1st / 99th Foot (Lanarkshire)
Regiment of Foot 1843 - 1856
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- The Regiment
- Known as
(nickname)................................................... " Queens Pets
" The Lankarks
- Facings............................................................................ PALE YELLOW
- Braided
Lace..................................................................
The
99th wore no lace
- Service in
Australia
....................................................... 1842 saw the 99th Regiment leave
Chatham for Tasmania and arrived in Sydney 1843.The 99th
was a very unpopular Regiment with the 11th Regiment
being bought to Sydney to control the 99th. 1848 The 99th
was stationed in Hobart and left Australia in 1856.
Stationed at Hobart, Sydney, Norfolk Island,
Victoria, Moreton Bay,
- Commanding Officer......................................................Lieut.
Colonel H. Despard
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- This Regiment began its military
term in 1760 but was know only as the 99th Regiment of
Foot. After 3 years of service as the 99th the Regiment
was disbanded .
- Following is a short history of
its reforms and disbandment
- 1780...99th (Jamaica) Regiment of Foot
disbanded 1804
- 1804...98th (Prince of Wales"
Tipperary) Regiment of Foot disbanded 1815
- 1815...99th ( H. R. H. . The Prince Regent's
County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot disbanded 1818
- 1824...99th ( Lanarkshire )Regiment of Foot
- 1832...99th
(Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1874...99th (The Duke of Edinburgh's
Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881....Linked with 62nd Regiment and became
The 2nd Battalion of the The Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment
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- Present.....Forms part of The Duke
of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire & Wiltshire)
- First Detachment 99th Foot Regiment came to
Australia as a guard on the convict ship " North
Briton,
- which "was bringing convicts out to Tasmania
in 1842.
- Second Detachment 99th Foot Regiment came to
Australia as a guard on the convict ship " John
Renwick "
- which was bringing convicts out to Tasmania in
1842.
- Third Detachment 99th Foot Regiment came to
Australia as a guard on the convict ship " Candahar
"
- which was bringing convicts out to Tasmania in
1842.
- After serving sometime in the Parramatta area and
also Port Phillip, they were sent to New Zealand to
- engage the Maoris.
Regimental Museum of the Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire
and Wiltshire Regiment. The Museum site is www.thewardrobe.org
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- Military records of the Regiment ,
Pay rolls, Pay Musters, Cemetery Records, Church Records
& General Muster Records. Reference:
Records of the 99th Mitchell Library Sydney, Australia
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- © Copyright B & M Chapman
(QLD) Australia
- Last revised: April 28, 2008.
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