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The Royal Norfolk Regiment, formerly the 9th Regiment of Foot, was a British Army line infantry regiment which was active from 1685 to 1959. The regiment was first raised in Gloucester by Henry Cornewall amid Monmouth's Rebellion, and it served in the Williamite War in Ireland, in Iberia during the War of the Spanish Succession, in Brittany and Cuba during the Seven Years' War, in New York during the American Revolutionary War, in the Caribbean and Netherlands during the French Revolutionary Wars, in Germany and Iberia during the Napoleonic Wars and Peninsular War, in Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War and Second Anglo-Afghan War, in India during the First Anglo-Sikh War, in Crimea during the Crimean War, in Yokohama during the Boshin War, in South Africa during the Second Boer War, on the Western Front and the Middle East during World War I, on the Western Front of World War II, in Korea during the Korean War, and on Cyprus during the Cyprus Emergency. In 1959, it was merged into the 1st East Anglian Regiment and thereafter into the Royal Anglian Regiment.

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