22nd Regiment of Foot

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

• 1803 2nd Maratha War
• 1843 Sind Campaign
• 1844 Kolhapur Campaign
• 1853 Bori Valley Expedition
• 1873 India (2nd Btn)
• 1887 Burma
• 1891 Belgaum
• 1895 Secunderabad
• 1901 Quetta
• 1903 Bombay
• 1922 Lucknow
• 1924 Dinapore
• 1927 Poona
• 1929 Allahabad
• 1933 Landi Kotal
• 1934 Ambala
• 1936 Bombay
• 1904 Madras (2nd Btn)

The 1st Cheshires were at Kasauli in June 1935.

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.

External links

• Cheshire Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Mercian Regiment Wikipedia
  
• The Cheshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org (archived site)
• The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site, now archived (retrieved 14 June 2014)
• British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com
• "Thomas Theobold Oldfield (1843‐1905) Colour Sergeant 22nd Regiment (Cheshires)" colensostudy.id.au. He served in the 2nd Battalion 1858-1880, the period in India being November 1873 until discharge in 1880, and had been granted the Silver Medal for Long Service & Good Conduct, and five Good Conduct Badges. He died in 1905, age 61 of “shock from self‐ inflicted wounds while of unsound mind”.

Historical books online

• Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books
• The journal of Samuel Plummer, a private in the 22d. Regiment of Foot, containing an account of his voyage by sea, and his journies on land, embracing a period of twenty years, the principal part of which time was spent in the East Indies corrected and abridged, with notes , edited by Rev. John Riles. 1821 Google Books. British Library itemVIEWER, with rotatable pages. The author arrived in India in 1803, and took part in a campaign against the 'Black Prince' from August 1803.
• "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.
• Chapter III: "India in the Eighties" page 38 Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha] by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org . The author left England in December 1883 on the troopship Malabar to join the 2nd Cheshires at Peshawar