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*'''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 ==
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry Somerset Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>[http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/sli/somerset_index.htm Somerset Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.org.uk<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_and_Cornwall_Light_Infantry Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>[http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/scli/scli_index.htm Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.org.uk<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry Somerset Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/sli/somerset_index.htm Somerset Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.org.uk<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_and_Cornwall_Light_Infantry Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/scli/scli_index.htm Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.org.uk<br>
[http://www.armynavyairforce.co.uk/somerset_light_infantry.htm Photographs and history of the Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry, during the reign of Queen Victoria] www.armynavyairforce.co.uk/


===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===

Revision as of 16:19, 5 April 2010

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)
  • 1841 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/

Historical books online