| The Families In British India Society (FIBIS) is a self-help organisation devoted to members researching their British India family history and the background against which their ancestors led their lives in India under British rule. Let FIBIS help you break down those brick walls in your research |
39th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 20: | Line 20: | ||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coote Richard Coote] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coote Richard Coote] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Regiment_of_Foot 39th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Regiment_of_Foot 39th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_Regiment The Dorset Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_Regiment The Dorset Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonshire_and_Dorset_Regiment The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonshire_and_Dorset_Regiment The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rifles The Rifles] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rifles The Rifles] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://web.archive.org/web/20071216173215/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/039Dorst.htm The Dorset Regiment] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071223004525/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/039-1.htm deployments (1st Battalion)] Regiments.org, an archived site<br> | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20071216173215/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/039Dorst.htm The Dorset Regiment] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071223004525/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/039-1.htm deployments (1st Battalion)] Regiments.org, an archived site<br> | ||
[http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org./ The Keep Military Museum], Dorchester, Dorset | *[http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org./ The Keep Military Museum], Dorchester, Dorset<br> | ||
*[http://www.victorianmilitarysociety.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&catid=10&Itemid=9 "Nothing Could Be More Beautiful - The Charge of HM 39th Regiment at Maharajpore - December 29th 1843"] by James Falkner Reproduced from ''Soldiers of the Queen, Issue 82 September 1995'' victorianmilitarysociety.org.uk. This action was part of the [[Gwalior Campaign]] | |||
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]] | [[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]] | ||
Revision as of 12:01, 1 November 2011
Also known as The Dorsetshire Regiment from 1881.
In 1753 the 39th Foot was the first British Army regiment posted to India.
Chronology
- 1689 Viscount Lisburne's Regiment of Foot raised
- 1662 became Richard Coote's Regiment of Foot
- 1702 reformed by Colonel Richard Coote in Ireland
- 1751 became the 39th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became the 39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
- 1794 regiment was captured and reformed in Ireland the following year by absorbing the 104th Regiment of Foot
- 1805 became the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 amalgamated with the 54th Regiment of Foot to form The Dorsetshire Regiment
- 1951 became The Dorset Regiment
- 1958 amalgamated with The Devonshire Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
- 2005 renamed the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
- 2007 amalgamated with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment to form 1st Battalion The Rifles
Regimental journal
- The Dorset regimental journal : a paper for Dorset men and men of the Dorsets. Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1912)-v. 3, no. 27 (July 1914) is available at the British Library
- The Dorsetshire regimental quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1926)-v. 19, no. 2 (June 1951) is available at the British Library
External Links
- Richard Coote Wikipedia
- 39th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
- The Dorset Regiment Wikipedia
- The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Wikipedia
- The Rifles Wikipedia
- The Dorset Regiment including deployments (1st Battalion) Regiments.org, an archived site
- The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester, Dorset
- "Nothing Could Be More Beautiful - The Charge of HM 39th Regiment at Maharajpore - December 29th 1843" by James Falkner Reproduced from Soldiers of the Queen, Issue 82 September 1995 victorianmilitarysociety.org.uk. This action was part of the Gwalior Campaign