20th Regiment of Foot

Also known as The Lancashire Fusiliers

Chronology

• 1688 raised as Sir Richard Peyton's Regiment of Foot in Devonshire
• 1751 became the 20th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 20th (the East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 became The Lancashire Fusiliers
• 1968 united with The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, and The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), to form The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
• 1992 amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to form The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

External Links

• Lancashire Fusiliers Wikipedia
• Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Wikipedia
• The Lancashire Fusiliers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
• The Lancashire Fusiliers includes
  • Features Page including
    • WO1 James McCann,1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers India 1907 to 1911
    • Bandmaster WO1 William Albert Elliott LRAM. ARCM, China and India 1935-1943 with photographs
    • Ronald Peter Turner 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Lucknow, India 1945 includes photograph album
    • William (Bill) Paton 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Lucknow, India 1945 – 1946 includes photograph album
    • The Bill Hastings Photo collection 1st Battalion the XX Lancashire Fusiliers in China 1936 to 1938, India etc
    • Jack Bibby India 1946-1947 Served in Ranikhet India
  • Photographs: Nowshera India 1921 – 1924
  • Photographs: 2nd Bn XX The Lancashire Fusiliers Wellington India 1927 – 1931
  • Photographs: 2nd Battalion 1931-1934 India, Punjab,(Ferozepore) Amritsar. Includes images from a printed album titled 2nd Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers, Ferozepore (India) 1934. Image 21 is titled "Indian Platoon", see British Army for details.

Books online

• Diplomatic Despatches: From a Son to His Mother by John Mason 1998 has a chapter "India December 1946 to February 1948", page 19 of the pdf. The author was an officer in the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers at Lucknow