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This is an historical regiment similar to others with similar articles on Wikipedia. It does need to be expanded on which will be done. It is also has links to other pages like: "List of British Army regiments (1881)" Mcgady@earthlink.net 22:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link[edit]

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/048-751.htm
- In George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington on 2011-03-19 21:19:08, 404 Not Found
- In 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot on 2011-06-19 14:03:35, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 14:04, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nicknames[edit]

In the section on Nicknames, the following: "Murray's Bucks", "The Surprisers", "Lacedemonians".

were in fact associated with the 46th Regiment

Not encouraging. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JF42 (talk • contribs) 05:10, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]