20th Regiment of Foot
Also known as The Lancashire Fusiliers
Chronology
- 1688 raised as Sir Richard Peyton's Regiment of Foot in Devonshire
- 1751 became the 20th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became the 20th (the East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 became The Lancashire Fusiliers
- 1968 united with The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, and The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), to form The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
- 1992 amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to form The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
External Links
- Lancashire Fusiliers Wikipedia
- Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Wikipedia
- The Lancashire Fusiliers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
- The Lancashire Fusiliers includes Features Page including
- WO1 James McCann,1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers India 1907 to 1911
- Bandmaster WO1 William Albert Elliott LRAM. ARCM, China and India 1935-1943 with photographs
- Ronald Peter Turner 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Lucknow, India 1945 includes photograph album
- William (Bill) Paton 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Lucknow, India 1945 – 1946 includes photograph album
- The Bill Hastings Photo collection 1st Battalion the XX Lancashire Fusiliers in China 1936 to 1938, India etc
- Jack Bibby India 1946-1947 Served in Ranikhet India
Books online
- Diplomatic Despatches: From a Son to His Mother by John Mason 1998 has a chapter "India December 1946 to February 1948", page 19 of the pdf. The author was an officer in the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers at Lucknow