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The 8th (King's) Regiment of Foot, also referred to in short as the 8th Foot and the King's, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1685 and retitled the King's (Liverpool Regiment) on 1 July 1881.
In 1702 when she succeeded the throne as Queen Anne, the sovereign ordered the title to be altered to The Queen's Regiment. In 1751, when all British Army infantry regiments were numbered, the title became; 8th or The King's Regiment after the then monarch King George II, and was from then onward referred to as 8th Foot, 8th Regiment or 8th King's.
4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot 1751–1867. 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot 1867–1881 [27] 1680 Raised 13 July 1680, as the 2nd Tangier Regiment. [26] 1881: The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 5: 5th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 5th (Northumberland) Regiment of Foot 1782–1836
The King's Hanoverian White Horse – 8th Foot [3] Kingsley's Stand – Lancashire Fusiliers [ 3 ] [ 29 ] Kirke's Lambs – The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) [ 1 ] [ 3 ] (from their Paschal Lamb badge; ironic allusion to their brutal conduct under Percy Kirke 's command during the Monmouth Rebellion ) [ 57 ]
When the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot became The King's (Liverpool Regiment) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, eight pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Lancashire and the Isle of Man were integrated into the structure of the King's Regiment. [1]
8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot; 14th King's Hussars; 19th Light Dragoons; 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot; 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot; 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot; 74 Battery (The Battle Axe Company) Royal Artillery; 76th Regiment of Foot; 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot
He was appointed an rnsign in the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot in 1825 and progressed through the ranks, becoming lieutenant in 1828, captain in 1835, major in 1844, lieutenant-colonel in 1846 and brevet colonel in 1854. He was brigadier general in Bengal from May to November 1855, April to December 1856 and June 1857 to April 1859.
Fischer's column consisted of the light companies of the 2/89th Foot and the 100th Foot, the remnants of the 1st Battalion, 8th (King's) Foot, which had suffered heavy casualties in earlier engagements, and volunteers from Fischer's own regiment, the Regiment de Watteville.