33rd Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Also known as The Yorkshire Regiment

1702 raised as Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot
1751 became the 33rd Regiment of Foot
1782 became the 33rd (the 1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot
1796 Arthur Wellesley later Duke of Wellington became Colonel of the regiment
1853 became the 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
1881 amalgamated with 76th Regiment of Foot and became the Halifax Regiment (The Duke of Wellington's Own) then Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
1920 became the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
2006 amalgamated with other Yorkshire regiments becoming The Yorkshire Regiment

"Notes, Sanitary and Medical, on Colaba, Bombay , as a Military Station" by William Hanbury, Esq., Surgeon, H. M.'s 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment , page 248 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume VIII, New Series 1862 Google Books

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 *'''1751''' became the 33rd Regiment of Foot
 *'''1782''' became the 33rd (the 1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot
+*'''1796''' [[Arthur Wellesley]] later Duke of Wellington became Colonel of the regiment
 *'''1853''' became the 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
 *'''1881''' amalgamated with [[76th Regiment of Foot]] and became the Halifax Regiment (The Duke of Wellington's Own) then Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)