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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] published c 1883 , available at the [[British Library]].  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]
*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] published c 1883 , available at the [[British Library]].  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.nwkfhs.org.uk/ North West Kent Family History Society]
*[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]


[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 05:40, 10 August 2011

Also known as The Royal Fusiliers

History

  • 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

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