11th Regiment of Foot

Known as The Devonshire Regiment

Chronology

• 1685 raised as The Duke of Beaufort's Regiment of Foot
• 1751 became the 11th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 became The Devonshire Regiment
• 1958 amalgamated with The Dorset Regiment to form The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
• 2005 renamed the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
• 2007 merged with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and was designated 1st Battalion The Rifles

Service in British India

First Battalion

• 1864 India
• 1891 Egypt
• 1892 Thobba
• 1896 Cherat
• 1897 Tirah Campaign
• 1897 Punjab
• 1902 Rhaniket
• 1904 Chaubattia
• 1905 Rangoon
• 1929 Quetta
• 1932 Razmak
• 1934 Calcutta
• 1936 Lucknow
• 1937 Rawalpindi
• 1942 Ceylon
• 1943 Burma

External Links

Historical Books Online

Historical Record of the Eleventh, or the North Devon Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1845 Google Books 1845

Other

• Devonshire Regiment Wikipedia
  
• The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Wikipedia
• The Devonshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
• The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester, Dorset. Covers the 11th, 39th and 54th Regiments of Foot
  • Resources Held at the Museum
    
  • The Bloody Eleventh: The History of the Devonshire Regiment Volume II 1815-1914 by WJT Aggett 1994 and The Bloody Eleventh: The History of the Devonshire Regiment Volume III 1914 – 1969 by WJT Aggett 1995 are available to buy from the Museum Shop. These books are also available at the British Library
• Devon Family History Society
  
• The Devonshire Regiment and the Tirah Campaign Devon Heritage
• This link from Janus (janus.lib.cam.ac.uk) Burma Campaigns 1889-91 briefly mentions the 2nd Devons Regiment and the assault on the Kyaing-Kwintaung Stockade during the Wuntho Sawbwa Campaign of 1891, a later part of the 3rd Burma War