Somerset Light Infantry
13th Regiment of Foot Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) | |
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Active | 1685–1959 |
Country | Kingdom of England (to 1707) Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) |
The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army, which served under various titles from 1685 to 1959. In 1959, the regiment was amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry which was again amalgamated, in 1968, with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the Durham Light Infantry to form The Light Infantry. In 2007, however, The Light Infantry was amalgamated further with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets to form The Rifles.[2][4]
History
Early history
Formation
The regiment was one of nine
Jacobite wars
The regiment remained in existence when William III came to the throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Ferdinando Hastings took over the colonelcy of the regiment, which accordingly became Hastings's Regiment of Foot.[7][8][9] Hastings's Regiment first saw action at the Battle of Killiecrankie, where they failed to halt the advance of Jacobite rebels, although they were later defeated at the Battle of Dunkeld.[4][7][10] The regiment accompanied William to Ireland in the following year, fighting in the decisive Williamite victories at the Boyne and Cork.[4][8][11]
Nine Years' War
The Jacobite struggles in Scotland and Ireland were part of a wider European conflict that became known as the
War of the Spanish Succession
After a period of garrison duty in Ireland, Jacob's Regiment returned to Flanders in 1701. In the following year, the colonelcy again changed, with Sir John Jacob choosing to retire. He sold the colonelcy to his brother-in-law, Lieutenant-General
In 1704, Barrymore's Regiment moved to the
Anglo-Spanish War
When
War of the Austrian Succession
In 1742, Pulteney's Regiment sailed to Flanders, and in the following year was part of the joint British,
The "Forty Five"
In 1745, Pulteney's Regiment returned to Britain, moving to Scotland to suppress the Jacobite rising of 1745. They formed part of the defeated forces at the Battle of Falkirk in January 1746. Three months later, they took part in the final defeat of the Jacobites in Culloden.[4][8]
Return to Europe
Following the ending of the Jacobite rising, Pulteney's Regiment returned to Flanders, where they fought at the Battle of Rocoux (October 1746) and the Battle of Lauffeld or Val (July 1747). In both cases, the allied forces were defeated by the French.[4][8] The regiment returned to England in 1747, and the war was formally ended by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748.[16]
13th Regiment of Foot
By the late seventeenth century, each regiment of the standing army had been allotted a "rank" in the order of precedence. These numbers came to be increasingly used until a royal warrant of 1751 decreed that regiments should in future be known by their numbers only. Accordingly, Pulteney's Regiment became the 13th Regiment of Foot.[17]
The redesignated 13th Foot entered a thirty-year period of garrison service in England, Ireland, Gibraltar and Minorca.[18]
American Revolutionary War
In 1775, the
13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
It was at this time that the regiment's link to Somerset was first formed. On 21 August 1782, the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, Henry Seymour Conway, issued a regulation giving an English county designation to each regiment of foot other than those with a royal title or highland regiments. The intention was to improve recruitment during the unpopular war, and the Secretary at War, Thomas Townshend issued a circular letter to the lieutenants of each county in England in the following terms:
My Lord,
The very great deficiency of men in the regiments of infantry being so very detrimental to the public service, the king has thought proper to give the names of the different counties to the old corps, in hopes that, by the zeal and activity of the principal nobility and gentry in the several counties, some considerable assistance may be given towards recruiting these regiments".[20]
The regiment duly became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot (the
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
In 1790, the regiment sailed to Jamaica. In 1793, Britain was again at war with France, this time with the revolutionary régime. The 13th Foot landed in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, where the Haitian Revolution was in progress.[4][8]
Returning to Ireland in 1797 and England in 1799, the 13th were next engaged in a series of minor coastal assaults on the Spanish coast in 1800.[19]
In 1801, the regiment sailed to Egypt to help repel the
