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Four hundred and twelve men volunteered to remain in India in 1823, when the regiment returned to England. It lost in India one thousand and twenty-one men by disease and killed in action; and four hundred and twelve were invalided.<ref>''Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA37 page 37] and [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA38 page 38]</ref> | |||
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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
===Historical Books Online=== | ===Historical Books Online=== | ||
*''Historical | *''Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848'' by Richard Cannon 1848 [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC Google Books]. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA31 page 31] in 1804 | ||
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tR6gAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA84 "History of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed among the men of Her Majesty's 17th Regiment during the monsoon of 1841, when quartered in the Colabah barracks, Bombay"] by Arthur S. Thomson M. D. Assistant Surgeon, 14th Light Dragoons, lately 17th Foot, page 84 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume V 1842'' Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tR6gAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA84 "History of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed among the men of Her Majesty's 17th Regiment during the monsoon of 1841, when quartered in the Colabah barracks, Bombay"] by Arthur S. Thomson M. D. Assistant Surgeon, 14th Light Dragoons, lately 17th Foot, page 84 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume V 1842'' Google Books | ||
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ISKgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA216 "Some Remarks upon the Climate of Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, during the Months of April, May, June, and July 1846; with an Account of the Fever prevailing there during those Months [in the 17th Regiment of Foot<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by NF Hefferman M. B , page 216 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume X, 1847-1848'' Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ISKgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA216 "Some Remarks upon the Climate of Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, during the Months of April, May, June, and July 1846; with an Account of the Fever prevailing there during those Months [in the 17th Regiment of Foot<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by NF Hefferman M. B , page 216 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume X, 1847-1848'' Google Books | ||
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**[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot)] | **[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot)] | ||
*The Archives of the Leicestershire Regiment are held at the [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leisure_tourism/local_history/recordoffice/recordoffice_resources.htm Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland] | *The Archives of the Leicestershire Regiment are held at the [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leisure_tourism/local_history/recordoffice/recordoffice_resources.htm Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland] | ||
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Revision as of 07:25, 4 October 2012
Known as Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Chronology
- 1688 raised as Solomon Richard's Regiment of Foot in London; known until 1751 by the names of 8 other colonels
- 1751 became the 17th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 amalgamated to become The Leicestershire Regiment
- 1945 became the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
- 1948 became part of the Forester Brigade
- 1964 The 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment became the 4th (Leicestershire) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
- 1975 disbanded
Service in British India
- 1804 Fort William
- 1806 Bundelcund
- 1806 Cawnpore
- 1807 Fort Chumar
- 1807 Fort Comona
- 1808 Muttra
- 1810 Meerut
- 1813 Ghazipur
- 1814 Jutgurgh
- 1814 Nepal
- 1815 Ghazipur
- 1815 Ghazipur
- 1816 Allahabad
- 1817 Jubalpore
- 1818 Ghazipur
- 1819 Fort William
- 1836 Bombay
- 1837 Poona
- 1838 Tatta NWF
- 1839 Ghazni
- 1839 Khelat
- 1839 Scinde
- 1842 Poona
- 1845 Bombay
- 1847 Karachi
- 1871 Lucknow
- 1876 Peshawar
- 1877 Mhow
- 1878 Kaldana
- 1878 Afghanistan
- 1880 Nowshera
- 1902 Aliwal
Four hundred and twelve men volunteered to remain in India in 1823, when the regiment returned to England. It lost in India one thousand and twenty-one men by disease and killed in action; and four hundred and twelve were invalided.[1]
External Links
Historical Books Online
- Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848 by Richard Cannon 1848 Google Books. Indian Service commences page 31 in 1804
- "History of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed among the men of Her Majesty's 17th Regiment during the monsoon of 1841, when quartered in the Colabah barracks, Bombay" by Arthur S. Thomson M. D. Assistant Surgeon, 14th Light Dragoons, lately 17th Foot, page 84 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume V 1842 Google Books
- "Some Remarks upon the Climate of Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, during the Months of April, May, June, and July 1846; with an Account of the Fever prevailing there during those Months [in the 17th Regiment of Foot] by NF Hefferman M. B , page 216 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume X, 1847-1848 Google Books
Other
- The 17th Regiment of Foot (Leicestershire Regiment):Their deployment – 1798-1914 by David Stevens from Militarybadges.org.uk
- The Royal Leicestershire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
- The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum. Covers the Royal Norfolk Regiment (9th Foot), the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (10th Foot), the Suffolk Regiment (12th Foot), the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (16th Foot), the Royal Leicestershire Regiment ( 17th Foot)), the Essex Regiment (44th/ 56th Foot), and the Northamptonshire Regiment (48th/ 58th Foot).
- The Archives of the Leicestershire Regiment are held at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland
References