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

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
"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
"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] by NF Hefferman M. B , page 216 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay Volume X, 1847-1848 Google Books