81st Regiment of Foot

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

• 1853 India (1st Btn)
• 1857 Indian Mutiny (1st Btn)
• 1874 India (1st Btn)
• 1878 2nd Afghan War (1st Btn)
• 1881 Bengal (2nd Btn)
• 1884 Bombay (1st Btn)
• 1884 Quetta (1st Btn)
• 1889 Mhow (1st Btn)
• 1892 Kamptee (1st Btn)
• 1910 Poona/Bangalore (2nd Btn)
• 1924 Secunderabad (1st Btn)
• 1929 Calcutta (1st Btn)
• 1931 Waziristan (1st Btn)
• 1932 Cawnpore (1st Btn)

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

• 81st Foot Wikipedia
  
• Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Wikipedia
  
• 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot including
  • deployments Regiments.org, an archived site.
    
• The Loyal Regiment(North Lancashire) including deployments:
  • 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion Regiments.org (archived site)
    
• The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment from the Long, Long Trail: the British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918. The 2nd Battalion were in Bangalore in August 1914 and landed at Tanga, German East Africa, with the 27th Indian Brigade 3 November 1914
  
• Queen's Lancashire Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Lancashire Infantry Museum, includes the East Lancashire Regiment (30th and 59th of Foot), the South Lancashire Regiment (40th and 82nd of Foot), the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (47th and 81st of Foot)
• “The Regimental History of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment” army.mod.uk, now an archived webpage.

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

• The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1914-1918 loyalregiment.com, now an archived website.

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, 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.