Difference between revisions of "56th Regiment of Foot"

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Known as The West Essex Regiment

1755 raised at Newcastle and Gateshead as the 58th Regiment of Foot under the colonelcy of Lord Charles Manners
1756 became the 58th Regiment of Foot
1782 became the 56th Regiment of Foot
1804 2nd Battalion raised
1813 3rd Battalion raised
1881 amalgamated with the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot to become 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment
1958 merged with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
1964 became 3rd Battalion of the new Royal Anglian Regiment
1992 3rd Battalion disbanded

56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Essex Regiment Wikipedia
Royal Anglian Regiment Wikipedia
56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
The Essex Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
The Essex Regiment Museum Chelmsford Borough Council
Royal Anglian Regiment Museum www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk. Covers the Royal Norfolk Regiment (9th Foot), the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (10th Foot), the Suffolk Regiment (12th Foot), the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (16th Foot), the Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot)), the Essex Regiment (44th/ 56th Foot), and the Northamptonshire Regiment (48th/ 58th Foot)
- The Essex Regiment (44th/56th Foot)
2nd Bn The Essex Regiment embarked for India from Malta in Sept 1892, but left behind in Malta a depot detachment of 67 men. maltaramc.com
Memorial to those who died 2nd Bn The Essex Regiment 1925-1928 at All Souls Church, Cawnpore. indian-cemeteries.org

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 *[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/essex.html Royal Anglian Regiment Museum] www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk. Covers the Royal Norfolk Regiment ([[9th Regiment of Foot|9th Foot]]), the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment ([[10th Regiment of Foot|10th Foot]]), the Suffolk Regiment ([[12th Regiment of Foot|12th Foot]]), the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment ([[16th Regiment of Foot|16th Foot]]), the Royal Leicestershire Regiment ([[17th Regiment of Foot|17th Foot)]]), the Essex Regiment ([[44th Regiment of Foot|44th]]/ 56th Foot), and the Northamptonshire Regiment ([[48th Regiment of Foot|48th]]/ [[58th Regiment of Foot|58th Foot]])
 **[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/essex.html The Essex Regiment (44th/56th Foot)]
+*[http://www.maltaramc.com/regmltgar/56th.html 2nd Bn The Essex Regiment embarked for India from Malta in Sept 1892], but left behind in Malta a depot detachment of 67 men. maltaramc.com
 *[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimage.asp?mode=mon&ID=15 Memorial to those who died 2nd Bn The Essex Regiment 1925-1928] at All Souls Church, [[Cawnpore]]. indian-cemeteries.org