40th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry

Chronology

• 1801 raised as The Madras Volunteer Battalion
• 1804 became 2nd Battalion, 20th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
• 1824 became 40th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
• 1882 disbanded

External Links

40th Madras Native Infantry www.regiments.org

Historical books online

• Ten Years in India: or, The Life of a Young Officer by Albert Henry Andrew Hervey of the 40th Regiment Madras Infantry (1850), Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3. A later edition was published in 1988 as A soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign, 1833-43.