The 96th Regiment of Foot was a British Army regiment, raised in 1798. Under the Childers reforms it amalgamated with the 63rd Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment.
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Charles Stuart, founder of the regiment, by George Romney
The Battle of Alexandria, 21 March 1801, by Philip James de Loutherbourg
Lieut. Col James Fullarton, 96th Regiment, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Ladysmith Barracks was a British military installation on Mossley Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.
96th Regiment of Foot
…and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 96th was linked with the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot, and assigned to district no. 16 at Wellington Barracks in Ashton-under-Lyne. On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot…
Entrance to Ladysmith Barracks