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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2COgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA288 "Annual [Medical<nowiki>]</nowiki> Report of the 1st Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers) for the year 1857-58] includes Head Quarters, Left Wing and Depot at Kurrachee, page 288 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume IV, New Series 1857-58'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2COgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA288 "Annual [Medical<nowiki>]</nowiki> Report of the 1st Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers) for the year 1857-58] includes Head Quarters, Left Wing and Depot at Kurrachee, page 288 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume IV, New Series 1857-58'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=z58EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA165 "Annual [Medical<nowiki>]</nowiki> Report of the 1st Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers) for the year 1858-59"], page 165 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume V, New Series 1859'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=z58EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA165 "Annual [Medical<nowiki>]</nowiki> Report of the 1st Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers) for the year 1858-59"], page 165 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume V, New Series 1859'' Google Books
*''Records of Sport and Military Life in Western India'' by  Lieut-Colonel Thomas Gamble  Fraser 1881. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B12#?#loaded&c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1219.2441%2C-125.3889%2C3886.4882%2C2507.7778  British Library Digital],  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/101833 Pdf download, Digital Library of India].  Born 1807, he joined the Bombay Army, (1st Bombay Fusiliers), as a young Cadet,  aged 16  c 1823  and  retired 1st January 1856. Includes some reminiscences of James Outram.


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Revision as of 05:14, 18 November 2016

Chronology

  • 1662 raised in England to garrison Bombay
  • 1668 named The Bombay Regiment on transfer to HEIC
  • 1839 renamed 1st Bombay (European) Regiment
  • 1844 renamed 1st Bombay (European) Fusiliers
  • 1858 taken into the British Army
  • 1862 renamed 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)
  • 1881 merged with the 102nd Regiment of Foot and became 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
  • 1922 disbanded on the formation of the Irish Free State

Service in British India

External Links

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