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The regiment was an amalgamation of the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot and the 85th (King's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot, which became the regular 1st and 2nd Battalions. The 1881 reforms also redesignated the militia and rifle volunteers units within the regimental district as battalions of the regiment.
Category: Regiments of the British Army in World War I. 1 language. ... King's Shropshire Light Infantry (2 C, 4 P) M. Middlesex Regiment (2 C, 32 P)
The 1/1st Shropshire Yeomanry was mobilised with the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. It moved to East Anglia where it joined the 1st Mounted Division in September 1914. [9] In November 1915, the brigade was dismounted. [10] The regiment was posted with the brigade to Egypt in March 1916.
The 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot was a British Army regiment, raised in 1755. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 85th (King's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot to form the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1881.
The regiment was raised in Buckinghamshire by Lieutenant-Colonel George Nugent as the 85th Regiment of Foot, in response to the threat posed by the French Revolution, on 18 November 1793. [2] The regiment was sent to join the Duke of York 's army in the Netherlands in 1794 as part of the unsuccessful defence of that country against the ...
Most regiments had two regular battalions, supported by associated battalions from the Territorial Force ('part-time' soldiers) and Reserve Battalions. After the start of the war, many new battalions were raised and called " Service Battalions ".
53rd Regiment of Foot 1757–1782. 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 [90] 1755 Raised as 55th Regiment of Foot 1755, renumbered 53rd in 1757 on disbandment of existing 50th and 51st Foot. [90] 1881: 1st Battalion, The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment) The Rifles: 54: 54th Regiment of Foot 1741–1748 [91] 1741
This is a list of British Army cavalry and infantry regiments that were created by Childers reforms in 1881, a continuation of the Cardwell reforms.It also indicates the cavalry amalgamations that would take place forty years later as part of the Government cuts of the early 1920s.