55th Regiment of Foot

The Border Regiment

Chronology

• 1755 raised in Stirling by George Perry as the 57th Regiment of Foot
• 1757 re-ranked as the 55th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated with the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot to become the 2nd Battalion The Border Regiment
• 1959 amalgamated with The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) to become 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Border Regiment as part of the King's Division
• 2006 merged with the other regiments of North West England to become 3rd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)

External Links

Wikipedia:

• 55th Regiment of Foot
• The Border Regiment
• King's Own Royal Border Regiment

Google Books:

• Madras Quarterly Medical Journal Extensive reports by the Regimental Surgeon on the 55th's unhealthy stationing at Secunderabad in 1836/37.