61st Regiment of Foot (disambiguation)

Last updated March 05, 2019

Four regiments of the British Army have been numbered the 61st Regiment of Foot:

61st Regiment of Foot, raised in 1742 and disbanded in 1748.
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot, 61st Regiment of Foot, raised in 1755 and renumbered as the 59th in 1756. It was amalgamated with the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot in 1881 to form the East Lancashire Regiment.
76th Regiment of Foot (1756). Raised in November 1756 as the 61st Regiment, but renumbered to 76th, by General Order in 1758, and disbanded in 1763.
61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot, formed in 1758 from the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment of Foot. Amalgamated into the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1881.

The 59th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1755 in response to the threat of renewed war with France. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot to form the East Lancashire Regiment in 1881.

The 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 59th Regiment of Foot to form the East Lancashire Regiment in 1881.

The East Lancashire Regiment was, from 1881 to 1958, a line infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot and 59th Regiment of Foot with the militia and rifle volunteer units of eastern Lancashire. In 1958 the regiment was amalgamated with the South Lancashire Regiment to form the Lancashire Regiment which was, in 1970, merged with the Loyal Regiment to form the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. In 2006, the Queen's Lancashire was further amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the King's Regiment to form the present Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.

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