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== External Links ==
== External links ==
===Historical Books Online===
===Historical books online===
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I0EIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Historical Record of the 36th Foot to 1852] Google Books.  Indian service commences [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I0EIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA38 page 38] in 1783 at Madras
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I0EIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Historical Record of the 36th Foot to 1852] Google Books.  Indian service commences [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I0EIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA38 page 38] in 1783 at Madras
*[https://archive.org/details/worcestershirereggreatwar/page/n15/mode/2up ''The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War''] by Captain H FitzM Stacke (Henry FitzMaurice) 1928 Archive.org
===Other===
===Other===
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071015190219/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/036-701.htm 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot] www.regiments.org<br>
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071015190219/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/036-701.htm 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot] www.regiments.org<br>
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218204125/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/029Worcs.htmThe Worcestershire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221233559/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/029-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071214092230/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/036-1.htm 2nd Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071111143028/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/029w-4.htm 4th Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived website
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218204125/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/029Worcs.htmThe Worcestershire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221233559/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/029-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071214092230/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/036-1.htm 2nd Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071111143028/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/029w-4.htm 4th Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived website
*B S Sharples’ [http://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/Local-history/Herefordshire%20Regiment/HerefordshireRgmts.html History of the Herefordshire Regiments -Herefordshire Regiment 1]<br>
*B S Sharples’ [http://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/Local-history/Herefordshire%20Regiment/HerefordshireRgmts.html History of the Herefordshire Regiments -Herefordshire Regiment 1]<br>
*[http://www.wfrmuseum.org.uk/index.htm WFR Museum] including [http://www.wfrmuseum.org.uk/archives.htm Regimental Archives]
*[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com The Worcestershire Regiment] including [http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/Worc_Regt_Archives.php Worcestershire Regimental Archives and The Worcestershire Regiment Museum Collection] in Worcester.
*Scroll down for a [http://low-intensity-conflict-review.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/photographs-of-british-army-and-british.html  photograph of Officers of the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, Waziristan, 1940.]  The vehicle shown is a Crossley "Indian Pattern" armoured car. (low-intensity-conflict-review.blogspot)
**[http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/h_waziristan.php "Waziristan (1940) - The North-West Frontier"] worcestershireregiment.com. Scroll down for a photograph of a Indian Army Crossley armoured car.
 
*[https://www.stand-firm-strike-hard.org.uk Museum of the Mercian Regiment] at Nottingham Castle. The museum informs and educates about the history of The Mercian Regiment, The Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters & The Sherwood Foresters.
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[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 10:25, 30 November 2023

Also known as 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot

Chronology

  • 1694 raised as Viscount Charlemont's Regiment of Foot
  • 1698 disbanded
  • 1701 raised again as Viscount Charlemont's Regiment of Foot also known by the names of eleven other colonels until 1751
  • 1751 became 36th Regiment of Foot
  • 1782 became 36th (the Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 united with 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot, to become 2nd Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment
  • 1970 amalgamated with The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) to become Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
  • 2004 amalgamated with the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the new Mercian Regiment

Service in British India

India 1863

In 1863 the regiment embarked for India. They served in Lucknow, Peshawar and Rawlpindi, mainly as a presence rather than engaged in military action. The regiment returned to England from Bombay arriving back on 18th December 1875. In Hereford Cathedral it is recorded that, during the service in India a total of nine officers, seventeen corporals, two drummers and 307 privates died. The majority of deaths were from cholera[1]

Regimental histories

Refer Historical books online. An additional volume was published: Historical records of the Thirty-sixth Regiment from 1852 to 1881 : compiled from the official digest of services of the regiment. London : Mitchell & Co., 1883. This link advises in 2003, Golden Valley Publications produced a limited number of 30 copies (facsimile) of both the original book and its appendix in one book with a hardback cover (ISBN 0-9542578-3-9).

Regimental journals

The Green ’Un was published regularly from November 1922-March 1927, but there were some earlier editions
Firm. The Journal of the Worcestershire Regiment was published from 1927.
This link gives further details.
Both these journals are available at the British Library

References

  1. ↑ B S Sharples’ History of the Herefordshire Regiments -Herefordshire Regiment 1

External links

Historical books online

Other

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