A temporary end to hostilities with France came in March 1802, with the signing of the Treaty of Amiens. The 13th Foot left Egypt in that month, sailing to Malta, where they were stationed for a year, before moving to Gibraltar. In 1805, the regiment returned to England. After occupying various stations in the south of the country, the 13th sailed for Ireland in May 1807. The regiment was brought up to full strength by an intake of volunteers from the Irish militia and sailed to Bermuda, arriving in March 1808. The regiment lost large numbers of men to disease while on the island. War had again broken out with France, and the 13th Foot formed part of the force that invaded and occupied the French colony of Martinique in January and February 1809.[8][21]
War with the United States
In
The regiment spent the next few years on garrison duty in Jersey, Guernsey, England, Scotland and Ireland.[8]
13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry)
In September 1822, the 13th Foot was moved to Chatham in Kent, where it was brought up to strength for service in India. While there, it was reconstituted as a light infantry regiment in December and was retitled as the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry).[23][24]
First Anglo-Burmese War
The 13th Light Infantry arrived in
The 13th Light Infantry returned to garrison duty in India. From 1826 to 1838, they were stationed in
First Anglo-Afghan War
In 1837,
The town was soon encircled, leading to a lengthy
13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
The conduct of the 13th at Jalalabad was officially rewarded on 26 August 1842, when
The 13th Light Infantry returned to England in 1845 after 23 years of foreign service. Presented with new colours at Portsmouth in 1846, the regiment moved to Ireland in the following year, remaining there until 1850, before spending a year in Scotland. From 1851–1854, they were stationed in Gibraltar.[8][32]
Crimean War
In 1854, the regiment was brought up to full strength and, in June of the following year, landed in the Crimea as part of the Anglo-French forces conducting a campaign against the Russians. They took part in the Siege of Sevastopol, and remained in the area after the ending of hostilities in February 1856, subsequently sailing to South Africa.[8][33]
Return to India
In May 1857, the Indian Mutiny broke out. Reinforcements were requested, and the 13th arrived at Kolkata in October 1857. They took part in some minor actions.[7]
The 1st Battalion saw active service in South Africa from 1877 to 1879, in the Bapedi (Sekukuni) campaign of 1878 to 1879, and in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.[8]
Formation of second battalion
The British Army had been shown to be overstretched by the Crimean War, while the mutiny in India had led to the responsibility for providing a garrison in the subcontinent from the
1st Battalion | 2nd Battalion |
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India 1858–1864 | England 1858–1859, South Africa 1859–1863 |
England 1864–1866 | Mauritius 1863–1867 |
Ireland 1866–1867 | |
Gibraltar 1867–1872 | England 1867–1871 |
Malta 1872–1874 | Ireland 1871–1875 |
South Africa 1874–1879 | Scotland 1875–1876, England 1876–1877 |
England 1879–1881 | Malta 1877–1877, South Africa 1875–1881 |
The 1st Battalion saw active service in South Africa after 1875, fighting in the Bapedi campaign against Sekukuni in 1878 and Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.[36]
Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
Childers reforms
The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the
On formation, the regiment had the following battalions:[8]
- 1st Battalion (formerly 1st Battalion, 13th Foot)
- 2nd Battalion (formerly 2nd Battalion, 13th Foot)
- 1st Somerset Light Infantry Militia)
- 2nd Somerset Light Infantry Militia)
- 1st Volunteer Battalion (formerly 1st Somersetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps)
- 2nd Volunteer Battalion (formerly 2nd Somersetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps)
- 3rd Volunteer Battalion (formerly 3rd Somersetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps)
The two regular battalions continued the system of alternating between home and foreign stations:
1st Battalion | 2nd Battalion |
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Ireland 1881–1886 | India 1881–1884 |
Burma 1884–1887 | |
England 1886–1891 | India 1887–1894 |
Gibraltar 1891–1893 | |
India 1893–1908 | England 1894–1895, Guernsey 1895–1897, England 1897–1899 |
South Africa 1899–1903 | |
England 1903–1908 | |
England 1908–1914 | Malta 1908–1911 |
China 1911–1913 | |
India 1913–1914 |
Actions in India and Burma
