Fact Sheet No. B2
2nd Battalion 24th Regiment of Foot, South Wales Borderers
Locations 1756-1948

24 August 1756 2nd Battalion first raised
May 1757 Leicester
July 1757 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Dorchester and Isle of Wight (co-located with 1/24th)
8 September 1757 - 1 October 1757 Expedition to Rochefort
23 April 1758 Battalion renumbered as 69th Foot
August 1804-24 November 1814 2nd Battalion re-raised and served in Peninsular campaign gaining Battle Honours: Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and Peninsula
3 June 1858 Re-raised at Sheffield
2 July 1858 - 24 September 1858 Bury, Lancashire
September 1858 - June 1859 Sheffield (Colours: 3 May 1859)
June 1859 - February 1860 Aldershot, Hampshire
February 1860 Cork, Ireland
10 March 1860 - August 1865 Mauritius
October 1865 - December 1868 Burma
December 1868 - 14 November 1872 Secunderabad, India
January 1873 - December 1873 Warley, Essex
December 1873 - June 1875 North Camp, Aldershot, Hampshire
June 1875 - June 1877 Dover, Kent
June 1877 - 28 January 1878 Chatham, Kent
9 March 1878 - 1879 South Africa, Zulu War
January 1880 - 10 August 1880 Gibraltar (New Colours: 6 August 1880)
16 September 1880 - 31 December 1883 Secunderabad, India
January 1884 Bangalore, India
February 1884 - May 1886 Madras, India
May 1886 - November 1888 Burma War
November 1888 - October 1890 Bureilly and Ranikhet, India
December 1890 - October 1892 Allahabad, India
October 1892 - 27 October 1893 Aden
18 November 1893 - 31 August 1895 Portsdown Forts, Portsmouth & Gosport
September 1895 - 9 July 1897 Aldershot, Hampshire
July 1897 - 4 September 1899 Pembroke Dock
September 1899 - 13 January 1900 Dublin
3 February 1900 - 16 May 1904 Boer War and South Africa
8 June 1904 - 3 December 1904 Bulford, Wiltshire
3 December 1904 - October 1906 Aliwal Barracks, Tidworth
12 October 1906 - 13 September 1909 Oudenarde Barracks, Aldershot
13 September 1909 - 21 December 1910 Chatham Barracks
15 January 1911 - October 1912 Pretoria, South Africa
3 November 1912 - 19 November 1914 Tientsin and Tsingtao, China
12 January 1915 - 17 March 1915 Coventry and Rugby, Warwickshire
24 April 1915 - January 1916 Gallipoli
January 1916 - March 1916 Egypt
March 1916 -March 1919 France
4 April 1919 - 21 October 1919 Brecon
13 November 1919 - November 1927 Barrackpore and Dum-Dum, India
19 November 1927 - 1 February 1929 Aden
16 February 1929 - 3 November 1932 Portsmouth
3 November 1932 - 19 September 1935 Catterick, Yorkshire
24 September 1935 - 14 July 1936 Malta
18 July 1936 - 11 December 1936 Palestine
21 December 1936 - October 1939 Londonderry, Northern Ireland
October 1939 Barnard Castle, Co Durham, 148 Brigade, 49 Division.
10 April 1940 Norway, British North West Expeditionary Force
5 June 1940 Newton Stewart, Northern Ireland
September 1940 Omagh, Co. Tyrone
24 February 1941 Loughermore, Dunadry, Co. Antrim
11 December 1941 Basildon House, Pangbourne, Berkshire
7 April 1942 Twelfth House, Maidenhead, Berkshire
5 June 1942 Shingham, Swaffham, Norfolk
17 June 1942 Duke's Ride, Thetford, Norfolk
14 August 1942 Consett, Co. Durham
14 October 1942 Greystoke Castle, Penrith, Cumberland
4 December 1942 Consett, Co. Durham
16 March 1943 Scampston Camp, Rillington, Malton, Yorkshire
8 July 1943 Wadhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
7 October 1943 Hunstanton, Norfolk
7 January 1944 Kirkleatham Hall, Redcar, Yorkshire
20 January 1944 Shortridge Hall, Alnmouth, Northumberland
4 March 1944 Dovercourt, Harwich, Norfolk
25 March 1944 - 7 April 1944 On exercise in area of Inverary, Scotland
8 April 1944 The Barracks, Christchurch, Hampshire
27 May 1944 Camp B4, Pennerley Camp, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, Hampshire
6 June 1944 - 4 May 1945 D-Day landings and campaign through North West Europe to Hamburg
4 June 1945 Lippstadt, Westphalia, 49 (West Riding) Division.
December 1945 Army of Occupation; Erwitte
June 1946 Army of Occupation; Solingen
August 1946 Harding Barracks, Wüppertal
30 November 1946 Woodfarm Camp, Malvern, Worcestershire
22 January 1947 Rorke's Drift Day - Battalion's last parade
16 April 1947 Battalion lapsed into suspended animation
31 May 1948 Battalion officially disbanded.

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