16th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Known as The Bedfordshire Regiment

1688 raised as Douglas' Regiment of Foot by Col Archibald Douglas
1751 became 16th Regiment of Foot
1782 became 16th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
1809 became 16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
1881 became The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (known as The Bedfordshire Regiment until 1919)
1958 merged with The Essex Regiment to form the 1st Battalion 3rd East Anglian Regiment
1964 amalgamated with the four regiments of the East Anglian Brigade to become 3rd Battalion (16th/44th Foot) Royal Anglian Regiment

Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or The Bedfordshire 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. Google Books Page 30 states the Regiment went to Ceylon in 1820. Indian service commenced in 1829
Narrative of a Three Month's March in India by Harriette Ashmore, Wife of an Officer in the 16th Foot London 1841 Google Books

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 *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Anglian_Regiment Royal Anglian Regiment] Wikipedia
 *[http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Regiments/16thRegimentofFoot.html 16th Regiment of Foot] Roll-of-Honour.com
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080118042302/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/016BH.htm The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071218204058/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/016-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.
 ==== Historical books on-line ====
 *''Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or The Bedfordshire 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=keKND1Pz6pYC  Google Books]  [http://books.google.com/books?id=keKND1Pz6pYC&pg=PA30 Page 30] states the Regiment went to Ceylon in 1820. Indian service commenced in 1829