Name : 98th (Princes of Wales's) Regiment of Foot Started : 1876 Ended : 1881 Previous Regiment Lineage(s) : ---------------------------------------- 98th Regiment of Foot (1824 - 1876)
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Subsequent Regiment Lineage : ---------------------------------------- Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire) Regiment (1881 - 1921) Staffordshire Regiment (1959 - 2007) Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) (2007 - Present)
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The late 98th Foot was recruited at Chichester and sailed for the Cape in 1824; it underwent varied foreign and home service until 1841, when the regiment, with Sir Colin Campbell, shared in the operations on the Yangtse, after which it was transferred to Hong Kong and left the "far East" for India in 1846, and was present on the operations in the Punjab. Four years later the flank companies served under Sir Colin Campbell in the Afridi War, and came home in 1855; but returned again to India two years later, when one wing is sent with the Euzosffzie Expedition.
Transferred to Quettah in 1884, the regiment formed part of the Zhob Valley Expedition, seeing the "affair" of Doulatzai. Out of its total service more than fifty years have been spent abroad.
