Difference between revisions of "29th Regiment of Foot"

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The Worcestershire Regiment

1694 raised by Colonel Thomas Farrington with the name of the current colonel
1698 disbanded
1702 reformed
1751 Colonel Peregrine Hopton's Regiment became the 29th Regiment of Foot
1782 retitled as the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
1881 amalgamated with the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot and became the 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment
1970 amalgamated with The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) to become Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
2004 amalgamated with the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the new Mercian Regiment

History of Thos. Farrington's Regiment Subsequently Designated the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot 1694-1891 by Major H Everard 1891 Archive.org
Brigadier Mountain’s letters in respect of the 2nd Sikh War: Page 246 Memoirs and letters of the late Colonel Armine S.H. Mountain, C. B. : aide-de-camp to the Queen and Adjutant-General of Her Majesty's forces in India. 1857 Google Books. He was in charge of 3 regiments, 29th Queen’s and 13th and 30th N I.
The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War by Captain H FitzM Stacke (Henry FitzMaurice) 1928 Archive.org

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 **[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/roll_honour_punjab.php Roll of Honour - Punjab Campaign 1848 – 1849]
 **[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/roll_honour_1921_1939.php Roll of Honour 1921-1939] includes deaths in India
+**[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/h_waziristan.php "Waziristan (1940) - The North-West Frontier"] Scroll down for a photograph of a Indian Army Crossley armoured car.
 **[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/PRO_records Worcestershire Regiment Records held at the National Archives, Kew]
-*[https://worcestershireandmercianregimentmuseum.org/ Museum ] Mercian Regiment Museum
+*[https://worcestershireandmercianregimentmuseum.org/ Museum] Mercian Regiment Museum at Worcester.
 **[https://worcestershireandmercianregimentmuseum.org/worcestershire-regiment-ancestors/ Regimental Archives]
+*[https://www.stand-firm-strike-hard.org.uk Museum of the Mercian Regiment] at Nottingham Castle. The museum informs and educates about the history of The Mercian Regiment, The Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters & The Sherwood Foresters.
 ===Historical books online===