16th Regiment of Foot
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Known as The Bedfordshire Regiment
History
- 1688 raised as Douglas' Regiment of Foot by Col Archibald Douglas
- 1751 became 16th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became 16th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1809 became 16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 became The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (known as The Bedfordshire Regiment until 1919)
- 1958 merged with The Essex Regiment to form the 1st Battalion 3rd East Anglian Regiment
- 1964 amalgamated with the four regiments of the East Anglian Brigade to become 3rd Battalion (16th/44th Foot) Royal Anglian Regiment
External Links
16th Foot History bedfordregiment.org.uk
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Wikipedia
3rd East Anglian regiment Wikipedia
Royal Anglian Regiment Wikipedia
16th Regiment of Foot Roll-of-Honour.com
Online Books
- Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or The Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848 by Richard Cannon 1848. Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=keKND1Pz6pYC&pg=PA30 Page 30 states the Regiment went to Ceylon in 1820. Indian service commenced in 1829
- Narrative of a Three Month's March in India by Harriette Ashmore, Wife of an Officer in the 16th Foot London 1841 Google Books
