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*'''1960''' merged with The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) | *'''1960''' merged with The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) | ||
*'''1964''' amalgamated with the 1st and 3rd East Anglian Regiments and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to become 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment | *'''1964''' amalgamated with the 1st and 3rd East Anglian Regiments and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to become 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment | ||
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| + | ==Regimental History== | ||
| + | ''History of the Northamptonshire Regiment 1742-1934'' by Lt Colonel Russell Gurney. | ||
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| + | This book is available on FamilySearch microfilm, [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/507817?availability=Family%20History%20Library catalogue entry] ([[FamilySearch Centres#Ordering microfilms|Ordering microfilms]]) | ||
== Service in British India== | == Service in British India== | ||
Revision as of 08:12, 30 December 2014
Contents
Chronology
- 1755 raised as the 60th Regiment of Foot
- 1757 became the 58th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 amalgamated with the 48th Regiment of Foot to become the 2nd Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment
- 1948 regiment reduced to a single battalion
- 1960 merged with The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
- 1964 amalgamated with the 1st and 3rd East Anglian Regiments and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to become 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment
Regimental History
History of the Northamptonshire Regiment 1742-1934 by Lt Colonel Russell Gurney.
This book is available on FamilySearch microfilm, catalogue entry (Ordering microfilms)
Service in British India
External Links
- 58th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
- The Northamptonshire Regiment Wikipedia
- 2nd East Anglian Regiment Wikipedia
- Royal Anglian Regiment Wikipedia
- 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
- The Northamptonshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
- The Museum Collection of the Northamptonshire Regiment at Abington Park Museum includes
- Photographs of the Northamptonshire Regiment on flickr
- Photographs of the Regiment in the Punjab The 1st Battalion of The Northamptonshire Regiment were stationed in the Punjab 1907/1908
- Photographs of the Regiment in Waziristan 1936/37 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment
- Views of India (1) taken by Private Linley of the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment compiled whilst serving in India 1923-1938.
- Views of India (2) taken by Private Linley of the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment compiled whilst serving in India 1923-1938.
- Photographs of the Northamptonshire Regiment on flickr
- The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum. 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).
Historical books online
- "The relative health of the right and left wings of the 58th Regiment" [at Allahabad] by Surgeon EL Lundy M.D., 58th Regiment, page 346 Army Medical Department Report for the year 1869 Google Books