The 2nd Battalion took part in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1885 to 1887. Following an initial invasion, the battalion spent two years broken up into small groups pacifying the inhabitants of the country. While the unit lost only 17 men in combat, 150 were to die from disease.[40] During its period in India, the 1st Battalion was mainly stationed in the
Second Boer War
In October 1899, war broke out between
The
Haldane reforms
The Boer War had severely stretched the resources of the British Army and had exposed the weakness of the militia and volunteers as an effective reserve force. In 1907–1908,
In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former merging with the
First World War
The regiment's name was again changed to the Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) in 1912.[49]
The Regiment saw active service in the
Battalion | Notes |
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1st Battalion | In England on outbreak of war, on Western Front from August 1914 (part of 4th Division) |
2nd Battalion | In India on outbreak of war, and remained in the country (part of the 4th (Quetta) Division 1914–1917, 1st (Peshawar) Division 1917–1918). |
3rd (Reserve) Battalion (SR)
|
Training unit through which recruits passed. Originally in Taunton, moved to in 1918. |
1/4th Battalion (TF) | The original 4th Battalion, redesignated on the formation of duplicate 2/4th in September 1914. To India in November 1914 and Mesopotamia from 1916 (part of 3rd (Lahore) Division until September 1918, then 14th Indian Division) |
2/4th Battalion (TF) 2/4th (Pioneer) Battalion |
Duplicate of 4th Battalion, formed September 1914 as part of the 45th (2nd Wessex) Division. In India and the Andaman Islands from December 1914 – September 1917. To Egypt as part of the 75th Division September 1917, to France in January 1918. Converted to pioneer battalion, 34th Division June 1918. |
3/4th Battalion (TF) 4th (Reserve) Battalion |
Third-line duplicate of 4th Battalion, formed March 1915. Converted to reserve battalion in April 1916, remained in United Kingdom. |
1/5th Battalion (TF) | The original 5th Battalion, redesignated on the formation of duplicate 2/5th in September 1914. To India in November 1914 and then Egypt as part of the 75th Division from May 1917. |
2/5th Battalion (TF) 2/5th (Pioneer) Battalion |
Duplicate of 5th Battalion, formed September 1914 as part of the 45th (2nd Wessex) Division. In India from December 1914 where they were attached to Burma Division.[51] |
3/5th Battalion (TF) 5th (Reserve) Battalion |
Third-line duplicate of 5th Battalion, formed March 1915. Converted to reserve battalion in April 1916, remained in United Kingdom. |
6th (Service) Battalion | Formed August 1914. To Western Front as part of 14th (Light) Division. Following heavy casualties they formed a composite unit with the 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry April 1918, returned to England for reconstruction and absorbed 13th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, returned to France August 1918. |
7th (Service) Battalion | Formed September 1914. To Western Front as part of 20th (Light) Division July 1915. |
8th (Service) Battalion | Formed October 1914. To Western Front as part of 21st Division September 1915. Transferred to 37th Division July 1916. |
9th (Service) Battalion 9th (Reserve) Battalion |
Formed October 1914 as part of 33rd Division. Converted to Reserve battalion April 1915, converted to 45th Training Reserve Battalion 1916. Remained in United Kingdom. |
10th (Home Service) Battalion | Formed November 1916, disbanded November 1917 |
11th Battalion | Formed January 1917 by redesignation of 86th Provisional Battalion, TF. To France May 1918 as part of 59th (2nd North Midland) Division |
12th (West Somerset Yeomanry) Battalion. | Formed January 1917 in Egypt by conversion of West Somerset Yeomanry. Part of 74th (Yeomanry) Division. To France May 1918. |
13th (Home Service) Battalion | Formed April 1918 to replace 11th Battalion. |
1st Garrison Battalion | Formed 1917. To India. |
Inter-war period
Following the armistice ending the First World War, the war-raised battalions were rapidly disbanded.[8] The regular battalions returned to the pre-war system of alternating home and foreign stations. The 1st Battalion was stationed in Northern Ireland and England, before being stationed in Egypt (1926–1928), Hong Kong (1928–1930) and India from 1930.[8]
The 2nd Battalion, which had spent the entire war in India, fought in the brief Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919, seeing active service in Afghanistan and on the North-West Frontier.[8][52] Returning to India in 1920, the battalion moved to the Sudan in 1926 and England in 1927.[8]
The Territorial Force was reorganised to become the
On 1 January 1921, the regimental title was changed a final time, becoming The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's).[53]
Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
Second World War
Altogether, the Somerset Light Infantry raised 11 battalions for service during the Second World War, six of which saw service overseas. In addition to the Regular Army 1st and 2nd battalions, the existing 4th and 5th Territorial Army battalions both formed 2nd Line duplicate units in 1939 prior to war being declared: the 6th and 7th battalions, both part of 45th (Wessex) Division on the outbreak of war. The 8th (Home Defence) Battalion, which was also formed in 1939, was renumbered as the 30th Battalion in 1941. The 9th, 10th, 11th (Holding) and 50th (Holding) Battalions were all formed in 1940, although the latter two had ceased to exist by the end of the year.[8][54]
Regular Army
The 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, commanded by
The 2nd Battalion was serving with the
Territorial Army
The regiment also had four Territorial battalions, although only two would serve overseas. Throughout the war, the 4th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry served with the 129th Brigade, alongside the 4th and 5th Wiltshire Regiment, part of the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division, and spent most of its existence in the United Kingdom in Kent under XII Corps of Southern Command.[59]
The 7th Battalion, which had been created on 24 August 1939[60] as a 2nd Line duplicate of the 5th, was originally serving alongside both the 5th and 6th battalions in 135th Brigade, of the 45th Division. On 11 September 1942, the battalion was transferred to the 214th Infantry Brigade, which included the 5th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and the 9th Somersets (later replaced by the 1st Worcestershire Regiment).[61]
Both the 4th and 7th battalions served in the
Hostilities-only
The other battalion to see active service was the 10th Battalion, raised in 1940, which was converted in 1942 into the
The SLI also had responsibility for defending local airfields, including RNAS Charlton Horethorne, where they prepared trenches, hardpoints and machine gun positions.[64]
The 30th Battalion, of
Post war to amalgamation
The reconstituted 1st Battalion was stationed in Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine from 1951–1953. From 1952–1955, it formed part of the British forces fighting in the Malayan Emergency, where it took part in jungle warfare.[7][66] In its final years, the battalion was involved in a number of conflicts: the anti-tank platoon formed part of the Anglo-French force that intervened in the Suez Crisis of 1956. The majority of the battalion was in Cyprus, where a nationalist uprising against British rule had broken out. In 1957, they returned to Germany.[7]
In 1947, the Territorial Army was reconstituted and the 4th and 6th Battalion were reformed as infantry battalions; the 5th Battalion was reformed as a unit of the Royal Artillery. Three years later, the 4th Battalion absorbed the two other units.[8][67]
Amalgamation
The regiment amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1959 to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry. This, in turn, amalgamated with the three other regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade to form The Light Infantry in 1968.[68]
Regimental museum
The Somerset Military Museum is based at Taunton Castle.[69]
Battle honours
The regiment was awarded the following battle honours for display on the colours:[8][70][71]
Displayed on the regimental colours
- Gibraltar 1704–5
- Dettingen
- Martinique 1809
- Ava
- Ghuznee 1839
- Affghanistan 1839 (sic)
- Cabool 1842
- Sevastopol
- South Africa 1878–9
- Burma 1885–87
- Relief of Ladysmith
- South Africa 1899–1902
- Afghanistan 1919
- The sphinx superscribed "Egypt"
- A mural crown superscribed "Jellalabad"
First World War
Battle honours in bold were selected for display on the King's/Queen's Colours.
- Le Cateau
- Retreat from Mons
- Marne 1914 '18
- Aisne 1914
- Armentières 1914
- Ypres 1915 '17 '18
- St. Julien
- Frezenberg
- Bellewaarde
- Hooge 1915
- Loos
- Mount Sorrel
- '18
- Albert 1916 '18
- Delville Wood
- Guillemont
- Flers-Courcelette
- Morval
- Le Transloy
- Ancre 1916 '18
- '18
- Vimy 1917
- Scarpe 1917 '18
- Arleux
- Langemarck 1917
- Menin Road
- Polygon Wood
- Broodseinde
- Poelcappelle
- Passchendaele
- Cambrai 1917 '18
- St. Quentin
- Bapaume 1918
- Rosières
- Avre
- Lys
- Hazebrouck
- Béthune
- Soissonais-Ourq
- Drocourt-Quéant
- Hindenburg Line
- Havrincourt
- Épehy
- Canal du Nord
- Courtrai
- Selle
- Valenciennes
- Sambre
- France and Flanders 1914–18
- Gaza
- El Mughar
- Nebi Samwil
- Jerusalem
- Megiddo
- Sharon
- Palestine 1917 '18
- Tigris 1916
- Sharqat
- Mesopotamia 1916–18
- N.W. Frontier India 1915
Second World War
Battle honours in bold were selected for display on the King's/Queen's Colours.
