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*[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://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) | ||
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*[http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2012/british-puggarees-2-3-4-and-6-folds British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds] includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com | *[http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2012/british-puggarees-2-3-4-and-6-folds British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds] includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com | ||
Revision as of 13:29, 9 June 2014
22nd Regiment of Foot (The Cheshire Regiment)
Contents
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)
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
- The Cheshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org (archived site)
- British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com
Historical books online
- Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books
- "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
References
- ↑ www.iberlibro.com, page no longer accessible
