7th Regiment of Foot

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

There was a cholera epidemic in the Regiment in 1869 at Saugor, in Central India. This is described in 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 Historical Books below.

External Links

• Royal Fusiliers Royal Fuzileers Website
• Royal Fusiliers Wikipedia
• The Fusiliers In London: The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers includes
  • History of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Regimental Brochure with
    • Indian Mutiny and Frontier Campaigns (1857-1880)
• The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
• North West Kent Family History Society
• The Fusilier Museum, London
  • Some details of Indian service
    • Family photograph of Colour Sergeant Rowe 1st Battalion Poona 1889

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