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24th Regiment of Foot

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Nicknames: '''Howard's Greens, The Bengal Tigers'''<br />
Known as '''South Wales Borderers'''
== Chronology ==
*'''1782''' became 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
*'''1881''' became the''' South Wales Borderers'''
*'''1935''' became The Buffs, (Royal East Kent Regiment)
*'''1969''' amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
 
:1st Battalion in India '''1897-1910''' <ref>Dave (Heritage Plus) [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/78081-south-wales-borderers-pre-1914/?do=findComment&comment=717461 South Wales Borderers pre 1914] ''Great War Forum'' 03 July 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2018.</ref>
:*10 December 1897 - March 1898 - [[Meerut]]
:*March 1898 - November 1899 - [[Chakrata]]
:*November 1899 - March 1900 - [[Dehra Dun]] and Pur <ref>Pur appears to be situated about 15 miles from both [[Muzaffarnagar]] and [[Roorkee]] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DyWvI8qIKxkC&pg=PA136 Page 136] ''Highland Light Infantry Chronicle 1905''</ref>
:*March 1900 -November 1900 - [[Meerut]]
:*November 1900 - October 1902 - [[Peshawar]]
:*October 1902 - November 1902 - [[Lahore|Mian Mir]] and [[Ambala|Umballa]]
:*November 1902 - January 1903 - [[Delhi]]
:*January 1903 - March 1905 - [[Lahore|Mian Mir]] and [[Dalhousie]]
:*March 1905 - March 1909 - [[Karachi]] and [[Hyderabad]]
:*March 1909 - 2 December 1910 - Right British Infantry (later Roberts) Barracks, [[Quetta]]
 
