3rd Bombay (European) Regiment

Chronology

• 1853 raised as 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment
• 1858 taken into the British Army as 3rd Bombay Infantry Regiment
• 1861 renamed 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)
• 1881 merged with the 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) to form The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians).
• 1922 disbanded on Irish independence

Service in British India

• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1859 Karachi
• 1864 Aden
• 1866 India
• 1907 Dalhousie

Jaeger (Jager) Corps

In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny according to this India List thread.

There are India Office Records at the British Library British Army in India: Nominal and Casualty Rolls of Jager Corps Volunteers IOR/L/MIL/15/31-36 1860-1866

External Links

• 109th Regiment of Foot - Wikipedia
• Durham Light Infantry - Wikipedia
• Leinster Regiment - Wikipedia
• 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment Mutiny Memorials, Jhansi - Indian-cemeteries.org. Images of memorials with 71 names of those who fell in the 1857 uprising.
• Officers in HM’s 109th Regiment, page 774 from The Bombay Miscellany Volume 4, May to October 1862