59th Regiment of Foot
Also known as The East Lancashire Regiment
Chronology
- 1741 raised as 59th Regiment of Foot
- 1881 amalgamated with 30th Foot and became 2nd Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment
- 1958 amalgamated with the South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) to form The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
- 1958 amalgamated with Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) to form Queen's Lancashire Regiment
FIBIS resources
- "Boy Soldier to Lancer: John Arnfield in the Anglo -Sikh Wars" by Ainslie Sharpe FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011, pages 31-40. For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals
- John Arnfield was born at sea in 1819. His father Hugh was in the 59th Foot which was in India 1820-1829. When the regiment returned to England in 1829, Hugh Arnfield transferred to the 3rd Regiment of Foot, the Buffs
External Links
- 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
- East Lancashire Regiment Wikipedia
- Queen's Lancashire Regiment Wikipedia
- 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
- The East Lancashire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
- The Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum, includes the East Lancashire Regiment ( 30th and 59th of Foot), the South Lancashire Regiment ( 40th and 82nd of Foot), the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment ( 47th and 81st of Foot)