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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment Cheshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br> [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site]<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment Cheshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218044908/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/022Ches.htm The Cheshire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219072243/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228151451/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org (archived site) | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br> | ||
*[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site]<br> | |||
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218044908/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/022Ches.htm The Cheshire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219072243/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228151451/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org (archived site) | |||
*"There is a memorial plaque in the church [at [[Kasauli]]] marking the deaths in 1935 of Selby Lane and Richard Reed of the XIInd (XXII?) Cheshire Regiment who “who gave their lives fighting a forest fire, which on 7th June threatened to destroy Kasauli”. From [http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/kasauli-of-bun-samosas-and-rissoles "Kasauli: of Bun-Samosas and Rissoles"] by Raaja Bhasin. The 1st Battalion were then in India. | |||
===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 | ||
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_105.gif "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. | *[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_105.gif "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. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Revision as of 11:24, 28 May 2012
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)
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.[1]
External Links
- Cheshire Regiment Wikipedia
- Mercian Regiment Wikipedia
- Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site
- The Cheshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org (archived site)
- "There is a memorial plaque in the church [at Kasauli] marking the deaths in 1935 of Selby Lane and Richard Reed of the XIInd (XXII?) Cheshire Regiment who “who gave their lives fighting a forest fire, which on 7th June threatened to destroy Kasauli”. From "Kasauli: of Bun-Samosas and Rissoles" by Raaja Bhasin. The 1st Battalion were then in India.
Historical books online
- Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books
- "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.
