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== Service in British India ==
 
== Service in British India ==
 
*'''1798''' India
 
*'''1798''' India
*'''1801''' Egypt
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*'''1801''' [[Egyptian Campaign 1801|Egypt]]
 
*'''1842''' India
 
*'''1842''' India
 
*'''1845''' [[1st Sikh War]]
 
*'''1845''' [[1st Sikh War]]

Revision as of 11:10, 7 September 2010

Also known as The Buffs from 1935.

Chronology

  • 1685 raised as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
  • 1751 became the 10th Regiment of Foot
  • 1781 became the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 became The Lincolnshire Regiment
  • 1935 became The Buffs, (Royal East Kent Regiment)
  • 1961 amalgamated with 50th/97th The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment to form 3rd/50th/97th The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
  • 1966 merged and became 2nd Battalion (Queen's Own Buffs), The Queen's Regiment
  • 1992 amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to form The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Service in British India

External Links

Historical Books Online

Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1847 by Richard Cannon (1847) Google Books. Indian Service commences page 46 in 1799 in Madras.

Other

10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Royal Lincolnshire Regiment Wikipedia
Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment Wikipedia