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*The author joins the 109th Regiment c 1863 [http://archive.org/stream/orientalcampaign00maudiala#page/250/mode/2up/ Page 250] ''Oriental campaigns and European furloughs:the autobiography of a veteran of the Indian Mutiny'' by Colonel E. Maude. 1908 Archive.org. His account includes some information about the Jager Corps.
*The author joins the 109th Regiment c 1863 [http://archive.org/stream/orientalcampaign00maudiala#page/250/mode/2up/ Page 250] ''Oriental campaigns and European furloughs:the autobiography of a veteran of the Indian Mutiny'' by Colonel E. Maude. 1908 Archive.org. His account includes some information about the Jager Corps.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284894/2015.284894.The-British#page/n568/mode/1up  "The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Battalion II:  late 109th Regiment of Foot"] page 547  ''The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc'' by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284894/2015.284894.The-British#page/n568/mode/1up  "The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Battalion II:  late 109th Regiment of Foot"] page 547  ''The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc'' by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/leinsterregvol1/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Volume 1 The Old Army''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ernest Whitton 1924 Archive.org. ([https://archive.org/details/leinsterregvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2 The Great War and the Disbandment of the Regiment'']) Archive.org


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Latest revision as of 02:38, 26 August 2023

Chronology

  • 1853 raised as 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment
  • 1858 taken into the British Army as 3rd Bombay Infantry Regiment
  • 1861 renamed 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)
  • 1881 merged with the 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) to form The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians).
  • 1922 disbanded on Irish independence

Service in British India

Jager (Jaeger) Corps

In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by more than 500 men of the Jager (Jaeger) Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny. The Jager Corps had its origin in the German Legion sent to the Crimea, which was then resettled in South Africa

At least for a time, the Jager Corps remained as a separate entity within the 109th Regiment.

For more details, see Jager Corps

Some of the men from the Jager Corps ended up with the 33rd Regiment of Foot in the Abyssinian Campaign of 1867-8.[1] The 33rd Foot was in India when the expedition to Abyssinia was organised, and had been there since 1857, so it seems very likely these men had transferred from the 109th Regiment, possibly to take part in the campaign.

There are India Office Records at the British Library


External Links

Historical books online

References