17th Regiment of Foot

Known as Royal Leicestershire Regiment

Chronology

• 1688 raised as Solomon Richard's Regiment of Foot in London; known until 1751 by the names of 8 other colonels
• 1751 became the 17th Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated to become The Leicestershire Regiment
• 1945 became the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
• 1948 became part of the Forester Brigade
• 1964 The 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment became the 4th (Leicestershire) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment
• 1975 disbanded

Service in British India

• 1804 Fort William
• 1806 Bundelcund
• 1806 Cawnpore
• 1807 Fort Chumar
• 1807 Fort Comona
• 1808 Muttra
• 1810 Meerut
• 1813 Ghazipur
• 1814 Jutgurgh
• 1814 Nepal
• 1815 Ghazipur
• 1815 Ghazipur
• 1816 Allahabad
• 1817 Jubalpore
• 1818 Ghazipur
• 1819 Fort William
• 1836 Bombay
• 1837 Poona
• 1838 Tatta NWF
• 1839 Ghazni
• 1839 Khelat
• 1839 Scinde
• 1842 Poona
• 1845 Bombay
• 1847 Karachi
• 1871 Lucknow
• 1876 Peshawar
• 1877 Mhow
• 1878 Kaldana
• 1878 Afghanistan
• 1880 Nowshera
• 1902 Aliwal

External Links

Historical Books Online

Historical record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848 by Richard Cannon 1848 Google Books. Indian Service commences page 31 in 1804

Other

• Royal Leicestershire Regiment on the Royal Anglian Regiment Museum website
• The 17th Regiment of Foot (Leicestershire Regiment):Their deployment – 1798-1914 by David Stevens from Militarybadges.org.uk
• The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Regiments.org (archived site)