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*'''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<ref>Following the [[Siege of Jalalabad|defence of Jalalabad]]</ref>
*IWM catalogue entry for [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008540 Interview with Bertie Grenville Livingstone Rendall] British private served with 2/5th Bn Somerset Light Infantry in GB and Burma, 1914-1917, and subsequently NCO served as driver with No 2 Mechanical Transport Coy, Army Service Corps on North West Frontier, India, 1917-1919. Catalogue gives details of the 23 reels in total, not yet available online.
*[http://www.1914-1918.net/somersets.htm 4th and 5th Battalions and 1st Garrison Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry
] 1914-1918.net.
*[http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=6342 More on the Siege of Kut al-Amara]. amitavghosh.com. Contains extracts from the book ''No Thankful Village: The Impact of the Great War on a Group of Somerset Villages - A Microcosm'' by Chris Howell which in turn quotes diaries from members of the 1/4th. Quoting Lt. Geoffrey Bishop, a draft of 30 men left India for Mesopotamia in May 1915, and a second draft of 15 arrived in August, a total of 45. In February 1916 further men from the 1/4th arrived in Mesopotamia. It appears some remained in India.
*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/nov/05/somerset-light-infantry-sergeant-c-h-hugh Somerset Light Infantry (Sergeant C. H. Hugh)]. Hansard. 05 November 1919. About 30 men of 1/4th Battalion were in India at [[Bellary]] in the latter part of 1919.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130721143247/http://britains-smallwars.com/India/last.html Sunset on the Raj: The Last to Leave] The last British troops to leave India were the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry on 28 February 1948 at Bombay. britains-smallwars.com. now archived
**This event is mentioned in [http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=1672 Maxine Steller’s Bombay]. (Scroll down) Born in 1930, she describes her early life, and the conditions before and after independence, until she left in 1950 for Australia. tajmahalfoxtrot.com
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dckDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Personal Narrative of the Campaigns in Affghanistan, Sinde, Beloochistan, etc. Detailed in a series of letters of the late Colonel William H. Dennie, C.B.''] 1843 Google Books. Includes additions and corrections to the content appearing in the ''Dublin University Magazine''.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=6OcKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR6 ''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). He joined the regiment in India at some point after the [[1st Afghan War]]
*[http://issuu.com/gwd9/docs/the_somerset_light_infantry_1914-19?e=15915126/12010835 ''The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s) 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1927 issuu.com. Page 117 of the digital file (page 93 original) give the history of the 4th and 5th Battalions in India. The majority of the 1/4th (apart from “sick” and “infirm” who remained in India) left for Mesopotamia in February 1916.
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