40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
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The 40th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1717 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 82nd Regiment of Foot to form the Prince of Wales's Volunteers in 1881.
Officer's Cap Badge 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot c.1830
Nova Scotia Lt. Gov. Paul Mascarene, commander of the 40th, portrait by John Smybert, 1729
Private, 40th Regiment of Foot, Nova Scotia, 1742
John Bradstreet - member of the 40th, captured by the French in the Raid on Canso in May 1744
82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
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The 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) in 1881.
General Henry Pigot, colonel of the regiment throughout the Napoleonic Wars
Puerta de Jerez, a Tarifa city gate from the Middle Ages