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The regiment was formed in 1994 by the amalgamation of the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire). [1]It was the only regiment in the British Army whose members were permitted to wear a cap badge on both the front and the rear of their headdress.
1st Somerset Light Infantry Militia; 2nd Somerset Light Infantry Militia; Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry; Somerset Light Infantry; King's Own (2nd Staffordshire) Light Infantry Militia; Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia
The Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Light Division. The regiment was one of four 'large' regiments formed after the 1966 Defence White Paper through the amalgamation of units of the Light Infantry Brigade .
3rd or Royal Westminster Middlesex Militia (Light Infantry) 4th Battalion, The Rifles; 5th Battalion, The Rifles; 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles; 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot; 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot; 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)
The 1st Battalion is a light role infantry battalion based in Chester. [20] The 4th Battalion is the regiment's reserve battalion and has its headquarters in Preston, with sub-units dispersed throughout its recruiting areas of Merseyside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Cumbria.
The history of British light infantry goes back to the early days of the British Army, when irregular troops and mercenaries added skills in light infantry fighting. From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Army dedicated some line regiments as specific light infantry troops, were trained under the Shorncliffe System devised by Sir John Moore and Sir Kenneth MacKenzie Douglas.
British Army: Type: Line Infantry: Role: Army Reserve Light Infantry: Size: Battalion 471 personnel [1] Part of: 51st Infantry Brigade and Headquarters Scotland: Garrison/HQ: Headquarters in Perth: Nickname(s) 7 SCOTS: Motto(s) Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (No One Assails Me With Impunity) March: Quick - Scotland the Brave Slow - The Garb of Auld ...
On 6 October 1959 the Somerset Light Infantry and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry were amalgamated as the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry [4] From 1958 all regiments adopted a common brigade cap badge, a silver bugle-horn. [5] From 1960 the Light Infantry Brigade was based at Copthorne Barracks in Shropshire. [6] On 1 July 1968 the ...