1st Bombay (European) Fusiliers

Chronology

• 1662 raised in England to garrison Bombay
• 1668 named The Bombay Regiment on transfer to HEIC
• 1839 renamed 1st Bombay (European) Regiment
• 1844 renamed 1st Bombay (European) Fusiliers
• 1858 taken into the British Army
• 1862 renamed 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)
• 1881 merged with the 102nd Regiment of Foot and became 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• 1922 disbanded on the formation of the Irish Free State

Service in British India

• 1662 Bombay
• 1751 2nd Carnatic War
• 1763 India
• 1767 Persia
• 1789 3rd Mysore War
• 1799 4th Mysore War
• 1821 Arabian Peninsular
• 1839 Aden
• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1889 Nusserabad
• 1892 Karachi
• 1894 Quetta
• 1897 Bombay
• 1919 Multan

External Links

• 1st Bombay European Fusiliers Wikipedia
  
• Royal Dublin Fusiliers Wikipedia
  
• Officers in HM’s 103rd, 106th and 109th Regiments, page 772 from The Bombay Miscellany Volume 4, May to October 1862
  
• 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) including deployments Regiments.org, an archived website
• The Royal Dublin Fusiliers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived website
• Royal Dublin Fusiliers a Forgotten Regiment and 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in India 1920 -1922 www.dublin-fusiliers.com
• The Royal Irish [Regiment] Details of Museums and database for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (27th and 108th Regiments of Foot), the Royal Irish Rifles (83rd and 86th Regiments of Foot), and the Royal Irish Fusiliers (87th and 89th Regiments of Foot). In addition, in time it is intended to include in the database the names of many soldiers who served in what have become known as the Disbanded Irish Regiments, such as the Connaught Rangers, (88th and 94th Regiments of Foot), the Dublin Fusiliers (102th and 103th Regiments of Foot) and the (18th) Royal Irish Regiment

Historical books online

• Historical Records of the 103rd Royal Bombay Fusiliers c 1875 or 1876. Archive.org

Crown and Company, the Historical Records of the 2nd Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, formerly the 1st Bombay European Regiment 1662-1911 by Major Arthur Mainwaring (1911) Archive.org

Volume 2, 1911-1922 by Colonel H. C. Wylly 1923 Archive.org. Also available in a reprint edition.

• Lists of the officers of His Majesty's and the Hon. Company's troops serving under the Presidency of Bombay from Adjutant General's Office January 1st 1798 Muster roll in Cannanore Google Books
• "Medical History of the 1st Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers) during its Service in the Punjaub in 1848,1849, and 1850" by F S Arnott MD Surgeon of the Regiment, page 1 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume X 1849-1850 Google Books
• "Report on the Health of the 1st Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers), from 1st April 1846 to 31st March 1854" by F S Arnott, M.D., Surgeon of the Regiment, page 102 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume II, New Series 1853-1854 Google Books
• "Annual [Medical] Report of the 1st Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers) for the year 1857-58 includes Head Quarters, Left Wing and Depot at Kurrachee, page 288 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume IV, New Series 1857-58 Google Books
• "Annual [Medical] Report of the 1st Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers) for the year 1858-59", page 165 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume V, New Series 1859 Google Books
• Records of Sport and Military Life in Western India by Lieut-Colonel Thomas Gamble Fraser 1881. British Library Digital, Archive.org version. Born 1807, he joined the Bombay Army, (1st Bombay Fusiliers), as a young Cadet, aged 16 c 1823 and retired 1st January 1856. Includes some reminiscences of James Outram.
• "The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Battalion II: late 103rd Regiment of Foot" page 567 The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.