Difference between revisions of "40th Regiment of Foot"

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1717 raised as Richard Philipps's Regiment of Foot
1747 ranked as 40th Foot
1751 became the 40th Regiment of Foot
1782 became the 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
1881 united with 82nd Regiment of Foot to form The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
1938 became the South Lancashire Regiment
1958 amalgamated with The East Lancashire Regiment to form The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
1970 amalgamated with the 1st Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), to form the 1st Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
2006 merged with the King's Regiment and the King's Own Royal Border Regiment to become 1st Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)

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 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00smytgoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment now 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) from its formation in 1717 to 1893''] by Captain R H Raymond Smythies (1894) Archive.org. The Regiment left Hobart [[Australia]] for Bombay in 1828 ([http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00smytgoog#page/n316/mode/1up page 228]).
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=fCFAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Recollections+of+four+years+service&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Recollections of Four Years Service in the East with H M Fortieth Regiment''] by John Martin Bladen Neill.(1845) Google books.  “Comprising an account of the taking of Kurachee In Lower Scinde in 1839, Operations in Upper Scinde in 1840 and 1841, and the operations of the Candahar division of The Avenging Army of Aghanistan in 1841 and 1842.”
+*[http://books.google.com/books?id=OhMFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Scenes in a soldier's life: being a connected narrative of the principal military events in Scinde, Beeloochistan, and Affghanistan, during 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843''] by John Henry Wilton 1848 Google Books
 [[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]