Distribution of the British Army 3 May 1856 Date of Date of return Whence going on from Returned Foreign Foreign Station Depot Service Service 1st Lifeguards Windsor Feb 1816 France 2nd Life Guards Regent's Park Feb 1816 France Royal Horse Gds Hyde Park Feb 1816 France 1st Dragoon Gds Turkey Exeter July 1855 2nd Dragoon Gds Nov 1818 France 3rd Dragoon Gds Jan 1816 France 4th Dragoon Gds Scutari Newbridge June 1854 5th Dragoon Gds Scutari Newbridge May 1854 6th Dragoon Gds Scutari Birmingham July 1855 7th Dragoon Gds Edinburgh Jun 1848 Cape 1st Dragoons Scutari Canterbury May 1854 2nd Dragoons Scutari Cahir July 1854 3rd Lancers Hounslow May 1853 Bengal 4th Lancers Scutari Brighton July 1854 6th Dragoons Scutari Canterbury June 1854 7th Hussars York Dec 1842 Canada 8th Hussars Scutari Newbridge Apr 1854 9th Lancers Umballa, Ben Maidstone May 1842 10th Hussars Scutari Maidstone May 1846 11th Lt Dragoons Scutari Newbridge May 1854 12th Lancers Scutari Maidstone Jul 1851 13th Lt Dragoons Scutari Dorchester May 1854 14th Dragoons Kirkee Maidstone May 1841 15th Hussars Manchester Jun 1854 E. Indies 16th Lancers Dec 1846 Bengal 17th Lancers Scutari Brighton Apr 1854 Gren Gds 1st Bn W'ton Bar 1828 Portugal Gren Gds 2nd Bn Windsor Oct 1842 Canada Gren Gds 3rd Bn Crimea Feb 1854 Colds Gds 1st Bn Crimea Feb 1854 Colds Gds 2nd Bn The Tower Oct 1842 Canada Sc Fus Gds 1st Bn Crimea Feb 1854 Sc Fus Gds 2nd Bn St. Geo'sBar 1828 Portugal 1st Foot 1st Bn Crimea Parkhurst Apr 1854 1st Foot 2nd Bn Crimea 5 Fermoy Jan 1853 2nd Foot C of Good Hope Buttevant June 1851 3rd Foot Crimea 6 Winchester Apr 1851 4th Foot Crimea I of Wight Mat 1854 5th Foot Mauritius Chatham July 1847 6th Foot C of Good Hope Leeds Aug 1846 7th Foot Crimea Winchester Apr 1854 8th Foot Cawnpore Chatham Apr 1846 9th Foot Crimea 2 Limerick Feb 1854 1
Date of Date of return Whence going on from Returned Foreign Foreign Station Depot Service Service 10th Foot Wuzeerabad Chatham Apr 1842 11th Foot Australia Colchester July 1845 12th Foot 1st Bn Australia Chatham Jun 1854 12th Foot res Bn C of Good Hope Nov 1842 13th Foot Crimea 3 Templemore May 1851 14th Foot Crimea 5 Mullingar Apr 1854 15th Foot May 1855 Ceylon 16th Foot Quebec Fermoy Jan 1846 17th Foot Crimea 2 Limerick Apr 1854 18th Foot Crimea Preston Dec 1854 19th Foot Crimea Walmer Apr 1854 20th Foot Crimea Isle of Wt May 1854 21st Foot Crimea 5 Birr Aug 1854 22nd Foot Portsmouth Jul 1855 E Indies 23rd Foot Crimea 7 Winchester Apr 1854 24th Foot Bengal Canterbury May 1848 25th Foot Manchester Aug 1855 E Indies 26th Foot Bermuda Chatham Mar 1850 27th Foot Bengal Canterbury July 1854 28th Foot Crimea 5 Isle of Wt Feb 1854 29th Foot Bengal 1 Chatham Apr 1842 30th Foot Crimea 3 Fermoy Jan 1851 31st Foot Crimea 3 Walmer Jan 1853 32nd Foot Bengal Chatham May 1846 33rd Foot Crimea Fermoy Mar 1851 34th Foot Crimea Preston Aug 1854 35th Foot Bengal Chatham July 1854 36th Foot Jamaica Alderney Jan 1847 37th Foot Ceylon Chatham Nov 1846 38th Foot Crimea Walmer Apr 1854 39th Foot Crimea 2 Limerick Apr 1854 40th Foot Van D's Land Chatham July 1852 41st Foot Crimea Templemore Feb 1851 42nd Foot Crimea Stirling May 1854 43rd Foot Madras Chatham Oct 1851 44th Foot Crimea Walmer Apr 1848 45th Foot C of Good Hope Chatham Feb 1843 46th Foot Crimea 6 Winchester Oct 1854 47th Foot Crimea 5 Templemore Feb 1851 48th Foot Crimea 5 Isle of Wt Feb 1853 49th Foot Crimea Fermoy Feb 1851 50th Foot Crimea Fermoy Feb 1851 51st Foot Malta Bury Aug 1855 52nd Foot Bengal Chatham June 1853 53rd Foot Bengal Chatham Aug 1844 54th Foot Gibraltar 1 Canterbury Oct 1845 55th Foot Crimea 3 Templemore Feb 1851 56th Foot Crimea Mullingar July 1855 57th Foot Crimea 5 Birr Feb 1853 58th Foot On pass Cork Kilkenny May 1844 2
