20th Regiment of Foot

Also known as The Lancashire Fusiliers

Chronology

• 1688 raised as Sir Richard Peyton's Regiment of Foot in Devonshire
• 1751 became the 20th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 20th (the East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 became The Lancashire Fusiliers
• 1968 united with The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, and The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), to form The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
• 1992 amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to form The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

External Links

• Lancashire Fusiliers Wikipedia
• Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Wikipedia
• The Lancashire Fusiliers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
• The Lancashire Fusiliers includes
  • Features Page including
    • WO1 James McCann,1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers India 1907 to 1911
    • Bandmaster WO1 William Albert Elliott LRAM. ARCM, China and India 1935-1943 with photographs
    • Ronald Peter Turner 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Lucknow, India 1945 includes photograph album
    • William (Bill) Paton 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Lucknow, India 1945 – 1946 includes photograph album
    • The Bill Hastings Photo collection 1st Battalion the XX Lancashire Fusiliers in China 1936 to 1938, India etc
    • Jack Bibby India 1946-1947 Served in Ranikhet India
  • 1st Bn XX The Lancashire Fusiliers India 1907 – 1911 Also includes some extracts from Dress Regulations for Officers printed Multan c 1884.
  • Photographs: Nowshera India 1921 – 1924
  • Photographs: 2nd Bn XX The Lancashire Fusiliers Wellington India 1927 – 1931
  • Photographs: 2nd Battalion 1931-1934 India, Punjab,(Ferozepore) Amritsar. Includes images from a printed album titled 2nd Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers, Ferozepore (India) 1934. Image 21 is titled "Indian Platoon", see British Army for details.

Books online

• Diplomatic Despatches: From a Son to His Mother by John Mason 1998 has a chapter "India December 1946 to February 1948", page 19 of the pdf. nla.gov.au. The author was an officer in the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers at Lucknow, in the months leading up to, and following, Indian independence and partition.