29th Regiment of Foot
The Worcestershire Regiment
Chronology
- 1694 raised by Colonel Thomas Farrington with the name of the current colonel
- 1698 disbanded
- 1702 reformed
- 1751 Colonel Peregrine Hopton's Regiment became the 29th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 retitled as the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 amalgamated with the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot and became the 1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment
- 1970 amalgamated with The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) to become Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
- 2004 amalgamated with the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the new Mercian Regiment
External Links
- 29th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
- Worcestershire Regiment Wikipedia
- Mercian Regiment Wikipedia=
- 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived website
- Worcestershire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 4th Battalion Regiments.org, an archived website
- Worcestershire Regiment including
- Roll of Honour - Sutlej Campaign 1845 – 1846
- Roll of Honour - Punjab Campaign 1848 – 1849
- Roll of Honour 1921-1939 includes deaths in India
- "Waziristan (1940) - The North-West Frontier" Scroll down for a photograph of a Indian Army Crossley armoured car.
- Worcestershire Regiment Records held at the National Archives, Kew
- Museum Mercian Regiment Museum at Worcester.
- Museum of the Mercian Regiment at Nottingham Castle. The museum informs and educates about the history of The Mercian Regiment, The Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters & The Sherwood Foresters.
Historical books online
- History of Thos. Farrington's Regiment Subsequently Designated the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot 1694-1891 by Major H Everard 1891 Archive.org
- Brigadier Mountain’s letters in respect of the 2nd Sikh War: Page 246 Memoirs and letters of the late Colonel Armine S.H. Mountain, C. B. : aide-de-camp to the Queen and Adjutant-General of Her Majesty's forces in India. 1857 Google Books. He was in charge of 3 regiments, 29th Queen’s and 13th and 30th N I.
- The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War by Captain H FitzM Stacke (Henry FitzMaurice) 1928 Archive.org