FIFTY-SEVENTH FOOT.
The Regiment was raised in Gloucestershire and Somersetshire.
It was nicknamed “The Die Hards” from its Colonel (Inglis) calling to the men “Die hard, my men, die hard” at the battle of Albuera, 1811, where it had thirty bullets through the King’s Colour, and only had one officer out of twenty-four, and one hundred and sixty-eight men out of five hundred and eighty-four, left standing.
The first Regiment numbered the 57th was raised in 1755, and is now the 55th Westmoreland.