22nd Regiment of Foot

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)

The 1st Cheshires were at Kasauli in June 1935.

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.

External links

• Cheshire Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Mercian Regiment Wikipedia
  
• The Cheshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org (archived site)
• The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site, now archived (retrieved 14 June 2014)
• British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com
• "Thomas Theobold Oldfield (1843‐1905) Colour Sergeant 22nd Regiment (Cheshires)" colensostudy.id.au. He served in the 2nd Battalion 1858-1880, the period in India being November 1873 until discharge in 1880, and had been granted the Silver Medal for Long Service & Good Conduct, and five Good Conduct Badges. He died in 1905, age 61 of “shock from self‐ inflicted wounds while of unsound mind”.

Historical books online

• Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books
• 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. British Library Digital, with rotatable pages. The author arrived in India in 1803, and took part in a campaign against the 'Black Prince' from August 1803.
• Memoirs of the extraordinary military career of John Shipp, late a lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment written by himself. A new illustrated edition with an Introduction by H Manners Chichester 1890 Archive.org. Originally published 1829 in 3 volumes Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 and 1843 edition with a further chapter. Archive.org

He first enlisted in 1797 age 13 (born 1784) and was with the 22nd Regiment of Foot in India, where he took part in the siege of Bhurtpore (page 99) and as a result he was promoted to be an officer in 1805. He sold out in 1808 and re-enlisted and went to India again. In 1815 he was promoted and became an ensign in the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. He left India in 1825.

• "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.
• 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