96th Regiment of Foot

Known as The Manchester Regiment from 1881.

Chronology

• 1824 formed as 96th Regiment of Foot at Manchester
• 1874 deemed to be successor of earlier 96th Regiment
• 1881 united with 63rd Regiment of Foot to become 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment
• 1958 amalgamated with the King's Regiment (Liverpool) to form the King's Regiment.
• 2006 amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)

1st Garrison Battalion WW1

"Formed at Knowsley Park, Liverpool in September 1915 and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel H W K Bretherton, a retired Territorial Force officer. Composed of officers and men permanently unfit for active service but considered fit for garrison duty overseas. They left Prescot at 9.15pm on 24 February 1916, arriving Devonport at 10 am the following day. Sailed at 4.30pm on board Kinfauns with an escort of two destroyers. On 5 March they passed Alexandria and then on into the Suez Canal. Arrived Bombay, India on 14 March 1916. Moved to Fyzabad where they stayed until end July 1918. To Singapore… The Battalion returned to UK in December 1919 and was disbanded on 27 February 1920.” HQ was initially based in Allahabad A diary, including a description of the journey to India of a “unit of middle-aged and medically downgraded men”, and letters home may be found in 1st Garrison Battalion The Manchester Regiment, India, Singapore, Hong Kong & Siberia by Robert Bonner

External links

• 96th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
• The Manchester Regiment Wikipedia
• The King's Regiment Wikipedia
• Duke of Lancaster's Regiment Wikipedia
• 96th regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived website.
• Manchester Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived website
• Museum of the Manchester Regiment at Ashton Town Hall, Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne
• Manchester Regiment Archives at the Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre, Central Library, Ashton-under-Lyne

Historical books online

• From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails by Isaac Tyrell (1904) Archive.org. On page 10 the author transfers to the 96th Foot in Hobart in 1848. The regiment left for India in 1849.