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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".  
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".  


It is not known where this book may be located, perhaps it may be in the collection of the regimental museum, see below, or at the [[National Army Museum]].  It is not in the British Library catalogue
This book is available at the National Library of Scotland.  It is not in the British Library catalogue.


==Transfers from other regiments in India==
==Transfers from other regiments in India==
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*[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://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.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishinfantry/55thfoot.htm 55th Regiment of Foot] www.britishempire.co.uk
*[http://kingsownbordermuseum.btck.co.uk/ Cumbria's Military Museum: The Museum of the Border and King's Own Royal Border Regiments] It houses the collections of Cumbria’s County Infantry Regiment –  the [[34th Regiment of Foot|34th]]  Cumberland and  55th Westmorland Regiments 1702-1881, which became The Border Regiment 1881-1959.
*[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 Regiments 1702-1881, 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.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.
*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 on-line ====
==== Historical 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. 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://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. 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)
*[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
*[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]
**Includes a [http://archive.org/stream/diaryof24thbatta00carliala#page/24/mode/2up list of those who died]


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Latest revision as of 07:48, 3 June 2023

The Border Regiment

Chronology

  • 1755 raised in Stirling by George Perry as the 57th Regiment of Foot
  • 1757 re-ranked as the 55th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot to become the 2nd Battalion The Border Regiment
  • 1959 amalgamated with The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) to become 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Border Regiment as part of the King's Division
  • 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

The 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

Other

The constituent regiments are the 4th, 8th, 30th, 34th, 40th, 47th, 55th, 59th, 63rd, 81st, 82nd and 96th Regiments of Foot.

Historical books online