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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment Cheshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br> [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site]<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment Cheshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>
[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218044908/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/022Ches.htm The Cheshire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219072243/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228151451/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-2.htm  2nd Battalion] Regiments.org (archived site)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br>  
 
*[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site]<br>
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218044908/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/022Ches.htm The Cheshire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219072243/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228151451/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-2.htm  2nd Battalion] Regiments.org (archived site)
*"There is a memorial plaque in the church [at [[Kasauli]]] marking the deaths in 1935 of Selby Lane and Richard Reed of the XIInd (XXII?) Cheshire Regiment who “who gave their lives fighting a forest fire, which on 7th June threatened to destroy Kasauli”. From [http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/kasauli-of-bun-samosas-and-rissoles "Kasauli: of Bun-Samosas and Rissoles"] by Raaja Bhasin. The 1st Battalion were then in India.
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gt0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9  ''Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot'']  by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books   
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gt0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9  ''Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot'']  by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books   
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_105.gif "Hazaribagh Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 13'', page 99. Mentions numerous deaths from enteric fever in 1874 at the cantonment at [[Hazaribagh]] where the 2nd Battalion was stationed.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_105.gif "Hazaribagh Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 13'', page 99. Mentions numerous deaths from enteric fever in 1874 at the cantonment at [[Hazaribagh]] where the 2nd Battalion was stationed.
 
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22nd Regiment of Foot (The Cheshire Regiment)

Chronology

  • 1689 raised as The Norfolk's Regiment of Foot
  • 1751 became the 22nd Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 became The Cheshire Regiment
  • 2007 amalgamated with the Staffordshire Regiment and the Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters to become the 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment (Cheshires)

Service in British India

British Library holdings

  • The 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, illustrated. With brief historical account of the services of the Regiment, etc. Photographs by Fred Bremner. Published in Quetta by Fred Bremner, 1902.
This is a photographic album produced by the photographer Fred Bremner, one of four known photographic albums of British Army Regiments in the North-West of India which he published in Quetta and Lahore in the early 1900s. It consists of a brief History of 20 pages followed by 38 full page printed photographs.[1]

External Links

Historical books online

References