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*'''1881''' amalgamated with the [[37th Regiment of Foot|37th North Hampshire Regiment ]] to become 2nd Battalion The Hampshire Regiment

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== History During their time in India, many drafts were provided for Hampshire Regiments in Mesopotamia. As an example, two War Diaries show that 1/4 Hants received drafts from 1/4 Bn India, 2/4, 1/6 Bn, 1/7 Bn, 2/7 Bn India.<ref> sotonmate. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/238187-14th-hampshire-after-kut/?do=findComment&comment=This is a very brief history of HM 67th Regiment of Foot (South 2389435 1/4th Hampshire Regiment), focussing entirely on its time in Indiaafter Kut] ''Great War Forum'' 17 April 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2019.</ref>

'''1805''' India '''1806-1807''' [[Fort William]]1/5th Battalion "arrived in Bombay on 9th November, 1914, and proceeded to Allahabad. Volunteers were called for to go to Mesopotamia (1 officer and 50 o.r.), and in 1915 the battalion was split up and detachments sent to various spots until reassembling at Fyzabad in March 1916. They then appear to have done a Grand Tour of cantonments, even taking in several months in Burma in 1918 (!). More fun in the Punjab in early 1919, dealing with riots, before taking part in the Afghan campaign in May/June 1919 (temperatures of 125 degrees F in the tents ... nice) before departing in October and arriving back in Southampton on 8th November 1919".<ref> Broomfield, Steven. [[Calcutta]] '''1808https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/254102-1810''' [[Dinapore]] '''181115th-1813''' [[Ghazipur]] '''1814hampshires/?tab=comments#comment-1815''' [[Cawnpore]2570581 1/5th hampshires] '''1816-1817'Great War Forum'' 6 October 2017, [[Meerut]] ''with details from the book '1818 ''' The 67th Regiment History of Foot played a part in the Pindari Campaign or [[3rd Maratha Hampshire Territorial Force Association and War]] '''1819 ''' [[Asseerghur]] '''1819 ''' Maleagaon '''1820 ''' India '''1821''' Meelat Fort '''1821Records of Units, 1914-1823'1919'' , [[Sholapur]] authors '''1824-1826''' Brigadier General G H Nicholson and Col H L Powell, published 1921. [[Poona]]==Bibliography ==Retrieved 25 April 2019.</ref>

The information above Oswald S. Early was obtained a First World War wireless operator with the 1/9th Battalion Territorial Force of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, serving from 1916 to 1919 in India, Iraq and Afghanistan. He kept a number of sourcesdiary which was later published.<ref>''The Messenger'' by Oswald Early, including compiled and edited by Russell Early. First published 2014 by Mereo Books. ISBN:9781861512352 </ref>

==Regimental journal====== ''British Our Chronicle: Published Monthly by the 67th (South Hants) Regiment''====The first issue was published in Rangoon on 1st Jan 1873, and was continued until at least 1893. Copies are held in the Regimental Museum (see link below). The [[National Army Pensioners AbroadMuseum]] has editions of '' by Norman KOur Chronicle'' 1873-1885 in its catalogue (no further details given). Volumes to Volume VII Issue no.83, 1880 are available online, see below. ====''The Hampshire Regimental Journal''====Published from 1905. The [[British Library]] has some issues from 1905, but it is unclear what the holding is. The Regimental Museum, refer below, holds issues from 1905-1992. The [[National Army Museum]] is another source and the catalogue indicates Volumes 1-33, published 1938, are held, with a few later editions. Crowder ISBN 0806314605

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67th_(South_Hampshire)_Regiment_of_Foot 67th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080102231002/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/067-758.htm 67th (the South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228194604/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/067-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived site. *[http://web.archive.org/web/20071228194625/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/037Hamps.htm The Royal Hampshire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221222415/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/037-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071228194604/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/067-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hampshire_Regiment The Hampshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>*[http://www.britisharmedforces.org/i_regiments/hamp_index.htm The Royal Hampshire Regiment] British Armed Forces & National Service*[http://www.serleshouse.co.uk/index.html The Royal Hampshire Regiment Memorial Garden & Museum] including details of the [http://www.serleshouse.co.uk/our_services.html Archive]*[http://www.southernlife.org.uk/hants_regt.htm The Royal Hampshire Regiment (The Tigers)] southernlife.org.uk*[http://www.andoverhgs.org.uk/ Andover Family History Group] *[http://www.hgs-online.org.uk/ Hampshire Genealogical Society]*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_of_Wales%27s_Royal_Regiment Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment] Wikipedia*[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/hampshire-regiment/ The Hampshire Regiment] from The Long, Long Trail: The British Army in the Great War. There were Territorial Force battalions in India and Mesopotamia.**Article: [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258286/All-quiet-eastern-The-amazing-photo-album-shows-boys-fared-India-WWI.html All quiet on the Eastern Front: The amazing photo album which shows how our boys fared in India in WWI] 16 March 2010 ''Daily Mail''. With photographs. Private Wally Langrish 1/9 Cycle Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment. He was stationed in [[Bangalore]] and [[Dagshai]], before going to Mesopotamia.*[http://1rhamps.com/ww1/DiaryAug2001.htm A 1/4th Hampshire Regiment Signallers Diary November 1916 To September 1919] by Arthur James Foster
(1899-1973) (Ex Corporal Of The Hampshire Regiment), Edited by his son Richard Carfax-Foster. The author was in Mesopotamia, and then took part in Dunsterforce, see [[Norperforce]] ====Historical books online====*''Historical Record of the Sixty - Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1849'' by Richard Cannon 1849 [http://books.google.com/books?id=ldNcfb8QydMC Google Books]. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=ldNcfb8QydMC&pg=PA12 page 12] in 1805 in Calcutta*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0aU-AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Our Chronicle: Published Monthly by the 67th (South Hants) Regiment, Issues 1-48'']:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=I6Y-AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Our Chronicle: Published Monthly by the 67th (South Hants) Regiment, Issues 49-83'']. Google Books*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/199044 ''2/4 Battalion. Hampshire Regiment 1914-1919''] Published 1920?. State Library of Victoria. May be slow to open. The Battalion was in India January 1915-April 1917, where it provided many drafts for Mesopotamia, and was then in Palestine and France.:[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. India, [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)| Egypt/Palestine]], [[Western Front]].*[https://archive.org/stream/memogw/memoirs_of_the_great_war#page/n79/mode/2up ''Memoirs of the Great War''] by James Racine c 1920. Pages 80-102 cover the author's voyage to India from October 1916 and his period in India as an officer with the 2/5th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment in Secunderabad until the Battalion was transferred to Egypt. Archive.org*[http://archive.org/stream/mesopotamia00palmuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916''] from Robert Palmer 1916 Archive.org. He went with a draft from the 6th Hants, in India since November 1914, to reinforce the 4th Hants. Both these regiments were part of the Territorial Force. He was killed June 21, 1916, aged 27 years. The initial letters were written in India. == References ==<references />