13th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Known as The Somersetshire Regiment

1685 raised as the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot
1688 became Hasting's Regiment
1752 became the 13th Regiment of Foot
1782 became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
1822 became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry)
1841 became the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry
1881 became Prince Albert's (Somersetshire) Light Infantry
1959 amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry.
1968 amalgamated with three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade to form The Light Infantry
2007 amalgamated with the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry and the Royal Green Jackets to form a single, large regiment to be named The Rifles

Historical Record of the Thirteenth, First Somersetshire, or Prince Albert’s Regiment of Light Infantry by Thomas Carter 1867 Google Books Indian Service commences page 75 in 1823 at Calcutta
Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as It Is by John Mercier McMullen, a late Staff Sergeant of the 13th Light Infantry (1846)

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 ===Historical books online===
+*''Historical Record of the Thirteenth, First Somersetshire, or Prince Albert’s Regiment of Light Infantry'' by Thomas Carter 1867 [http://books.google.com/books?id=2awZAAAAYAAJ  Google Books] Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=2awZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA75 page 75] in 1823 at Calcutta
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=6OcKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR6 ''Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as It Is''] by John Mercier McMullen, a late Staff Sergeant of the 13th Light Infantry (1846)