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3rd Bombay (European) Regiment
Chronology
- 1853 raised as 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment
- 1858 taken into the British Army as 3rd Bombay Infantry Regiment
- 1861 renamed 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)
- 1881 merged with the 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) to form The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians).
- 1922 disbanded on Irish independence
Service in British India
- 1857 Indian Mutiny
- 1859 Karachi
- 1864 Aden
- 1866 India
- 1907 Dalhousie
External Links
- 109th Regiment of Foot - Wikipedia
- Durham Light Infantry - Wikipedia
- Leinster Regiment - Wikipedia
- 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment Mutiny Memorials, Jhansi - Indian-cemeteries.org. Images of memorials with 71 names of those who fell in the 1857 uprising.
- Officers in HM’s 109th Regiment, page 774 from The Bombay Miscellany Volume 4, May to October 1862