46th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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The 46th Foot were called the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) after amalgamating with the 32nd Foot in 1881.

Chronology

1741 raised as John Price's Regiment of Foot at Newcastle; known by the name of one other colonel until 1751
1747 ranked as 57th Regiment of Foot
1751 became 46th Regiment of Foot
1782 became 46th (the South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
1881 amalgamated with the 32nd Regiment of Foot to become 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1959 merged to become part of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
1968 amalgamated with the three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade to form The Light Infantry

Service in India

The 46th Regiment are mentioned in the Historical records of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders (archive.org), on a seventeen miles trek across the desert to Suez, presumably en route to India, in 1858.

External links

46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry www.lightinfantry.me.uk
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Wikipedia
Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry Wikipedia
46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site.
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1914-1918 The Long, Long Trail. The 1/4th Battalion and 2/4th Battalion were in India as part of the Territorial Force 1914-1916 and 1914-1918 respectively.
Cornwall’s Regimental Museum.
46th Foot.com. In the section “Men”, for soldier Frederick Crosland there is an interesting account of the recruitment procedure in 1834

Historical books online

Historical record of the Forty-Sixth, or the South Devonshire, Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1741, and of its subsequent services to 1851 by Richard Cannon (1851) Archive.org. Indian service commences page 52 in 1818 in Madras.
The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919 by Everard Wyrall 1932. Transcription by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Snippet view, Searchable Google Books. Also Searchable at HathiTrust Digital Library

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 The 46th Regiment are mentioned in the [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00goffuoft#page/234/mode/2up ''Historical records of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders''] (archive.org), on a seventeen miles trek across the desert to Suez, presumably en route to India, in 1858.
-== External Links ==
+== External links ==
 *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th_(South_Devonshire)_Regiment_of_Foot 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>
 *[http://www.lightinfantry.me.uk/dukecornwallli.htm Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.me.uk<br>
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 *[http://web.archive.org/web/20071223004551/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/046-751.htm 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221233605/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/046-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.
 *[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118040213/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/032DCLI.htm  The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221053831/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/032-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221233605/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/046-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.
-*[http://www.1914-1918.net/dcli.htm The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1914-1918] The Long, Long Trail. The 1/4th Battalion and 2/4th Battalion were in [[First World War#British Army Territorial Force troops in India|India as part of the Territorial Force]] 1914-1916 and 1914-1918 respectively.
+*[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/duke-of-cornwalls-light-infantry/  The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1914-1918] The Long, Long Trail. The 1/4th Battalion and 2/4th Battalion were in [[First World War#British Army Territorial Force troops in India|India as part of the Territorial Force]] 1914-1916 and 1914-1918 respectively.
 *[http://www.cornwalls-regimentalmuseum.org/ Cornwall’s Regimental Museum].
 *[http://www.46thfoot.com/ 46th Foot.com]. In the section “Men”, for soldier Frederick Crosland there is an interesting account of the recruitment procedure in 1834
-====Historical Books on-line====
+====Historical books online====
-[http://www.archive.org/stream/histrecordforty00canniala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Historical record of the Forty-Sixth, or the South Devonshire, Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1741, and of its subsequent services to 1851''] by Richard Cannon (1851)  Archive.org. Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/histrecordforty00canniala#page/52/mode/2up page 52] in 1818 in Madras.
+*[http://www.archive.org/stream/histrecordforty00canniala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Historical record of the Forty-Sixth, or the South Devonshire, Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1741, and of its subsequent services to 1851''] by Richard Cannon (1851)  Archive.org. Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/histrecordforty00canniala#page/52/mode/2up page 52] in 1818 in Madras.
+*[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-The-Duke-of-Cornwalls-Light-Infantry-1914-1919/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall  1932. Transcription by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=L5QFAQAAIAAJ Snippet view, Searchable] Google Books. Also Searchable at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000442490 HathiTrust Digital Library]
 [[Category: British Army Infantry Regiments]]