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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
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32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry)
Regiment of Foot
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1672 |
Beville Skelton's
Regiment of Foot |
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1674 |
disbanded |
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1688.10.09 |
Beville Skelton's
Regiment of Foot
also known until 1751 by the names of three
other colonels including Edward Fox |
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1701 |
disbanded
in Leeward Islands |
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1702.02.12 |
Edward Fox's
Regiment of Marines
also known as 3rd Regiment of Marines;
also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels |
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1713 |
disbanded in
England |
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1714 |
Jacob
Borr's Regiment of Foot
re-formed |
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1747 |
ranked
as 32nd Foot |
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1751.07.01 |
32nd Regiment
of Foot |
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1782.08.31 |
32nd (the Cornwall)
Regiment of Foot |
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1858.05.14 |
32nd (The Cornwall)
Regiment Foot (Light Infantry)
converted in recognition of gallantry shown
at Lucknow |
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1881.07.01 |
united
with 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment
of Foot, to form
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry |
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Rolica, Vimiera,
Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula,
Waterloo, Goojerat,
Mooltan, Punjaub, Lucknow
Note: see also successor
for belatedly awarded battle honours.
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Badges: |
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- Badges
and Insignia, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
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Uniform: |
?-1881:
scarlet; facings: white |
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- Uniforms, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
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1672 |
Col. Beville Skelton |
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1688.10.09 |
Col. Beville Skelton |
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1688.12.31 |
Edward Fitzpatrick |
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1692.08.01 |
Francis Collingwood |
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1699.07.01 |
Col. Edward Fox |
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1702.02.12 |
Col. Edward Fox |
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1704.12.05 |
Brig-Gen. Jacob Borr |
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1723.06.28 |
Brig-Gen. Charles Dubourgay |
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1732.07.28 |
Brig-Gen. Thomas Paget |
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1738.12.15 |
Col. Simon Descury |
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1740.12.25 |
Gen. John Huske |
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1743.08.27 |
Lt-Gen. Henry Skelton |
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1745.05.29 |
Brig-Gen. William Douglas |
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1747.12.01 |
Gen. Francis Leighton |
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1773.06.11 |
Col. Robert Robinson |
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1775.10.18 |
Lt-Gen. William Amherst |
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1781.05.17 |
Gen. Sir Ralph (Gore), 6th Bt., 1st Earl
of Ross [to 1763; also 92nd
Foot; C-in-C
Ireland] |
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1802.09.04 |
Gen. James Ogilvie |
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1813.02.15 |
Gen. Alexander Campbell
[also 13th Foot, 116th
Hldrs, 7th West
India Regt] |
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1832.02.28 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Samuel Venables Hinde, KCB |
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1837.09.26 |
Gen. Sir Robert Macfarlane, KCB, GCH |
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1843.06.12 |
Lt-Gen. Sir John Buchan, KCB |
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1850.06.25 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Richard Armstrong, KCB |
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1854.04.17 |
Gen. Sir Willoughby Cotton, GCB, KCH |
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1860.05.05 |
Maj-Gen. Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis,
KCB |
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1862.09.28 |
Gen. Henry (Dundas), 3rd Viscount Melville,
GCB |
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1863.04.01 |
Gen. Sir George Brown, GCB, KH |
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1865.08.28 |
Lt-Gen. William George Gold |
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1867.02.02 |
Gen. Sir George Bell, KCB |
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1868.08.03 |
Lt-Gen. Lord Frederick Paulet, CB |
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1871.01.02 |
Gen. Sir William Jones, GCB |
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- Succession
of Colonels, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
- Commanding
Officers, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light
Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
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Musicians: |
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- Band
History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music
Ltd)
- Bandmasters,
by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
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Full Histories:
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