Manchester Regiment

Manchester Regiment
Manchester Regiment
	Cap badge of the Manchester Regiment during the First World War.
Active	1 July 1881 – 1 September 1958
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Line infantry
Garrison/HQ	Ladysmith Barracks, Ashton-under-Lyne
Anniversaries	Ladysmith, 23 February; Kohima, 15 May; Guadeloupe, 10 June; Inkerman, 5 November
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	HM King George V (1930); HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1947)
Colonel of; the Regiment	Edmund Richard Jeffreys (1881); John MacNeill Walter (1889) Sir Henry Radford Norman (1895); Vere Hunt Bowles (1899); William Osborne Barnard (1904); Sir Vere Bonamy Fane (1920); Sir Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin (1924); Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence (1925); Wilfrid Keith Evans (1932); Francis Holland Dorling (1934); Charles Dawson Moorhead (1947); Eric Boyd Costin (1948); Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill (1954)

The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot as the 1st and 2nd battalions; the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia became the 3rd (Reserve) and 4th (Extra Reserve) battalions and the Volunteer battalions became the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th battalions.