36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot

The 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1701. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Worcestershire Regiment in 1881. Its lineage is continued today by the Mercian Regiment.

For a later, unrelated, regiment with a similar name, see Herefordshire Light Infantry.

36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
Colours of the 36th Foot in 1853
Active1701–1881
Country Kingdom of England (1689–1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
Size1 battalion (2 battalions 1756–1758, 1804–1814)
Garrison/HQNorton Barracks, Worcestershire
Nickname(s)"The Grasshoppers"
"The Saucy Greens"
ColorsGreen Facings
MarchThe Poacher
EngagementsWar of the Spanish Succession
Jacobite rising
War of Jenkins' Ear
War of the Austrian Succession
Seven Years' War
Third Anglo-Mysore War
Napoleonic Wars
Peninsular War
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