39th Regiment of Foot
Also known as The Dorsetshire Regiment from 1881.
In 1753 the 39th Foot was the first British Army regiment posted to India.
Chronology
- 1689 Viscount Lisburne's Regiment of Foot raised
- 1662 became Richard Coote's Regiment of Foot
- 1702 reformed by Colonel Richard Coote in Ireland
- 1751 became the 39th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became the 39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
- 1794 regiment was captured and reformed in Ireland the following year by absorbing the 104th Regiment of Foot
- 1805 became the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 amalgamated with the 54th Regiment of Foot and became the 1st Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment
- 1951 became The Dorset Regiment
- 1958 amalgamated with The Devonshire Regiment to form the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
- 2005 renamed the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
- 2007 amalgamated with the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment to form 1st Battalion The Rifles
British Library holdings
- The 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment illustrated with a brief historical account of the services of the Regiment. Photographs by Fred Bremner. Ferozepore 1906. Published in Lahore by Fred Bremner 1906.
- This is a photographic album produced by the photographer Fred Bremner, one of four known photographic albums of British Army Regiments in the North-West of India which he published in Quetta and Lahore in the early 1900s. As an indication, that for the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment consists of a brief History of 20 pages followed by 38 full page printed photographs.[1]
- Also see 'Regimental journal' below.
Regimental journal
- The Dorset regimental journal : a paper for Dorset men and men of the Dorsets. Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1912)-v. 3, no. 27 (July 1914) is available at the British Library
- The Dorsetshire regimental quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1926)-v. 19, no. 2 (June 1951) is available at the British Library
External Links
- Richard Coote Wikipedia
- 39th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
- The Dorset Regiment Wikipedia
- The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Wikipedia
- The Rifles Wikipedia
- The Dorset Regiment including deployments (1st Battalion) Regiments.org, an archived site
- The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester, Dorset. Covers the 11th, 39th and 54th Regiments of Foot
- "Nothing Could Be More Beautiful - The Charge of HM 39th Regiment at Maharajpore - December 29th 1843" by James Falkner Reproduced from Soldiers of the Queen, Issue 82 September 1995 victorianmilitarysociety.org.uk. This action was part of the Gwalior Campaign