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57th Regiment of Foot

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'''Known as "The Die Hards"'''
== Chronology ==
*'''1755''' raised as the 59th Regiment of Foot at Gloucester
*'''1756''' became the 57th Regiment of Foot
*'''1782''' became the 57th (the West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
*'''1881''' amalgamated with the [[77th Regiment of Foot]] to become the 1st Battalion The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
*'''1966''' amalgamated with three other regiments to become the 4th Battalion The Queen's Regiment
*'''1973''' 4th Battalion disbanded<br />
==External Links==
===Historical Books Online===*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57th_(West_Middlesex)_Regiment_of_Foot 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br />*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Middlesex_Regiment Middlesex Regiment] Wikipedia<br />*[http://www.prole.demon.co.uk/middlesex/index.htm The Middlesex Regiment 1755-1966] www.prole.demon.co.uk<br />*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Regiment Queen''Historical records of s Regiment] Wikipedia<br />*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220443/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057-757.htm 57th (the Fifty-Seventh, or, West Middlesex ) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143702/http: compiled from official and private sources//www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/057-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, from the date an archived site<br>*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071215184402/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057Midx.htm The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of its formation in 1755, to the present timeCambridge's Own)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143702/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/057-1.htm 1st Battalion], 1878'' by H J Warre 1878 [http://wwwweb.archive.org/streamweb/historicalrecor00warrgoog#page20071217120831/n7http:/mode/1up Archivewww.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/077-1.htm 2nd Battalion]Regiments. Indian Service commences org, an archived site<br>*[http://www.archivearmymuseums.org.uk/streammuseums/historicalrecor00warrgoog#page0000000082-Princess-of-Wales-s-Royal-Regiment--Queen-s-Regiment-Museum.htm Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment & Queen's Regiment Museum] Armymuseums.org<br>*[http:/n122/modewww.thediehards.co.uk/1up page 76The Diehard Company 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment Re-enactment Group] thediehards.co.uk<br>*[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/the-duke-of-cambridges-own-middlesex-regiment/ The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)] 1/9th Battalion and 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment: Both battalions sailed 30 October 1914 from Southampton for India, arriving Bombay on 2 December 1914. The 1/9th Battalion eventually moved to Mesopotamia, arriving Basra on 24 November 1917, and joined the 53rd Brigade of the 18th Indian Division. It remained in that theatre until the end of the war. The 1/10th Battalion remained in India until the end of the war. longlongtrail.co.uk.**The [[National Army Museum]] has many papers and photographs in its collection including***1/9th Middlesex Regiment: "Album of 56 photographs, including 5 loose, 9th Bn Middlesex Regiment, Waziristan, 1919 (c); showing mostly commercial views of the North West Frontier, including a camp at [[Landi Kotal]] and a camp at Landi Khana, a Viceroy inspecting Kurram Militia and group photographs". NAM Accession Number Photographs 1992-08-106***1/10th Middlesex Regiment****Transcription of the diary of Pte William Henry Fox, D Coy 1/10th Middlesex Regiment, 1916-1918; covers the troopship journey out to India in December 1916 and his service in 1831 [[Lucknow]] between August 1917 and March 1918; NAM Accession Number Archives 2004-10-189****Album of 214 photographs including 1 loose, 1/10th Bn Middlesex Regiment, India 1914-1919; showing portraits, group photographs, views, a camp at Hatti 1916, a machine gun post 1916, the Nepalese Imperial Service Bn at [[Abbottabad]] in Madras 1917, an Indian mountain gun ready for action and barracks at [[Quetta]]. NAM Accession Number Photographs 1992-08-107
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00warrgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Historical records of the Fifty-Seventh, or, West Middlesex Regiment of Foot: compiled from official and private sources, from the date of its formation in 1755, to the present time, 1878''] by H J Warre (1878) Archive.org. Indian Service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00warrgoog#page/n122/mode/1up page 76], in 1831 in Madras.
*[http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Story of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)''] by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford 1916. Archive.org
** The 1st Battalion was in India 1898-1912, [http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/158/mode/2up page 158]
** The 3rd Battalion moved to India in 1911 and was there when war broke out, [http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/n203/mode/2up page 159]
** The Territorial Battalions in India are briefly mentioned (to 1916) [http://archive.org/stream/storyofdukeofcam00king#page/210/mode/2up page 210]
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008230950 ''The Die-hards in the Great War: a History of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1914-1919, compiled from the records of the line special reserve, service, and territorial battalions'' Vol. I 1914-1916, Vol. II 1916-1919] by Everard Wyrall [1926] HathiTrust Digital Library. Volume II includes a chapter [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742714?urlappend=%3Bseq=358%3Bownerid=9007199274792718-396 "India and Mesopotamia"] page 331.
*The Middlesex Regiment Journals from "The Queen's Regimental Association" website.
:[http://queensregimentalassociation.org/middlesex-journals/middlesex-regiment-journals.html ''The Die-Hards. The Journal of the Middlesex Regiment Duke of Cambridge's Own''] from Volume 1 August 1922 to Volume 16 October 1967.
:[http://queensregimentalassociation.org/queens-journals.html ''The Journal of the Queen's Regiment''] 1967-1992.
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