67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

Regimental uniform, 1840s

The 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into the Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment) in 1881.

The regiment was raised by the redesignation of the 2nd Battalion, 20th Regiment of Foot in April 1758, ranked as the 67th Regiment of Foot. In 1782 they took a county title as the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot.

In 1803 a 2nd battalion was raised and disbanded in 1817.

Regimental history

67th Foot taking the Taku Forts in 1860.

1758 formed from 2nd Battalion of 20th Regiment 1758-64 Seven Years' War 1761 capture of Belle Île 1762 Portugal 1763 Minorca 1771 England 1776 Ireland 1785-1803 West Indies 1796 Saint-Domingue 1798 Saint-Domingue 1798 Jamaica 1803 Ireland 1805 India 1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War 1826 England 1858 India 1860 China 1860 Second Opium War 1860 Taku Forts 1860 Battle of Palikao 1864 Japan 1865 South Africa 1866 England 1872 Burma 1878 Second Anglo-Afghan War 1879 Battle of Charasiab 1879 Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment 1881 India 1881 merged with 37th Regiment to create Royal Hampshire Regiment

2nd Battalion 1803 formed 1803 Ireland 1804 Guernsey 1807 Alderney 1810 Guernsey 1810-14 Peninsular War 1811 Battle of Barrosa 1813 Siege of Tarragona (1813) 1814 Gibraltar 1817 disbanded

Recipients of the Victoria Cross

• Lieutenant Nathaniel Burslem 1860 Second China War
• Ensign John Worthy Chaplin 1860 Second China War
• Hospital Apprentice Andrew Fitzgibbon 1860 Second China War
• Private Thomas Lane (VC) 1860 Second China War
• Lieutenant Edmund Henry Lenon 1860 Second China War

References

• Cannon, Richard (1849). Historical Record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment. London: Parker, Furnivall and Parker.