The 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1702 and amalgamated into The East Lancashire Regiment in 1881. Infantry of the Royal Irish Rifles during the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Infantry are soldiers who fight primarily on foot with small arms in organized military units, though they may be transported to the battlefield by horses, ships, automobiles, skis, or other means. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The East Lancashire Regiment of the British Army was formed in 1881 from the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment Foot and the 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot . ...
The regiment was raised in February 1702, and saw service as marines, titled as the 1st Regiment of Marines. They converted back to conventional infantry in 1714. In 1751, they were numbered the 30th Regiment of Foot, and in 1782 took a county title as the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot.
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30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot, regiments.org
Cambridgeshire Genealogy - The 30th (the Cambridgeshires) FootRegiment
30thFoot Officer's shoulder belt plate worn by an Officer of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot circa 1840-1855.
Lieutenant Mark Walker, 30thRegiment, an Irishman, aged 26, 5 November 1854 at Inkerman, Crimea, jumped over a wall in the face of two battalions of Russian Infantry which were marching towards it.
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