22nd Regiment of Foot

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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

Cheshire Regiment Wikipedia
Mercian Regiment Wikipedia
Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site
The Cheshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org (archived site)

Historical books online

References