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54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot

The 54th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1755. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Dorsetshire Regiment in 1881.

For other regiments with the same number, see 54th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation).

54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot

1755–1881

 Kingdom of Great Britain (1755–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)

 British Army

Infantry

One battalion (two battalions 1800–1802)

Normanton Barracks, Derbyshire

The Popinjays[1]
The Flamers[1]

American Revolutionary War
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Fifth Xhosa War
First Anglo-Burmese War
Indian Rebellion

Marabout, Egypt

Second Burmese War:

Ava

Battle honours won by the regiment were:[3]

1755–1757: F.M. (Marquess of Lorne)

John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll

Allyn, Charles (1999) [1882]. . New London: Seaport Autographs. ISBN 978-0-9672626-1-1. OCLC 45702866.

Battle of Groton Heights: September 6, 1781

Bradlee, Francis B. C. (1913). . International Marine Engineering. 18 (February 1913). New York: Aldrich Publishing Company. Retrieved 1 March 2015.

"The Burning of the Sarah Sands"

Brown, Steve (September 2014). Burnham, Robert (ed.). (PDF). The Napoleon Series. Retrieved 1 March 2015.

"British Infantry Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815—54th Regiment of Foot"

Ofgang, Erik (9 May 2022). . Connecticut Magazine. New Haven, CT: Hearst Communications. Retrieved 9 February 2023.

"Did British troops murder surrendered American soldiers at Groton Heights during the Revolutionary War?"

Pigot, Major General (1778). . The London Gazette (12 September 1778). London. Retrieved 1 March 2015.

"Copy of a letter from Major General Pigot to Sir Henry Clinton"

. Thomason Civil Engineering College Press. 1881.

Records of the 54th West Norfolk Regiment

Townshend, Charles Hervey (1879). . New Haven, Connecticut. p. 40.

"The British invasion of New Haven, Connecticut"

Edwards, Francis (1908). . London: Francis & Co., The Athenæum Press.

Edwards's Military Catalogue—Entry for Records of the Fifty-fourth, West Norfolk Regiment in 8 volumes by Roorkee, 1851

(1870 account by "A Late 54th Officer")

Narrative of the Burning of the Sarah Sands Screw Steam Ship With the Headquarters of H. M. 54th Regiment On Board