53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot

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British Army regiment infantry regiment

The 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment raised in the 18th century that served in numerous campaigns across the British Empire before later being amalgamated into the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British Army regiment ⓘ
infantry regiment ⓘ
allegiance British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ
alsoKnownAs 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales’s) NERFINISHED ⓘ
amalgamatedInto King's Shropshire Light Infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ
amalgamatedWith 85th (Bucks Volunteers) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) NERFINISHED ⓘ
amalgamationScheme Childers Reforms NERFINISHED ⓘ
amalgamationYear 1881 ⓘ
associatedCounty Shropshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
battleHonour Aliwal NERFINISHED ⓘ
Bunker Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lucknow NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mysore NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nive NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nivelle NERFINISHED ⓘ
Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sobraon NERFINISHED ⓘ
Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ
branch British Army ⓘ
country Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
countyTitleGranted Shropshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
countyTitleYear 1782 ⓘ
disbandedOrCeasedToExist 1881 ⓘ
garrison Shrewsbury NERFINISHED ⓘ
militaryUnitType line infantry ⓘ
notableCommander Sir John Kempt NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sir Robert Abercromby NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf British Army infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ
raisedAs 55th Regiment of Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ
raisedInYear 1755 ⓘ
renumberedAs 53rd Regiment of Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ
renumberingYear 1756 ⓘ
servedInConflict American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ
First Anglo-Burmese War NERFINISHED ⓘ
French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ
Indian Rebellion of 1857 NERFINISHED ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ
Peninsular War NERFINISHED ⓘ
Second Anglo-Sikh War NERFINISHED ⓘ
Seven Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ
Waterloo Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ
servedInRegion Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ
Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ
North America NERFINISHED ⓘ
servedUnderMonarch George III NERFINISHED ⓘ
Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ
uniformFacingsColour black ⓘ

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King’s Shropshire Light Infantry → formedByAmalgamationOf → 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot ⓘ
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry → predecessor → 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot ⓘ