Colonel Francis Russell’s Regiment of Foot

Parliamentarian regiment of foot of the Eastern Association fighting at Marston Moor

• Raised in Suffolk
• August to September: Siege of King’s Lynn
• October: Siege of Lincoln

• February to March: Siege of Newark (not present at the battle)
• May: Siege of Lincoln
• May to July: Siege of York
• 2nd July: Battle of Marston Moor - 9 companies
• July: Siege of York
• August: Siege of Welbeck Abbey
• August: Siege of Staveley House
• August: Siege of Bolsover Castle
• August: Siege of South Wingfield
• October: Second Battle of Newbury

• April: Disbanded at Maidenhead, men drafted into Colonel Thomas Rainsborough’s Regiment of Foot of the New Model Army

Another of the Eastern Association regiments comprised mainly of Independents.

Red Coats¹⁾.

A list of the regiment’s officers is shown in Laurence Spring’s Regiments of the Eastern Association²⁾

Governor of Yarmouth until February 1643, from June 1645 he was Governor of Ely.

• Major Moyses Smith (08/06/44 - 29/07/44 previously served in Lord Grey of Wark’s Regiment of Foot. Discrepacies in dates suggest that this is not the Captain Smith noted by Spring, although the promotion to Major probably refers to Moyses)³⁾