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==Service in British India==
==Service in British India==
*'''1854''' [[Bangalore]], after arriving at [[Fort St George]] from England in January.  The regiment was based here until '57, with various companies on detachment.
*'''1854''' [[Bangalore]], after arriving at [[Fort St George]] from England in January.  The regiment was based here until '57, with various companies on detachment.
:In February 1855 the [[25th Regiment of Foot]] received orders to return to Britain and men who wished to remain in India were given leave to transfer to the 43rd Foot.<ref>Victorian Wars Forum [https://web.archive.org/web/20190421114415/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=7554 post], now archived, quoting page 81 of ''The King's Own Scottish Borderers''  by Trevor Royle  </ref>
*'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]], see below
*'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]], see below
*'''1859''' [[Saugor]]
*'''1859''' [[Saugor]]
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==Regimental Journal==
==Regimental Journal==
*''The 43rd & 52nd Light Infantry Chronicle'' 1892-1894. Volumes 1-3 are available at the British Library. Volume 3 is available online, refer below.
*''The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle'' , 1895(-1908). An annual record of the First and Second Battalions, formerly the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry. Volumes 4-17 are available at the [[British Library]]
*''The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle'' , 1895(-1908). An annual record of the First and Second Battalions, formerly the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry. Volumes 4-17 are available at the [[British Library]]
*''The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle'' from Volume 18 is also available at the [[British Library]] and a broken range of editions is available at the [[National Army Museum]]
*''The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle'' from Volume 18 is also available at the [[British Library]] and a broken range of editions is available at the [[National Army Museum]]
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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ssw-AAAAYAAJ ''Historical Record of the Forty - Third Regiment, Monmouthshire Light Infantry to 1867''] by Sir Richard G A Levinge (1868) Google Books.  Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ssw-AAAAYAAJ&vq=India&pg=PA272 page 272] in 1854 in Madras. Contains an alphabetical list of Officers from [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ssw-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296 page 296].
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ssw-AAAAYAAJ ''Historical Record of the Forty - Third Regiment, Monmouthshire Light Infantry to 1867''] by Sir Richard G A Levinge (1868) Google Books.  Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ssw-AAAAYAAJ&vq=India&pg=PA272 page 272] in 1854 in Madras. Contains an alphabetical list of Officers from [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ssw-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296 page 296].
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnzrmw?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The 43rd & 52nd Light Infantry Chronicle, 1894. Vol. III''] HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/36/mode/2up  ''From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails''] by Isaac Tyrell (1904) Archive.org.  On page 36 the author transfers from the 96th Foot to the 43rd Foot in 1854.  [http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/46/mode/2up  Pages 46-52] describe a  cholera epidemic in the Regiment  in 1857  when 48 men, 6 women and  26 children died in a few days.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/36/mode/2up  ''From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails''] by Isaac Tyrell (1904) Archive.org.  On page 36 the author transfers from the 96th Foot to the 43rd Foot in 1854.  [http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/46/mode/2up  Pages 46-52] describe a  cholera epidemic in the Regiment  in 1857  when 48 men, 6 women and  26 children died in a few days.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211078/page/n5 ''The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the old 43rd and 52nd regiments)''] by Sir Henry John Newbolt. 1915. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156399  ''Mesopotamia, 1914-15 : Extracts from a Regimental Officer's Diary'']  by H. Birch Reynardson 1919  Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  The author was  an officer in the 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.


