Regiments stationed in Newcastle Jamaica

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF REGIMENTS STATIONED IN NEWCASTLE, JAMAICA

Prepared by Colonel Allan Douglas, JDF

and used by his permission

1841) 60th Rifles

1844) Kings Royal Rifle Corp. 28 Mar 1844

1848) 97th Reserve Regiment

1851) Later the Earl of Ulsters Regiment.

1854) 36th Regiment of Foot

1856) later The Worcestershire Regiment.

1860) 14th Regiment of Foot

1864) The Buckinghamshire Regiment, 14 April, 1864.

1864) 6th Regiment

1867) later The Royal Warwickshire, Apr. 1867

1867) 84th Regiment of Foot

1870) later The York & Lancester Regiment - 2 Jan 1870

1870) The 29th Regiment of Foot

1873) later The Worcestershire Regiment

1873) The Earl of Ulsters Regiment (97th)

1874) now the Royal West Kent Regiment.

1879) 30 Jan 79

1881) 4th of Foot The Kings Own Royal Regiment

1881) The Royal Scots

1884) 1st of Foot.

1884) The 64th Regiment of Foot.

1886) The North Staffordshire Regiment, 14 Dec. 86

1886) The East Yorkshire Regiment

1888) 11 Oct. 88

1888) The York & Lancaster Regiment

1891) 9 May 91

1891) The Duke of Wellingtons' Regiment

1893)

1893) The Leicester Regiment (not then Royal. They only stayed in Jamaica for about a month).

1894)

1895) The King's Regiment

1897)

1898) The Leinster Regiment

1900?) (109th Regiment)

1901) The Lancashire Fusiliers

1903)

1903) Newcastle maintained by RA. RE. RAMC, etc.

1919) No infantry Battalion stationed at that time

1919) The Royal Sussex Regiment

1921)

1921) The East Lancashire Regiment

1923)

1923) The Royal Norfolk Regiment

1925)

1925) The Green Howards

1927) The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - 26 Sep 29.

1927)The West Yorkshire Regiment

1931)

1931) The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

1934)

1934) The Manchester Regiment

1935)

1935) The Sherwood foresters

1939)

1939) The Kings' Shropshire Light Infantry

1940)

1940) The Winnipeg Grenadiers of Canada

1941)

1941) The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada.

1943) The Irish Fusiliers of Canada

1944) (Vancouver Regiment)

1944) The Brockville Rifles

1946)

1946) The Suffolk Regiment

1947)

1947) The Gloucestershire Regiment

1949)

1949) The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

1951)

1951) The Royal Welch Fusiliers

1954)

1954) The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

1957)

1957) The Worcestershire Regiment

1960)

1960) The Royal Hampshire Regiment

1962)

6 August 1962 Independence Day

1962 onwards: The Jamaica Regiment.

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