Colonels of the regiment were: 1685–1688: Col. Henry Cornewall 1688: Col. Oliver Nicholas 1688–1689: Col. John Cunningham 1689–1715: Gen. William Steuart 1715–1717: Lt-Gen. Hon. Sir James Campbell of Lawars, KB 1717–1718: Maj-Gen. Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart 1718–1725: Col. James Otway 1725–1737: Brig-Gen. Richard Kane 1737–1739: Lt-Gen. William Hargrave 1739–1749: George Reade 1749–1751: Maj-Gen. Sir Charles Armand Powlett, KB 9th Regiment of Foot 1751–1755: Gen. John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave 1755–1758: Gen. Sir Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover, KB 1758–1771: Lt-Gen. William Whitmore 1771–1782: Lt-Gen. Edward Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, KB 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment 1782–1788: Maj-Gen. Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele 1788–1794: Lt-Gen. Hon. Alexander Leslie 1794–1804: Gen. Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey 1804–1805: Lt-Gen. Peter Hunter 1805–1833: Gen. Sir Robert Brownrigg 1833–1844: Lt-Gen. Sir John Cameron 1844–1848: Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Arbuthnot 1848–1871: Gen. Sir James Archibald Hope, GCB 1871–1881: Gen. Sir Henry Bates, KCB The Norfolk Regiment 1881–1889: Gen. Sir Henry Bates, KCB 1889–1893: Gen. Sir Arthur Borton, GCB, GCMG 1893: Gen. Charles Elmhirst, CB 1893–1898: Gen. Thomas Edmond Knox, CB 1898–1903: Lt-Gen. Henry James Buchanan, CB 1903–1917: Gen. Henry Ralph Browne, CB 1917–1946: Gen. Sir Edward Peter Strickland, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO The Royal Norfolk Regiment 1946–1947: Maj-Gen. Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin, CB, MC 1947–1951: Brig. William John O'Brien Daunt, CBE 1951: Maj-Gen. Eric Charles Hayes, CB 1951–1959: Brig. Claude John Wilkinson, DSO See also List of British Army regiments (1881) 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot (1782–1881) Norfolk Yeomanry West Runton War Memorial Sheringham War Memorial References Sources Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a: The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56), London: HM Stationery Office, 1935/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 3b: New Army Divisions (30–41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division, London: HM Stationery Office, 1939/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . Patrick Mileham, The Yeomanry Regiments: 200 Years of Tradition, 2nd Edn, Edinburgh: Canongate Academic, 1994, . Maj C.H. Dudley Ward, The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France, London: John Murray, 1922/Uckfield: Naval &