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*'''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''' [[Gwalior 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)
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment Cheshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br> [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site]<br>
[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)
====Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gt0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot''] by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
