77th Regiment of Foot

Chronology

• 1787 raised as 77th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot by EIC for service in India when war with the French was imminent
• 1807 renamed the 77th (the East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
• 1876 renamed the 77th (the East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (The Duke of Cambridge's Own)
• 1881 united with 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot to form The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
• 1966 amalgamated with three other regiments to become 4th Battalion The Queen's Regiment
• 1992 amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to become Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
• 2006 amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single large Royal Regiment of Scotland becoming The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS)

External links

• 77th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
  
• The Middlesex Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Queen's Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Wikipedia
  
• 77th In India 1787-1807 www.albuhera.co.uk
  
• 77th (the East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
  
• The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
  
• Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment & Queen's Regiment Museum Armymuseums.org
• Photograph: "A" Company, 3rd Middlesex Regiment. Winners Football, 1912, Lebong, India. wibbo-archive.blogspot.com
• The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1/9th Battalion and 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment: Both battalions sailed 30 October 1914 from Southampton for India, arriving Bombay on 2 December 1914. The 1/9th Battalion eventually moved to Mesopotamia, arriving Basra on 24 November 1917, and joined the 53rd Brigade of the 18th Indian Division. It remained in that theatre until the end of the war. The 1/10th Battalion remained in India until the end of the war. longlongtrail.co.uk.
  • David Prebble’s Photostream. flickr.com Some of the photographs are labelled “1/9th Middlesex Regiment India 1914 to 1920” and it very probable all the photographs are of this regiment, in England or India.
  • Photographs: 1/9th Middlesex Regiment in India 1914-1918 king-emperor.com. Taken by then Sgt Maurice Mendes, later commissioned.
  • Photograph: 1/9th Middlesex Regiment, Dinapore, India, 1916 flickr.com
  • The National Army Museum has many papers and photographs in its collection including
    • 1/9th Middlesex Regiment: "Album of 56 photographs, including 5 loose, 9th Bn Middlesex Regiment, Waziristan, 1919 (c); showing mostly commercial views of the North West Frontier, including a camp at Landi Kotal and a camp at Landi Khana, a Viceroy inspecting Kurram Militia and group photographs". NAM Accession Number Photographs 1992-08-106
    • 1/10th Middlesex Regiment
      • Transcription of the diary of Pte William Henry Fox, D Coy 1/10th Middlesex Regiment, 1916-1918; covers the troopship journey out to India in December 1916 and his service in Lucknow between August 1917 and March 1918; NAM Accession Number Archives 2004-10-189
      • Album of 214 photographs including 1 loose, 1/10th Bn Middlesex Regiment, India 1914-1919; showing portraits, group photographs, views, a camp at Hatti 1916, a machine gun post 1916, the Nepalese Imperial Service Bn at Abbottabad in 1917, an Indian mountain gun ready for action and barracks at Quetta. NAM Accession Number Photographs 1992-08-107

Historical books on-line

• Lists of the officers of His Majesty's and the Hon. Company's troops serving under the Presidency of Bombay from Adjutant General's Office January 1st 1798 Muster roll in Cochin Google Books
• Records of the Seventy-Seventh (East Middlesex), the Duke of Cambridge's Own Regiment of Foot, now the Second Battalion The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) by Henry Herriott Woollright, 1907 Archive.org
• The Story of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford] 1916 Archive.org
  • The 1st Battalion was in India 1898-1912, page 158
  • The 3rd Battalion moved to India in 1911 and was there when war broke out, page 159
  • The Territorial Battalions in India are briefly mentioned (to 1916) page 210