Regiments
Of the Malta Garrison
1st Light Division
Provincial Battalions

1855 1st Light Division Provincial Battalion

The 1st Light Division Provincial Battalion consisted of:

• 7th Foot
• 19th Foot
• 23rd Foot
• 33rd Foot
• 34th Foot
• 77th Foot
• 88th Foot
• 90th Foot
• 97th Foot
• 2nd/Rifle Bde

Mar 1855 1,210 men of the 1st Light Division Provincial Battalion arrived in Malta and were quartered in Valletta.

Burials in 1855:

• 4 Sep Lt Robert Reay 34th Regiment and Adjutant of the Provisional Battalion Light Division, aged 30 years.

1856 1st Light Division Provincial Battalion

July 1856 The 1st Light Division Provincial Battalion embarked from Malta.

The 2nd Light Division Provincial Battalion

1855 2nd Light Division Provincial Battalion

The 2nd Light Division Provincial Battalion consisted of:

• 30th Foot
• 55th Foot
• 62nd Foot
• 95th Foot
• 41st Foot
• 47th Foot
• 49th Foot

Mar 1855 858 men of The 2nd Light Division Provincial Battalion arrived in Malta and were quartered at Cottonera.

1856 2nd Light Division Provincial Battalion

The 3rd Light Division Provincial Battalion

1855 3rd Light Division Provincial Battalion

1855 The 3rd Light Division Provincial Battalion consisting of 720 men arrived in Malta and were quartered in Fort Ricasoli.

Burials in 1855:

• 6 Oct William Benjamin Allen aged 11 months, son of Schoolmaster Benjamin Cooke Allen 3rd Divisional Provisional Battalion.

1856 3rd Light Division Provincial Battalion

Baptisms in 1856:

• 7 May Rebecca Harriet Payer born on 23 April 1856, daughter of Harriet and Armourer Sgt William Payer 3rd Provisional Bn.

The 4th Light Division Provincial Battalion

1855 4th Light Division Provincial Battalion

The 4th Light Division Provincial Battalion consisted of:

• 17th Foot
• 20th Foot
• 21st Foot
• 57th Foot
• 46th Foot
• 68th Foot
• 1st/Rifle Bde

Mar 1855 795 men of The 4th Light Division Provincial Battalion arrived at Malta and was quartered at the Lazaretto.

Oct The 4th Light Division Provincial Battalion formed part of the Malta garrison.

Burials in 1855:

• 15 Sep Frederick Whitehead aged 1 year, son of Armourer Sgt Frederick Whitehead 4th Divisional Provisional Battalion.

1856 4th Light Division Provincial Battalion