Harry Payne Great value Victorian military uniform
prints of the Devon & Dorset Regiment. Devonshire Regiment and the
Dorset Regiment by Victorian artist Harry Payne, published by Cranston
Fine Arts, the military art print company.
the Devonshire Regiment, this Regiment had its origins in 1685 and
was raised by the Duke of Beaufort as a corps of "Musketeers and
Pikemen," to which was attached, later a company of grenadiers. its
recruits were from devon, Somerset and Dorset; and these saw service in Ireland
at Londonderry, the Boyne, Athlone, Limerick and Lanesboroough; in
Flanders at Huy and Limburg; in Portugal at Portalegre; in Spain at
Almanza, in the Nehterlands at malplaquet, Mons, Pont-a -Vendin, Douay,
Bethune, Aire and St Venant; In America in 1711 at quebec and then at
Dunkirk.
returning to England in 1714, the regiment took part in the
suppression of the Jacobite rebellion and was present at Dunblane. it
saw no further active service until 1742, when it took part in the
fighting at Dettingen and Fontenoy, but again came home to take part in
the Civil war of 1745 at Carlisle, returning to the Continent to fight
at Roucoux.
