13th Regiment of Foot

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Known as The Somersetshire Regiment

Chronology

  • 1685 raised as the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot
  • 1688 became Hasting's Regiment
  • 1752 became the 13th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1822 became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry)
  • 1842 became the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry[1]
  • 1881 became Prince Albert's (Somersetshire) Light Infantry
  • 1959 amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry.
  • 1968 amalgamated with three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade to form The Light Infantry
  • 2007 amalgamated with the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry and the Royal Green Jackets to form a single, large regiment to be named The Rifles

External Links

Historical books online

Notes

  1. Following the defence of Jalalabad