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)

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
  
• Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site
  
• The Cheshire Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org (archived site)
• "There is a memorial plaque in the church [at Kasauli] marking the deaths in 1935 of Selby Lane and Richard Reed of the XIInd (XXII?) Cheshire Regiment who “who gave their lives fighting a forest fire, which on 7th June threatened to destroy Kasauli”. From "Kasauli: of Bun-Samosas and Rissoles" by Raaja Bhasin, (now an archived web page) The 1st Battalion were then in India.
• British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com

Historical books online

• Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books
• "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