Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September 2019
10am-5pm
LIVING HISTORY DISPLAY
His Majesty’s 33rd Regiment of Foot
For the opening weekend of the Jane Austen Festival, re-enactment group, His Majesty’s 33rd Regiment of Foot, will be camping out on the lawn in front of the Holburne Museum at the end of Great Pulteney Street. Come and find out what life was like for a soldier living in Austen’s time, with talks, demonstrations of drill and displays of camp life. The Regiment will be at the head of the Grand Regency Costumed Promenade from 11am until approximately 12noon on Saturday 14 September (most camp displays and demonstrations on this day will be scheduled for the afternoon).
His Majesty’s 33rd Regiment of Foot is modelled on a standard battalion company of a line regiment of infantry during the period 1812–1816. It was raised in 1702 as ‘The Earl of Huntingdon’s Regiment’ by order of Queen Anne to fight in the War of the Spanish Succession.
For more details of the group go to the 33rd Regiment of Foot website
