13th Regiment of Foot

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
• 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/
Somerset Light Infantry Timeline Somerset Record Office

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)