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Nicknames: Howard's Greens, The Bengal Tigers
Known as South Wales Borderers

Chronology

1689 raised as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot
1751 became 24th Regiment of Foot
1782 became 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
1881 became the South Wales Borderers
1969 amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)

1st Battalion in India 1897-1910 ^[1]

10 December 1897 - March 1898 - Meerut
March 1898 - November 1899 - Chakrata
November 1899 - March 1900 - Dehra Dun and Pur ^[2]
March 1900 -November 1900 - Meerut
November 1900 - October 1902 - Peshawar
October 1902 - November 1902 - Mian Mir and Umballa
November 1902 - January 1903 - Delhi
January 1903 - March 1905 - Mian Mir and Dalhousie
March 1905 - March 1909 - Karachi and Hyderabad
March 1909 - 2 December 1910 - Right British Infantry (later Roberts) Barracks, Quetta

Records

Refer British Army - Records

Muster records at the National Archives, Kew in the series WO 12 commence at WO 12/4059 1st Battalion 1760 - 1782, and continue until WO 12/4133 2nd Battalion 1804-1805, with final item WO 12/4157 2nd Battalion 1876-1877

Regimental flash

The flash, also known as the pagri (puggaree) badge, affixed to the pagri around the sun helmet in India, consisted of two outer stripes of green and an inner stripe of white. ^[3]

External Links

24th Regiment of Foot www.britishempire.co.uk
South Wales Borderers Wikipedia
The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh (Brecon) royalwelsh.org.uk includes historical timeline linking to the regiment's various deployments.
The South Wales Borderers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
First World War
- 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers , a Battalion of the Territorial Force, arrived in Bombay 3 December 1914, almost immediately went to Aden, subsequently returned to India and remained in India throughout the war, stationed at Mhow www.1914-1918.net
  - Photograph: Winners of the All India (Calcutta) Rugby Challenge Cup 1917 flickr.com
- "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918" by Mark Connelly Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005. pages 65-96. Mentions the Territorial Force 4/South Wales Borderers (Brecknockshire Battalion) where there were deaths from heatstroke. This is possibly an alternative name for the 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion which served in Aden.
Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier covers 1st Dragoon Guards, 2nd Dragoon Guards or The Queen’s Bays, 23rd, 24th , 41st and 69th Regiments of Foot.
The Arracan Expedition, Andaman Islands 1867 A detachment of 3 officers and 100 men of the 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot was dispatched from Rangoon on the steamship Arracan to rescue crew members of the ship Assam Valley who had been captured. As a result 5 Victoria Cross awards were made. readinggivesmewings.wordpress.com
"The Troops in Burmah" British Medical Journal October 9, 1886, page 703. Sickness and Death. html version, pdf
An Indian Pilgrimage  by Martin Everett. rorkesdriftvc.com. Appears to be written 2003 or earlier. This article describes
- A Regimental Memorial, located in the old cantonment cemetery at Allahabad, dedicated to those soldiers and families of the 24th Regiment who died of fever at Ranikhet and Allahabad from 1889 to 1891.
- Headstones in the old cantonment cemetery near Mhow railway station relating to some twenty deaths from Spanish ‘flu in September 1918 of men from the Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers.

Historical books on-line

Historical records of the 24th regiment, from its formation, in 1689 1892. Archive.org. Page 90 states the Regiment (the 1st Battalion) left Cape Town for India in 1810
"The Second Advance of the 24th Foot at Chillianwalla", page 128 Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49. Including some additions to the history of the Second Sikh War, from original sources by J H Lawrence-Archer 1878 Archive.org
A Soldier's Shikar Trips by Brigadier- General H. G. Mainwaring late South Wales Borderers (24th Regiment) 1920 Archive.org

References

↑ Dave (Heritage Plus) South Wales Borderers pre 1914 Great War Forum 03 July 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2015
↑ Pur appears to be situated about 15 miles from both Muzaffarnagar and Roorkee Page 136 Highland Light Infantry Chronicle 1905
↑ FROGSMILE. Help with photograph please Great War Forum 31 March 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

[1] Dave (Heritage Plus) South Wales Borderers pre 1914 Great War Forum 03 July 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2015

[2] Pur appears to be situated about 15 miles from both Muzaffarnagar and Roorkee Page 136 Highland Light Infantry Chronicle 1905

[3] FROGSMILE. Help with photograph please Great War Forum 31 March 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

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 Muster records at the National Archives, Kew in the series WO 12 commence at [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C2463896?v=r  WO 12/4059] 1st Battalion 1760 - 1782, and continue until    [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C2463970?v=r WO 12/4133]  2nd Battalion 1804-1805, with final item  [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C2463994?v=r WO 12/4157] 2nd Battalion 1876-1877
+== Regimental flash==
+The flash,  also known as the pagri (puggaree) badge,  affixed to the pagri around  the sun helmet in India, consisted of two outer stripes of green and an inner stripe of white. <ref>FROGSMILE. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=161930&p=1571543 Help with photograph please] ''Great War Forum'' 31 March 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2016.</ref>
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