for the Crimea in spring 1854 and saw action at the Siege of Sevastopol in winter 1854 before returning to Canada in 1856 and moving on to Bermuda in 1859; it returned to England in 1864 and was posted back to India in 1869. As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 39th was linked with the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot, and assigned to district no. 39 at Dorchester Barracks in Dorchester. On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot to form the Dorsetshire Regiment. Battle honours The battle honours of the regiment were as follows: Plassey, Gibraltar 1779-83, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula, Maharajpore, Sevastopol Colonels Colonels of the regiment included: 1689–1692 Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne 1692–1702 Col. Richard Coote 1702–1703 Col. Richard Coote 1703–1719 Lt-Gen. Nicholas Sankey 1719–1722 Brig-Gen. Thomas Ferrers (also 23rd Dragoons, 17th Foot, Ferrers's Foot) 1722–1730 Brig-Gen. William Newton 1730–1732 Lt-Gen. Sir John Cope, KB 1732–1737 Lt-Gen. Thomas Wentworth 1737–1738 Gen. John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, KT 1738–1739 Lt-Gen. Richard Onslow 1739–1740 Col. Robert Dalway 1740–1743 Brig-Gen. Samuel Walter Whitshed 1743–1752 Maj-Gen. Edward Richbell (also 17th Foot, 61st Foot) 39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot 1752–1766 Lt-Gen. John Adlercron 1766–1794 Gen. Sir Robert Boyd, KB 1794–1823 Gen. Nisbet Balfour (also 93rd Regiment of Foot (1793)) 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot 1823–1833 Lt-Gen. Sir George Airey, KCH 1833–1840 Lt-Gen. Hon. Sir Robert O'Callaghan, GCB 1840–1852 Gen. Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB 1852–1853 Lt-Gen. George Burrell, CB 1853–1867 Gen. Sir Richard Lluellyn, KCB 1867–1881 Gen. Sir Charles van Straubenzee, GCB References Sources Infantry regiments of the British Army Military units and formations in Dorset Military units and formations disestablished in 1881 Dorset Regiment 1702 establishments in England