===Other===
===Other===
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080106070508/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043OBLI.htm The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080109081127/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/043-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221222420/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/052-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080106070508/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043OBLI.htm The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080109081127/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/043-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221222420/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/052-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.
*[http://www.sofo.org.uk  The Museum for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust] covers the 43rd and [[52nd Regiment of Foot|52nd]] Regiments. The collection is now owned by the Royal Green Jackets Museum Trust.
*[http://www.sofo.org.uk  The Museum for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust] covers the 43rd and [[52nd Regiment of Foot|52nd]] Regiments. The collection is now owned by the Royal Green Jackets Museum Trust.
*[http://www.rgjmuseum.co.uk/home.asp The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum] covers the 43rd, [[52nd Regiment of Foot|52nd]] and [[60th Regiment of Foot|60th]] Regiments
*[http://www.rgjmuseum.co.uk/home.asp The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum] covers the 43rd, [[52nd Regiment of Foot|52nd]] and [[60th Regiment of Foot|60th]] Regiments, and  [[The Rifle Brigade|the Rifle Brigade]].
*This link from [http://www.1914-1918.net/oxbucks.htm www.1914-1918.net] advises that the  1st (Garrison) Battalion was formed in Portland in September 1915, and moved to India in February 1916, where it then remained
**Some regimental archives are available at [http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives Hampshire Archives and Local Studies]
*There was a company called the No. 1 Reserve Battalion which appears to have been stationed in India from June 1916 to 1918 at Bangalore.<ref>Alfred Madgwick’s service record (service number 19150) , available on the commercial site Ancestry.co.uk, indicates that he served with the B Company No. 1 Reserve Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry from June 1916 to November 1918 stationed at Wellington (possibly Wellington Barracks, Bangalore) and Bangalore. India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-07/1309718897  thread] and email to User: Maureene dated 6 July 2011.</ref>
*[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/oxfordshire-buckinghamshire-light-infantry Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]  longlongtrail.co.uk, advises that the  1st (Garrison) Battalion was formed in Portland in September 1915, and moved to India in February 1916, where it then remained
*There was a company called the No. 1 Reserve Battalion which appears to have been stationed in India from June 1916 to 1918 at Bangalore.<ref>Alfred Madgwick’s service record (service number 19150) , available on the commercial site Ancestry.co.uk, indicates that he served with the B Company No. 1 Reserve Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry from June 1916 to November 1918 stationed at Wellington (possibly Wellington Barracks, Bangalore) and Bangalore. Discussion on the ''Rootsweb India List'', and email to User: Maureene dated 6 July 2011.</ref>


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[[Category: British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category: British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Latest revision as of 03:44, 13 March 2021

Also known as the Monmouthshire Regiment and later The Ox and Bucks.

Chronology

  • 1741 raised as Thomas Fowke's Regiment of Foot
  • 1747 renamed the 54th Regiment of Foot
  • 1747 became the 43rd Regiment of Foot
  • 1751 became the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot, to become the 1st Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry.
  • 1908 became the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • 1958 re-titled as the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd)
  • 1966 amalgamated with the two other regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade to become the 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets
  • 1992 1st Battalion disbanded

Service in British India

  • 1854 Bangalore, after arriving at Fort St George from England in January. The regiment was based here until '57, with various companies on detachment.
In February 1855 the 25th Regiment of Foot received orders to return to Britain and men who wished to remain in India were given leave to transfer to the 43rd Foot.[1]

Indian Mutiny

As the regiment were stationed in Madras they were not immediately involved in the Mutiny. In late 1857 they became part of the Madras Column sent to join the Central India field force with the ultimate aim or relieving Saugor. See also the Banda and Kirwee Prize Money for reward money paid to the 43rd.

Henry Addison of the 43rd was awarded the Victoria Cross for saving the life of the politcal agent at Rewah.

Stations

A partial list of stations of the 43rd Foot (by quarter) as taken from the musters rolls (at The National Archives). At most times there are several detachments stationed elsewhere, only some are noted here.

Regimental Journal

  • The 43rd & 52nd Light Infantry Chronicle 1892-1894. Volumes 1-3 are available at the British Library. Volume 3 is available online, refer below.
  • The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle , 1895(-1908). An annual record of the First and Second Battalions, formerly the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry. Volumes 4-17 are available at the British Library
  • The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle from Volume 18 is also available at the British Library and a broken range of editions is available at the National Army Museum

External links

Historical books online

Other

References

  1. Victorian Wars Forum post, now archived, quoting page 81 of The King's Own Scottish Borderers by Trevor Royle
  2. Alfred Madgwick’s service record (service number 19150) , available on the commercial site Ancestry.co.uk, indicates that he served with the B Company No. 1 Reserve Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry from June 1916 to November 1918 stationed at Wellington (possibly Wellington Barracks, Bangalore) and Bangalore. Discussion on the Rootsweb India List, and email to User: Maureene dated 6 July 2011.