57th Regiment of Foot

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
The Diehard Company 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment Re-enactment Group thediehards.co.uk
The Diehards 2nd Coy. 57th Regiment of Foot (Middlesex Regiment) thediehards.org.ua

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.