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The 13th Light Horse Regiment was raised in Victoria in March 1915. Being the thirteenth regiment raised within the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) they were soon given the nickname the "Devil's Own" regiment, [1] and comprised twenty-five officers and 497 other ranks serving in three squadrons, each of six troops. [2]
Royal Anglian Regiment: 13: 13th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1822 [37] 13th (1st Somersetshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1822–1842 [37] 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1842–1881 [37] [38] 1685 Raised 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Huntingdon's ...
13th Regiment or 13th Infantry Regiment may refer to: 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment , a unit of the French Special Forces Somerset Light Infantry (13th Regiment of Foot), a unit of the British Army
2nd Light Horse Brigade (5th (New England) and 6th (Hunter River Lancers) Light Horse Regiments) 3rd Light Horse Brigade (7th (New South Wales Lancers), 9th (New South Wales Mounted Rifles), 11th (Australian Horse) and 28th (Illawarra) Light Horse Regiments) 4th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (10th, 11th, and 13th Batteries)
In 1855 William Napier left the England with the 1st Battalion, 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot under General Lord Mark Kerr, G.C.B., and arrived at Balaklava, Crimean peninsula, by sea on 29 June 1855. William described Sevastopol as follows in 1897:
1st Company Governor's Horse Guards, 1778; 2nd Connecticut Light Horse, 1777; 5th Connecticut Light Horse, 1776–79; Backus' Regiment of Light Horse, 1776; Skinner's Regiment of Light Horse, 1776; Starr's Regiment of Light Horse, 1779; Seymour's Regiment of Light Dragoons; 1st Battalion State Regiment, 1776–77; 1st Regiment of Militia, 1778–79
On 26 Nivôse Year III (29 January 1793), the regiment was amalgamated with several other volunteer units: Dragoons of the Manche (English Channel), Dragoons of Seine-Inférieure, Dragoons of Calvados, and the cavalry companies of the Polish and Batavian Legion (Dutch) to form the new 13th Light Horse Regiment (French: 13ème Régiment de ...
The Elegant Extracts – 7th Regiment of Foot later Royal Fusiliers and 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry [1] [3] [10] (in 1811, many of the regiment's officers were court-martialled and replaced by officers drawn from other regiments. [35]) Eliott's Light Horse – 15th The King's Hussars [1]