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== Chronology == | == Chronology == | ||
*'''1717''' raised as Richard Philipps's Regiment of Foot | *'''1717''' raised as Richard Philipps's Regiment of Foot | ||
Revision as of 17:47, 18 April 2010
Chronology
- 1717 raised as Richard Philipps's Regiment of Foot
- 1747 ranked as 40th Foot
- 1751 became the 40th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became the 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 united with 82nd Regiment of Foot to form The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
- 1938 became the South Lancashire Regiment
- 1958 amalgamated with The East Lancashire Regiment to form The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
- 1970 amalgamated with the 1st Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), to form the 1st Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
- 2006 merged with the King's Regiment and the King's Own Royal Border Regiment to become 1st Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)
British India Service
- 1828 India
- 1839 Afghanistan
- 1843 Gwalior
- 1872 India
- 1881 Bengal
- 1903 Jubbulpore
- 1906 Raniket
- 1909 Subathu
- 1912 Ambala
- 1914 Quetta
- 1919 Afghanistan
External Links
40th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
South Lancashire Regiment Wikipedia
Lancashire Regiment Wikipedia
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment Wikipedia
Queen's Lancashire Regiment Wikipedia
Historical Books Online
- Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment now 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) from its formation in 1717 to 1893 by Captain R H Raymond Smythies (1894) Archive.org. The Regiment left Hobart Australia for Bombay in 1828 (page 228).
- Recollections of Four Years Service in the East with H M Fortieth Regiment by John Martin Bladen Neill.(1845) Google books. “Comprising an account of the taking of Kurachee In Lower Scinde in 1839, Operations in Upper Scinde in 1840 and 1841, and the operations of the Candahar division of The Avenging Army of Aghanistan in 1841 and 1842.”