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*'''1968''' amalgamated with three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade to form The 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 | *'''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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry Somerset Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br> | ||
*[http://www.lightinfantry.me.uk/sli.htm Somerset Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.me.uk<br> | *[http://www.lightinfantry.me.uk/sli.htm Somerset Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.me.uk<br> | ||
Revision as of 13:03, 24 November 2011
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.me.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 Archive
- Somerset Light Infantry Timeline Somerset Record Office
- Somerset Light Infantry Timeline Somerset Record Office
- The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
- This Great War Forum thread advises the book A Strange War: Burma, India and Afghanistan 1914-1919 by C P Mills 1988 describes experiences of Territorials in India during the Great War. The book is available at the British Library. The Regiment was the 2/5th Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry
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