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*'''1853''' raised as 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment
 
*'''1853''' raised as 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment
 
*'''1858''' taken into the British Army as 3rd Bombay Infantry Regiment
 
*'''1858''' taken into the British Army as 3rd Bombay Infantry Regiment
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*'''1861''' renamed 109th Bombay Infantry Regiment
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*'''1861''' renamed [[109th Regiment of Foot]] (Bombay Infantry)
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*'''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).
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*'''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
 
*'''1922''' disbanded on Irish independence
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== Service in British India ==
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*'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]]
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*'''1859''' [[Karachi]]
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*'''1864''' [[Aden]]
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*'''1866''' India
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*'''1907''' [[Dalhousie]]
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==Jager (Jaeger) Corps==
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In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by  more than 500 men of the Jager (Jaeger) Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny.  The Jager  Corps had its origin in the German Legion sent to the Crimea, which was then resettled in South Africa
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At least for a time, the Jager Corps remained as a separate entity within the 109th Regiment.
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For more details,  see [[Jager Corps]]
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Some of the men from the Jager Corps ended up with the [[33rd Regiment of Foot]] in the [[Abyssinian Campaign]] of 1867-8.<ref>References quoted in [http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol134es.html "'When I was in Poona!' The German Volunteer Battalion in India"], see [[Jager Corps]]</ref> The 33rd Foot was in India when the expedition to Abyssinia was organised, and had been there since 1857, so it seems very likely these men had transferred from the 109th Regiment, possibly to take part in the campaign.
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There are India Office Records at the British Library
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*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-1&cid=1-3-12#1-3-12 British Army in India: Nominal and Casualty Rolls of Jager Corps Volunteers '''IOR/L/MIL/15/31-36''']  1860-1866. Includes troops serving with the 109th Regiment of Foot.
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*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_7-2&cid=1-1-9-3#1-1-9-3 Discharge papers, Jager Corps '''IOR/L/MIL/12/283''']. 1859-1861. The soldiers’ names are listed and the regiment is given as 3rd ER (JC)
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== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/109th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Bombay_Infantry) 109th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Durham_Light_Infantry Durham Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince_of_Wales%27s_Leinster_Regiment_(Royal_Canadians) Leinster Regiment] Wikipedia
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/109th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Bombay_Infantry) 109th Regiment of Foot] - Wikipedia
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Durham_Light_Infantry Durham Light Infantry] - Wikipedia
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince_of_Wales%27s_Leinster_Regiment_(Royal_Canadians) Leinster Regiment] - Wikipedia
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070626033928/http://www.regiments.org./regiments/uk/inf/109-862.htm 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20070609141508/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/109.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080113060602/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/100Leins.htm The  Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)] including deployments [http://web.archive.org/web/20070102051341/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/100.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071222005614/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/109.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site
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*[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/index.html  Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Regimental Association]
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**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/18th/3rd_bombay.htm History of the 109th Regiment of Foot, 2nd Battalion the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, previously 3rd Bombay European Regiment] (4 pages)
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**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/19th/109_bombay_inf.htm The 3rd Bombay European Regiment becomes part of the British Army] Over 600 men of the 3rd Europeans declined the various inducements to join the British Army and were sent back to England in a sailing ship that took 5 months to make the journey. Reduced to a skeleton force the Regiment looked for reinforcements and at this point members of the Jäger Corps joined the Regiment
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**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/19th/1863-1881.htm 1863-1881]
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*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/searchresults.asp?mode=reg&regiment=3rd%20Bombay%20European%20Regiment 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment Mutiny Memorials, Jhansi] - Indian-cemeteries.org. Images of memorials with 71 names of those who fell in the 1857 uprising.
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*[http://www.royal-irish.com/ The Royal Irish <nowiki>[Regiment]</nowiki>]  Details of Museums and  database for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers ([[27th Regiment of Foot|27th]] and [[3rd Madras (European) Infantry|108th]] Regiments of Foot), the Royal Irish Rifles ([[83rd Regiment of Foot|83rd]] and [[86th Regiment of Foot|86th]]  Regiments of Foot),  and the Royal Irish Fusiliers ([[87th Regiment of Foot|87th]]  and [[89th Regiment of Foot|89th]] Regiments of Foot). In addition, in time it is intended to include in the database the names of many soldiers who served in what have become known as the Disbanded Irish Regiments, such as the Connaught Rangers, ([[88th Regiment of Foot|88th]] and [[94th Regiment of Foot|94th]]  Regiments of Foot),  the Dublin Fusiliers ([[1st Madras (European) Fusiliers|102th]] and [[1st Bombay (European) Fusiliers| 103th]] Regiments of Foot) and the [[18th Regiment of Foot|(18th) Royal Irish Regiment]]. The Leinster Regiment  ([[100th Regiment of Foot|100th]] and 109th Regiments of Foot) and the Royal Munster Fusiliers  ([[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers| 101st]] and [[2nd Bengal (European) Light Infantry|104th]] Regiments of Foot) also are part of this category.
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*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1965-07-45-4 Photograph: Wolseley helmet. Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), 1916 (c)]. Shows identifying flash on the helmet. National Army Museum.
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===Historical books online===
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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZrQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA774 Officers in HM’s 109th Regiment], page 774 from ''The Bombay Miscellany Volume 4, May to October 1862'' Google Books
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*The author joins the 109th Regiment c 1863 [http://archive.org/stream/orientalcampaign00maudiala#page/250/mode/2up/ Page 250] ''Oriental campaigns and European furloughs:the autobiography of a veteran of the Indian Mutiny'' by Colonel E. Maude. 1908 Archive.org. His account includes some information about the Jager Corps.
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*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284894/2015.284894.The-British#page/n568/mode/1up  "The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Battalion II:  late 109th Regiment of Foot"] page 547  ''The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc'' by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/leinsterregvol1/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Volume 1 The Old Army''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ernest Whitton 1924 Archive.org. ([https://archive.org/details/leinsterregvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2 The Great War and the Disbandment of the Regiment'']) Archive.org
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[[Category:Bombay Infantry Regiments]]
 
[[Category:Bombay Infantry Regiments]]

Latest revision as of 02:38, 26 August 2023

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

Jager (Jaeger) Corps

In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by more than 500 men of the Jager (Jaeger) Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny. The Jager Corps had its origin in the German Legion sent to the Crimea, which was then resettled in South Africa

At least for a time, the Jager Corps remained as a separate entity within the 109th Regiment.

For more details, see Jager Corps

Some of the men from the Jager Corps ended up with the 33rd Regiment of Foot in the Abyssinian Campaign of 1867-8.[1] The 33rd Foot was in India when the expedition to Abyssinia was organised, and had been there since 1857, so it seems very likely these men had transferred from the 109th Regiment, possibly to take part in the campaign.

There are India Office Records at the British Library


External Links

Historical books online

References

  1. ↑ References quoted in "'When I was in Poona!' The German Volunteer Battalion in India", see Jager Corps

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