7th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Also known as The Royal Fusiliers

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

Royal Fusiliers Royal Fuzileers Website
Royal Fusiliers Wikipedia
The Fusiliers In London: The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers includes
- History of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Regimental Brochure with
  - Indian Mutiny and Frontier Campaigns (1857-1880)
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]. This book is available online, refer below. .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
The Fusilier Museum, London
- Some details of Indian service
  - Family photograph of Colour Sergeant Rowe 1st Battalion Poona 1889

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 *This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-06/0959853039 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]. This book is  available online, refer below. .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 [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0857063383 FIBIS Shop]
 *[http://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/ North West Kent Family History Society]
-*[http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/The Fusilier Museum, London]
+*[http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org The Fusilier Museum, London]
 **[http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/uncategorized/passage-to-india/ Some details of Indian service]
 ***[http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Family-photo-India-1889.jpg  Family photograph of Colour Sergeant Rowe 1st Battalion Poona 1889]