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28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot

The 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1694. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1881.

28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot

1694 – 1 July 1881

 Kingdom of England (1694–1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)

 British Army

Line Infantry

One battalion

Horfield Barracks, Bristol

The Old Braggs
The Slashers
The Silver Tailed Dandies[1]

War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Quadruple Alliance
War of the Austrian Succession
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Crimean War

Egypt campaign: No individual battle honours were awarded immediately after the campaign, instead the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt" (8 March –26 August 1801) was awarded in 1802. , awarded 1813–1817. The battles of the campaign which the 28th were involved in were: Aboukir, Roman Camp, Alexandria (21 March), Cairo, Alexandria (17 August – 2 September 1801)

Mandora

: Corunna, Talavera, Barrosa, Albuhera, Vitoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula

Peninsular War

: Quatre Bras, Waterloo

Napoleonic Wars

: Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol

Crimean War

Louisburg, Quebec 1759 (all presented to successor regiment in 1882)

Ramillies

Guadaloupe 1759, Martinique 1762, Havannah, St Lucia 1778 (all presented to successor regiment in 1909)

The battle honours of the regiment were:[2]

1694–1697: Col.

Sir John Gibson

disbanded 1697

reformed 1702

1702–1704: Col.

Sir John Gibson

1704–1706: Maj-Gen. Sampson de Lalo

1706–1709: Brig-Gen.

John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt

1709–1715: Brig-Gen.

Andrews Windsor

1715–1730: Lt-Gen.

William Barrell

1730–1734: Maj-Gen. Nicholas Price

1734–1759: Lt-Gen.

Philip Bragg

Colonels of the Regiment were:[2]

Cadell, Charles (1835). . Whittaker & Co.

Narrative of the campaigns of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment since their return from Egypt in 1802

Daniell, David Scott (1951). Cap of Honour: The story of the Gloucestershire Regiment (the 28th/61st Foot) 1694-1950. London, George G. Harrap and Co.

Grazebrook, R.M. (1946). "The Back Badge of the Gloucestershire Regiment". Army Historical Research. 24 (99). Society for Army Historical Research: 112–113.  44220713.

JSTOR

Brodigan, F. (1884). Historical Records of the Twenty-Eighth North Gloucestershire Regiment from 1692 to 1882. Blackfriars Publishing.

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