76th Regiment of Foot

Below is some genealogy information on the 76th Regiment of Foot of the British army that may help searches for military ancestors.

Description: Formed in 1745 as Lord Harcourt's Regiment but disbanded in 1746. They saw action in the Jacobite rebellion. Re-raised in 1756 as the 61st Regiment they renumbered in 1758 as the 76th Regiment. They saw action in the Seven Years War. Disbanded once more in 1763 they were re-raised in 1777 as the 76th Regiment of Foot (Macdonald's Highlanders). They saw action in the American War of Independence. They were disbanded in 1787. The regiment was raised once again in 1787. They saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and fought in the Peninsular Wars. In 1881 they were renamed the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), having been merged with the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot. They saw action in the Boer Wars, fighting at Paardenburg. During the First World War they fought across the Western, Italian and Turkish fronts at battles such as Mons, Le Cateau, Marne, Aisne, Messines, the 1st battle of Ypres, the 2nd battle of Ypres, the Somme (1916), the Hindenburg Line, Arras, the 1st battle of the Somme (1918), Lys, the Advance in Flanders, the 2nd battle of Arras (1917), Selle, Valenciennes, Passchendaele, Gallipoli and Vittorio Veneto. In 1921 they were renamed The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding). During the Second World War they fought across the Western, African, Italian and Far Eastern fronts, involved in the Dunkirk evacuations and the invasion of Italy. In 2006 they were amalgamated with the Prince fo Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and The Green Howards, forming the Yorkshire Regiment. Their nickname is The Immortals, The Pigs, The old Seventysixth or The Old Seven and Sixpennies.

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