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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 *'''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
 == External Links ==
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry Somerset Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>[http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/sli/somerset_index.htm Somerset Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.org.uk<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_and_Cornwall_Light_Infantry Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>[http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/scli/scli_index.htm Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.org.uk<br>
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry Somerset Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>
+[http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/sli/somerset_index.htm Somerset Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.org.uk<br>
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_and_Cornwall_Light_Infantry Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>
+[http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/scli/scli_index.htm Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.org.uk<br>
+[http://www.armynavyairforce.co.uk/somerset_light_infantry.htm Photographs and history of the Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry, during the reign of Queen Victoria] www.armynavyairforce.co.uk/
 ===Historical books online===