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Page created 20 July 2000. Corrected and updated 11.10.2004
 
 
99th (Lanarkshire)
Regiment of Foot
 
United Kingdom 
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How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
1824.03.25 99th Regiment of Foot
1832.12.31 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot
1874.05.12 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot
(named for Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh)
1881.07.01 united with 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot to form The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
99th Regiment, by The Wardrobe.
Regimental Timeline, by The Wardrobe
History (to 1881) [49th, 62nd, 66th, and 99th Foot] by The Wardrobe (Museum site)
99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment, by Scottish Military Historical Society.
1st/99th Foot (Wiltshire Duke of Edinburgh) Regiment [in Australia] 1843-1856, by B & M Chapman.
     
  Regulars:
    [1st Battalion] [1824-1881]
Depot and Reserves:
  ? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
  38th Brigade Depot at Devizes [1873-1881]
 
 
New Zealand1, Pekin 1860

1.  awarded for services in 1846-1847.
Note: see also successor for belatedly awarded battle honours.

   
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1824.03.25 Gen. Gage John Hall
1832.01.30 Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Reynell, Bt, KCB
1834.08.15 Lt-Gen. Sir Colin Campbell, KCB
1836.08.15 Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, KCB
1839.12.23 F.M. Sir Hugh (Gough), 1st Viscount Gough, KP, GCB, GCSI
1841.03.15 Gen. Sir Howard Douglas, Bt, GCB, GCMG
1851.10.06 Gen. Sir John Hanbury, KCB, KCH
1863.06.08 Maj-Gen. John Napper Jackson
1866.01.26 Gen. Samuel Haybrooke
1880.10.08 Gen. Sir Henry James Warre, KCB
 
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Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment Salisbury Museum, Salisbury (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Museum of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment, Salisbury (Simonides listing)
The Wardrobe: RGBW Regimental Museum, Salisbury (Museum site)
Memorial to the wreck of the Waterloo, Table Bay, 1842, by Colyn Brookes.
   
   
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