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Regiment of Foot |
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| 1755.12.28 | 58th
Regiment of Foot raised at Newcastle and Gateshead |
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| 1756.12.25 | 56th Regiment
of Foot renumbered upon disbandment of 50th Regiment and 51st Regiment |
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| 1782.08.31 | 56th (the West Essex) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1881.07.01 | united with 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot, to form The Essex Regiment | |
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| Regulars: | ||
| [1st Battalion] [1757-1881] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1804-1817] | ||
3rd
Battalion [1813-1814] 
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| Depot and Reserves: | ||
| Reserve Battalion [1846-1848]: | ||
| ? Depot Battalion [1856-1871] | ||
| 44th Brigade Depot (1873-1881) | ||
| Moro,
[Gibraltar 1779-1783]1,
Sevastopol
1. the Castle and Key badge superscribed
"Gibraltar 1779-83" and subscribed "Montis Insignia
Calpe" (dates added 1909). |
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| 1755.12.26 | Maj-Gen. Lord Charles Manners | |
| 1761.12.17 | Lt-Gen. Hon. William Keppel | |
| 1765.06.12 | Lt-Gen. James Durand | |
| 1766.05.22 | Gen. Hunt Walsh | |
| 1795.03.07 | F.M. Sir Samuel Hulse, Bt., GCH | |
| 1797.01.24 | Gen. Hon. Chapple Norton | |
| 1818.03.18 | Gen. Sir John Murray, Bt., GCH | |
| 1827.10.29 | Gen. Matthew (Aylmer), 5th Lord Aylmer, GCB | |
| 1832.07.23 | Lt-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, KCB, GCMG | |
| 1842.11.17 | Gen. John (Fane), 11th Earl of Westmorland, GCB, GCH | |
| 1859.10.17 | Lt-Gen. John Home Home | |
| 1860.04.23 | Gen. Henry William Breton | |
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The Essex Regiment Museum, Chelmsford (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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The Essex Regimental Museum, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing). | |
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The Essex Regiment Museum, Chelmsford. | |
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Colchester Museum, Colchester (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Saffron Walden Museum, Saffron Walden (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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| Full Histories: | ||
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record of the Fifty-Sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844. London : Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, 1844. | |
