RARE VICTORIAN ARMY LS&GC,2nd SOMERSET REGIMENT

Victorian 3rd type Army LS&GC
To- 672.SERGT.H.HAYWARD.2nd.BN.SOMERSET.R
The recipient was awarded his LS&GC in the short six month period of 1881 when the following the Childers reforms the regiment used the title of Prince Alberts Light Infantry (Somerset Regiment) prior to becoming the Somerset Light Infantry.
The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at Jellalabad Barracks in Taunton from 1873, or by the Childers reforms of 1881 as it already possessed two battalions, there was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment.Under the reforms the regiment became the Prince Albert's Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment) on 1 July 1881. As the county regiment of Somersetshire, it also gained the county's militia and rifle volunteer battalions, which were integrated into the regiment as numbered battalions. Within months the regiment had been retitled to Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry
Issued on the Adjutant General's list 104 of 1881
GVF/NEF & Complete with army order details

Code: 53682