67th 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

• 1805 India
• 1806 Fort William
• 1807 Calcutta
• 1808 Dinapore
• 1811 Ghazipur
• 1814 Cawnpore
• 1816 Meerut
• 1818 3rd Maratha War
• 1819 Asseerghur
• 1819 Maleagaon
• 1820 India
• 1821 Meelat Fort
• 1821 Sholapur
• 1858 Barrackpore
• 1860 2nd China War
• 1872 Burma
• 1879 2nd Afghan War
• 1886 Secunderabad
• 1888 Burma
• 1891 Bareilly
• 1893 Raniket
• 1896 Mooltan
• 1899 Cherat
• 1925 Mhow
• 1927 Mooltan
• 1929 Razmak
• 1931 Nowshera
• 1934 Rawalpindi

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 1883 when the regiment was still in India. This Victorian Wars Forum post advises it continued publication until 1885 – 1893 and then faded away. The National Army Museum has editions of Our Chronicle 1873-1885 (no further details given)
Some transcription from four editions are listed in the following India List posts:

Monday 1 November 1875, published Thayetmyo (Burma), 1 May 1876, Madras, Friday 15 July 1881, Bangalore, India, Monday 2 July 1883

Article from Volume V, no 59, published 1 November 1877 at Madras Victorian Wars Forum

Google Books have the following 2 volumes which appear to be accessible by those in North America, and possibly some other countries, but are not generally accessible.

• 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. A reprint of this publication is available to buy through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop

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 may be another source.

External links

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
• Memoirs of the Great War by James Racine c 1920s Scribd.com. Pages 70-101 cover his period in India as an officer with the 2/5th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment in Secunderabad c 1915-1916 until the Battalion was transferred to Egypt. Pdf version available from Archive.org

Other

• 67th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
• The Hampshire Regiment Wikipedia
• Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment 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 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