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*'''1782''' became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
*'''1782''' became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
*'''1822''' became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry)
*'''1822''' became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry)
*'''1841''' became  the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry
*'''1842''' became  the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry<ref>Following the [[Siege of Jalalabad|defence of Jalalabad]]</ref>
*'''1881''' became Prince Albert's (Somersetshire) 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.
*'''1959''' amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry.
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*[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)
*[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)


 
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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 11:40, 18 April 2010

Known as The Somersetshire Regiment

Chronology

  • 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)
  • 1842 became the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry[1]
  • 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

External Links

Somerset Light Infantry Wikipedia
Somerset Light Infantry www.lightinfantry.org.uk
Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry Wikipedia
Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry www.lightinfantry.org.uk
Photographs and history of the Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry, during the reign of Queen Victoria www.armynavyairforce.co.uk/

Historical books online

Notes

  1. Following the defence of Jalalabad