The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army, which served under various titles from 1685 to 1959. In 1959, the regiment was amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry which was again amalgamated, in 1968, with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the Durham Light Infantry to form The Light Infantry. In 2007, however, The Light Infantry was amalgamated further with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets to form The Rifles.
Regimental cap badge of the Somerset Light Infantry.
Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, founder of the regiment
Soldier of the 13th Regiment, 1742
Sir Robert Sale, commanding officer of the regiment during the Burmese and Afghanistan campaigns, and colonel from 1843–1846
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1959.
Badge of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
First DCLI Cemetery, The Bluff in Belgium
Members of the 5th Battalion during the Liberation of the Netherlands, September 1944
DCLI Regimental Museum
