48th Regiment of Foot

Also known as The Northamptonshire Regiment

Chronology

• 1741 raised as James Cholmondeley's Regiment of Foot in Norwich
• 1748 renumbered as the 48th Regiment of Foot
• 1780 became known as the Northamptonshire Regiment
• 1881 united with 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot to form The Northamptonshire Regiment
• 1960 amalgamated with 1st Battalion The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 1st Battalion 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
• 1964 became 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment

External Links

• Operations, Waziristan. 1937 Photographs of the 48th Regiment taken in 1937 by RSM James Cass.
• 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
• The Northamptonshire Regiment Wikipedia
• 2nd East Anglian Regiment Wikipedia
• Royal Anglian Regiment Wikipedia
• 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
• The Northamptonshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
• The Northamptonshire Regiment from British Armed Forces & National Service, gives details of deployments
• The Museum Collection of the Northamptonshire Regiment at Abington Park Museum includes
  • Photographs of the Northamptonshire Regiment on flickr
    • Photographs of the Regiment in the Punjab The 1st Battalion of The Northamptonshire Regiment were stationed in the Punjab 1907/1908
    • Photographs of the Regiment in Waziristan 1936/37 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment
    • Views of India (1) taken by Private Linley of the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment compiled whilst serving in India 1923-1938.
    • Views of India (2) taken by Private Linley of the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment compiled whilst serving in India 1923-1938.
• Photograph of the regimental school (scroll down) of the 1st Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment (previously the 48th Foot) in India, probably in Secunderabad, in around 1889–90 . From The Army Children Archive (TACA)
• Black Soldiers in Northamptonshire Regiments of the British Army (from Black History, Northamptonshire Racial Equality Council) gives details of William and James Damerum, two Anglo-Indian brothers who served with the 48th "Northamptonshire" Regiment between 1824 and 1834, when they transferred to the 55th Foot rather than return to England. William enlisted at age seven
• Details of the army records of Corporal Harrison of the 1st northamptonshire regiment in India c 1940-1944 (scroll down) dkvblog.sulekha.com