24th Regiment of Foot

Nicknames: Howard's Greens, The Bengal Tigers
Known as South Wales Borderers

Chronology

• 1689 raised as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot
• 1751 became 24th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 became the South Wales Borderers
• 1969 amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)

1st Battalion in India 1897-1910

• 10 December 1897 - March 1898 - Meerut
• March 1898 - November 1899 - Chakrata
• November 1899 - March 1900 - Dehra Dun and Pur
• March 1900 -November 1900 - Meerut
• November 1900 - October 1902 - Peshawar
• October 1902 - November 1902 - Mian Mir and Umballa
• November 1902 - January 1903 - Delhi
• January 1903 - March 1905 - Mian Mir and Dalhousie
• March 1905 - March 1909 - Karachi and Hyderabad
• March 1909 - 2 December 1910 - Right British Infantry (later Roberts) Barracks, Quetta

Records

Refer British Army - Records

Muster records at the National Archives, Kew in the series WO 12 commence at WO 12/4059 1st Battalion 1760 - 1782, and continue until WO 12/4133 2nd Battalion 1804-1805, with final item WO 12/4157 2nd Battalion 1876-1877

Regimental flash

The flash, also known as the pagri (puggaree) badge, affixed to the pagri around the sun helmet in India, consisted of two outer stripes of green and an inner stripe of white.

FIBIS resources

• FIBIS Gallery: Ludwell Collection. Ludwell was in the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot c 1900-1910. Some photographs are dated 1905 and 1906.

External links

• 24th Regiment of Foot www.britishempire.co.uk
  
• South Wales Borderers Wikipedia
  
• The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh (Brecon) royalwelsh.org.uk includes historical timeline linking to the regiment's various deployments. Covers 23rd, 24th, 41st and 69th Regiments of Foot.
  • An annotated copy of the South Wales Borderers 7th Battalion’s war diary, covering the period from September 1915 to October 1919 in Macedonia is available from The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh. (Brief details would appear in The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918 by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931, and available at the British Library in a reprint edition UIN: BLL01009164174, and online on a pay website, see below.)
  • Never Forget Your Welsh Heroes a campaign of the Friends of the Royal Welsh Regimental Museum to digitise letters and diaries of Welsh soldiers.
• The South Wales Borderers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
  
• First World War
  • 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers
, a Battalion of the Territorial Force, arrived in Bombay 3 December 1914, almost immediately went to Aden, subsequently returned to India and remained in India throughout the war, stationed at Mhow longlongtrail.co.uk
    • Photograph: Winners of the All India (Calcutta) Rugby Challenge Cup 1917 flickr.com
  • "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918" by Mark Connelly Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005. pages 65-96, now archived. Mentions the Territorial Force 4/South Wales Borderers (Brecknockshire Battalion) where there were deaths from heatstroke. This is possibly an alternative name for the 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion which served in Aden.
• Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier covers 1st Dragoon Guards, 2nd Dragoon Guards or The Queen’s Bays, 23rd, 24th , 41st and 69th Regiments of Foot.
• The Arracan Expedition, Andaman Islands 1867 A detachment of 3 officers and 100 men of the 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot was dispatched from Rangoon on the steamship Arracan to rescue crew members of the ship Assam Valley who had been captured. As a result 5 Victoria Cross awards were made. readinggivesmewings.wordpress.com
• "The Troops in Burmah" British Medical Journal October 9, 1886, page 703. Sickness and Death. html version, pdf
• An Indian Pilgrimage
 by Martin Everett. rorkesdriftvc.com. Appears to be written 2003 or earlier, as there is an archived version from this date. This article describes
  • A Regimental Memorial, located in the old cantonment cemetery at Allahabad, dedicated to those soldiers and families of the 24th Regiment who died of fever at Ranikhet and Allahabad from 1889 to 1891.
  • Headstones in the old cantonment cemetery near Mhow railway station relating to some twenty deaths from Spanish ‘flu in September 1918 of men from the Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers.

Historical books online

• Historical records of the 24th regiment, from its formation, in 1689 1892. Archive.org. Page 90 states the Regiment (the 1st Battalion) left Cape Town for India in 1810
• "The Second Advance of the 24th Foot at Chillianwalla", page 128 Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49. Including some additions to the history of the Second Sikh War, from original sources by J H Lawrence-Archer 1878 Archive.org
• A Soldier's Shikar Trips by Brigadier- General H. G. Mainwaring late South Wales Borderers (24th Regiment) 1920 Archive.org
• The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918 by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931 is available in a reprint edition, which is in turn available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as The History of the South Wales Borderers located in World WarII/Military Books/Britain/Scroll to letter T.

Recommended Reading

The South Wales Borderers by Christopher Wilkinson-Latham, Michael Roffe Illustrated by Michael Roffe. Published by Osprey Publishing, 1975 ISBN 0850452090 and ISBN 9780850452099 Limited View Google Books