- Odon
- Caen
- Hill 112
- Mont Pincon
- Noireau Crossing
- Seine 1944
- Nederrijn
- Geilenkirchen
- Roer
- Rhineland
- Cleve
- Goch
- Hochwald
- Xanten
- Rhine
- Bremen
- North-West Europe 1944–45
- Cassino II
- Trasimene Line
- Arezzo
- Advance to Florence
- Capture of Forli
- Cosina Canal Crossing
- Italy 1944–45
- Athens
- Greece 1944–45
- North Arakan
- Buthidaung
- Ngakyedauk Pass
- Burma 1943–44
Colonels
The colonels of the regiment were as follows:[72]
Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot
- 1685–1688: Col Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon
- 1688–1695: Col Ferdinando Hastings
- 1695–1702: Col Sir John Jacob
- 1702–1715: Lt-Gen James Barry, 4th Earl of Barrymore
- 1715–1725: Col Stanhope Cotton
- 1725–1732: Gen Lord Mark Kerr
- 1732–1739: Brig-Gen John Middleton
- 1739–1766: Gen Hon Harry Pulteney
13th Regiment of Foot
- 1766–1767: F.M. HRH William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester
- 1767–1789: Gen Hon James Murray
The 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1789–1804: Gen George Ainslie
- 1804–1813: Gen Alexander Campbell
- 1813–1843: Gen Edward Morrison
The 13th (1st Somersetshire) Prince Albert's Light Infantry
- 1843–1846: Major-Gen Sir Robert Henry Sale GCB
- 1846–1863: F.M. Sir William Maynard Gomm GCB
- 1863–1864: Major-Gen Philip McPherson
- 1864–1880: Gen Philip Spencer Stanhope
The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
- 1880–1900: Gen Lord Mark Ralph George Kerr GCB
- 1900–1901: Lt-Gen Sir John William Cox KCB
- 1901–1910: Major-Gen Edward Lutwyche England CB
- 1910–1914: Major-Gen Sir Henry Hallam Parr KCB CMG
- 1914–1919: Major-Gen Richard Lloyd Payne CB DSO
- 1919–1929: Lt-Gen Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow KCB KCMG
- 1929–1938: Gen Sir Walter Pipon Braithwaite GCB
- 1938–1947: Major-Gen Vivian Henry Bruce Majendie CB DSO
- 1947–1953: Lt-Gen Sir John George des Reaux Swayne KCB CBE
- 1953–1959: F.M. John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton GCB CBE DSO MC
Victoria Cross recipients
- Lieutenant George Albert Cairns
- Private Patrick Carlin
- Major William Knox Leet
- Sergeant William Napier
- Private Thomas Henry Sage
Dress and insignia
Facings
From its establishment in 1685, the regiment had a red coat with yellow
Sergeants' sash
A distinction unique to the regiment was that the warrant officers and sergeants wore their sashes over the left shoulder and tied on the right side,[78] in the same manner as officers. This commemorated the regiment's stand at Culloden, where the large number of officer casualties led to the sergeants taking command.[3][7] This was authorised in 1865, although appears to have been worn earlier without authority; the origin is disputed, since the regiment did not report any casualties as a result of Culloden.[79] In 1898, officers of all regiments were ordered to wear the sash knotted on the left side, with the exception of the Somerset Light Infantry who were permitted to continue with the knot on the right.[80]
Light infantry distinctions
In 1822, the regiment was granted light infantry distinctions, which survived in the scarlet
Badges
The first distinctive badge awarded to the regiment was the sphinx for service in Egypt, authorised in 1802.[8] From 1814, a stringed bugle-horn had been the approved badge of light infantry and rifle regiments.[80] When the 13th Foot were converted to light infantry in 1822, the badge adopted for the shako head-dress was a "bugle-horn with strings with the numerals 13 in the centre and surmounted by the Sphinx".[82] When a new model of shako was adopted in 1844, a mural crown and scroll inscribed "Jellalabad" were added. Similar devices were used on the plate of the home service helmet adopted in 1878.[82] In 1898, when khaki service dress was introduced, a metal badge was designed for the new slouch hat. This consisted of a bugle surmounted by a mural crown above which was a scroll inscribed "Jellalabad". The cypher "PA" for Prince Albert was placed within the strings of the bugle horn. This remained the regiment's cap badge on various forms of head-dress until amalgamation.[82]
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