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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*''Historical Record of the Thirteenth, First Somersetshire, or Prince Albert’s Regiment of Light Infantry'' by Thomas Carter 1867 [http://books.google.com/books?id=2awZAAAAYAAJ  Google Books] Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=2awZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA75 page 75] in 1823 at Calcutta  
*''Historical Record of the Thirteenth, First Somersetshire, or Prince Albert’s Regiment of Light Infantry'' by Thomas Carter 1867 [http://books.google.com/books?id=2awZAAAAYAAJ  Google Books] Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=2awZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA75 page 75] in 1823 at Calcutta
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=W4Y4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA327 ''A Narrative of the Affghan War'' , in a series of letters of the late Colonel Dennie: Part I],  [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=W4Y4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA459 Part II-Conclusion]  page  327 and pages 459-484  ''The Dublin University Magazine'', Volume 20, July –December 1842 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=6OcKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR6 ''Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as It Is''] by John Mercier McMullen, a late Staff Sergeant of the 13th Light Infantry (1846). He joined the regiment in India at some point after the [[1st Afghan War]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=6OcKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR6 ''Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as It Is''] by John Mercier McMullen, a late Staff Sergeant of the 13th Light Infantry (1846). He joined the regiment in India at some point after the [[1st Afghan War]]



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Crest of 13th Regiment of Foot

Known as The Somersetshire Regiment

Chronology

  • 1685 raised as the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot
  • 1688 became Hasting's Regiment
  • 1752 became the 13th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1822 became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry)
  • 1842 became the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry[1]
  • 1881 became Prince Albert's (Somersetshire) Light Infantry
  • 1959 amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry.
  • 1968 amalgamated with three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade to form The Light Infantry
  • 2007 amalgamated with the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry and the Royal Green Jackets to form a single, large regiment to be named The Rifles

External Links

Historical books online

Notes

  1. Following the defence of Jalalabad
  2. Great War Forum thread