Royal Berkshire Regiment

Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
Cap badge of the Royal Berkshire Regiment.
Active	1881–1959
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Line infantry
Size	2 Regular battalions 1 Militia battalion (Royal Berkshire Regiment) 1 – 2 Territorial and Volunteer battalions Up to 12 hostilities-only battalions
Garrison/HQ	Brock Barracks, Reading
Nickname(s)	"The Biscuit Boys"
Anniversaries	Maiwand (27 July)
Engagements	Second Boer War World War I World War II

The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was created in 1881, as the Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment), by the amalgamation of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot.^[1] In 1921, it was renamed the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).

The regiment saw active service in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. On 9 June 1959, the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was amalgamated with the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) to form the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) which was again amalgamated, on 27 July 1994, with the Gloucestershire Regiment to create the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. Like its predecessor regiment, however, this was on 1 February 2007 merged with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Green Jackets and The Light Infantry to form a new large regiment, The Rifles.