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40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot

The 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1717 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) to form the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) in 1881.

40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot

1717–1881

 Kingdom of Great Britain (1717–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)

 British Army

Line Infantry

Light Infantry

One battalion (2 battalions 1799-1802, 1804-1816)

Peninsula Barracks, Warrington

"The Excellers", "The Fighting Fortieth"

Light Buff Facings, Gold Braided Lace

Father Rale's War
King George's War
Father Le Loutre's War
French and Indian War
American Revolutionary War
Napoleonic Wars
War of 1812
First Anglo-Afghan War
Gwalior campaign
New Zealand Wars

Grenadier, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1767

Grenadier, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1767

Officer and Private, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1815

Officer and Private, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1815

Officer from the Light Company, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1826

Officer from the Light Company, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1826

Drummer, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1848

Drummer, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1848

Colour Sergeant, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1881

Colour Sergeant, 40th Regiment of Foot, 1881

Egypt, , Roliça, Vimiero, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Peninsula, Toulouse, Waterloo, Candahar (1842), Ghuznee (1842), Cabool (1842), Maharajpore, New Zealand

Montevideo

The battle honours of the regiment were as follows:[15]

1717–1750: Lt-Gen.

Richard Philipps

1750–1752: Lt-Gen. Hon.

Edward Cornwallis

Louisbourg Grenadiers

Allen, Joseph (1852). . Henry George Bohn.

Battles of the British Navy

Dunn, Brenda (2004). A History of Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal 1605–1800. Nimbus Publishing and the Historical Association of Annapolis Royal.  978-1551097404.

ISBN

Odgers, George (1988). Army Australia: An Illustrated History. Frenchs Forest, New South Wales: Child & Associates.  0-86777-061-9.

ISBN

Piers, Harry (1927). . Nova Scotia Historical Society.

Regiments Raised in Nova Scotia

Smythies, Captain Raymond R. H. (1894). . Devonport: A. H. Swiss.

Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment

Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum

Transforming New Englanders into British Regulars: History of the 40th Regiment of Foot, 1717-1764

40th Regiment – Re-enactors, French and Indian War

HM 40th Regiment of Foot, Light Infantry Company – A Living history organization portraying the Light Company during the American War for Independence

Harry Piers, "The Fortieth Regiment, Raised at Annapolis Royal in 1717; And Five Regiments Subsequently Raised in Nova Scotia," Nova Scotia Historical Society (1927)

Lt.-Col. Otho Hamilton of Olivestob : lieutenant-governor of Plancentia, lieutenant-colonel in the army, major of the 40th Regiment of Foot, member of the Nova Scotia council from 1731 to 1744 ; his sons, captain John and lieutenant-colonel Otho Hamilton, 2nd, and his grandson, Sir Ralph Hamilton, Kt. (1899)