67th Regiment of Foot

Also known as 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

Chronology

• 1758 2nd Battalion, 20th Regiment of Foot redesignated as the 67th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 renamed the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated with the 37th North Hampshire Regiment to become 2nd Battalion The Hampshire Regiment
• 1946 became The Royal Hampshire Regiment
• 1992 merged with the Queens Regiment to become The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

Service in British India

67th Regiment of Foot	succeeded by	2nd Btn Hampshire Regt
1805 India		1881 Madras
1817 Mahratta War		1883 Secunderabad
1819 India		1885 Burma
1858 India		1887 India
1913 Mhow		1896 Mooltan
1862 Shanghai
1872 Burma
1876 India
1878 Afghanistan
1880 India

First World War

1/4th, 2/4th, 1/5th, 2/5th, 1/6th, 1/7th, 2/7th, and 1/9th (Cyclist), Battalions, spent at least some time in India, before being transferred elsewhere, including Mesopotamia.

During their time in India, many drafts were provided for Hampshire Regiments in Mesopotamia. As an example, two War Diaries show that 1/4 Hants received drafts from 1/4 Bn India, 2/4, 1/6 Bn, 1/7 Bn, 2/7 Bn India.

1/5th Battalion "arrived in Bombay on 9th November, 1914, and proceeded to Allahabad. Volunteers were called for to go to Mesopotamia (1 officer and 50 o.r.), and in 1915 the battalion was split up and detachments sent to various spots until reassembling at Fyzabad in March 1916. They then appear to have done a Grand Tour of cantonments, even taking in several months in Burma in 1918 (!). More fun in the Punjab in early 1919, dealing with riots, before taking part in the Afghan campaign in May/June 1919 (temperatures of 125 degrees F in the tents ... nice) before departing in October and arriving back in Southampton on 8th November 1919".

Oswald S. Early was a First World War wireless operator with the 1/9th Battalion Territorial Force of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, serving from 1916 to 1919 in India, Iraq and Afghanistan. He kept a diary which was later published.

See next section for photographs.

FIBIS resources

• Photographs: 1/5th Hampshire Regiment in India 1914-1918 FIBIS Gallery

Regimental journal

Our Chronicle: Published Monthly by the 67th (South Hants) Regiment

The first issue was published in Rangoon on 1st Jan 1873, and was continued until at least 1893. Copies are held in the Regimental Museum (see link below). The National Army Museum has editions of Our Chronicle 1873-1885 in its catalogue (no further details given).

Volumes to Volume VII Issue no.83, 1880 are available online, see below.

The Hampshire Regimental Journal

Published from 1905. The British Library has some issues from 1905, but it is unclear what the holding is. The Regimental Museum, refer below, holds issues from 1905-1992. The National Army Museum is another source and the catalogue indicates Volumes 1-33, published 1938, are held, with a few later editions.

External links

• 67th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
• 67th (the South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site.
• The Royal Hampshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
• The Hampshire Regiment Wikipedia
• The Royal Hampshire Regiment British Armed Forces & National Service
• The Royal Hampshire Regiment Memorial Garden & Museum including details of the Archive
• The Royal Hampshire Regiment (The Tigers) southernlife.org.uk
• Andover Family History Group
• Hampshire Genealogical Society
• Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Wikipedia
• The Hampshire Regiment from The Long, Long Trail: The British Army in the Great War. There were Territorial Force battalions in India and Mesopotamia.
  • Article: All quiet on the Eastern Front: The amazing photo album which shows how our boys fared in India in WWI 16 March 2010 Daily Mail. With photographs. Private Wally Langrish 1/9 Cycle Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment. He was stationed in Bangalore and Dagshai, before going to Mesopotamia.
• A 1/4th Hampshire Regiment Signallers Diary November 1916 To September 1919 by Arthur James Foster
(1899-1973) (Ex Corporal Of The Hampshire Regiment), Edited by his son Richard Carfax-Foster. The author was in Mesopotamia, and then took part in Dunsterforce, see Norperforce

Historical books online

• Historical Record of the Sixty - Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1849 by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books. Indian Service commences page 12 in 1805 in Calcutta
• Our Chronicle: Published Monthly by the 67th (South Hants) Regiment, Issues 1-48

Our Chronicle: Published Monthly by the 67th (South Hants) Regiment, Issues 49-83. Google Books

• 2/4 Battalion. Hampshire Regiment 1914-1919 Published 1920?. State Library of Victoria. Archive.org version. The Battalion was in India January 1915-April 1917, where it provided many drafts for Mesopotamia, and was then in Palestine and France.

The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. India, Egypt/Palestine, Western Front.

• Memoirs of the Great War by James Racine c 1920. Pages 80-102 cover the author's voyage to India from October 1916 and his period in India as an officer with the 2/5th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment in Secunderabad until the Battalion was transferred to Egypt. Archive.org
• Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916 from Robert Palmer 1916 Archive.org. He went with a draft from the 6th Hants, in India since November 1914, to reinforce the 4th Hants. Both these regiments were part of the Territorial Force. He was killed June 21, 1916, aged 27 years. The initial letters were written in India.