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

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
The Northamptonshire Regiment from British Armed Forces & National Service, gives details of deployments
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