4th Regiment of Foot

Also known as King's Own Royal Regiment

Chronology

• 1680 raised as the 2nd Tangier, or Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Foot
• 1684 became The Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot
• 1685 became The Queen's Regiment
• 1702 became The Queen's Regiment of Marines
• 1710 became The Queen's Regiment of Foot
• 1715 became The King's Own Regiment of Foot
• 1751 became 4th or the King's Own Regiment of Foot
• 1867 became 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 became The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
• 1959 amalgamated with The Border Regiment into the The King's Own Royal Border Regiment

External Links

• King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) Wikipedia
  
• The King's Own Regiment British Empire website
  
• Shortt, Captain James Symington: Court Martial transcript, 21 Jan 1847, Kamptee, India Your Archives
  
• The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
  
• King's Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster
  • Images from Empire: The King's Own in the Victorian and Edwardian Era Includes images from India and Burma

Historical Books Online

• Historical record of the Fourth, or the King’s Own Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1680, and of its subsequent services to 1839 Google Books 1839 Indian Service commences page 140 in 1837
• "Annual Report of the 1st Battalion 4th (the King’s Own Regiment), stationed at Ahmedabad in Gujarat, for 1860" by Surgeon J Gorringe M.D., page 105 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume VII, New Series 1861 Google Books