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Western Front and in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia before being posted to Afghanistan in 1919. It took part in the Battle of France in 1940 during the Second World War. The regiment was then sent to the Far East for the Burma campaign and participated in the Normandy D-Day landings in 1944. In 1958, it combined with The East Lancashire Regiment to form The Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers). It amalgamated with The Loyal Regiment to become The Queen's Lancashire Regiment in 1970.

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He feared that the "network of rabbit burrows" on the goldfields would prove readily defensible as his forces "on the rough pot-holed ground would be unable to advance in regular formation and would be picked off easily by snipers," which led to the decision to move into position in the early morning

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The 40th Regiment traces its lineage back to 1717 when it was the Phillip's Regiment of Foot. It became the 40th Foot in 1782, and then in 1751, it was renamed the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Foot. Its first battle honour was the capture along with other units of Montevideo, now the capital of Uraguay.

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Captain Charles Pasley was the colonial engineer and offered his services to Hotham as the rebellion was heading for an armed uprising. He served as aide-de-camp to Captain John Thomas, arriving in Ballarat on 28 November 1854. Pasley commanded the centre during the government assault on the Eureka

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Thomas was a captain with the 40th regiment and commanded the colonial forces at the Eureka Stockade. He was a top adviser to Robert Rede. Thomas received his commission in 1839 and had seen action in Afghanistan and China. In 1862, he was promoted to colonel and in 1877, he became a major general.

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After the Eureka Rebellion, some members of the 40th Regiment were posted to New Zealand. In 1881, it was amalgamated with the 82nd (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) to form The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers). During the First World War, the regiment saw action on the

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Tradition variously had it that Egan either was killed there and then or was the first casualty of the fighting on the day of the battle. However, his grave in Old Ballarat Cemetery was removed in 2001 after research carried out by Dorothy Wickham showed that Egan had survived and died in Sydney in

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arrived a few days behind. On 28 November, the 12th Regiment arrived to reinforce the local government camp. As they moved near where the rebels ultimately made their last stand, there was a clash, where a drummer boy, John Egan and several other members of the convoy were attacked by a mob looking

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defeated the French commander Marshal Contades. This engagement took place in what became known as the "year of victories" and is commemorated in the regiment's battle honour. The regimental arms commemorate the defence of Gibraltar in 1779–1783. In 1782, it became the 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment.

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Following the armed uprising, Rede was recalled from Ballarat and kept on full pay until 1855. Rede served as the sheriff at Geelong (1857), Ballarat (1868), and Melbourne (1877) and was the Commandant of the Volunteer Rifles, being the second-in-command at Port Phillip. In 1880, he was sheriff at

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Captain John Thomas led the attack on the Eureka Stockade, with Captain Charles Pasley as his second in command. The government forces at the Ballarat camp were under the immediate command of resident gold commissioner Robert Rede. Overall command was exercised by the executive lieutenant governor

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Thomas was wounded in the battle but did not withdraw and relinquish command to Inspector Carter until after the stockade had fallen. He ordered Carter to burn down the stockade while he escorted the detainees to Melbourne. Later described the battle as "a trifling affair". The Maharajpoor Star,

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During the war in Peninsular War, the regiment saw action at Roleia, Vimera, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, and Vittoria. During the invasion of Napoleonic France, further honours were won at the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, and Toulouse. Later, the regiment saw action at the

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Eyewitness accounts of the battle tell how women ran forward and threw themselves over the injured to prevent indiscriminate killing. As second in command, Captain Pasley gave the order to withdraw and threatened to shoot anyone involved in murdering prisoners.

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He had dispatched additional soldiers to Ballarat in the lead-up to the armed uprising. Nickle sent out from Melbourne with a force of 800 men, which included "two field pieces and two howitzers" that arrived after the rebels had made their last stand.

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During the Eureka Rebellion, there was a skirmish involving the 12th Regiment and a mob of rebellious miners. Foot police reinforcements had already reached the Ballarat government outpost on 19 October 1854. A further detachment of the

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Rede was appointed to the Victorian Goldfields Commission in October 1852. From June 1854 to January 1855, he was posted to Ballarat and had responsibility for the government camp during the Battle of the Eureka Stockade.

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Nickle was a major general and the commander-in-chief of the colonial forces of Australia at the time of the attack on the Eureka Stockade. Nickle had previously seen action during the 1798 Irish rebellion.

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The highest ranking member of the colonial forces killed as a result of the battle, Wise was the son of Henry Christopher Wise, an English Conservative politician, and his first wife, Harriett Skipwith.

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Thomas was an honorary lieutenant general when he retired in 1881. In 1882, he was appointed to the colonelcy of the Hampshire Regiment, and in 1904 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

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The 12th Regiment traces its lineage back to the Duke of Norfolk's Regiment of Foot in 1685. In 1686, it became the Earl of Lichfield's Regiment of Foot. There was a reorganisation in 1751 following the

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Wise was a captain with the 40th regiment at the Eureka Stockade. He became a captain in the British army and arrived in Victoria with the 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot in 1852.

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which he was awarded in 1843 and may have worn on the day, is held by the Ballarat Gold Museum, and his British Pattern 1845 infantry sword is at the Australian War Memorial.

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The 40th Regiment arrived in Victoria from England in October 1852 at the request of Lieutenant Governor Charles LaTrobe.

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Hotham served as lieutenant governor and, later, governor of Victoria, Australia, from 22 June 1854 to 31 December 1855.

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Charles Hotham and the high commander of the British colonial forces in Australia, Major General Sir Robert Nickle.

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