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Known as '''The Welsh Regiment'''
== Chronology ==
*'''1717''' raised as Richard Philipps's Regiment of Foot
*'''1747''' ranked as 40th Foot
*'''1751''' became the '''40th Regiment of Foot'''
*'''1782''' became the 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
*'''1881''' united with [[82nd Regiment of Foot]] to form The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
*'''1938''' became the South Lancashire Regiment
*'''1958''' amalgamated with The East Lancashire Regiment to form The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
*'''1970''' amalgamated with the 1st Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), to form the 1st Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
*'''2006''' merged with the King's Regiment and the King's Own Royal Border Regiment to become 1st Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)
== British India Service ==
*'''1828''' India
*'''1839''' [[1st Afghan War|Afghanistan]]
*'''1843''' [[Gwalior]]
*'''1872''' India
*'''1881''' [[Bengal]]
*'''1903''' Jubbulpore
*'''1906''' Raniket
*'''1909''' Subathu
*'''1912''' [[Ambala]]
*'''1914''' [[Quetta]]
*'''1919''' [[3rd Afghan War|Afghanistan]]
==External Links==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_(2nd_Somersetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot 40th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Lancashire_Regiment South Lancashire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancashire_Regiment_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Volunteers) Lancashire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Lancaster%27s_Regiment_(King%27s_Lancashire_and_Border) Duke of Lancaster's Regiment] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Lancashire_Regiment Queen's Lancashire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>====Historical Books Online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00smytgoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment now 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) from its formation in 1717 to 1893''] by Captain R H Raymond Smythies (1894) Archive.org. The Regiment left Hobart [[Australia]] for Bombay in 1828 ([http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00smytgoog#page/n316/mode/1up page 228]).
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=fCFAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Recollections+of+four+years+service&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Recollections of Four Years Service in the East with H M Fortieth Regiment''] by John Martin Bladen Neill.(1845) Google books. “Comprising an account of the taking of Kurachee In Lower Scinde in 1839, Operations in Upper Scinde in 1840 and 1841, and the operations of the Candahar division of The Avenging Army of Aghanistan in 1841 and 1842.”
