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*[http://shropshireregiments.org.uk/ Shropshire Regimental Museum] Homepage og the museum containing regimental histories.
===Historical Books Onlinebooks online===*''Historical Record of the Fifty - Third, or the Shropshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1848'' by Richard Cannon 1849 [http://books.google.com/books?id=LfuJG3feW-MC Google Books]. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=LfuJG3feW-MC&pg=PA13 page 13] in 1805 in Madras and continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=LfuJG3feW-MC&pg=PA27 page 27] in 1844 in Calcutta*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tDAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Recollections of a winter campaign in India in 1857-58''] by Capt Oliver John Jones, R.N. 1859 Google Books. The author was attached, as a volunteer, to the 53rd Regiment of Foot for five months 
===Other===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_(Shropshire)_Regiment_of_Foot 53rd Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Shropshire_Light_Infantry King's Shropshire Light Infantry] Wikipedia
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080109015838/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/053-757.htm 53rd (the Shropshire) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20080201022608/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/053-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, now an archived website
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220438/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/053KSLI.htm The King's Shropshire Light Infantry] including deployments:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080201022608/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/053-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080108235534/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/085-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, now an archived website
*[http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20061019092509 53rd Regiment in the Sutlej Campaign] discovershropshire.org.uk
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Shropshire_Light_Infantry King's Shropshire Light Infantry] Wikipedia
*[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 King’s Shropshire Light Infantry (with photographs) militarysunhelmets.com
*This link from [http://military-bands.co.uk/3_li.html military-bands.co.uk] refers to the band of the 53rd Regiment during the [[Indian Mutiny ]] and subsequently in India in the 1920s.
*[http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20070316120518 The K.S.L.I. and the Hong Kong Plague, 1894]. discovershropshire.org.uk. [http://www.britisharmedforces.org/li_pages/regiments/ksli/shrop_hongkong.htm Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894] britisharmedforces.org.
 
 
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