54th Regiment of Foot

Chronology

• 1755 raised as the 56th Regiment of Foot
• 1756 became the 54th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 28th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated with the 39th Regiment of Foot to form The Dorsetshire Regiment

Service in British India

• 1822 India
• 1824 Burma
• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1871 India
• 1881 Cherat
• 1906 Madras
• 1910 Poona
• 1919 Bangalore
• 1921 Malabar
• 1942 India

Regimental journal

• The Dorset regimental journal : a paper for Dorset men and men of the Dorsets. Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1912)-v. 3, no. 27 (July 1914) is available at the British Library
• The Dorsetshire regimental quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1926)-v. 19, no. 2 (June 1951) is available at the British Library

First World War

The 2nd Battalion, Dorset Regiment fought in Mesopotamia, and were captured at the fall of Kut. See Prisoners of the Turks (First World War) for general information about their fate.

External Links

• 54th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
• The Dorsetshire Regiment Wikipedia
• The Dorset Regiment including deployments (2nd Battalion) Regiments.org, an archived site
• The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester, Dorset. Covers the 11th, 39th and 54th Regiments of Foot. Includes
  • The 2nd Dorsets in Mesopotamia
  • The Malabar Campaign (Moplah Rebellion) 1921
  • Resources Held at the Museum
• Dorset and Mesopotamia 01/10/2014 Poole Museum Society.
• British Graves, with an earlier post from calicutheritage.blogspot.com. Privates Eley and Hutchings were killed in August 1921

Historical books online

• Narrative of the burning of the "Sarah Sands" screw steam ship by an old 54th officer. [Frederick Schlotel] 1869. Google Books. 1870 edition Google Books. Full title and some text appear to differ. A vessel charted by the East India Company, for the conveyance of troops to Calcutta on the news of the Indian Mutiny reaching England, which sailed from Portsmouth on 15 August 1857.