28th Regiment of Foot
Chronology
- 1702 raised as Sir John Gibson's Regiment of Foot
- 1751 became the 28th Regiment of Foot
- 1782 became the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
- 1881 amalgamated with the 61st Regiment of Foot to form The Gloucestershire Regiment. Also sometimes called the Gloster Regiment, or the Glosters.
Service in British India
- 1842 Sindh Bombay
- 1858 Bombay
- 1897 Calcutta
- 1903 Lucknow
- 1906 Meean Meer
- 1908 Dalhousie
- 1932 Mhow
- 1936 Madras
- 1942 India
Second World War
10th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, arrived Bombay December 17th, 1942, and moved from India to the Arakan on January 13th, 1944. It served in Shillong, and again in Burma until May 16th, 1945 and then returned to India.[1]
External links
- 28th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
- The Gloucestershire Regiment Wikipedia
- 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site.
- The Gloucestershire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site.
- The Glorious Glosters, archived. Note, some internal links are valid, some not. Appears to be connected with the site of the same name below. Includes
- 28th Foot (North Gloucestershire Regiment) includes
- Services of the 28th Regiment in Scinde during the Operations in 1842 and 1843 and
- Fort Beyt 1859 (Coromandel Coast) www.redcoat.info, an archived site.
- 28th Foot (North Gloucestershire Regiment) includes
- India 1933-36 1st Battalion, Glosters, when the regiment was stationed at Mhow, from The Glorious Glosters, which also contains links to service in Burma.
- Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
Historical books online
- The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-1918. The Records of the 1st (28th), 2nd (61st), 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th, 5th, and 6th (First-Line T.A.) Battalions by Everard Wyrall 1931 Archive.org
- Cap of Honour : the 300 years of the Gloucestershire Regiment by David Scott Daniell. First published 1951, reprinted and updated in 1975, 3rd edition 2005. Archive.org Texts to Borrow.
References
- ↑ dryan67 10th Btn, Glosters In India/Burma 'WW2Talk Forum 26 October 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2019. David A Ryan is co author of books on the Indian Army in WW2, see the WW2Talk Forum post Indian Army: An Organisational History. Retrieved 25 April 2019.