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*[http://wibbo-archive.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/out-in-india.html Photograph: "A" Company, 3rd Middlesex Regiment. Winners Football, 1912, Lebong, India.] wibbo-archive.blogspot.com
*[http://wibbo-archive.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/out-in-india.html Photograph: "A" Company, 3rd Middlesex Regiment. Winners Football, 1912, Lebong, India.] wibbo-archive.blogspot.com
*[http://www.1914-1918.net/msex.htm 1/9th Battalion and 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment] Both battalions sailed 30 October 1914  from Southampton for India, arriving Bombay on 2 December 1914. The 1/9th Battalion eventually moved to Mesopotamia, arriving Basra on 24 November 1917, and joined the 53rd Brigade of the 18th Indian Division. It remained in that theatre until the end of the war.. The 1/10th Battalion remained in India until the end of the war.  www.1914-1918.net
*[http://www.1914-1918.net/msex.htm 1/9th Battalion and 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment] Both battalions sailed 30 October 1914  from Southampton for India, arriving Bombay on 2 December 1914. The 1/9th Battalion eventually moved to Mesopotamia, arriving Basra on 24 November 1917, and joined the 53rd Brigade of the 18th Indian Division. It remained in that theatre until the end of the war.. The 1/10th Battalion remained in India until the end of the war.  www.1914-1918.net
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/58031268@N03  David Prebble’s Photostream]. flickr.com Some of the photographs are labeled “1/9th Middlesex Regiment India 1914 to 1920” and it very probable all the photographs are of this regiment, in England or India
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/58031268@N03  David Prebble’s Photostream]. flickr.com Some of the photographs are labeled “1/9th Middlesex Regiment India 1914 to 1920” and it very probable all the photographs are of this regiment, in England or India
**The [[National Army Museum]] has many papers and photographs in its collection including
***1/9th Middlesex Regiment: "Album of 56 photographs, including 5 loose, 9th Bn Middlesex Regiment, Waziristan, 1919 (c); showing mostly commercial views of the North West Frontier, including a camp at [[Landi Kotal]] and a camp at Landi Khana, a Viceroy inspecting Kurram Militia and group photographs". NAM Accession Number Photographs 1992-08-106
***1/10th Middlesex Regiment
****Transcription of the diary of Pte William Henry Fox, D Coy 1/10th Middlesex Regiment, 1916-1918; covers the troopship journey out to India in December 1916 and his service in [[Lucknow]] between August 1917 and March 1918; NAM Accession Number Archives 2004-10-189
****Album of 214 photographs including 1 loose, 1/10th Bn Middlesex Regiment, India 1914-1919; showing portraits, group photographs, views, a camp at Hatti 1916, a machine gun post 1916, the Nepalese Imperial Service Bn at [[Abbottabad]] in 1917, an Indian mountain gun ready for action and barracks at [[Quetta]]. NAM Accession Number Photographs 1992-08-107


==== Historical books on-line ====
==== Historical books on-line ====

Revision as of 07:05, 18 January 2013

Chronology

  • 1787 raised as 77th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot by EIC for service in India when war with the French was imminent
  • 1807 renamed the 77th (the East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
  • 1876 renamed the 77th (the East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (The Duke of Cambridge's Own)
  • 1881 united with 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot to form The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
  • 1966 amalgamated with three other regiments to become 4th Battalion The Queen's Regiment
  • 1992 amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to become Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
  • 2006 amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single large Royal Regiment of Scotland becoming The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS)

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