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****Album of 214 photographs including 1 loose, 1/10th Bn Middlesex Regiment, India 1914-1919; showing portraits, group photographs, views, a camp at Hatti 1916, a machine gun post 1916, the Nepalese Imperial Service Bn at [[Abbottabad]] in 1917, an Indian mountain gun ready for action and barracks at [[Quetta]]. NAM Accession Number Photographs 1992-08-107
****Album of 214 photographs including 1 loose, 1/10th Bn Middlesex Regiment, India 1914-1919; showing portraits, group photographs, views, a camp at Hatti 1916, a machine gun post 1916, the Nepalese Imperial Service Bn at [[Abbottabad]] in 1917, an Indian mountain gun ready for action and barracks at [[Quetta]]. NAM Accession Number Photographs 1992-08-107


====Historical Books Online====
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00warrgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Historical records of the Fifty-Seventh, or, West Middlesex Regiment of Foot: compiled from official and private sources, from the date of its formation in 1755, to the present time, 1878'']  by H J Warre (1878) Archive.org. Indian Service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00warrgoog#page/n122/mode/1up page 76], in 1831 in Madras.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00warrgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Historical records of the Fifty-Seventh, or, West Middlesex Regiment of Foot: compiled from official and private sources, from the date of its formation in 1755, to the present time, 1878'']  by H J Warre (1878) Archive.org. Indian Service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00warrgoog#page/n122/mode/1up page 76], in 1831 in Madras.
*[http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Story of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)''] by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford] 1916 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Story of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)''] by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford 1916. Archive.org
** The 1st Battalion was in India 1898-1912, [http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/158/mode/2up page 158]
** The 1st Battalion was in India 1898-1912, [http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/158/mode/2up page 158]
** The 3rd Battalion moved to India in 1911 and was there when war broke out, [http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/n203/mode/2up page 159]
** The 3rd Battalion moved to India in 1911 and was there when war broke out, [http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/n203/mode/2up page 159]
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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 02:14, 31 July 2021

Known as "The Die Hards"

Chronology

  • 1755 raised as the 59th Regiment of Foot at Gloucester
  • 1756 became the 57th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 57th (the West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 77th Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
  • 1966 amalgamated with three other regiments to become the 4th Battalion The Queen's Regiment
  • 1973 4th Battalion disbanded

External Links

Historical books online