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===Other===
===Other===
[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html Royal Leicestershire Regiment]
[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html Royal Leicestershire Regiment] on the Royal Anglian Regiment Museum website


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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 22:02, 5 January 2010

Known as Royal Leicestershire Regiment

Chronology

  • 1688 raised as Solomon Richard's Regiment of Foot in London; known until 1751 by the names of 8 other colonels
  • 1751 became the 17th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated to become The Leicestershire Regiment
  • 1945 became the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
  • 1948 became part of the Forester Brigade
  • 1964 The 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment became the 4th (Leicestershire) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
  • 1975 disbanded

Service in British India

External Links

Historical Books Online

Historical record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848 by Richard Cannon 1848 Archive.org. Indian Service commences page 31

Other

Royal Leicestershire Regiment on the Royal Anglian Regiment Museum website