Timeline of movements (2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment)

1881 (July) 2nd Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment established on 1st July 1881.

1881 Ireland: Kinsale
1882 Ireland: Kilkenny
1883 Channel Isles: Jersey
1885 England: Portsmouth
1887 Wales: Pembroke Dock
1889 Ireland: Limerick
1891 Ireland: Curragh
1894 England: Aldershot
1896 Malta
1898 West Indies: Bermuda
1899 Halifax, NS
1900 (January) South Africa (12th Brigade)
1905 Ceylon
1907 India: Ahmednagar
1909 India: Jhansi
1913 England: Aldershot (5th Brigade)
1914 (August) France and Flanders (2nd Division)

Colours of the 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (1930)

1915 (December) France and Flanders (33rd Division)
1919 England: Cadre to Worcester
1920 Ireland: Dublin
1923 (January) England: Dover (8th Infantry Brigade)
1926 (January) Germany: Biebrich (Army of Occupation)
1928 Germany: Bingen (near Coblenz)
1929 England: Plymouth
1931 (September) Malta
1933 (October) China: Shanghai
1934 China: Tientsin
1936 (December) Sialkot (Jhelum Infantry Brigade)
1939 (January) Rawalpindi
1940 (February) Waziristan
1940 (September) Sialkot
1941 (July) Manduri
1942 (February) Madras, India
1942 (August) Burma (19th Independent Infantry Division)
1945 Burma
1947 UK
1948 (December) On the 17th December 1948 disbanded (technically "amalgamated" with 1st Battalion)


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