30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
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The 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 59th Regiment of Foot to form the East Lancashire Regiment in 1881.
Badge of the 30th (Cambridgshire) Regiment of Foot
Soldier of the 30th Foot in 1742
A French Imperial Eagle similar to that captured at the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812
The 2nd Battalion, 73rd and the 2nd Battalion, 30th Regiments of Foot at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815, Joseph Cartwright
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
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The 59th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1755 in response to the threat of renewed war with France. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot to form the East Lancashire Regiment in 1881.
Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, with citadel in the background.
General Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, colonel of the regiment in the 1830s
Bombardment of Canton December 1857
HM Troopship Apollo refitting a quarantine encampment of the 59th Regiment at Baia de Ilha Grande, Brazil, in 1849