30th ( Cambridgeshire ) Regiment of Foot The 30th ( Cambridgeshire ) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army , formed in 1702 and amalgamated into The East Lancashire Regiment in 1881 . Origins . Predecessor regiment . In 1689 , during the Nine Years ' War , Viscount Castleton was authorised to raise a regiment of foot in Lincolnshire . Lord Castleton ' s Regiment of Foot was duly formed , and in 1691 travelled to Flanders . In 1694 the colonelcy of the unit changed and it became Colonel Thomas Sanderson ' s Regiment of Foot . With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 the war came to an end . Sanderson ' s Regiment returned to England , where it was disbanded on 4 March 1698 . Regiment of Marines . By 1702 England was again involved in a European conflict which became known as the War of the Spanish Succession . Sanderson was commissioned to reform his regiment as marines . In February 1702 Thomas Sanderson ' s Regiment of Marines ( or the 1st Regiment of Marines ) was reraised in Lincolnshire . The unit took part in the capture and defence of Gibraltar in 1704 – 1705 . It subsequently took part in the campaign led by the Earl of Peterborough and was involved in the taking of Barcelona . The regiment ' s title changed with the name of its colonel : Thomas Pownall ( 1704 – 1705 ) and Charles Willis ( from 1705 ) . Conversion to infantry . In 1714 the regiment was converted to conventional infantry as Charles Willis ' s Regiment of Foot . The regimental title continued to change with the colonel until the introduction of numbering in 1751 . Following a number of years of garrison duty in Ireland and the Mediterranean , the regiment was again in Gibraltar during the siege of 1727 . The next two decades were fairly uneventful for the regiment which spent most of its time in England or Ireland . During the War of Austrian Succession in the 1740s the unit saw some action on the French coast . 30th Regiment of Foot . On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant was issued declaring that in future regiments were no longer to be known by their colonel ' s name , but by the " " Number or Rank of the Regiment " " . Accordingly Colonel the Earl of Loudoun ' s Regiment was renamed as the 30th Regiment of Foot . The warrant also for the first time regulated the uniform clothing of the army , and provided that the 30th should wear pale yellow facings on their red uniform coats . During the Seven Years ' War the 30th was mainly employed on garrison duty in southern England , and also took place in some raids on the French coast . Their most notable action was the taking of the French warship " Belleisle " in 1761 . North America and the West Indies . In 1781 the regiment embarked for North America where they arrived in Charleston to take part in the southern campaign of the American War of Independence . The regiment then spent nine years on Antigua , St Lucia and Dominica . In 1782 all regiments of the line without a royal title were given a county designation and the regiment became the 30th ( Cambridgeshire ) Regiment of Foot . Napoleonic Wars . In 1791 the 30th returned to England , and spent ten years on garrison duty . In 1801 they moved to Egypt to repel the French invasion . They returned to England in 1802 and formed a second battalion in the following year . The 1st Battalion sailed for India where they remained until 1829 . The 2nd Battalion embarked for Portugal in 1808 taking part in the Peninsular War and fighting at the battles of Badajoz and Salamanca . They subsequently landed in Holland , and fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 . 1817 - 1854 . In 1817 the 2nd Battalion was disbanded , while the 1st Battalion , already in India , was involved in the Third Anglo - Maratha War before returning to England in 1829 . Crimean War . The 30th Foot took part in the Crimean War of 1853 – 1856 , and was present at the battles of Alma , Sevastopol and Inkerman . Canada . In 1861 the 30th moved to Canada as Britain increased their military presence following the Trent Affair . The regiment remained there until 1869 , and was involved in repelling the Fenian raids . Amalgamation . The 30th Foot was posted to Ireland in 1869 , moving to Jersey in 1871 and England in 1872 . In 1880 they sailed for India . On 1 July 1881 the Childers reforms came into effect , and the 30th Foot was paired with the 59th ( 2nd Nottinghamshire ) Regiment of Foot to form the East Lancashire Regiment . Following a number of amalgamations since 1958 , the lineage of the 30th Foot is continued today by the Duke of Lancaster ' s Regiment . Battle honours . The 30th Foot was granted the following battle honour s and honorary distinctions to be borne on their colours . The year shown is the year of the award , not the action .