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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=HV1HAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Leaves from the journal of a subaltern during the campaign in the Punjaub Sept.1848 to March 1849''] by Daniel Augustus Sandford, Ensign, 2nd Bengal (European) Light Infantry 1849 Google Books | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=HV1HAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Leaves from the journal of a subaltern during the campaign in the Punjaub Sept.1848 to March 1849''] by Daniel Augustus Sandford, Ensign, 2nd Bengal (European) Light Infantry 1849 Google Books | ||
| + | *[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284894/2015.284894.The-British#page/n576/mode/1up "The Royal Munster Fusiliers Battalion II: late 104th Regiment of Foot"] page 555 ''The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc'' by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org | ||
*[http://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/164/mode/2up Deaths in Cawnpore 1892-1895] probably 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Monumental Inscriptions from Cawnpur Cantonment Cemetery , page 164 ''Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Fourth Series Volume 2'' 1908 Archive.org | *[http://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/164/mode/2up Deaths in Cawnpore 1892-1895] probably 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Monumental Inscriptions from Cawnpur Cantonment Cemetery , page 164 ''Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Fourth Series Volume 2'' 1908 Archive.org | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:09, 31 March 2017
Also known as 2nd Bengal European Regiment
Contents
Chronology
- 1765 formed as the 2nd Bengal European Regiment in HEIC service by division of The Bengal European Regiment
- 1783 renamed the 2nd Bengal European Battalion
- 1796 renamed the 2nd Bengal European Regiment
- 1803 absorbed by The Marine Battalion
- 1822 re-formed as 2nd Bengal European Regiment with volunteers from 1st Regiment
- 1830 absorbed by 1st Regiment
- 1839 re-formed as 2nd Bengal (European) Light Infantry from a nucleus of 1st Bengal (European) Regiment
- 1850 renamed the 2nd Bengal (European) Fusiliers
- 1859 renamed the 2nd Bengal Fusiliers
- 1862 renamed the 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers)
- 1881 merged with the 101st Regiment of Foot and became 2nd Battalion The Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 1922 disbanded on the formation of the Irish Free State
Service in British India
- 1765 India
- 1774 1st Rohilla War
- 1775 India
- 1822 India
- 1825 Arrakan
- 1826 India
- 1839 Hazaribagh
- 1840 Ghazeepore
- 1842 Cawnpore
- 1842 Ferozepore
- 1843 Meerut
- 1843 Umballa
- 1844 Ludhiana
- 1845 Shikapore
- 1845 Sukkur
- 1845 Karachi
- 1846 Rohree
- 1845 Bahawalpore
- 1845 Subatha
- 1848 Ferozepore
- 1848 2nd Sikh War
- 1849 Lahore
- 1850 Agra
- 1853 2nd Burma War
- 1856 India
- 1857 Indian Mutiny
- 1859 Delhi
- 1860 Roorkee
- 1884 Bombay
- 1886 Rangoon
- 1888 Calcutta
- 1892 Cawnpore
- 1897 Dum Dum
- 1868 Cawnpore
- 1899 Dinapore
Battle Honours
External Links
- 2nd Bengal Fusiliers Wikipedia
- Royal Munster Fusiliers Wikipedia
- List of officers in 1829 Google Books
- 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers) including deployments regiments.org, an archived website.
- The Royal Munster Fusiliers including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion regiments.org, an archived website.
- The Munster Fusiliers including
- The Royal Munster Fusiliers Association including
- "Indian Mutiny Tunic Reveals Death-Defying Story" with additional details National Army Museum. Lieutenant Campbell Clark, 2nd Bengal European Fusiliers was attached to the 88th Regiment of Foot at the time he was shot in Cawnpore duting the Indian Mutiny
- The Royal Irish [Regiment] Details of Museums and database for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (27th and 108th Regiments of Foot), the Royal Irish Rifles (83rd and 86th Regiments of Foot), and the Royal Irish Fusiliers (87th and 89th Regiments of Foot). In addition, in time it is intended to include in the database the names of many soldiers who served in what have become known as the Disbanded Irish Regiments, such as the Connaught Rangers, (88th and 94th Regiments of Foot), the Dublin Fusiliers (102th and 103th Regiments of Foot) and the (18th) Royal Irish Regiment. The Leinster Regiment (100th and 109th Regiments of Foot) and the Royal Munster Fusiliers (101st and 104th Regiments of Foot) also are part of this category.
- Account by Elizabeth Webber Harris, wife of the Colonel of the Regiment regarding a cholera epidemic in 1869 and how she was awarded a replica Victoria Cross by the Officers of the Regiment. html version, pdf old.manfamily.org
Historical books online
- Leaves from the journal of a subaltern during the campaign in the Punjaub Sept.1848 to March 1849 by Daniel Augustus Sandford, Ensign, 2nd Bengal (European) Light Infantry 1849 Google Books
- "The Royal Munster Fusiliers Battalion II: late 104th Regiment of Foot" page 555 The British Army : Its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices Etc by Major J H Lawrence-Archer 1888 Archive.org
- Deaths in Cawnpore 1892-1895 probably 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Monumental Inscriptions from Cawnpur Cantonment Cemetery , page 164 Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Fourth Series Volume 2 1908 Archive.org
