57th Regiment of Foot

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Known as "The Die Hards"

Chronology

  • 1755 raised as the 59th Regiment of Foot at Gloucester
  • 1756 became the 57th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 57th (the West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 77th Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
  • 1966 amalgamated with three other regiments to become the 4th Battalion The Queen's Regiment
  • 1973 4th Battalion disbanded

External Links

57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Middlesex Regiment Wikipedia
The Middlesex Regiment 1755-1966 www.prole.demon.co.uk
Queen's Regiment Wikipedia
57th (the West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment & Queen's Regiment Museum Armymuseums.org

Historical Books Online

Historical records of the Fifty-Seventh, or, West Middlesex Regiment of Foot: compiled from official and private sources, from the date of its formation in 1755, to the present time, 1878 by H J Warre (1878) Archive.org. Indian Service commences page 76, in 1831 in Madras.

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