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== External Links ==
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===Historical Books Online===
===Historical Books Online===
''Historical record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848'' by Richard Cannon 1848 [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC  Google Books]. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA31 page 31] in 1804
*''Historical record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848'' by Richard Cannon 1848 [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC  Google Books]. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA31 page 31] in 1804
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tR6gAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA84 "History of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed among the men of Her Majesty's 17th Regiment during the monsoon of 1841, when quartered in the Colabah barracks, Bombay"] by Arthur S. Thomson M. D. Assistant Surgeon, 14th Light Dragoons, lately 17th Foot, page 84 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume V 1842'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ISKgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA216 "Some Remarks upon the Climate of Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, during the Months of April, May, June, and July 1846; with an Account of the Fever prevailing there during those Months [in the 17th Regiment of Foot<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by NF Hefferman M. B , page 216 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume X, 1847-1848'' Google Books


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Revision as of 10:39, 23 November 2011

Known as Royal Leicestershire Regiment

Chronology

  • 1688 raised as Solomon Richard's Regiment of Foot in London; known until 1751 by the names of 8 other colonels
  • 1751 became the 17th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated to become The Leicestershire Regiment
  • 1945 became the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
  • 1948 became part of the Forester Brigade
  • 1964 The 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment became the 4th (Leicestershire) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
  • 1975 disbanded

Service in British India

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