13th Regiment of Foot

Known as The Somersetshire Regiment

Chronology

• 1685 raised as the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot
• 1688 became Hasting's Regiment
• 1752 became the 13th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
• 1822 became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry)
• 1842 became the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry
• 1881 became Prince Albert's (Somersetshire) Light Infantry
• 1959 amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry.
• 1968 amalgamated with three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade to form The Light Infantry
• 2007 amalgamated with the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry and the Royal Green Jackets to form a single, large regiment to be named The Rifles

External Links

• Somerset Light Infantry Wikipedia
  
• Somerset Light Infantry www.lightinfantry.me.uk
  
• Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry Wikipedia
  
• Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry www.lightinfantry.org.uk
  
• Photographs and history of the Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry, during the reign of Queen Victoria www.armynavyairforce.co.uk/
  
• Somerset Light Infantry Archive
  • Somerset Light Infantry Timeline Somerset Record Office
    
• The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
• This Great War Forum thread advises the book A Strange War: Burma, India and Afghanistan 1914-1919 by C P Mills 1988 describes experiences of Territorials in India during the Great War. The book is available at the British Library. The Regiment was the 2/5th Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry

Historical books online

• Historical Record of the Thirteenth, First Somersetshire, or Prince Albert’s Regiment of Light Infantry by Thomas Carter 1867 Google Books Indian Service commences page 75 in 1823 at Calcutta
• Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as It Is by John Mercier McMullen, a late Staff Sergeant of the 13th Light Infantry (1846)