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It was ranked as the 59th Regiment of Foot in 1747 but re-ranked as the 48th Regiment of Foot in 1751. [ 1 ] The regiment embarked for North America in January 1755 for service in the French and Indian War and, having landed in Virginia in February 1755, [ 4 ] saw action at the disastrous Battle of the Monongahela , the Siege of Louisburg in ...
Includes commissioned officers of the 48th Regiment of Foot of the British Army, which was formed in 1741 and amalgamated into the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1881.
The barracks were renamed Gibraltar Barracks at that time in recognition of the participation of the 58th regiment in the Great Siege of Gibraltar. [2] Following the Childers Reforms , the 48th and 58th Regiments amalgamated to form the Northamptonshire Regiment with its depot at the barracks in 1881.
The Northamptonshire Regiment was formed as part of the reorganisation of the infantry by the Childers Reforms when the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot (raised in 1741) and the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot (raised in 1755) were redesignated as the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Northamptonshire Regiment, with the regimental depot at Northampton. [1]
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 48: 48th Regiment of Foot (5th Marines)1739–1748 [83] 1739 Raised 20 November 1739 as Charles Douglass's Regiment of Marines, from 1740 Jame's Cochrane's Regiment: ranked as 48th Foot or 5th Marines by 1741. Disbanded 4 November 1748. [83] 48th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of ...
Includes soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the Northamptonshire Regiment of the British Army, which was formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 48th Regiment of Foot and the 58th Regiment of Foot. The unit was merged into the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (later the Royal Anglian Regiment) in 1959.
On 8 June 1809 (aged 16), Thomas enlisted as an Ensign in the 2nd Battalion of the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot in the British Army.On 17 June 1811, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot, 59th Regiment of Foot, British infantry regiment numbered as the 59th Foot in 1747 and renumbered as the 48th in 1751. 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot , 59th Regiment of Foot, British infantry regiment raised in 1755 and renumbered as the 57th in 1756