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:This is a photographic album produced by the photographer Fred Bremner, one of four known photographic albums of British Army Regiments in the North-West of India which he published in Quetta and Lahore in the early 1900s. It consists of a brief History of 20 pages followed by 38 full page printed photographs.<ref> www.iberlibro.com, page no longer accessible</ref> | :This is a photographic album produced by the photographer Fred Bremner, one of four known photographic albums of British Army Regiments in the North-West of India which he published in Quetta and Lahore in the early 1900s. It consists of a brief History of 20 pages followed by 38 full page printed photographs.<ref> www.iberlibro.com, page no longer accessible</ref> | ||
== External | == External links == | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment Cheshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment Cheshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | ||
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101226211942/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment] Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site, now archived (retrieved 14 June 2014) | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101226211942/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment] Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site, now archived (retrieved 14 June 2014) | ||
*[http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2012/british-puggarees-2-3-4-and-6-folds British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds] includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com | *[http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2012/british-puggarees-2-3-4-and-6-folds British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds] includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com | ||
*[http://www.colensostudy.id.au/Thomas%20Oldfield%20Story.pdf "Thomas Theobold Oldfield (1843‐1905) Colour Sergeant 22nd Regiment (Cheshires)"] colensostudy.id.au. He served in the 2nd Battalion 1858-1880, the period in India being November 1873 until discharge in 1880, and had been granted the Silver Medal for Long Service & Good Conduct, and five Good Conduct Badges. He died in 1905, age 61 of “shock from self‐ inflicted wounds while of unsound mind”. | |||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gt0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot''] by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gt0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot''] by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books | ||
Revision as of 08:28, 26 November 2018
22nd Regiment of Foot (The Cheshire Regiment)
Chronology
- 1689 raised as The Norfolk's Regiment of Foot
- 1751 became the 22nd Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 became The Cheshire Regiment
- 2007 amalgamated with the Staffordshire Regiment and the Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters to become the 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment (Cheshires)
Service in British India
- 1803 2nd Maratha War
- 1843 Sind Campaign
- 1844 Kolhapur Campaign
- 1853 Bori Valley Expedition
- 1873 India (2nd Btn)
- 1887 Burma
- 1891 Belgaum
- 1895 Secunderabad
- 1901 Quetta
- 1903 Bombay
- 1922 Lucknow
- 1924 Dinapore
- 1927 Poona
- 1929 Allahabad
- 1933 Landi Kotal
- 1934 Ambala
- 1936 Bombay
- 1904 Madras (2nd Btn)
The 1st Cheshires were at Kasauli in June 1935.[1]
British Library holdings
- The 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, illustrated. With brief historical account of the services of the Regiment, etc. Photographs by Fred Bremner. Published in Quetta by Fred Bremner, 1902.
- This is a photographic album produced by the photographer Fred Bremner, one of four known photographic albums of British Army Regiments in the North-West of India which he published in Quetta and Lahore in the early 1900s. It consists of a brief History of 20 pages followed by 38 full page printed photographs.[2]
External links
- Cheshire Regiment Wikipedia
- Mercian Regiment Wikipedia
- The Cheshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org (archived site)
- The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site, now archived (retrieved 14 June 2014)
- British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com
- "Thomas Theobold Oldfield (1843‐1905) Colour Sergeant 22nd Regiment (Cheshires)" colensostudy.id.au. He served in the 2nd Battalion 1858-1880, the period in India being November 1873 until discharge in 1880, and had been granted the Silver Medal for Long Service & Good Conduct, and five Good Conduct Badges. He died in 1905, age 61 of “shock from self‐ inflicted wounds while of unsound mind”.
Historical books online
- Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books
- The journal of Samuel Plummer, a private in the 22d. Regiment of Foot, containing an account of his voyage by sea, and his journies on land, embracing a period of twenty years, the principal part of which time was spent in the East Indies corrected and abridged, with notes , edited by Rev. John Riles. 1821 Google Books. British Library itemVIEWER, with rotatable pages. The author arrived in India in 1803, and took part in a campaign against the 'Black Prince' from August 1803.
- "Hazaribagh Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 13, page 99. Mentions numerous deaths from enteric fever in 1874 at the cantonment at Hazaribagh where the 2nd Battalion was stationed.
- Chapter III: "India in the Eighties" page 38 Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha] by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org . The author left England in December 1883 on the troopship Malabar to join the 2nd Cheshires at Peshawar
References
- ↑ There is a memorial in the church in Kasauli to Selby Lane and Richard Reed of the Cheshire Regiment, “ who gave their lives fighting a forest fire, which on 7th June threatened to destroy Kasauli” in 1935, described in "Kasauli: of Bun-Samosas and Rissoles" by Raaja Bhasin, (travelintelligence.com, now an archived website) (retrieved 14 June 2014)
- ↑ www.iberlibro.com, page no longer accessible