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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218200329/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/035Sussx.htm The Royal Sussex Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071223065736/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/035-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080106174547/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/107.htm 2nd Battalion]  Regiments.org, an archived site
 
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218200329/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/035Sussx.htm The Royal Sussex Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071223065736/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/035-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080106174547/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/107.htm 2nd Battalion]  Regiments.org, an archived site
 
*[http://www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk/TheRoyalSussexRegiment.htm The Royal Sussex Regimental Collection] at [http://www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk Redoubt Fortress and Military Museum] Covers the 3rd Bengal  Light Infantry and the  [[35th Regiment of Foot]]
 
*[http://www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk/TheRoyalSussexRegiment.htm The Royal Sussex Regimental Collection] at [http://www.eastbournemuseums.co.uk Redoubt Fortress and Military Museum] Covers the 3rd Bengal  Light Infantry and the  [[35th Regiment of Foot]]
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*[http://www.warlinks.com/memories/brown/life_on_a_troopship.php Life on a Troopship] A Pictorial History featuring the photographs of John Ernest Brown  Royal Sussex Regiment. He sailed to India in 1932, and returned in 1937, via Egypt (1935) and the Sudan (1936)
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===Historical books online===
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*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284894/2015.284894.The-British#page/n331/mode/1up "The Royal Sussex Regiment Battalion II: late 107th Regiment of Foot"] page  308  ''The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc'' by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org , Digital Library of India Collection.
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[[Category:Bengal Infantry Regiments]]
 
[[Category:Bengal Infantry Regiments]]

Latest revision as of 11:49, 31 March 2017

Chronology

  • 1765 raised by HEIC as 3rd Bengal European Regiment by division of The Bengal European Regiment
  • 1783 renamed the 3rd Bengal European Battalion
  • 1796 renamed the 3rd Bengal European Regiment
  • 1798 absorbed by 1st Bengal European Regiment and 2nd Bengal European Regiment
  • 1854 reformed at Chinsura as 3rd Bengal (European) Light Infantry
  • 1858 taken into the British Army as 3rd Bengal Light Infantry
  • 1861 renamed 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)
  • 1881 merged with the 35th Regiment of Foot (Royal Sussex) and became 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
  • 1966 merged with four other regiments to form The Queen's Regiment

Service in British India

External Links

Historical books online