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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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry Somerset Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.lightinfantry.me.uk/sli.htm Somerset Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.me.uk<br>
[http://www.lightinfantry.me.uk/sli.htm Somerset Light Infantry] www.lightinfantry.me.uk<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_and_Cornwall_Light_Infantry Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry] Wikipedia<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.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/<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/<br>
*[http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/timeline.htm#The%20Somerset%20Light%20Infantry Somerset Light Infantry Timeline] Somerset Record Office<br>
[http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/timeline.htm#The%20Somerset%20Light%20Infantry Somerset Light Infantry Timeline] Somerset Record Office<br>
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071228194620/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/013SomLI.htm The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143619/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/013-1.htm 1st Battalion], *[http://web.archive.org/web/20071228095511/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/013-2.htm 2nd Battalion]  Regiments.org, an archived site
[http://web.archive.org/web/20071228194620/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/013SomLI.htm The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143619/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/013-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228095511/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/013-2.htm 2nd Battalion]  Regiments.org, an archived site
*[http://military-bands.co.uk/bands.html History of British Military Bands]. military-bands.co.uk is a site intending to present an online version of the 3 volume book ''History of British Military Bands'' by Gordon Turner & Alwyn W Turner (pub Spellmount 1994-97). Some regiments that saw service in India are already mentioned and it will be worth checking back from time to time as the undertaking progresses.


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

Revision as of 07:08, 4 October 2011

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)
  • 1842 became the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry[1]
  • 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.me.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/
Somerset Light Infantry Timeline Somerset Record Office
The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site

Historical books online

Notes

  1. Following the defence of Jalalabad