Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

25th Regiment of Foot

1,028 bytes added, 01:04, 22 August 2020
no edit summary
*'''1921''' [[North West Frontier Campaigns|North West Frontier]]
In February 1855 the regiment received orders to return to Britain and men who wished to remain in India were given leave to transfer to the [[43rd Regiment of Foot|43rd Foot]] (later 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry).<ref>Victorian Wars Forum derekb. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190421114415/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=7554#p33092 postCharles ATKINSON, 25th Foot 1854-64, Indian service?] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 6 October 2012, now an archived webpage, quoting page 81 of ''The King's Own Scottish Borderers'' by Trevor Royle .</ref>
==Regimental histories==*''A Short History of the King's Own Scottish Borderers'' 1923 (42 pages). Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001096721*''All the Blue Bonnets : the history of the King's Own Scottish Borderers'' by Robert Woollcombe 1980 (208 pages). Available at the BL UIN: BLL01009450319 *''The King's Own Scottish Borderers : a concise history'' by Trevor Royle 2008 (240 pages). Available at the BL UIN: BLL01013779256 == External Links links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Own_Scottish_Borderers King's Own Scottish Borderers] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots_Borderers Royal Scots Borderers] Wikipedia<br>
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/lowlandscotsregi00assouoft#page/207/mode/1up Page 207]. The regiment was in India and Ceylon from 1842 to 1854
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/lowlandscotsregi00assouoft#page/209/mode/1up Page 209]. The 1st Battalion served in [[2nd Afghan War|Afghanistan]] from the end of 1878.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625/page/n3 ''Footslogger An Autobiography''] by Graham Seton (Lieutenant- Colonel G S Hutchinson) 4th Impression 1933 Archive.org. :He joined the !st Battalion K.O.S.B. in January 1910, page 59, and subsequently went to India in 1911 with the 1st Battalion [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625/page/n79 page 75] where he became involved with the Durbar, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625/page/n85 page 82].== References ==<references /> {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}} 
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
29,528
edits

Navigation menu