1754-1756 - 51st (American Provincials) (Disbanded)

1755 - raised as 53rd Regiment (Napier's) at Leeds by Marquis of Rockingham.

1756 - at Fareham

1757 - renamed 51st Regiment (Brudenell's), Rochefort Expedition

1759 - Minden - 1 Aug 1759

The French, 64,000-strong under the Marquis de Contades, confronted the Hanoverians, British and Prussians, 54,000- strong under Ferdinand of Brunswick. Ferdinand detached a force of 10,000 to threaten de Contades' rear, and then broke the first line of the French. The Allied cavalry failed to advance and the French were able to rally and carry out an orderly retreat. They lost 7,086 killed, wounded and prisoners, forty-three guns and seventeen standards. The Allies lost 2,762, half of them from the six English regiments. Lord George Sackville, the Allied cavalry commander, was cashiered from George II's army.

Corbach, Warburg, Kloster Klampen, Germany (5 years)

1763 - England (Lichfield), Ireland (in May) for next 8 years

1767 - Kilkenny

1771 - left Ireland for Minorca (via Exeter)

1782 - (February) - capitulated Minorca to French and Spanish, returned to England (leeds) then 8 years in Ireland

1782 - 51st (or 2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot

1790 - Lt.-Col. John Moore became C.O.

1790-1803 - Gibraltar, Corsica, Elba, Portugal (Cadiz, Tagus), Cape of Good Hope, Madras, Ceylon (Kandy War)

1807 - returned to England

1808 - at Haslar, England then Corunna (October 13)

Peninsula War - Lugo and Corunna

Corunna - 16 Jan 1809

Soult's 20,000 French tried to prevent the 14,000-strong British army, after a long and hazardous winter retreat, from embarking at the Spanish port of Corunna. The French were held off and lost 2,000 men; the British lost 800 and their commander, Sir John Moore.

1809 - re-embarked at Corunna (Jan. 16) for Portsmouth. Created Light Infantry Corps, Walcheren Expedition (Flushing, Antwerp) - 51st (or 2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Light Infantry Regiment

1810 - Feb. - Horsham Barracks
        - Aug. - Steyning Barracks

1811-1814 - Peninsula War

1811 - Feb. - Spithead
        - March - Lisbon
        - May - Portalegro - battle of Fuentes d'Onor as part of 7th Division
        - June - before Badajoz, Campa Mayor
        - Sept. - Villa Mayor
        - Dec. - Penamacore

1812 - March - Villa Franca
        - April - Albuera Camp
        - June - near Salamanca
        - July - Medena Del Campo
        - August - Camp San Il de Fonso, Camp Majalahonda, Madird
        - Sept. - Escurial
        - Oct. - near Almos
        - Nov. - Salamanca
        - Dec. - Moimento

1813 - March - Mont Gaulda pro Semo
        - April - Moimento
        - June - near Zamora
        - July - near Pampaluna, Heights of Echelar
        - Nov. - St. Jean De Luz
        - Dec. - St. Andia

1814 - April - Fontarabia
        - Aug. - Irun
        - Sept. - Portsmouth

1815 - April - Brussels
        - May - Grammont

1815 - Portsmouth, Waterloo - 18 Jun 1815, Nivelles, Le Cateau, Cambrai, Bois de Boulogne, Verrieres, Boulogne Sur Mare, Calais

1816 - January - Dover, Bletchington, Brighton, Winchester, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Albany,  - 5 years home service

1821 - became 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) or "The King's Own" Light Infantry Regiment

1822 - December - Malta, Fort Ricasoli

1823 - March - Corfu

1824 - June - Argostoli

1826 - May - Zante to Feb. 1828

51st King's Own Light Infantry (Second Yorkshire West Riding Regiment) served in Ionian Islands, Tasmania, Australia and India, Ireland, Corfu, Van Dieman's Land

1846 - India - Bangalore

1852-1853 - Second Burma War - Basseign, Pegu, Prome

1855 - England, Malta, England

1858 - East Indies, 5 years at home, India

1872-74/5 Fyzabad, India

1875-87 Peshawar, North-West Frontier of Afghanistan, Peshawar, Umballa
                Part of Peshawar Valley Field Force

1880-87 -  Marandan, Peshawar

1881 - joined by 105th Regiment to form 1st (51st) and 2nd (105th) Battalions The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) 2nd Bn in England and Ireland