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The 124th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1794 and disbanded in 1795.[1]
The regiment was raised in August 1794 as "Beresford's Regiment", under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel William Carr Beresford. Beresford was the illegitimate son of the Marquess of Waterford, and the regiment was raised from the family estates in Waterford.[2] Lord George Beresford, a younger son of the Marquess, also held a captaincy in the regiment.[3]
The regiment was numbered as the 124th Foot the following May, and disbanded in September.[4] It was part of a large wave of thirty new Irish regiments raised in 1793-94 following the British entry into the French Revolutionary Wars, totalling around 25,000 men; in 1795 there was a decision to disband all the highest-numbered regiments, with the men raised being drafted to other regiments for active service.[5] The "old regiments", those on the pre-war establishment, were significantly understrength, and heavy demand for sailors for the Navy had limited the number of new recruits available for the Army.[6]
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