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55th Regiment of Foot

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*'''2006''' merged with the other regiments of North West England to become 3rd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)
== Service in British India ==
*'''1830''' India
*'''1834''' [[:Category:Coorg Campaign 1834|Coorg Campaign]]
*'''1840''' [[1st China War]]
*'''1863''' India
*'''1864''' [[Duar War|Bhutan]]
*'''1864''' [[Madras]]
*'''1865''' [[Lucknow]]
*'''1869''' [[Dum Dum]]
*'''1869''' [[Dewanghiri]]
*'''1869''' Chakratta
*'''1873''' [[Cherat]]
*'''1874''' [[Roorkee]]
*'''1875''' [[Delhi]]
*'''1890''' [[Multan]]
*'''1897''' [[Quetta]]
*'''1899''' [[Bareilly]]
*'''1902''' [[Burma]]
*'''1929''' [[Rawalpindi]]
*'''1931''' [[Landi Kotal]]
*'''1934''' [[Ferozepore]]
*'''1938''' [[Calcutta]]
*'''1941''' [[Poona]]
*'''1942''' [[Ceylon]]
*'''1943''' India/[[Burma]]
 
The [http://www.armymuseums.org.uk Ogilby Trust website Book Search] has details of the book ''55th Regiment in India; or, a record of events during six years' service in India; 1863 to 1869'' by Sergeant Major T H Vickers, published Chakrata: 55th Regimental Printing Press, 1871 second edition. 254 pages and 16 pages. "An excellent example of its type, this history was produced entirely by other ranks ('Printers: Privates J Hanrahan and B Flaherty; Book-Binder, Sergeant G Bremner') and published on a moveable press. The text has a full roll of the men who left for India in 1863, lists of casualties including women and children, notes on marches and a good 30 page account of the Bhootan campaign. The 16 pages added to the second edition reprint a prize essay on the dress of British infantry".
 
This book is available at the National Library of Scotland. It is not in the British Library catalogue.
 
==Transfers from other regiments in India==
Some men transferred from the [[48th Regiment of Foot]] in 1834, when it returned to England.
== External Links ==
'''==== Wikipedia''':====
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55th_(Westmorland)_Regiment_of_Foot 55th Regiment of Foot]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Border_Regiment The Border Regiment]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Own_Royal_Border_Regiment King's Own Royal Border Regiment]
'''==== Other'''====*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071012183600/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/055-757.htm 55th (the Westmoreland) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071217114916/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/055-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived website.*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071215184640/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/034Bordr.htm The Border Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221212850/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/034-1.htm 1st Battalion ], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071217114916/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/055-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived website.*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishinfantry/55thfoot.htm 55th Regiment of Foot] www.britishempire.co.uk*[http://www.cumbriasmuseumofmilitarylife.org Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life]. It houses the collections of Cumbria’s County Infantry Regiment – the [[34th Regiment of Foot|34th]] Cumberland and 55th Westmorland Regiments1702-1881, which became The Border Regiment 1881-1959.*[http://www.wellingboroughrec.org .uk/blackh/blackarm.htm Black Soldiers in Northamptonshire Regiments of the British Army] wellingboroughrec.org.uk. William Damerun, a [[Anglo Indian| Eurasian]] enlisted at age 7 and served in the [[74th Regiment of Foot|74th Foot]] 24/09/1800-27/09/1805 (under age), the [[94th Regiment of Foot|94th Foot]], period not noted, but under age, the [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Foot]] 25/09/1807-19/07/1824, the [[48th Regiment of Foot|48th Foot]] 20/07/1824-31/07/1834, and the 55th Foot, 01/07/1834-30/11/1837 when he was discharged on medical grounds. He was a musician by trade. His brother James joined the 69th Foot 01/08/1808 as a drummer, aged 7 or 8, served in the same regiments and was discharged from the 55th Foot on medical grounds 30/11/1842*[http://www.maltaramc.com/regmltgar/1bord.html 2nd Battalion Border Regiment left Malta 21 Feb 1890 for Bombay] maltaramc.com*[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/border-regiment/ Border Regiment] longlongtrail.co.uk. [[First World War#British Army Territorial Force troops in India|Territorial Force]] !/4 and 2/4 (Cumberland and Westmoreland) Battalion, Border Regiment sailed for India 29 September 1914 and 4 March 1915, and were in Burma and in India throughout the [[First World War]].*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200220124433/http://www.king-emperor.com/2-4%20Border%20Regiment.html 2/4 Border Regiment in India 1916-1919] includes photographs taken at Gharial, ([[Murree]] Hills), and the Mohmand Blockade Line. king-emperor.com, now archived site.*9th Battalion, The Border Regiment in Assam and Burma by tikhaiall BBC WW2 People’s War**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/user/46/u556046.shtml (Untitled) 9th Battalion, The Border Regiment] (undated)'''**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/26/a2207026.shtml 9th Border] 16 January 2004**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a2207116.shtml 9th Border: In Assam] 16 January 2004**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a2419085.shtml 9 Border and "Pots and Pans"] 12 March 2004**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a2422216.shtml More from "Pots and Pans": 9th Borders in Burma] 14 March 2004*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080911/https://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Regimental_History.pdf “The Regimental History of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment”] army.mod.uk, now an archived webpage.:The constituent regiments are the [[4th Regiment of Foot|4th]], [[8th Regiment of Foot|8th]], [[30th Regiment of Foot|30th]], [[34th Regiment of Foot|34th]], [[40th Regiment of Foot|40th]], [[47th Regiment of Foot|47th]], [[55th Regiment of Foot|55th]], [[59th Regiment of Foot|59th]], [[63rd Regiment of Foot|63rd]], [[81st Regiment of Foot|81st]], [[82nd Regiment of Foot|82nd]] and [[96th Regiment of Foot|96th]] Regiments of Foot. ==== Historical Books Online''':books online ====*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistoricalacco02noakgoog ''A historical account of the services of the 34th & 55th regiments, the linked line battalions in the 2nd or Cumberland & Westmorland subdistrict brigade, from the periods of their formation until the present time'' ] by George Noakes 1875 [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistoricalacco02noakgoog Archive.org]. Note content is only given for first three and a bit chapters and the history of the two regiments is intertwined.The Regiment arrived in India in 1830 in Madras [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistoricalacco02noakgoog#page/n85/mode/1up page 73], went to China in 1841 [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistoricalacco02noakgoog#page/n90/mode/1up page 78], and left for Calcutta in 1863,[http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistoricalacco02noakgoog#page/n155/mode/1up page 143] *[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vwQHAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0eTwnUwBQlmQrRl&client=firefox-a#PPA237,M1 ''Madras Quarterly Medical Journal''] Extensive reports by the [[Surgeon|Regimental Surgeon]] on the 55th's unhealthy stationing at [[Secunderabad]] in 1836/37. (Google Books)*[https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/def9b438f5401bdec99066297256390b.pdf "Monument to the Westmoreland Regiment The 55th Regiment of Foot in Dinghai City on Zhoushan Island"] [1841-1844] by Keith Stevens and Jennifer Welch ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Vol. 38 (1998), page 383 (12 pages). From [https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkjo/home Hong Kong Journals online] hkjo.lib.hku.hk. [https://archive.org/details/monument-zhoushan-island/mode/2up Archive.org version].*[http://archive.org/stream/diaryof24thbatta00carliala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Diary of 2/4th Battalion the Border Regiment, 1914-19''] in India and Afghanistan. This Battalion was formed during the [[First World War]] and was part of the Territorial Force. Archive.org**Includes a [http://archive.org/stream/diaryof24thbatta00carliala#page/24/mode/2up list of those who died]     
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