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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
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1702.02.12 |
Earl of Huntingdon's
Regiment of Foot
also known until 1751 by the names of other
colonels |
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1751.07.01 |
33rd Regiment
of Foot |
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1782.08.31 |
33rd (the 1st
Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot |
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1853.06.28 |
33rd (The Duke
of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
so named by Queen Victoria nine months after
the death of the 1st Duke of Wellington, the
only regiment to bear the name of a commoner after 1782 |
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1881.07.01 |
united
with 76th Regiment of Foot, to form The Duke of Wellington's
(West Riding Regiment) |
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Badges: |
The Duke of Wellington's
Crest, with the motto 'Virtutis fortuna comes' (awarded 28 June
1853) |
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Uniform: |
scarlet; facings: scarlet
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1702.02.12 |
Col. George (Hastings), 8th Earl of Huntingdon |
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1703.03.02 |
Col. Henry Leigh |
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1705.02.12 |
Col. Robert Duncanson
[responsible for Glencoe
massacre; KIA at Alcantara] |
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1705.06.09 |
F.M.
GeorgeWade [also 3rd Dgn
Gds; C-in-C
1945] |
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1717.03.19 |
Lt-Gen. Henry Hawley [also
1st Dgns, 13th
Dgns] |
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1730.07.09 |
Lt-Gen. Robert Dalzell [also
38th Foot] |
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1739.11.07 |
Lt-Gen. John Johnston |
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1753.11.20 |
Maj-Gen. Lord Charles Hay |
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1760.05.05 |
F.M.
John Griffin Griffin (Whitwell), 4th Baron Howard de Walden, KB (Lord
Braybrooke) [also 1st
Tp Horse Gren Gds, 4th Dgns, 33rd
Foot, 50th Foot] |
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1766.03.21 |
Gen. Charles (Cornwallis), 1st Marquess
Cornwallis, KG [Constable of the Tower 1770-84,
Gov-Gen & C-in-C
India, MGO 1795-1801] |
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1806.01.30 |
F.M.
Sir Arthur (Wellesley), 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH
[also RHG, Gren
Gds; Col-in-Chief, Rifle Bde; MGO 1819-27;
C-in-C 1827-28,
1842-52; PM 1828, 1830-34; Constable of the Tower 1826-52] |
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1813.01.01 |
Gen. Sir John Cope Sherbrooke, GCB
[also 68th Foot, 3rd
W India Rgt] |
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1830.02.22 |
Gen. Lord Charles Henry Somerset [to
1795; also 103rd Regt, 1st
W India Regt; Gov. Cape 1813-25] |
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1831.02.25 |
Gen. Sir Charles Wale, KCB [Gov.
Mauritius 1812-15] |
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1845.04.04 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, KCB [also
54th Foot, 90th Foot] |
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1847.09.28 |
Gen. Henry D'Oyly |
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1855.09.27 |
F.M.
Sir Charles Yorke, GCB [also 2nd Bn Rifle
Bde; Constable of the Tower 1875-80] |
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1863.04.01 |
Gen. William Nelson Hutchinson [continued
1881 in Duke of Wellington's Rgt] |
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Motto: |
Virtutis fortuna
comes |
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Nicknames: |
The Havercake
Lads (late 18th century, from practice of recruiting sergeants
tempting recruits with oat cakes); The Pattern (for excellent
discipline in American War of Independence); The Dukes. |
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Anniversaries: |
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Freedoms: |
none |
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Marches: |
quick:
The Wellesley |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Full Histories:
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Lee, Albert. History of the Thirty-third
Foot, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. Norwich
: Printed by Jarrold & Sons, Ltd., the Empire Press, 1922. |
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Manuscripts
and Archives: |
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Orderly
Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John
K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75) |
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by Richard Harvey 
