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*[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/index.html The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum]. Covers the Royal Norfolk Regiment ([[9th Regiment of Foot|9th Foot]]), the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment ([[10th Regiment of Foot|10th Foot]]), the Suffolk Regiment ([[12th Regiment of Foot|12th Foot]]), the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment ([[16th Regiment of Foot|16th Foot]]), the Royal Leicestershire Regiment ( 17th Foot)), the Essex Regiment ([[44th Regiment of Foot|44th]]/ [[56th Regiment of Foot|56th Foot]]), and the Northamptonshire Regiment ([[48th Regiment of Foot|48th]]/ [[58th Regiment of Foot|58th Foot]]).
*[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/index.html The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum]. Covers the Royal Norfolk Regiment ([[9th Regiment of Foot|9th Foot]]), the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment ([[10th Regiment of Foot|10th Foot]]), the Suffolk Regiment ([[12th Regiment of Foot|12th Foot]]), the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment ([[16th Regiment of Foot|16th Foot]]), the Royal Leicestershire Regiment ( 17th Foot)), the Essex Regiment ([[44th Regiment of Foot|44th]]/ [[56th Regiment of Foot|56th Foot]]), and the Northamptonshire Regiment ([[48th Regiment of Foot|48th]]/ [[58th Regiment of Foot|58th Foot]]).
**[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot)]
**[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot)]
*The Archives of the  Leicestershire Regiment are held at the [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leisure_tourism/local_history/recordoffice/recordoffice_resources.htm  Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland]  
*The Archives of the  Leicestershire Regiment are held at the [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leisure_tourism/local_history/recordoffice/recordoffice_resources.htm  Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland]
*[http://storyofwar.com/about/ A Story of War] Colin Diarmid Campbell Dunford Wood, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment kept war diaries continuously from early 1939.
**[http://storyofwar.com/category/waziristan-campaign-north-west-frontier-1938-1939/page/8/ Diary commences "January 2nd 1939–Razani–1st Leicestershire Regiment"] (scroll to bottom of page). At the top of each  page click on newer posts, but then scroll down to the bottom of the page to commence reading. Diary ends "September 14th 1939–Razani"
**[http://storyofwar.com/photos/photos-from-the-waziristan-campaign-1939/  Photographs Waziristan 1939]
**[http://storyofwar.com/2009/01/10/waziristan-campaign-order-of-battle/  Waziristan Campaign Order of Battle] Includes regiments  and detachments based in Waziristan during 1939.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 04:08, 13 February 2013

Crest of 17th Regiment of Foot

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

Four hundred and twelve men volunteered to remain in India in 1823, when the regiment returned to England. It lost in India one thousand and twenty-one men by disease and killed in action; and four hundred and twelve were invalided.[1]

External Links

Historical Books Online

Other

References

  1. Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot, page 37 and page 38