Difference between revisions of "35th Regiment of Foot"

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Also known as The Royal Sussex Regiment

1693 raised as the Earl of Donegal's Regiment of Foot
1698 disbanded
1701 raised again. Also known as the Belfast Regiment
1747 became 35th Regiment of Foot
1751 given the title Prince of Orange's Own Regiment
1782 became the 35th (The Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
1805 became the 35th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot.
1881 united with the 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry) to form The Royal Sussex Regiment
1966 was amalgamated with The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment and The Middlesex Regiment and became 3rd Battalion The Queen's Regiment
1992 amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to become The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

2nd Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment taken in Peshawar, India in 1932 at the Queens Birthday Parade
2nd Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment taken in Peshawar, India in 1932 at the Queens Birthday Parade

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 *[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218200329/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/035Sussx.htmThe Royal Sussex Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071223065736/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/035-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080106174547/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/107.htm 2nd Battalion]  Regiments.org, an archived site
 *[http://www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk/TheRoyalSussexRegiment.htm The Royal Sussex Regimental Collection] at [http://www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk/ Redoubt Fortress and Military Museum]. Covers the  35th Regiment and [[3rd Bengal (European) Light Infantry|107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)]]
+*[http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/leisure/explore_west_sussex/record_office_and_archives.aspx  The West Sussex Records Office] holds regimental archives, including documents transferred from the Regimental Museum in 1979
 *[http://www.1royalsussex-3queens.com/royal_sussex_site/pages/1st%20Bn%20The%20Royal%20Sussex%20Regt%203rd%20Bn%20The%20Queen's%20Regt2.htm Photo album of John E Brown]