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 == Service in British India ==*'''1803''' [[2nd Maratha War]] *'''1843''' [[Sind Campaign]]*'''1844''' [[Kolhapur Campaign]]*'''1853''' [[Bori Valley Expedition]]*'''1873''' India (2nd Btn)*'''1887''' [[Burma]]*'''1891''' [[Belgaum]]*'''1895''' [[Secunderabad]]*'''1901''' [[Quetta]]*'''1903''' [[Bombay]]*'''1922''' [[Lucknow]]*'''1924''' [[Dinapore]]*'''1927''' [[Poona]]*'''1929''' [[Allahabad]]*'''1933''' [[Landi Kotal]]*'''1934''' [[Ambala]]*'''1936''' [[Bombay]]*'''1904''' [[Madras]] (2nd Btn) The 1st Cheshires were at [[Kasauli]] in June 1935.<ref> There is a memorial in the church in [[Kasauli]] to Selby Lane and Richard Reed of the Cheshire Regiment, “ who gave their lives fighting a forest fire, which on 7th June threatened to destroy Kasauli” in 1935, described in [https://web.archive.org/web/20121229115846/http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/kasauli-of-bun-samosas-and-rissoles "Kasauli: of Bun-Samosas and Rissoles"] by Raaja Bhasin, (travelintelligence.com, now an archived website) (retrieved 14 June 2014)</ref> ==British Library holdings==*''The 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, illustrated. With brief historical account of the services of the Regiment, etc. Photographs by [[Fred Bremner]]''. Published in Quetta by Fred Bremner, 1902. :This is a photographic album produced by the photographer Fred Bremner, one of four known photographic albums of British Army Regiments in the North-West of India which he published in Quetta and Lahore in the early 1900s. It consists of a brief History of 20 pages followed by 38 full page printed photographs.<ref> www.iberlibro.com, page no longer accessible</ref> == External Links links ==*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment Cheshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Regiment Mercian Regiment] Wikipedia<br> *[http://web.archive.org/web/20071218044908/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/022Ches.htm The Cheshire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071219072243/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228151451/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/022-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org (archived site)*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101226211942/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment] Eardley Bryan's comprehensive site, now archived (retrieved 14 June 2014)*[http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2012/british-puggarees-2-3-4-and-6-folds British Puggarees 2, 3, 4 and 6 Folds] includes a section on the Cheshire Regiment (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com*[http://www.colensostudy.id.au/Thomas%20Oldfield%20Story.pdf "Thomas Theobold Oldfield (1843‐1905) Colour Sergeant 22nd Regiment (Cheshires)"] colensostudy.id.au. He served in the 2nd Battalion 1858-1880, the period in India being November 1873 until discharge in 1880, and had been granted the Silver Medal for Long Service & Good Conduct, and five Good Conduct Badges. He died in 1905, age 61 of “shock from self‐ inflicted wounds while of unsound mind”.===Historical books online===*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gt0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Historical Record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot''] by Richard Cannon 1849 Google Books *[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BIpeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The journal of Samuel Plummer, a private in the 22d. Regiment of Foot, containing an account of his voyage by sea, and his journies on land, embracing a period of twenty years, the principal part of which time was spent in the East Indies''] corrected and abridged, with notes , edited by Rev. John Riles. 1821 Google Books. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024436454.0x000001 British Library Digital], with rotatable pages. The author arrived in India in 1803, and took part in a campaign against the 'Black Prince' from August 1803. *[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor00shiprich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Memoirs of the extraordinary military career of John Shipp, late a lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment'']written by himself. A new illustrated edition with an Introduction by H Manners Chichester 1890 Archive.org. Originally published 1829 in 3 volumes [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor01shipiala/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 1] [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor02shipiala/page/n7/mode/2up Volume 2] [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor03shipiala/page/n7/mode/2up Volume 3] and [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofextraor00ship/page/n5/mode/2up 1843 edition] with a further chapter. Archive.org:He first enlisted in 1797 age 13 (born 1784) and was with the [[22nd Regiment of Foot]] in India, where he took part in the siege of Bhurtpore (page 99) and as a result he was promoted to be an officer in 1805. He sold out in 1808 and re-enlisted and went to India again. In 1815 he was promoted and became an ensign in the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. He left India in 1825.*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_105.gif "Hazaribagh Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 13'', page 99. Mentions numerous deaths from enteric fever in 1874 at the cantonment at [[Hazaribagh]] where the 2nd Battalion was stationed.*[http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/38/mode/2up Chapter III: "India in the Eighties"] page 38 ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha''] by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org . The author left England in December 1883 on the troopship Malabar to join the 2nd Cheshires at [[Peshawar]] == References ==<references />