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*'''1881''' became The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
*'''1959''' amalgamated with The Border Regiment into the The King's Own Royal Border Regiment
*'''2006''' amalgamated with the King’s Regiment, and the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment to become the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)
==First World War==
6th (Service) Battalion: Moved to Gallipoli in July 1915. Went to Egypt in January 1916 and thence to Mesopotamia.<ref>[http://www.1914-1918.net/kingsown.htm The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)] The Long. Long Trail</ref>. Note that there is at least one burial In India <ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1450896/ Peter Prince] CWGC</ref> for a man sent from Mesopotamia on medical grounds, thought to be a burial at [[Murree]] whose grave is marked 'died in Murree of wounds received in Mesopotamia'.<ref>Khyber Pass and kenf48 [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/225793-15th-royal-west-surrey-murree-aug-1916/?do=findComment&comment=2301225 1/5th Royal West Surrey, Murree, Aug 1916] ''Great War Forum'' 28 August 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2019.</ref>
== External Links ==
*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Shortt,_Captain_James_Symington:_Court_Martial_transcript,_21_Jan_1847,_Kamptee,_India Shortt, Captain James Symington: Court Martial transcript, 21 Jan 1847, Kamptee, India] Your Archives<br>
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080115004302/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/004KORR.htm The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216215903/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/004-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080123122404/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/004-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.<br>
*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/ King's Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster]. There are references to India through the website, including**[http://www.kingsownmuseum.pluscom/19thcent.htm Regimental History - 19th Century] with links to India 1840s, including Court Martial Records, and Indian Mutiny. **[http://www.kingsownmuseum.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/ko2940gallery20s30s.htm Album Gallery: Photographs1920s and 1930s]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080911/https://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Regimental_History.pdf “The Regimental History of Photographsthe Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment”] army.mod.uk, now an archived webpage.: 1st BattalionThe constituent regiments are the [[4th Regiment of Foot|4th]], [[8th Regiment of Foot|8th]], [[30th Regiment of Foot|30th]], [[34th Regiment of Foot|34th]], [[40th Regiment of Foot|40th]], [[47th Regiment of Foot|47th]], King's Own Royal [[55th Regiment of Foot|55th]], [[59th Regimentof Foot|59th]], India 1937-40[[63rd Regiment of Foot|63rd]] including photographs , [[81st Regiment of Foot|81st]], [[Ootacamund82nd Regiment of Foot|Wellington82nd]] and [[Karachi96th Regiment of Foot|96th]]Regiments of Foot. ====Historical Books Onlinebooks 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
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bZ8EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA105 "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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