Date of Date of return Whence going on from Returned Foreign Foreign Station Depot Service Service 59th Foot Hong Kong Londonderry June 1849 60th Foot 1st Bn Bengal Chatham July 1845 60th Foot 2nd Bn C of Good Hope Sligo June 1851 60th Foot 3rd Bn Kildare 61st Foot Bengal Chatham July 1845 62nd Foot Crimea 4 Mullingar Feb 1851 63rd Foot Crimea 4 Birr July 1854 64th Foot Kurrachee Chatham Jan 1849 65th Foot New Zealand Jersey May 1846 66th Foot Gibraltar 1 Devonport July 1845 67th Foot Trinidad Guernsey Jan 1848 68th Foot Crimea 6 Fermoy Feb 1851 69th Foot Barbadoes Cork Nov 1847 70th Foot Ferozepore, Ben Chatham Jan 1849 71st Foot Crimea 5 Perth Dec 1854 72nd Foot Crimea Edinburgh Dec 1854 73rd Foot C of Good Hope Jersey Sep 1845 74th Foot Madras Chatham Mat 1851 75th Foot Bengal Chatham May 1849 76th Foot Halifax N.S. Jersey Mar 1848 77th Foot Crimea 5 Isle of Wt Mar 1854 78th Foot Poona Chatham Apr 1842 79th Foot Crimea Aberdeen May 1854 80th Foot Jun 1854 Madras 81st Foot Bengal Chatham Jul 1853 82nd Foot Crimea 7 Fermoy Jan 1855 83rd Foot Bombay Chatham Jan 1849 84th Foot Madras Chatham Apr 1842 85th Foot Mauritius Newcastle Jan 1853 86th Foot Bombay Chatham Apr 1842 87th Foot Bengal Chatham Apr 1849 88th Foot Crimea Colchester Apr 1854 89th Foot Crimea 3 Limerick Apr 1854 90th Foot Crimea 7 Dundee Nov 1854 91st Foot 1st Bn Athens Dec 1854 92nd Foot Crimea 3 Edinburgh Mar 1851 93rd Foot Crimea 7 Dundee Feb 1851 94th Foot Gibraltar 1 Devonport Sep 1855 95th Foot Crimea Isle of Wt Apr 1854 96th Foot Apr 1855 E Indies 97th Foot Crimea Preston May 1854 98th Foot Sheffield May 1855 E Indies 99th Foot On pass Cork Cork Sep 1842 Rifle Bde 1st Bn Crimea July 1854 Rifle Bde 2nd Bn Crimea Feb 1854 Rifle Bde 3rd Bn Land Transport C Crimea Bristol Medical Staff Cor Brompton Turkish Cont Crimea Tilbury Fort German For Leg Crimea Hythe 3
Swiss For Leg Crimea Dover Italian For Leg Malta Colonial Corps 1st West India Regiment at Jamaica, Depot - Chatham 2nd West India Regiment at Demerera, Depot - Chtahm 3rd West India Regiment at Jamaica, Depot - Chatham Ceylon Rifle Regiment at Ceylon Cape Mounted Rifles at Cape of Good Hope Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment at Kingston St. Helena Regiment at St. Helena Royal Newfoundland Veteran Coys at Newfoundland Gold Coast Corps at Gold Coast Royal Malta Fencibles at Malta English & Welsh Embodied Militia Regiment Anglesea (Royal) Bedford Berks (Royal) Brecknock (Royal)Rifles Bucks (Royal) Cardigan Cambridge Cheshire (1st) Cheshire (2nd) Cornwall & Devon Cumberland Denbigh (Royal) Rifles Derby (1st) Derby (2nd) Devon (1st) Devon (2nd) Devon Artillery Dorset Durham (1st South) Durham (2nd North) Essex Rifles Essex (West) Glamorgan Gloster (North) Gloster (South) Hampshire Hampshire Artillery Hants (Isle of Wight Artillery) Hereford Hertford Kent (East) Kent (West) Kent Artillery Lancashire (1st Royal) Lancashire (2nd) Sheffield Ionian Islands, Reading Brecon High Wycombe Aberystwyth Ely Chester Pendennis Wrexham Derby Chesterfield Limerick Devonport Devonport Gosport Barnard Castle Burnley Colchester Colchester Cardiff Cirencester Winchester Portsmouth Fort Victoria Malta, Canterbury Castlebar Canterbury Zante Glasgow 4
