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 Foot), The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers (6th Foot) and the Lancashire Fusiliers (20th Foot) to form 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
External Links
- Royal Fusiliers Royal Fuzileers Website
- Royal Fusiliers Wikipedia
- India General Service Medal 1854-1895 Website of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, London Museum. Article gives details of conflicts and medal roll.
- 7th Royal fusiliers, Second Afghan War Website of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, London Museum. Article gives details of conflicts and medal roll.
- 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] published c 1883 , available at the British Library. There is an edition published by Leonaur in 2010 as Gowing of the Royal Fusiliers