Difference between revisions of "4th Regiment of Foot"

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Also known as King's Own Royal Regiment

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

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

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 *[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/ King's Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster]
 **[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/imagesfromempire.htm Images from Empire: The King's Own in the Victorian and Edwardian Era] Includes images from India and Burma
+**[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/ko2940.htm Album of Photographs: 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, India 1937-40] including photographs of [[Ootacamund|Wellington]] and [[Karachi]].
 ====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'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=pR1Ixr0zKYUC Google Books]  1839 Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=pR1Ixr0zKYUC&pg=PA140  page 140] in 1837