Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 31.03.2005
2nd Battalion,
13th Regiment of Foot
1858-1881
1881-1948
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
 
   
  1858.01.08 2nd Battalion, 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
raised at Winchester
  1858 England
  1859 South Africa
  1863 Mauritius
  1867 England
  1871 Ireland
  1875 Scotland
  1876 England
  1877 Malta
  1878 India
  1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
  1881 India: Madras
  1884 Burma: Rangoon
  1887 India: Belgaum
  <1892> Madras
  1894 England
  1895 Channel Islands: Guernsey
  1897 England: Aldershot
  1899.10 South Africa 10 Bde
  1903 England: Aldershot
  1904 Plymouth
  1908 Malta
  1911 China: Tientsin
  1913 India: Quetta
  1914.08 India
  1919 Afghanistan
  1920 Agra
  1921.01.01 1st Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
  1926 Sudan
  1927 England: Tidworth 7 Bde
  1932 Blackdown 6 Bde
  1935 Colchester 11 Bde
  1939 Gibraltar
  1943.12 Tunisia 4 Inf Div
  1944.01 Italy
  1944.12.12 Greece 28 Bde, 4 Inf Div
  1945.05 Greece
  1947 Austria
  1948.06.28 amalgamated with 1st Battalion