Editing Manchester Regiment (section)

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{{Infobox military unit
|unit_name=Manchester Regiment
|image=ManchestersCapBadgeWWI.jpg
|image_size=200px
|caption=[[Cap badge]] of the Manchester Regiment during the First World War.
|dates=1 July 1881&nbsp;– 1 September 1958
|country={{flag|United Kingdom}}
|branch={{army|United Kingdom}}
|type=[[Infantry]]
|role=
|size=[[Line infantry]]
|garrison=[[Ladysmith Barracks]], [[Ashton-under-Lyne]]
|ceremonial_chief=[[Majesty|HM]] [[George V|King George V]] (1930)<br/>HM [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]] (1947)
|ceremonial_chief_label=Colonel-in-Chief
|colonel_of_the_regiment= Edmund Richard Jeffreys (1881)<br>John MacNeill Walter (1889) Sir Henry Radford Norman (1895)<br>Vere Hunt Bowles (1899)<br> William Osborne Barnard (1904)<br>Sir [[Vere Bonamy Fane]] (1920)<br>Sir [[Willoughby Gwatkin|Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin]] (1924)<br>Hon. Sir [[Herbert Lawrence|Herbert Alexander Lawrence]] (1925)<br>Wilfrid Keith Evans (1932)<br>Francis Holland Dorling (1934)<br>Charles Dawson Moorhead (1947)<br>Eric Boyd Costin (1948)<br>Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill (1954)
|nickname=
|motto=
|colors=
|march=
|mascot=
|battles=
|notable_commanders=
|anniversaries= [[Siege of Ladysmith|Ladysmith]], 23 February<br>[[Battle of Kohima|Kohima]], 15 May<br>[[Invasion of Guadeloupe (1759)|Guadeloupe]], 10 June<br>[[Battle of Inkerman|Inkerman]], 5 November
}}
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) Battalion, Manchester Regiment|3rd (Reserve)]] and [[4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, Manchester Regiment|4th (Extra Reserve)]] battalions and the [[Volunteer Force (Great Britain)|Volunteer]] battalions became the 5th, [[1st Manchester Rifles|6th]], [[3rd Manchester Rifles|7th]], 8th, 9th and 10th battalions.

After distinguished service in both the [[World War I|First]] and the [[World War II|Second World Wars]], the Manchester Regiment was amalgamated with the [[King's Regiment (Liverpool)]] in 1958, to form the [[King's Regiment|King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool)]], which was, in 2006, amalgamated with the [[King's Own Royal Border Regiment]] and the [[Queen's Lancashire Regiment]] to form the present [[Duke of Lancaster's Regiment|Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)]].