9th ( East Norfolk ) Regiment of Foot The 9th Regiment of Foot was an infantry line regiment of the British Army from 1751 to 1881 . It became the Norfolk Regiment following the Army reforms of 1881 . Early history . The title of 9th Foot was awarded in 1751 , but the origins of the regiment are with Henry Cornewall ' s Regiment of Foot raised by James II in 1685 in response to the Monmouth Rebellion . The regiment fought in the Williamite War in Ireland , seeing action at the Battle of the Boyne and Battle of Aughrim , as well as the siege of Limerick ( 1690 ) , and siege of Limerick ( 1691 ) and siege of Athlone . In the War of the Spanish Succession , the regiment fought in several engagements , including the Battle of Almansa . Early campaigns . During the Seven Years ' War the Regiment won its first formal Battle honour as part of the expedition that captured Belle Île from the French in 1761 . In 1762 they sailed with George Keppel , 3rd Earl of Albemarle in the British expedition against Cuba and took part in the siege and subsequent capture of Havana . Following the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and the end of the war they moved to a posting at St . Augustine , Florida . At this stage their strength was reported as less than 300 out of the approximately 1 , 000 that had left Great Britain . Out of these only 20 had been killed in action - the remainder of casualties being caused by malaria and yellow fever which were so common in the West Indies at the time . A company was detached , and sent to Bermuda , reinforced with a detachment from the Bahamas Independent Company , but this force was withdrawn in 1768 The Regiment remained at St . Augustine for the next 6 years , and were described by a reviewing officer as being in a very poor condition . Following a brief spell in Ireland and the outbreak of War in the American Colonies the Regiment was sent to Canada to become a part of an Expedition under Major General John Burgoyne designed to divide the New England colonies from their neighbors to the south . The Saratoga Campaign that followed ended with the surrender of the entire army , and the regiment then spent 3 years as prisoners of war as part of the Convention Army . On its return from America the regiment was posted to Norwich in order to recover and recruit up to strength , they spent the next seven years based in the city and on the 31 August 1782 the regiment became the 9th ( East Norfolk ) Regiment of Foot . In 1799 the King approved the Regiment ' s use of Britannia as its symbol , and the Regiment was expanded to three battalions . The next period of active service was the unsuccessful Campaign in Flanders under the Duke Of York . After the Peace of Amiens in 1802 the Regiment was reduced to a single battalion . Soon after the 1st battalion were sent to Ireland for three years of garrison duty , with the 2nd battalion being raised in 1804 in Dorset . In November 1805 , shortly after the great Battle of Trafalgar the Regiment suffered a significant tragedy . As the 1st battalion returned from Ireland a storm wrecked the troop transport " Ariadne " on the northern French coast and almost 300 men were taken prisoner . The 1st battalion then took part in an expedition to free Hanover from the French . The country had been recently stripped of its forces to take part in the campaign that would climax in the Battle of Austerlitz , in the peace settlement that followed Hanover was ceded to Prussia and the British troops were ordered to return home . The Napoleonic Wars . The 9th arrived in the Spanish Peninsula in 1808 and fought at Roliça and Vimiero . Following the retreat from Corunna the 9th buried Sir John Moore and were the last British regiment to leave Spanish soil . Following the disastrous Walcheren expedition to the Low Countries the Regiment returned to the Peninsula and fought at Busaco , Salamanca , Vittoria , at the Siege of San Sebastián , and at Nive . The Regiment fought alongside Portuguese troops as part of Manley Power ' s brigade which was in Picton ' s " Fighting Third " at the Battle of Vittoria , where the 3rd Battalion took a key bridge under heavy fire . The Regiment was sent to Canada with most of Wellington ' s veteran units to prevent the threatened invasion by the United States , and so arrived in Europe too late for Waterloo . The 1st Battalion participated in the Army of Occupation in France , whilst the 2nd Battalion was disbanded at the end of 1815 . Nineteenth century . The regiment saw action at Kabul in the First Anglo - Afghan War , and in the First Anglo - Sikh War they fought with exceptional valour at the Battle of Mudki , Battle of Ferozeshah and the Battle of Sobraon . The Norfolk Artillery Militia was formed in 1853 . In the Crimean War , the regiment fought at the Siege of Sevastopol . The 2nd battalion was raised once more in 1857 , and was landed at Yokohama as part of the British intervention there in the 1860s . The battalion saw action on the North - West Frontier in 1877 , and then in the Second Anglo - Afghan War fought at Kabul in 1879 . Successor units . In 1881 , following reorganization of the British Army as part of the Childers Reforms , the 9th Foot became the Norfolk Regiment with two regular battalions and two militia battalions . Later titled the Royal Norfolk Regiment , it was amalgamated with the neighbouring Suffolk Regiment to form the 1st East Anglian Regiment . In 1964 , the regiment became part of the Royal Anglian Regiment . Currently the successor to the 9th Foot is " A " Company of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Anglians .