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100th Regiment of Foot

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==== Known as The Gordon Highlanders ====
== Chronology ==
'''1st Raising'''
*'''1760''' raised as the 100th Regiment of Foot and known as Campbell's Highlanders
*'''1763''' disbanded
'''2nd Raising'''
*'''1780''' raised as the 98th Regiment of Foot and known as the Loyal Lincolnshire Regiment
*'''1785''' disbanded
'''3rd Raising'''
*'''1794''' raised by the 4th Duke of Gordon as the 100th Regiment of Foot
*'''1798''' became [[92nd Regiment of Foot]] (Gordon Highlanders) '''4th Raising'''*'''1804''' raised in Ireland as the 100th Regiment of Foot*'''18811813''' amalgamated with became the 75th 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment)*'''1816''' renamed 99th Regiment of Foot to become (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment)*'''1818''' disbanded'''5th Raising'''*'''1816''' [[102nd Regiment of Foot]] renamed the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders100th Regiment of Foot*'''19941818''' disbanded'''6th Raising'''*'''1858'' amalgamated with The Queens' Own Highlanders raised in Canada as the 100th Regiment of Foot (Seaforth and CameronsPrince of Wales' Royal Canadian) , apparently to form The Highlanders (Seaforthserve in the [[Indian Mutiny]], Gordons and Camerons)but was not sent to India at this time.*'''1875''' designated successor to previous 100th Regiment of Foot*'''20041881''' amalgamated with [[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment|109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay) Infantry]] and became the other Scottish infantry regiments into 1st Battalion, the single Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Regiment of ScotlandCanadians).*'''1922''' disbanded on Irish independence
== Service in British India Battle Honours ==*'''1781''' [[Battle of Charasia|Charasiah 1879Bombay]]*'''1782''' [[Battle of Kabul 1879|Kabul 18792nd Mysore War]]*'''1783''' surrendered at the [[Battle of Baba Wullee 1880|Kandahar 1880]]*[[2nd Afghan War|Afghanistan 1878-80Bednore]]and interned until 1784
== External Links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_100th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Gordon_Highlandersdisambiguation)_Regiment_of_Foot 92nd 100th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gordon_Highlanders The Gordon HighlandersThe_Prince_of_Wales%27s_Leinster_Regiment_(Royal_Canadians) Leinster Regiment] - Wikipedia<br>*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080113060557/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/100-858.htm 100th (or Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20060927094824/www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/100.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site.*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080113060602/http://www.cabarfeidhregiments.comorg/regiments/uk/inf/highlanders%20history100Leins.htm The Highlanders Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (SeaforthRoyal Canadians)] including deployments [http://web.archive.org/web/20070102051341/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/100.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071222005614/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/109.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site*[http://homepage.eircom.net/~tipperaryfame/leinster.htm The Irish in Uniform: The Leinster Regiment]*Article "The Cautionary Tale of Pte Patrick O’Hare", of the 1st Leinsters. Details the temperance tract published 1897 regarding the murders in 1894 at Ahmedabad committed while under the influence of alcohol, Gordons and Cameronssubsequent execution of Private O Hara. pages 4-6 [https://web.archive.org/web/20150925223846/http://www.oldsite.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/download/journal/LeinsterJournalDec09.pdf ''The 40/10 The Journal of the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)Regimental Association'' December 2009] cabarfeidh, now archived.*[http://www.royal-irish.com/ The Royal Irish <nowiki>[Regiment]<br/nowiki>] Details of Museums and database for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers ([[27th Regiment of Foot|27th]] and [[http3rd Madras (European) Infantry|108th]] Regiments of Foot), the Royal Irish Rifles ([[83rd Regiment of Foot|83rd]] and [[86th Regiment of Foot|86th]] Regiments of Foot), and the Royal Irish Fusiliers ([[87th Regiment of Foot|87th]] and [[89th Regiment of Foot|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 Regiment of Foot|88th]] and [[94th Regiment of Foot|94th]] Regiments of Foot), the Dublin Fusiliers ([[1st Madras (European) Fusiliers|102th]] and [[1st Bombay (European) Fusiliers| 103th]] Regiments of Foot) and the [[18th Regiment of Foot|(18th) Royal Irish Regiment]]. The Leinster Regiment (100th and [[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment|109th]] Regiments of Foot) and the Royal Munster Fusiliers ([[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers| 101st]] and [[2nd Bengal (European) Light Infantry|104th]] Regiments of Foot) also are part of this category.*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1965-07-45-4 Photograph: Wolseley helmet. Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), 1916 (c)]. Shows identifying flash on the helmet. National Army Museum ===Historical books online===*[https://enarchive.org/details/fromkabultokumas00will ''From Kabul to Kumassi: Twenty-Four Years of Soldering and Sport''] by Brigadier-General Sir James Willcocks 1904 Archive.org. He arrived in India in 1878 with the 100th Regiment of Foot. He later joined the Indian Army, and served until 1897, when he transferred to West Africa.wikipedia*[https://archive.org/wikidetails/leinsterregvol1/page/n7/mode/Royal_Regiment_of_Scotland 2up ''The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Volume 1 The Old Army''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ernest Whitton 1924 Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/details/leinsterregvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Volume 2 The Great War and the Disbandment of Scotlandthe Regiment''] Wikipediaby Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ernest Whitton 1924 Archive.org. Archive.org  
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