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*'''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]] to form 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 [[22nd Regiment of Foot|Cheshire Regiment]] consists of a brief History of 20 pages followed by 38 full page printed photographs.<ref>[http://www.iberlibro.com/buscar-libro/autor/cheshire-regiment-bremner-photographs www.iberlibro.com]</ref>
*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 ==
*[http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org./ The Keep Military Museum], Dorchester, Dorset<br>
*[http://www.victorianmilitarysociety.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&catid=10&Itemid=9 "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]]
== References ==
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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
