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*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/ King's Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster]
*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/ King's Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster]
**[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/imagesfromempire.htm Images from Empire: The King's Own in the Victorian and Edwardian Era] Includes images from India and Burma
**[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/imagesfromempire.htm Images from Empire: The King's Own in the Victorian and Edwardian Era] Includes images from India and Burma
 
**[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/ko2940.htm Album of Photographs: 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, India 1937-40] including photographs of [[Ootacamund|Wellington]] and [[Karachi]].
 
====Historical Books Online====
====Historical Books Online====
*''Historical record of the Fourth, or the King’s Own Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1680, and of its subsequent services to 1839'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=pR1Ixr0zKYUC Google Books]  1839 Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=pR1Ixr0zKYUC&pg=PA140  page 140] in 1837
*''Historical record of the Fourth, or the King’s Own Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1680, and of its subsequent services to 1839'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=pR1Ixr0zKYUC Google Books]  1839 Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=pR1Ixr0zKYUC&pg=PA140  page 140] in 1837

Revision as of 12:46, 18 January 2015

Also known as King's Own Royal Regiment

Chronology

  • 1680 raised as the 2nd Tangier, or Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Foot
  • 1684 became The Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot
  • 1685 became The Queen's Regiment
  • 1702 became The Queen's Regiment of Marines
  • 1710 became The Queen's Regiment of Foot
  • 1715 became The King's Own Regiment of Foot
  • 1751 became 4th or the King's Own Regiment of Foot
  • 1867 became 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 became The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
  • 1959 amalgamated with The Border Regiment into the The King's Own Royal Border Regiment

External Links

Historical Books Online