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After the Crimean War, the Board of Ordnance was abolished and these units (with the Royal Sappers and Miners having been amalgamated into the Royal Engineers) and the Commissariat, stores and transport organs (re-organized ultimately into the Army Ordnance Corps and the Army Service Corps, both since amalgamated into today's Royal Logistic ...
0–9. 4th Queen's Own Hussars; 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards; 5th Dragoon Guards; 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons; 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars; 10th Royal Hussars
Regiments of the British Army in the Crimean War (2 C, 44 P) Pages in category "British military units and formations of the Crimean War" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth. Sydney: Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-71263-653-7. Raugh, Harold E. (2004). The Victorians at War, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio. ISBN 978-1-57607-925-6. Richards, Donald (2006). Conflict in the Crimea: British Redcoats on Russian Soil. Barnsley ...
Irish Cavalrymen, 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons, in the War of the American Revolution, 1775-1783. The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1759 and notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
The 55th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment, raised in 1755. After 1782 it had a county designation added, becoming known as the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot . Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot to form the Border Regiment in 1881.
The 4th Infantry Division was a regular infantry division of the British Army with a very long history, seeing active service in the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign, the Crimean and Boer Wars and both World Wars.
Two officers and a sergeant of the 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot depicted wearing the shako in 1851. In this depiction the sergeant wears an officer's shako plate. In October 1843 the Duke of Wellington, who was Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, made alterations to the hat proposed by Albert.