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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) | ||
*''' | *'''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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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
- 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)
Notes
- ↑ Following the defence of Jalalabad