1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers

Chronology

Soldiers of 1st European Bengal Fusiliers, pre-1862

• 1652 raised as HEIC Guard of Honour (Ensign and 30 men)
• 1685 increased to six companies with troops from England
• 1756 became Bengal European Regiment
• 1765 became 1st Bengal European Regiment
• 1846 became 1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers
• 1861 became 1st Royal Bengal Fusiliers
• 1861 transferred to the British Army & renumbered 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)
• 1881 combined with the 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers) and the Militia of Munster to become Royal Munster Fusiliers.
• 1922 disbanded under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Service in British India

• 1652 Bengal
• 1689 Madras
• 1694 Bengal
• 1757 Carnatic War
• 1758 Madras
• 1760 Oude Campaign
• 1764 India
• 1774 Rohilla War
• 1781 Mysore War
• 1784 Bengal
• 1798 Rohilcund & Rajputana
• 1805 Bengal
• 1809 Madras
• 1814 Nepal
• 1817 Pindari War
• 1818 Bengal
• 1826 Jat War
• 182? Agra
• 1831 Dinapore
• 1835 Meerut
• 1838 Afghanistan
• 1840 Kurnool
• 184? Umballa
• 1845 1st Sikh War
• 1850 2nd Burma War
• 1855 India
• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1859 Lahore
• 1863 Umballa
• 1868 Cawnpore
• 1902 Multan
• 1905 Rawalpindi
• 1912 Burma

Private Martin Rabbette, Royal Munster Fusiliers died from cholera in May 1908, whilst serving on the North West Frontier, Shabkader, India.

Battle Honours

• Plassey 1757
• Condore 1758
• Buxar 1764
• Rohilcund 1774
• Sholingur 1781
• Guzerat 1782
• Deig 1804
• Ghuznee 1839
• Affghanistan 1839
• Ferozeshah 1845
• Sobraon 1846
• Pegu 1852
• Delhi 1857
• Lucknow 1857

External links

• Bengal European Regiment www.kronoskaf.com
• 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Wikipedia
• Royal Munster Fusiliers Wikipedia
• List of Officers in 1829 Google Books
• 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) including deployments regiments.org, an archived website.
• The Royal Munster Fusiliers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion regiments.org, an archived website
• The Munster Fusiliers, now an archived website (unfortunately many internal links are no longer valid) including
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Francis David Millett Brown V. C. Bengal Staff Corps. previously 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, now archived.
  • Major Thomas Adair Butler V.C. 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, now archived.
• Sergeant James McGuire V. C. 1st Bengal European Fusiliers vconline.org.uk, archived.
• Drummer Miles Ryan V. C. 1st Bengal Fusiliers. vconline.org.uk, archived
• Private John McGovern V. C. 1st Bengal Fusiliers. vconline.org.uk, archived
• The Royal Munster Fusiliers Association including
  • Regimental History
  • Photo Gallery
• 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. The Leinster Regiment (100th and 109th Regiments of Foot) and the Royal Munster Fusiliers (101st and 104th Regiments of Foot) also are part of this category.

Historical books online

• The history of the Bengal European regiment : now the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and how it helped to win India by Percival Robert Innes (1885) archive.org
• History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Volume 1 From 1652 to 1860 by Captain S McCance 1927 Archive.org

History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Volume 2 From 1861 to 1922 (Disbandment) by Captain S McCance 1927 Archive.org

• The history of the Sikhs (etc) (Vol II) by William Lewis M’Gregor MD, Surgeon 1st European Light Infantry (1846) Google Books. Contains details of the 1st Sikh War from page 42. M'Gregor was appointed surgeon to the Regiment 7th February 1843.
• "The First Bengal European Fusiliers in the Delhi Campaign" from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 83, January-June 1858, pages 121-137 Google Books
• "The First Bengal European Fusiliers at Lucknow" from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Volume 84, July-December 1858, pages 73-85 Google Books
• "Royal Munster Fusiliers Battalion I: late 101st Regiment of Foot" page 550 The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org
• Memories of Seven Campaigns: a record of thirty-five years' service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan by James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon General, Indian Medical Service, late Principal Medical Officer Punjab Frontier Force. 1895 Archive.org. (The author was in the Bengal Medical Service 1856-1891). Chapters II-IV cover the Indian Mutiny period. During this time Thornton was attached to H M 5th Fusiliers, then H M 90th Light Infantry, then the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers.