13th Regiment of Foot

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
• 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

• Somerset Light Infantry Wikipedia
  
• Somerset Light Infantry www.lightinfantry.me.uk
  
• Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry Wikipedia
  
• Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry www.lightinfantry.org.uk
  
• Photographs and history of the Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry, during the reign of Queen Victoria www.armynavyairforce.co.uk/
  
• Somerset Light Infantry Archive
  • Somerset Light Infantry Timeline Somerset Record Office
    
• The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
• Somerset Military Museum part of the Museum of Somerset, Taunton Castle, Taunton, England.
• Painting: 'The Siege of Jellalabad, 12 November 1841 to 13 April 1842' by David Cunliffe painted 1851. Collection of the Somerset Military Museum. Your Paintings bbc.co.uk. Click on the right hand top corner to enlarge
• Victorian Wars Forum thread about an incident involving the 13th Regiment of Foot, including a painting. This painting may also be seen in the following link.
• Painting: 'The Red Thread of Honour: Heights of Truckee, 1845' by David Cunliffe painted 1846. Collection of the Somerset Military Museum . Your Paintings bbc.co.uk Click on the right hand top corner to enlarge.
• A Great War Forum thread advises the book A Strange War: Burma, India and Afghanistan 1914-1919 by C P Mills 1988 describes experiences of Territorials in India during the Great War. The book is available at the British Library. The Regiment was the 2/5th Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry
• 1st Garrison Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry
 Formed in Plymouth in January 1917.
 Moved to India in February 1917. Joined Rawalpindi Brigade in 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division. 1914-1918.net. Garrison Battalions were made up of soldiers unfit for front line duty
• Sunset on the Raj: The Last to Leave The last British troops to leave India were the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry on 28 February 1948 at Bombay. britains-smallwars.com
  • This event is mentioned in Maxine Steller’s Bombay. (Scroll down) Born in 1930, she describes her early life, and the conditions before and after independence, until she left in 1950 for Australia. tajmahalfoxtrot.com

Historical books online

• Historical Record of the Thirteenth, First Somersetshire, or Prince Albert’s Regiment of Light Infantry by Thomas Carter 1867 Google Books Indian Service commences page 75 in 1823 at Calcutta
• A Narrative of the Affghan War , in a series of letters of the late Colonel Dennie: Part I, Part II-Conclusion page 327 and pages 459-484 The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 20, July –December 1842 Google Books
• 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