Royal Berkshire Regiment BRONZE Officers Collar Badge

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The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot. Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles. The regiment was formed as part of the reforms carried out by Edward Cardwell and Hugh Childers, Secretaries of State for War in the late nineteenth century. The first stage, under Cardwell in 1873, introduced a “localisation scheme”. This saw the United Kingdom divided into “Brigade Districts” consisting of a county or counties. Each district was assigned two regular infantry battalions, one of which would be on foreign service while the other was on home service. The home-based battalion was to provide drafts to the battalion on foreign duty as required. County militia regiments were also to be linked with the regular battalions, with all sharing a single depot in the brigade district. It was announced that a depot was to be built at Reading, Berkshire, which would serve a district comprising the County of Berkshire. The two line battalions which were to be linked were the 49th and 66th Regiments of Foot, along with the Berkshire Militia.

On 1 July 1881, the reforms were completed under Childers, with the formation of the The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Berkshire Regiment) 1st Battalion (formerly the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot). The regiment had been raised in 1743, and had been granted the title “Princess Charlotte of Wales’s” in 1816. 2nd Battalion (formerly the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot) . The regiment had been raised in 1758. 3rd (Militia) Battalion (formerly the Berkshire Militia) 1st Volunteer Battalion (formerly the 1st Berkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, formed in 1859). In 1885, following its service at the Battle of Tofrek, the regiment was granted “royal” status, to become The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) In 1921 the titles switched to become The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s). After service in the First and Second World Wars, it was amalgamated into The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) in 1959.

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