The old West Country Regiments (11th, 39th and 54th) : from Plassey to the Somme : 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot, later The Devonshire Regiment : 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot, later the 1st Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment : 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot later the 2nd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment
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Accession Number
BKS53302
Campaigns
American War of Independence (1775-1783), 1st Burma War (1824-1826), Peninsular War (1808-1814), Crimean War (1854-1856)
Events
Isandlwana, Battle of, 1879 (Zulu War 1879), Plassey, Battle of, 1757 (Seven Years War, India 1756-1763), Prince Imperial, Death of the, 1879 (Zulu War 1879), Ladysmith, Siege of, 1900 (Boer War 1899-1902), Somme, Battle of the, 1916 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)
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