Luke Lillingstone
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Brigadier-General Luke Lillingstone was a British Army officer who accompanied William of Orange to England in 1688.
Luke Lillingston
The King's Head, Lichfield
The 38th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1705. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 80th Regiment of Foot to form the South Staffordshire Regimen
Luke Lillingstone
…Lillingstone's Regiment was given to his second-in-command, becoming James Jones's Regiment of Foot. The regiment continued in existence, becoming the 38th Regiment of Foot in 1751, one of the forebears of the modern Mercian Regiment. Lillingstone was refused the purchase price of his regiment, and this led to the forced…
Plaque in Lichfield commemorating the regiment's founding in March 1705
c. 1742 engraving of a regimental private
The remnants of the regiment's light company parading in 1855
Illustration of the regimental uniform in 1856