, Hitchin, Luton and Redburn
March 1735 - April 1735 Abingdon, Cirencester, Wallingford, Witney, Faringdon, Wantage and Highworth.
April 1735 - June 1739 Ireland
June 1739 - October 1742 West Indies - Cartegena, Jamaica
December 1742 - February 1744 Plymouth, Reading and Wolverhampton
February 1744 - April 1744 St Albans, Barnet, and Tower of London
April 1744 - March 1746 Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, Bristol, Plymouth, Newbury, Reading and the Tower of London
29 March 1746 - September 1749 Fort William and Scotland
September 1749 - August 1750 Berwick, Newcastle and Carlisle
August 1750 - May 1751 Canterbury, Chatham and Dover
May 1751 - May 1752 Exeter
June 1752 - July 1756 Minorca
August 1756 Gibraltar
May 1757 - October 1759 Leicester, Nottingham, Derbyshire, Amersham and the Isle of Wight (expeditions to St Malo and St Cast)
October 1759 - May 1760 Dartford, Ipswich, Warley, Chelmsford
12 May 1760 - 1763 Operations against the French, Warburg (1760), Vellinghausen (1761)
1764 - 1769 Gibraltar
1769 - April 1776 Ireland
April 1776 - July 1781 Canada, America War of Independence, Saratoga (1777)
16 July 1781 - 1785 Tamworth, Portsmouth, Winchester, Poole, New Forest, Dover, Berwick and Edinburgh
1785-April - 1789 Belfast, Galway, Dublin
April 1789 - September 1800 Montreal, Detroit and Quebec, Canada
October 1800 - 4 June 1801 Hilsea Barracks, Plymouth, Exeter
4 June 1801 - 29 November 1801 Egypt, Alexandria (1801)
March 1802 - April 1803 Portsmouth, Liverpool
April 1803 - 5 May 1805 Ipswich, Broomswell Heath, Norwich, Woodbridge Barracks (Portsmouth)
5 May 1805 - 27 September 1805 Cork
4 January 1806 - 10 June 1810 Cape of Good Hope
10 June 1810 - 10 February 1823 Fort William (Calcutta) , Nepal (1814-1816)
2 July 1823 - 25 September 1825 Portsmouth, Gosport, Devonport
30 September 1825 - 10 May 1829 Kilkenny, Limerick, Athlone and Dublin, Ireland
9 October 1829 - May 1840 Montreal, Canada
May 1840 - 21 June 1841 Kingston, Upper Canada
26 July 1841 - April 1843 Plymouth
9 April 1843 - 10 October 1843 Glasgow
10 October 1843 - 6 September 1844 Dublin, Ireland
6 September 1844 - 17 April 1845 Kilkenny, Ireland
23 April 1845 - 26 January 1846 Limerick, Ireland
3 February 1846- 6/8 May 1846 Cork, Ireland
October 1846 - 16 January 1847 Dum-Dum, Calcutta and Ghazipur, India
5 March 1847 - October 1848 Agra, India
3 October 1848 - March 1849 2nd Sikh War (Chillianwallah, Goojerat)
April 1849 - December 1852 Wazirabad, India
5 December 1852 - 1 November 1854 Sialkot, India
28 November 1854 - December 1856 Peshawar, India
13 December 1856 - 1858 Indian Mutiny
1858 - 22 March 1861 India, various stations
22 March 1861 - 27 July 1861 At sea
27 July 1861 - 22 May 1862 New Barracks,Gosport, Hampshire
22 May 1862 - September 1862 Anglesea Barracks, Portsea, Hampshire
September 1862 - April 1864 North Camp, Aldershot
28 April 1864 - 29 March 1865 Shorncliffe, Dover
31 March 1865 - 3 August 1865 Curragh Camp, Ireland
5 August 1865 - 22 February 1866 Beggers Bush, Dublin, Ireland
22 February 1866 - 8 August 1866 Curragh, Ireland (New Colours: 21 June 1866)
16 August 1866 - 30 September 1866 Belfast and Londonderry
13 October 1866 - 29 February 1868 Fort Verdala, Malta
1 March1868 - 23 September 1869 Floriana Barracks, Malta
23 September 1869 - 29 February 1872 Fort Ricasoli, Malta (Coys at Zabbas Gate & Salvatore)
5 March 1872 - 28 November 1874 Gibraltar
2 January 1875 - 1877 South Africa, various locations: Cape Town, Wynberg, Simon's Town, Griqualand, King William's Town, East London, Kir Town, Transkei, Transvaal (detachment in St. Helena August 1876 to August 1877)
1877 - 1879 Kaffir and Zulu War
September 1879 - November 1880 Gosport, Hampshire
November 1880 - August 1882 Colchester, Essex
August 1882 - September 1883 Manchester
