85th Regiment of Foot

Also known as The Shropshire Regiment

Chronology

• 1759 raised in Shrewsbury as the 85th Light Infantry (or Royal Volunteers)
• 1763 disbanded at Salisbury
• 1778 raised in London as the 85th (Westminster Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
• 1783 disbanded at Dover Castle
• 1793 raised as the 85th (Bucks Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
• 1808 became the 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (Light Infantry) Regiment
• 1815 became the 85th (Bucks Volunteers, Duke of York's Own Light Infantry) Regiment
• 1821 became the 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry) Regiment
• 1881 combined with 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot to become The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
• 1921 became The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
• 1968 became the 3rd Battalion of The Light Infantry

External Links

• The King's Shropshire Light Infantry www.lightinfantry.org.uk
  
• King's Shropshire Light Infantry Wikipedia
• 85th, or The King's Regiment of Light Infantry (Bucks Volunteers) including deployments Regiments.org, now an archived website
• The King's Shropshire Light Infantry including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, now an archived website