39th Regiment of Foot

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