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59th Regiment of Foot

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*'''1958''' amalgamated with the [[82nd Regiment of Foot|South Lancashire Regiment]] (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) to form The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
*'''1958''' amalgamated with [[81st Regiment of Foot|Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)]] to form Queen's Lancashire Regiment
 
==FIBIS resources==
*"Boy Soldier to Lancer: John Arnfield in the Anglo -Sikh Wars" by Ainslie Sharpe ''FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011'', pages 31-40. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]
:John Arnfield was born at sea in 1819. His father Hugh was in the 59th Foot which was in India 1820-1829. When the regiment returned to England in 1829, Hugh Arnfield transferred to the [[3rd Regiment of Foot]], the Buffs
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