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***[http://www.2day.ws/siteFiles/files/RRFLondon_policing_1131660151.pdf Indian Mutiny and Frontier Campaigns (1857-1880)] | ***[http://www.2day.ws/siteFiles/files/RRFLondon_policing_1131660151.pdf Indian Mutiny and Frontier Campaigns (1857-1880)] | ||
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220218/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/007RFus.htm The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143609/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/007-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216215907/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/007-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site. | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220218/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/007RFus.htm The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143609/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/007-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216215907/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/007-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site. | ||
*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] | *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]. This book is available online, refer below. .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/The Fusilier Museum, London] | ||
**[http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/uncategorized/passage-to-india/ Some details of Indian service] | **[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] | ***[http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Family-photo-India-1889.jpg Family photograph of Colour Sergeant Rowe 1st Battalion Poona 1889] | ||
==Historical books online== | |||
*[http://archive.org/stream/asoldiersexperi00gowigoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''A Soldier's Experience: Or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Campaigns of 1863]'' by one of the Royal Fusiliers (Timothy Gowing) 1892 Archive,org. Indian section commences [http://archive.org/stream/asoldiersexperi00gowigoog#page/n302/mode/2up page 251] including [http://archive.org/stream/asoldiersexperi00gowigoog#page/n372/mode/2up "The Umballah Campaign of 1863"], page 315 and [http://archive.org/stream/asoldiersexperi00gowigoog#page/n396/mode/2up "Letters from India"], page 339 | |||
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Revision as of 11:01, 6 November 2012
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
External Links
- Royal Fusiliers Royal Fuzileers Website
- Royal Fusiliers Wikipedia
- The Fusiliers In London: The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers includes
- The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
- This India List 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]. This book is available online, refer below. .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 FIBIS Shop
- North West Kent Family History Society
- Fusilier Museum, London
Historical books online
- A Soldier's Experience: Or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by one of the Royal Fusiliers (Timothy Gowing) 1892 Archive,org. Indian section commences page 251 including "The Umballah Campaign of 1863", page 315 and "Letters from India", page 339