54th Regiment of Foot

Chronology

• 1755 raised as the 56th Regiment of Foot
• 1756 became the 54th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 28th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated with the 39th Regiment of Foot to form The Dorsetshire Regiment

Service in British India

• 1822 India
• 1824 Burma
• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1871 India
• 1881 Cherat
• 1906 Madras
• 1910 Poona
• 1919 Bangalore
• 1921 Malabar
• 1942 India

Regimental journal

• The Dorset regimental journal : a paper for Dorset men and men of the Dorsets. Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1912)-v. 3, no. 27 (July 1914) is available at the British Library
• The Dorsetshire regimental quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1926)-v. 19, no. 2 (June 1951) is available at the British Library

External Links

• 54th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
• The Dorsetshire Regiment Wikipedia
• The Dorset Regiment including deployments (2nd Battalion) Regiments.org, an archived site
• The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester, Dorset. Covers the 11th, 39th and 54th Regiments of Foot. Includes
  • The 2nd Dorsets in Mesopotamia
  • The Malabar Campaign (Moplah Rebellion) 1921
  • Resources Held at the Museum
• British Graves, with an earlier post from calicutheritage.blogspot.com. Privates Eley and Hutchings were killed in August 1921