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33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot |
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| 1702.02.12 | Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels |
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| 1751.07.01 | 33rd Regiment of Foot | |
| 1782.08.31 | 33rd (1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1853.06.28 | 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot so named by Queen Victoria nine months after the death of the 1st Duke of Wellington, the only regiment to bear the name of a commoner after 1782 |
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| 1881.07.01 | amalgamated with 76th Foot to form The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) | |
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Seringapatam, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Abyssinia Note: see also The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) for belatedly awarded battle honours. |
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| Badges: | The Duke of Wellington's Crest, with the motto 'Virtutis fortuna comes' (awarded 28 June 1853) | |
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| Uniform: | coat: scarlet, lapels and cuffs: scarlet, turnbacks: white, lacings: white with unknown pattern | |
| 1702.02.12 | Col. George (Hastings), 8th Earl of Huntingdon | |
| 1703.03.02 | Col. Henry Leigh | |
| 1705.02.12 | Col. Robert Duncanson | |
| 1705.06.09 | F.M. George Wade | |
| 1717.03.19 | Lt-Gen. Henry Hawley | |
| 1730.07.09 | Lt-Gen. Robert Dalzell [also 38th Foot] | |
| 1739.11.07 | Lt-Gen. John Johnston | |
| 1753.11.20 | Maj-Gen. Lord Charles Hay | |
| 1760.05.05 | F.M. John Griffin Griffin (Whitwell), 4th Baron Howard de Walden, KB [also 50th Foot] | |
| 1766.03.21 | Gen. Charles (Cornwallis), 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG | |
| 1806.01.30 | F.M. Sir Arthur (Wellesley), 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH [also RHG, Gren Gds; Col.-in-Chief The Rifle Brigade originally 95th Foot; MGO 1819-27; C-in-C 1827-28, 1842-52; PM 1828, 1830-34; Constable of the Tower 1826-52] |
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| 1813.01.01 | Gen. Sir John Cope Sherbrooke, GCB [also 68th Foot] | |
| 1830.02.22 | Gen. Lord Charles Henry Somerset [to 1795; also 103rd Regt [170-63, 1794-95], 1st West India Regt; Gov. Cape 1813-25] | |
| 1831.02.25 | Gen. Sir Charles Wale, KCB | |
| 1845.04.04 | Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, KCB [also 54th Foot, 90th Foot] | |
| 1847.09.28 | Gen. Henry D'Oyly | |
| 1855.09.27 | F.M. Sir Charles Yorke, GCB [also 2nd Bn The Rifle Brigade originally 95th Foot] | |
| 1863.04.01 | Gen. William Nelson Hutchinson | |
| Mottos: | Virtutis Fortuna Comes | |
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| Nicknames: | The Have-a-cake Lads, The Dukes | |
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| Marches: | The Wellesley | |
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