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13th Foot

13th Regiment of Foot
Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
Somerset Light Infantry Cap Badge.jpg
Regimental cap badge of the Somerset Light Infantry.
Active 1685–1959
Country

 Kingdom of England (to 1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)

 United Kingdom (1801–1959)
Branch  British Army
Type Infantry
Role Light infantry
Size 1–2 Regular battalions
1–3 Volunteer and Territorial battalions
Up to 13 hostilities-only battalions
Garrison/HQ Jellalabad Barracks, Taunton
Colors Yellow facings until 1842, blue thereafter
March Prince Albert's March
Engagements Nine Years War
War of the Spanish Succession
War of 1812
First Anglo-Afghan War
Second Boer War
World War I
World War II
Malayan Emergency
Suez Crisis

 Kingdom of England (to 1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)

The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) was a light infantry 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.


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