7th Regiment of Foot

Also known as The Royal Fusiliers

History

• 1685 raised as the Ordnance Regiment by Lord Dartmouth
  
• 1751 became 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers)
• 1881 became The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
• 1968 amalgamated with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (5th Regiment of Foot), The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers (6th Regiment of Foot) and the Lancashire Fusiliers (20th Regiment of Foot) to form 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

External Links

• Royal Fusiliers Royal Fuzileers Website
• Royal Fusiliers Wikipedia
• Indian Mutiny and Frontier Campaigns (1857-1880) Website of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, London Museum.
• The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
• This India List post is about the Cholera epidemic in the Regiment in 1869 at Saugor, in Central India, with quotes from the book A Soldier’s Experience: ... showing the price of war in blood and treasure ... By one of the Royal Fusiliers, [Timothy Gowing] published c 1883 , available at the British Library. There is an edition published by Leonaur in 2010 as Gowing of the Royal Fusiliers: the Experiences of a Fusilier on Campaign During the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Umballah Campaign 1853-72, available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop
• North West Kent Family History Society
• Fusilier Museum, London
  • Some details of Indian service
    • Family photograph of Colour Sergeant Rowe 1st Battalion Poona 1889