26 September 1883 - September 1885 Kilkenny, Ireland (detachments at Killarney, Waterford and Duncannon)
September 1885 - October 1886 Curragh Camp, Ireland
October 1886 - September 1887 Birr, Ireland
September 1887 - December 1889 Dublin, Ireland, (in camp Phoenix Park August - October 1889), Balls Bridge, November 1889
December 1889 - December 1892 Aldershot, Hampshire
9 February 1893 - 19 April 1895 Cairo, Egypt
29 April 1895 - November 1897 Gibraltar
10 December 1897 - March 1898 Meerut, India
March 1898 - November 1899 Chakrata, India
November 1899 - March 1900 Dehra Dun and Pur, India
March 1900 -November 1900 Meerut, India
November 1900 - October 1902 Peshawar, India
October 1902 - November 1902 Mian Mir and Umballa, India
November 1902 - January 1903 Delhi, India
January 1903 - March 1905 Mian Mir and Dalhousie, India
March 1905 - March 1909 Karachi and Hyderabad, India
March 1909 - 2 December 1910 Right British Infantry (later Roberts) Barracks, Quetta, India
23 December 1910 - 24 August 1913 Lower Barracks, Chatham, Kent
28 September 1913 - 12 August 1914 Bordon, Hampshire
12 August 1914 - 13 June 1919 BEF France - WW1
13 June 1919 - 19 June 1919 Thannington Camp, Canterbury (cadre strength)
20 June 1919 - 31 August 1919 Brecon (personnel absorbed from 3 SWB)
31 August 1919 - 15 October 1919 Chatham, Kent
15 October 1919 - 20 June 1920 RE Hutments, Blackdown Camp, Hampshire
21 June 1920 - 21 September 1920 Dollymount Camp, Dublin, Ireland
21 September 1920 - 10 February 1922 Dunhaughlin, Co Meath, companies at Kells, Oldcastle, Navan and Nobber Co Meath.
10 February 1922 - 24 September 1923 Alma Barracks, Blackdown, Hampshire
24 September 1923 - 8 February 1927 Devonport (During General Strike in May 1926 tasked to Liverpool and Bury)
8 February 1927 - 18 September 1928 Lichfield
29 September 1928 - 26 October 1930 Cairo
19 November 1930 - 29 November 1934 Hong Kong (New Colours 28 March 1933)
15 December 1934 - October 1938 Rawalpindi, India
October 1938 - 31 December 1939 Landi Kotal, North West Frontier
31 December 1939 - 10 November 1941 Cawnpore, India
16 November 1941 - 17 June 1942 Iraq, Middle East and North Africa
17 July 1942 Cyprus (most remaining personnel transferred to 1st Battalion King's Own Royal Regiment: 29 August 1942)
12 December 1942 Cadre sent home to Merley Park Camp, Wimborne Minster, Dorset (to join 4 MONS which became 1 SWB)
1 January 1943 Bridport, Dorset
22 March 1943 Winterbourne Steepleton, Dorset
20 May 1943 Broadstairs, Kent
7 September 1943 New Romney, Ashford, Kent
22 October 1943 Wynches Camp, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
4 November 1943 Haltwhistle, Northumberland
28 November 1943 Tormiston Camp, Kirkwall, Orkney
24 December 1943 Haybrake Camp, Hoy, Kirkwall, Orkney
31 August 1944 Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe, Folkestone, Kent
16 October 1944 - 11 October 1945 Vinters Camp, Maidstone, Kent
22 October 1945 - 18 April 1946 Haifa, Palestine
25 May 1946 - 13 March 1949 Famagusta, Cyprus (1 Coy at Waynes Keep, Nicosia)
25 March 1949 - 4 January 1950 Khartoum, Sudan (Coys at Gebeit and Asmara)
4 January 1950 - 16 September 1952 Asmara, Eritrea (Airport Camp wef 29 August 1951)
1 October 1952 - 15 January 1953 RA Practice Camp, Sennybridge, Brecknockshire
15 January 1953 Brunswick, Germany
20 July 1955 Dering Lines, Brecon
19 October 1955 Malaya (Kluang, Johore, Segamet, Singapore)
May 1958 - 24 June 1959 Dering Lines, Brecon (New Colours at Ebbw Vale: 25 July 1958)
26 June 1959 Minden, Germany
November 1962 Norton Barracks, Worcester
June 1963 Hong Kong (detachment in Borneo 1965)
June 1966 Lee Metford Camp, Lydd, Kent
January 1967 Aden (1 Coy detached to Botswana)
September 1967 Lee Metford Camp, Lydd, Kent
11 June 1969 Amalgamation day, Cardiff Castle

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