40th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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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)

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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Lancaster%27s_Regiment_(King%27s_Lancashire_and_Border) Duke of Lancaster's Regiment] Wikipedia<br>
 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Lancashire_Regiment Queen's Lancashire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>
+[http://web.archive.org/web/20080112143228/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/040SLanc.htm The  South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071213223121/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/040-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.<br>
 ====Historical Books Online====
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00smytgoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''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 ([http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00smytgoog#page/n316/mode/1up page 228]).