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Four hundred and twelve men volunteered to remain in India in 1823, when the regiment returned to England. It lost in India one thousand and twenty-one men by disease and killed in action; and four hundred and twelve were invalided.<ref>''Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot'',  [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA37 page 37] and  [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA38 page 38]</ref>
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== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
 
===Historical Books Online===
 
===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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC  Google Books]. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA31 page 31] in 1804
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*''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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC  Google Books]. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA31 page 31] in 1804
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tR6gAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA84 "History of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed among the men of Her Majesty's 17th Regiment during the monsoon of 1841, when quartered in the Colabah barracks, Bombay"] by Arthur S. Thomson M. D. Assistant Surgeon, 14th Light Dragoons, lately 17th Foot, page 84 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume V 1842'' Google Books
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tR6gAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA84 "History of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed among the men of Her Majesty's 17th Regiment during the monsoon of 1841, when quartered in the Colabah barracks, Bombay"] by Arthur S. Thomson M. D. Assistant Surgeon, 14th Light Dragoons, lately 17th Foot, page 84 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume V 1842'' Google Books
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ISKgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA216 "Some Remarks upon the Climate of Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, during the Months of April, May, June, and July 1846; with an Account of the Fever prevailing there during those Months [in the 17th Regiment of Foot<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by NF Hefferman M. B , page 216 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume X, 1847-1848'' Google Books
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ISKgAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA216 "Some Remarks upon the Climate of Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, during the Months of April, May, June, and July 1846; with an Account of the Fever prevailing there during those Months [in the 17th Regiment of Foot<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by NF Hefferman M. B , page 216 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume X, 1847-1848'' Google Books
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**[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot)]
 
**[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot)]
 
*The Archives of the  Leicestershire Regiment are held at the [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leisure_tourism/local_history/recordoffice/recordoffice_resources.htm  Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland]  
 
*The Archives of the  Leicestershire Regiment are held at the [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leisure_tourism/local_history/recordoffice/recordoffice_resources.htm  Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland]  
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Revision as of 07:25, 4 October 2012

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

Four hundred and twelve men volunteered to remain in India in 1823, when the regiment returned to England. It lost in India one thousand and twenty-one men by disease and killed in action; and four hundred and twelve were invalided.[1]

External Links

Historical Books Online

Other

References

  1. Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot, page 37 and page 38