==Records==
Refer [[British Army#Records|British Army - Records]]
Muster records at the National Archives, Kew in the series WO 12 commence at [http://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogueSearchUI/browser.aspbrowse/C2463896?CATLNv=3&CATID=13072&POSCATLN=6&POSCATID=4061000 r WO 12/4059] 1st Battalion 1760 - 1782, and continue until [http://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogueSearchUI/browser.aspbrowse/C2463970?CATLN=6&CATID=3160522&GPE=False&MARKERv=0 r WO 12/4133] 2nd Battalion 1804-1805, with final item [http://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogueSearchUI/browse/C2463994?v=r WO 12/displaycataloguedetails4157] 2nd Battalion 1876-1877 == Regimental flash==The flash, also known as the pagri (puggaree) badge, affixed to the pagri around the sun helmet in India, consisted of two outer stripes of green and an inner stripe of white. <ref>FROGSMILE. [https://www.aspgreatwarforum.org/topic/161930-help-with-photograph-please/?CATIDdo=3160546findComment&CATLNcomment=61571543 Help with photograph please] ''Great War Forum'' 31 March 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2018.</ref>  ==FIBIS resources==*FIBIS Gallery: [https://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/category/82 Ludwell Collection]. Ludwell was in the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot c 1900-1910. Some photographs are dated 1905 and 1906. == External links ==*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishinfantry/24thfoot.htm 24th Regiment of Foot] www.britishempire.co.uk<br />*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wales_Borderers South Wales Borderers] Wikipedia<br>*[http://www.royalwelsh.org.uk/regimental-museum-of-the-royal-welsh.shtml The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh (Brecon)] royalwelsh.org.uk includes [http://www.royalwelsh.org.uk/regiment/history-regiment-timeline.htm historical timeline] linking to the regiment's various deployments. Covers [[23rd Regiment of Foot|23rd]], 24th, [[41st Regiment of Foot|41st]] and [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Regiments of Foot]].**An annotated copy of the South Wales Borderers 7th Battalion’s war diary, covering the period from September 1915 to October 1919 in [[Salonika|Macedonia]] is available from The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh.<ref>The Regimental Museum Of The Royal Welsh [https://www.facebook.com/royal.welsh.museum/photos/a.1307568786018263/1793839937391143/?type=3&accessmethod=5 WO 12theater Facebook post 14 September 2018] facebook.com/royal.welsh.museum</ref> (Brief details would appear in ''The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918'' by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931, and available at the British Library in a reprint edition UIN: BLL01009164174, and online on a pay website, see below.)**[https://www.neverforgetyourwelshheroes.org.uk Never Forget Your Welsh Heroes] a campaign of the Friends of the Royal Welsh Regimental Museum to digitise letters and diaries of Welsh soldiers.*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071007120108/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/024SWB.htm The South Wales Borderers] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071020112456/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/024-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071020111739/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/024-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.<br>*First World War **[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/south-wales-borderers/ 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers
], a Battalion of the Territorial Force, arrived in Bombay 3 December 1914, almost immediately went to Aden, subsequently returned to India and remained in India throughout the war, stationed at [[Mhow]] longlongtrail.co.uk***[http://www.flickr.com/photos/rugby_pioneers/3255635108/in/gallery-23268776@N03-72157639070529513/ Photograph: Winners of the All India (Calcutta) Rugby Challenge Cup 1917] flickr.com**[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040827/http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96, now archived. Mentions the Territorial Force 4/South Wales Borderers (Brecknockshire Battalion) where there were deaths from heatstroke. This is possibly an alternative name for the 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion which served in Aden.*[http://4157www.cardiffcastlemuseum.org.uk Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier] covers [[1st Dragoon Guards]], [[2nd Dragoon Guards]] or The Queen’s Bays, [[23rd Regiment of Foot|23rd]], 24th , [[41st Regiment of Foot|41st]] and [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Regiments of Foot]] .*[http://readinggivesmewings.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-arracan-expedition-andaman-islands-1867 The Arracan Expedition, Andaman Islands 1867] A detachment of 3 officers and 100 men of the 2nd Battalion 1876, 24th Regiment of Foot was dispatched from Rangoon on the steamship Arracan to rescue crew members of the ship Assam Valley who had been captured. As a result 5 Victoria Cross awards were made. readinggivesmewings.wordpress.com*"The Troops in Burmah" ''British Medical Journal'' October 9, 1886, page 703. Sickness and Death. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC2257545%2Fpdf%2Fbrmedj04747-0041.pdf html version], [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2257545/pdf/brmedj04747-18770041.pdf pdf] *[http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/stories/m_everett.htm An Indian Pilgrimage
] by Martin Everett. rorkesdriftvc.com. Appears to be written 2003 or earlier, as there is an [https://web.archive.org/web/20030801025128/http://rorkesdriftvc.com/stories/m_everett.htm archived version] from this date. This article describes**A Regimental Memorial, located in the old cantonment cemetery at Allahabad, dedicated to those soldiers and families of the 24th Regiment who died of fever at [[Ranikhet]] and [[Allahabad]] from 1889 to 1891.**Headstones in the old cantonment cemetery near [[Mhow]] railway station relating to some twenty deaths from Spanish ‘flu in September 1918 of men from the Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers.
== External Links ==Historical books online====*[http://enwww.wikipediaarchive.org/wikistream/South_Wales_Borderers South Wales Bordererscihm_05694#page/n11/mode/2up ''Historical records of the 24th regiment, from its formation, in 1689''] Wikipedia<br>1892. Archive.org. [http://www.rrwarchive.org.uk/regimentstream/cihm_05694#page/n133/mode/history.htm Royal 2up Page 90] states the Regiment of Wales History] www.rrw.org.uk<br>(the 1st Battalion) left Cape Town for India in 1810*[http://www.rrwarchive.org.uk/museumsstream/commentariesonpu00lawr#page/brecon128/fact_sheetsmode/42up "The Second Advance of the 24th Foot at Chillianwalla"], page 128 ''Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49.htm 24th in 2nd Including some additions to the history of the Second Sikh War] www.rrw, from original sources'' by J H Lawrence-Archer 1878 Archive.org.uk<br>*[http://www.rrwarchive.org.uk/museumsstream/breconsoldiersshikartr00mainiala#page/fact_sheetsn7/1.htm 1mode/24th Foot Locations 16892up ''A Soldier's Shikar Trips''] by Brigadier-1969] wwwGeneral H. G.rrwMainwaring late South Wales Borderers (24th Regiment) 1920 Archive.org*''The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918'' by C.T.ukAtkinson, originally published 1931 is available in a reprint edition,<brref>[httphttps://www.rrwnaval-military-press.orgcom/product/history-of-the-south-wales-borderers-1914-1918/ ''History of the South Wales Borderers 1914- 1918''] by C T Atkinson, originally published 1931. Naval & Military Press.uk</ref> which is in turn available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https:/museums/breconwww.fold3.com/fact_sheetsbrowse/2.htm 2251/24th Foot Locations 1756hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XLg-1948ecJX ''The History of the South Wales Borderers''] www.rrw.orglocated in World WarII/Military Books/Britain/Scroll to letter T.uk<br>
== Recommended Reading ==
Illustrated by Michael Roffe. Published by Osprey Publishing, 1975
ISBN 0850452090 and ISBN 9780850452099 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Kv5Z2DBV2swC&pg=PA15 Limited View Google Books]
 
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