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31st (Huntingdonshire)
Regiment of Foot
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1694.04.23 |
Sir Richard
Atkins's Regiment of Foot
raised for Irish Establishment |
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1696.12.06 |
George Villiers's
Regiment of Foot |
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1698 |
disbanded
in Ireland |
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1702.03.14 |
George Villiers's
Regiment of Marines
also known as 2nd Regiment of Marines;
also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels |
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1714 |
converted
to Foot |
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1747 |
ranked
as 31st Foot |
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1751.07.01 |
31st Regiment
of Foot |
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1782.08.31 |
31st (the
Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot |
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1881.07.01 |
united
with 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
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The East Surrey Regiment |
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Talavera, Albuhera,
Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula, Cabool
1842, Moodkee, Ferozeshah,
Aliwal, Sobraon, Sevastopol,
Taku Forts
Note: see also successor for belatedly
awarded battle honours.
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1694.04.23 |
Sir Richard Atkins |
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1696.12.06 |
Col. George Villiers |
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1702.02.12 |
Col. George Villiers |
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1703.12.06 |
Col. Alexander Luttrell |
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1706.02.01 |
Col. Joshua Churchill |
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1711.03.01 |
Col. Sir Henry Goring, 4th Bt. |
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1715.09.08 |
Maj-Gen. Lord John Kerr |
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1728.08.13 |
Maj-Gen. Charles (Cathcart), 8th Lord Cathcart |
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1731.01.01 |
Lt-Gen. William Hargrave |
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1737.01.27 |
Brig-Gen. William Handasyde |
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1745.04.22 |
Col. Lord Henry Beauclerk |
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1749.05.08 |
Lt-Gen. Henry Holmes [also
3rd Marines] |
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1762.08.20 |
Lt-Gen. Sir James Adolphus Oughton, KB |
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1780.05.03 |
Gen. Thomas Clarke |
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1792.02.08 |
Maj-Gen. James Stuart
[also 97th Foot] |
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1793.02.08 |
Gen. Henry (Phipps), 1st Earl of Musgrave,
GCB |
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1831.04.13 |
Gen. Sir Henry Warde, GCB |
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1834.10.10 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Barnes, GCB |
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1838.03.28 |
Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, GCB, GCH
[also 45th Foot, 71st
Hldrs, 95th Foot, 2nd
Lt Bn KGL; Cin-C Bombay 1831-32, Gov. R
Hospital 1849-56] |
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1847.07.12 |
Gen. Henry Otway (Brand-Trevor), 21st Lord
Dacre, CB |
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1853.06.14 |
Gen. Sir Alexander Leith, KCB |
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1859.02.20 |
Gen. Sir Patrick Edmonstone Graigie, KCB |
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1862.06.01 |
Gen. Sir Edward Lugard, GCB |
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Regimental
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Full Histories:
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the Thirty-first, or, The Huntingdonshire Regiment of Foot : containing
an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702, and of its subsequent
services to 1850; to which is appended an account of the services
of the Marine Corps, from 1664 to 1748. London : Parker, 1850.
(Historical records of the British Army) |
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Langley, Michael. The East Surrey
Regiment (The 31st and 70th Regiments of Foot). London, Cooper,
1972. (Famous regiments) ISBN: 0850521149 |
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Pearse, Hugh Wodehouse. History of
the 31st foot Huntingdonshire regt., 70th foot Surrey Regt., subsequently
1st & 2nd Battalions the East Surrey Regiment. Vol. 1, 1702-1914.
London : Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., 1916. |
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Manuscripts
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Orderly
Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John
K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75) |
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