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58th (Rutlandshire)
Regiment of Foot
 
United Kingdom 
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1755.12.28 60th Regiment of Foot
1756.12.25 58th Regiment of Foot
renumbered upon disbandment of 50th Regiment and 51st Regiment
1782.08.31 58th (the Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot
1881.07.01 united with 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot, to form The Northamptonshire Regiment
58th Foot (Rutlandshire) Regiment [in Australia] 1844-1847, by B & M Chapman.
     
  Regulars:
    [1st Battalion] [1755-1881]
2nd Battalion [1804-1815]
Depot and Reserves:
  ? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
  29th Brigade Depot at Northampton [1873-1881]
[Gibraltar 1779-83]1, [Egypt]2, Maida, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Peninsula, New Zealand3

1.  the Castle and Key badge superscribed "Gibraltar 1779-83" and subscribed "Montis Insignia Calpe" (dates added 1909).
 2.  the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt".
 3.  for services 1846-47.
Note: see also successor for belatedly awarded battle honours.

   
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1755.12.28 Lt-Gen. Robert Anstruther
1767.12.14 Gen. The Rt. Hon. Robert (Cuninghame), 1st Baron Rossmore, PC [also 5th Dgns, 14th Foot, 124th Foot; CinC Ireland]
1775.10.18 Col. Hon. George West
1776.02.19 Lt-Gen. Lancelot Baugh [also 6th Foot]
1787.04.18 Gen. George Scott [also 83rd Foot]
1811.07.01 Gen. Richard (Lambart), 7th Earl of Cavan, KC [also 45th Foot, 58th Foot, 77th Foot, 2nd West India Regt]
1823.02.10 Gen. Thomas (Graham), 1st Baron Lynedoch, GCB, GCMG [also 1st Foot, 14th Foot, 90th Foot]
1826.09.06 Maj-Gen. Lord Frederick Bentinck, CB
1828.03.01 Lt-Gen. Sir Kenneth Douglas, Bt.
1833.12.11 Gen. Frederick Maitland [also 1st Ceylon Regt; Gov. Grenada 1805-08]
1848.02.05 Lt-Gen. Sir George Charles D'Aguilar, KCB [also 23rd Foot]
1851.01.31 Gen. Edward Buckley Wynyard, CB
1864.11.25 Lt-Gen. Charles Craufurd Hay [also 93rd Foot]
1868.08.29 Maj-Gen. William Sullivan, CB
1870.01.06 Gen. Sir Arthur Johnstone Lawrence, KCB [also Rifle Bde]
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The Northamptonshire Regimental Museum, Northampton (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
The Northamptonshire Regimental Museum, Northampton, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing).
Rutland County Museum, Oakham (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Rutland County Museum, Oakham (Simonides listing)
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Full Histories:
Wallace, Robert. Regimental records of the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment, now the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Northampton : printed by Jos. Tebbutt, 1893.
A short history of the "58th" Regiment, 1755; The Rutlandshire Regt., 1782; 2nd Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment, 1881. Lahore: printed by the Fifty-eighth Press, 1922.
 
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Standing orders, 58th Regiment : Colombo, Island of Ceylon, First February, 1829. Madras : Printed at the Church Mission Press, 1829.