40th Regiment of Foot

External Links

Historical Books Online

• 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 (page 228).

• 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.”