81st Regiment of Foot

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Chronology

  • 1793 raised as the 81st Regiment of Foot
  • 1802 absorbed the Loyal Lincoln Volunteers (Villagers)
  • 1832 became the 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)
  • 1881 amalgamated with 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot to form The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
  • 1970 amalgamated with The Lancashire Regiment to form The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
  • 2006 amalgamated with the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment and the King’s Regiment to become the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)

Service in British India

British Library

The British Library has the books

  • The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, in 2 Volumes, by Colonel H. C. Wylly 1933. See below for online options.
  • A short history of the Loyal Regiment 1965

External links

The constituent regiments are the 4th, 8th, 30th, 34th, 40th, 47th, 55th, 59th, 63rd, 81st, 82nd and 96th Regiments of Foot.

Historical books online

  • The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1741- 1914 and The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1914-1919 by Colonel H. C. Wylly 1932-1933 are available in reprint editions,[1] which are in turn available as one digital book file on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com, located in Military Books/Britain, scroll to letter T, or Search for The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Volume 2 is also available at Archive.org The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Volume 2 1914-1919 by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1933.

References