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===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  
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BIpeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''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. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024436454.0x000001 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.
*[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.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/38/mode/2up 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]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/38/mode/2up 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]]

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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

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

Historical books online

References

  1. 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)
  2. www.iberlibro.com, page no longer accessible