3rd Bengal (European) Light Infantry

Chronology

• 1765 raised by HEIC as 3rd Bengal European Regiment by division of The Bengal European Regiment
• 1783 renamed the 3rd Bengal European Battalion
• 1796 renamed the 3rd Bengal European Regiment
• 1798 absorbed by 1st Bengal European Regiment and 2nd Bengal European Regiment
• 1854 reformed at Chinsura as 3rd Bengal (European) Light Infantry
• 1858 taken into the British Army as 3rd Bengal Light Infantry
• 1861 renamed 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)
• 1881 merged with the 35th Regiment of Foot (Royal Sussex) and became 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
• 1966 merged with four other regiments to form The Queen's Regiment

Service in British India

• 1774 Rohilla War
• 1857 Indian Mutiny
• 1885 Hazara
• 1889 Ferozepore
• 1897 Fyzabad
• 1926 Rawalpindi
• 1929 Peshawar
• 1931 Karachi
• 1933 Zhob

External Links

• 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry) Wikipedia
  
• The Royal Sussex Regiment Wikipedia
  
• The Queen's Regiment Wikipedia
• 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry) including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
• The Royal Sussex Regiment including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
• The Royal Sussex Regimental Collection at Redoubt Fortress and Military Museum Covers the 3rd Bengal Light Infantry and the 35th Regiment of Foot
• Life on a Troopship A Pictorial History featuring the photographs of John Ernest Brown Royal Sussex Regiment. He sailed to India in 1932, and returned in 1937, via Egypt (1935) and the Sudan (1936)