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*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://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk The Royal Leicestershire Regiment]
*[http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk The Royal Leicestershire Regiment]
**Citation for the  Military Medal:1st Bn The Leicestershire Regiment 4533116 Lance Corporal John Farry, June 1939 near Razmak Zerai in Waziristan.  [http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/5%20Farry%20MM%20citation%2026%20Sep%2039.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:CZNJQ1gcQZsJ:www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/5%2520Farry%2520MM%2520citation%252026%2520Sep%252039.pdf+Razmak+Brigade+Waziristan+1939&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjEy0oBWkzlmwTlBXegmxp_FEAy6vArkm7uUi31S6tkMJNqqw9CYe9CfCc5EWy1MHnJBnjQftSxPApqT4HJA6McuZqm5ZZfhEvn10P5CGjcGOI7fGqP-J7rhyppIt6nbzSB6BNV&sig=AHIEtbRplKsBZ-SVYv4G43Eail_HoE4CrA html version]
**Citation for the  Military Medal: 1st Bn The Leicestershire Regiment 4533116 Lance Corporal John Farry, June 1939 near Razmak Zerai in Waziristan.  [http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/5%20Farry%20MM%20citation%2026%20Sep%2039.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:CZNJQ1gcQZsJ:www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/5%2520Farry%2520MM%2520citation%252026%2520Sep%252039.pdf+Razmak+Brigade+Waziristan+1939&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjEy0oBWkzlmwTlBXegmxp_FEAy6vArkm7uUi31S6tkMJNqqw9CYe9CfCc5EWy1MHnJBnjQftSxPApqT4HJA6McuZqm5ZZfhEvn10P5CGjcGOI7fGqP-J7rhyppIt6nbzSB6BNV&sig=AHIEtbRplKsBZ-SVYv4G43Eail_HoE4CrA html version]
**Citation for the Military Medal: 1st Bn The Leicestershire Regiment 4857405 Lance Sergeant Harold Blake, 21 August 1939 against Bandiza in Waziristan [http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/6%20Blake%20DCM%20citation%207%20Nov%2039.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o5GUgj_QGnQJ:www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/6%2520Blake%2520DCM%2520citation%25207%2520Nov%252039.pdf+Razmak+Brigade+Waziristan+1939&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShuDTTWXRz68UmShSgUf_drWB2UoMLZqrez8EuTRgqya_h5l-ZWfKflyd1p7u9bbTXvfHQUqT7V6zvme9LynXuAXJeSXjFOwuMFbcF4VI4KB8ymumY07saQDNT9WtdmVdSUX5lo&sig=AHIEtbRfmXYaXt__OMjtOu6t-b7vVX7PtQ html version]
**Citation for the Military Cross: 1st Bn The Leicestershire Regiment 69129 Lieutenant Richard Thomas Henry Lonsdale, 14 November 1939 near Razmak in Waziristan, [http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/13%20Lonsdale%20MC%20citation%2025%20Oct%2040.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:-bgdQCUMRY8J:www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/13%2520Lonsdale%2520MC%2520citation%252025%2520Oct%252040.pdf+Razmak+Brigade+Waziristan+1939&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgbmRnylPUFE70YivzdkUE_Ly7ivQc2AAQZYHYPFVZxv4MjZRuhTFdaUkXtd5mGDQzg0cGYAM1GPPog5-SNCLdfXAoB_1_qRNBR9oD0Hv0irnCTXyiUAd9xTE5UkHM1VwTwHPby&sig=AHIEtbRHE-okzAJVoYpplCsUHfeddEBqPg html version]
*[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/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/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"

Revision as of 11:30, 4 March 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