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== References ==
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*'''1758''' 2nd Battalion 3rd Regiment of Foot redesignation as the 61st Regiment of Foot
*'''1782''' renamed 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
*'''1881''' amalgamated with the [[28th Regiment of Foot|28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot]] to form the two-battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. Also sometimes called the '''Gloster''' Regiment, or the '''Glosters'''.
*'''2005''' amalgamated with the Light Infantry, The Royal Green Jackets and the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment to form the 1st Battalion The Rifles
===Second World War===
10th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, arrived Bombay December 17th, 1942, and moved from India to the Arakan on January 13th, 1944. It served in Shillong, and again in Burma until May 16th, 1945 and then returned to India.<ref>dryan67 [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/10th-btn-glosters-in-india-burma.42986/#post-511089 10th Btn, Glosters In India/Burma] '''WW2Talk Forum'' 26 October 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2019. David A Ryan is co author of books on the Indian Army in WW2, see the ''WW2Talk Forum'' post
[http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/indian-army-an-organisational-history.52920/ Indian Army: An Organisational History]. Retrieved 25 April 2019.</ref>
== External Links links ==
===Historical books online===
*''Historical Record of the Sixty - First, or the South Gloucestershire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1844'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=qKMQAAAAYAAJ Google Books] 1844. [http://books.google.com/books?id=qKMQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 Page 47] indicates the Regiment went to Ceylon in 1828
*[https://archive.org/details/avariedlifearec00gordgoog ''A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902''] by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. He initially served with the 61st Regiment of Foot.*[https://archive.org/details/gloucestershireregwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-1918. The Records of the 1st (28th), 2nd (61st), 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th, 5th, and 6th (First-Line T.A.) Battalions''] by Everard Wyrall 1931 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/capofhonour300ye0000dani/mode/2up ''Cap of Honour : the 300 years of the Gloucestershire Regiment''] by David Scott Daniell. First published 1951, reprinted and updated in 1975, 3rd edition 2005. Archive.org Texts to Borrow.
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