Lancashire (3rd) Lancashire (4th) Lancashire (5th) Lancashire (6th) Lancashire Artillery Leicestershire Lincoln (North) Lincolnshire (Royal South) London Middlesex (East) Middlesex (3rd or Royal Westminster) Middlesex (4th South) Middlesex (5th Elthorne) Monmouth Light Infantry Montgomery Rifles Norfolk Artillery Norfolk (1st West) Norfolk (2nd East) Northampton Northumberland Nottingham Oxford Pembroke Artillery Queen's Own Light Infantry Radnor Rifles Shropshire Somerset (1st) Somerset (2nd) Stafford (1st) Stafford (2nd) Stafford (3rd) Suffolk Artillery Suffolk (West) Surrey (1st) Surrey (2nd) Sussex Sussex Artillery Warwick (1st) Warwick (2nd) Wiltshire Worcester York (East) York Rifles (North) York (1st) West York (2nd) York (3rd) York (4th) Gibraltar, Preston Newry Ashton Liverpool Canterbury Cork Hampstead Ionian Islands Buttevant Pembroke Welch Pool Ipswich Fermoy Colchester Gibraltar, Northampton Carlisle Athlone Ionian Islands, Oxford Pembroke Woolwich Brecon Shrewsbury Corfu, Lichfield Porstmouth Newcastle-under-Lyne Ipswich Bury St. Edmunds Portsmouth Guildford Eastbourne Plymouth Armagh Corfu, Devizes Bradford Cahir Gibraltar, York Belfast Hull Scotch Aberdeen (Royal) Argyle and Bute Ayr (Rifles) Berwick, Haddington, Linlithgow & Peebles Dumfries, Roxburgh & Selkirk Aberdeen Oban Ayr Dunse Dumfries 5
Edinburgh Edinburgh Artillery Fife Forfar & Kincardine Galloway Rifles Inverness, Banff, Elgin & Nairn Lanark (1st) Lanark (2nd) Perth Renfrew Ross, Caithness Stirling &C Dalkeith Greenlaw Cupar Fort George Newton Stewart Fort George Hamilton Airdrie Perth Paisley Fort George Stirling Irish Antrim Rifles Antrim Artillery Armagh Armagh Artillery Carlow (Rifles) Cavan Clare Cork City Artillery Cork (North) (Rifles) Cork (South) Cork (3rd) Donegal (Artillery Donegal North Down Rifles South Down City Artillery County Fermanagh Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Fusiliers King's County Leitrim Limerick City Artillery Limerick County Artillery Londonderry Longford Louth Rifles Mayo (North) Mayo (South) Meath Monaghan Queen's County Roscommon Sligo Rifles Tipperary (North) Tipperary (South) Tyrone Dundalk Portsmouth Drogheda Charlesfort Newport Ballincollig Weymouth Charles Fort Charlemont Enniskillen Waterford Galway Carlow Nenagh Birr Cork Youghal Plymouth Belfast Ennis Boyle Trim Belturbet Mountmellick Berwick Longford Tralee Sunderland 6
Tyrone (Artillery) Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow Downpatrick Duncannon Fort Chichester Cork Regiments Not Embodied English & Welsh Cardigan (Royal) - Rifle Corps Carmarthen (Royal) - Rifle Corps Carnarvon (Royal) - Rifle Corps Connaught Rangers Cornwall (2nd) - Rifle Regiment Durham - Artillery Flint (Royal) - Rifles Glamorgan (Royal) - Artillery Huntingdon - Rifles King's Own - Light Infantry Lancashire (7th) - Rifle Corps Merioneth (Royal) - Rifle Corps Northumberland - Artillery Rutland - Rifles Surrey (3rd Royal) Westmorland (Royal) York (5th West) York (6th West) 1 Ordered home 2 Destined for Canada 3 For Gibraltar 4 To Nova Scotia 5 For Malta 6 For Corfu 7 For East Indies The Naval and Military Gazette and East India and Colonial Chronicle, 1856 Copyright GFN 1994. 7