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51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding), or The King's Own Light Infantry Regiment
 
United Kingdom 
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1755.12.25 53rd Regiment of Foot
1756.12.25 51st Regiment of Foot
renumbered upon disbandment of old 50th Regiment and 51st Regiment
1782.08.31 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot
1809.05 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
1821.04.11 51st (the 2nd Yorkshire West Riding) or The King's Own Light Infantry Regiment
(named for King George IV)
1881.07.01 united with 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry) , to form The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)
pip 2nd/51st Foot (Yorkshire, West Riding) Light Infantry Regiment 1825-1831, by B & M Chapman.
     
  Regulars:
    [1st Battalion] [1755-1881]
    2nd Battalion [1804-1814]
   
Depot and Reserves:
  ? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
  8th Brigade Depot at Pontefract [1873-1881]
   
   
Minden, Corunna, Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Peninsula, Waterloo, Pegu, Ali Masjid, Afghanistan 1878-80
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Uniform: 1755-1821: scarlet; facings: grass green
1821-1881: scarlet; facings: blue
   
   
     
   
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1755.12.19 Lt-Gen. Robert Napier
1757.04.22 Lt-Gen. Thomas Brudenell
1767.06.24 Gen. Archibald (Montgomerie), 11th Earl of Eglinton
1795.12.02 Lt-Gen. Anthony George Martin
1800.05.09 Gen. William Morshead
1822.06.04 Gen. Sir Thomas Hislop, Bt., GCB
1829.12.25 Lt-Gen. Sir Benjamin d'Urban, GCB, KCH
1849.06.26 Gen. Sir Thomas Willshire, Bt., GCB
1862.06.01 Gen. Sir William Henry Elliott, GCB, KH
1874.03.28 Gen. John Leslie Dennis, CB
1879.09.27 Gen. Arnold Charles Errington
  • Succession of Colonels, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
  • Commanding Officers, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
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  • Band History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
  • Bandmasters, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
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monument KOYLI  Regimental Gallery, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
monument KOYLI  Regimental Gallery, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, (Simonides listing)
   
   
Full Histories:
book Wheater, William. A record of the services of the fifty-first (Second West York), the King's Own Light Infantry Regiment : with a list of officers from 1755 to 1870. London : Longmans : Green, 1870.
book Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. London : P. Lund, Humphries, 1926. (History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ; v.1-2) [from 1755 to 1914]
 
Special Topics:
book Deedes, Charles Parker. History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry : A register of officers who have served on a regular commission in the regiment since its formation on the 19th December 1755, until the end of the war on the 15th August 1945. London : L. Humphries, 1946. (History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ; v.4)