[4] During the Yugoslav Wars, the 2nd Battalion was deployed to Bosnia in April 1994 as part of the United Nations peacekeeping force UNPROFOR.

[5] During the tour, Corporal Andrew Rainey became one of the first ever non-officers to be awarded the Military Cross, for his actions during a heavy contact between 3 Platoon, A Company and a Bosnian Serb Army unit on the confrontation line in the north of the Maglaj Finger.

A book, Attack State Red, published by Penguin in 2009, was written by Richard Kemp, a former commanding officer, about the battalion on this tour.

The fighting attracted much media attention due to the ferocity of the combat, with soldiers often having to resort to using bayonets.

It was later revealed that the British forward air controller who called in the strike had not been issued a noise-cancelling headset, and in the confusion and stress of the battle incorrectly confirmed one wrong digit of the co-ordinates mistakenly repeated by the pilot, and the bomb landed on the British position 1,000 metres away from the enemy.

The coroner at the soldiers' inquest stated that the incident was due to "flawed application of procedures" rather than individual errors or "recklessness".

[16] In Spring 2006, 2nd Battalion deployed to Iraq as part of Op Telic 8 and formed Basra City South Battlegroup.

During the tour the regiment mourned the loss of two soldiers; on 13 May 2006 Privates Joseva Lewaicei and Adam Morris died as a result of injuries sustained from a roadside bomb attack in Basra.

Elements of the battalion were deployed at short notice on Operation Pitting, helping to recover British nationals and Afghan refugees following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

[21] In 2020 during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, members of the regiment helped assist the NHS for testing of COVID-19 patients, and provided checkpoints throughout London in collaboration with the Grenadier Guards.

[22] 1 Royal Anglian also helped build NHS Nightingale London, a temporary critical care hospital.

We are a forward looking, self-starting and welcoming team for whom the mission remains key.In 1995, each battalion renamed its companies in order to perpetuate its lineage from the old county regiments.

[26] The current structure is as follows: 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment 'The Vikings' Following the Future Soldier announcements, the 1st Battalion moved to Kendrew Barracks, Cottesmore, Rutland, as part of 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade and re-roled to a Security Force Assistance (SFA) role.

From the 1990s, senior NCOs were loaned to the Royal Bermuda Regiment for the duration of its annual recruit camps, with one attached to each platoon of its training company.

[50] In 1989, the Band and fifty members of the 3rd Battalion were featured in the opening and closing sequences of BBC historical sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth with the band, men and actors Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson and Tim McInnerny dressed in First World War period uniforms marching to "The British Grenadiers" and the Blackadder theme song.