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'''Connaught Rangers'''
== Chronology ==
*'''1760''' raised as the 88th Regiment of Foot (Highland Volunteers) or Campbell's Highlanders
*'''1763''' disbanded
== History in India ==
{{Template:Origin|text=This article is a history of the Connaught Rangers during the period 1857-1870. It was extracted by Chris Bateman of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The original work was entitled ''The Connaught Rangers - 1st Battalion, Formerly 88th Foot'' by Lieutenant-Colonel H.F.N. Jourdain, C.M.G., and was published in London in 1924. It has been extracted with the footnotes identified and included in the main text. This section was part of the Family History in India website, which was designed to help people trace their British and European ancestry in colonial India by Cathy Day. Cathy has kindly allowed us to transfer this page to our wiki.}}
==== 1857-1858 ====
The Connaught Rangers began their homeward journey on November 5th. At 4 p.m. that afternoon the Left Wing (E, F, G and H Companies) under Brevet-Colonel Mauleverer quitted Agra by special train, Colonel Maxwell with Head-quarters and the other four companies following the next afternoon. The journey of 992 miles to Deolali in the Bombay Presidency took five days, the trains halting at Allahabad, Jubbulpore, Sohagpore, and Kundwah on successive days; waiting in a siding during the hottest hours while the men got their meals cooked. At some of the sidings there were tents standing for the accommodation of regiments making the journey. The 88th finally assembled at Deolali on the 11th. A guard of four officers and 150 men with the baggage was sent forward to Bombay on November 15th and next day the rest of the regiment entrained for Bombay. Arriving at two in the afternoon and going on board the troopship Jumna, the passage home began on the following morning.
The Connaught Rangers had been thirteen years in India, which had become the last resting-place of nine of their officers and 407 of their noncommissioned officers and men. A tablet in the Memorial Church at [[Cawnpore]], of white marble with a deep border of black marble, records the names of the former.* [Footnote: The inscription, which is cut beneath an engraving of the regimental colours, badge and motto, runs:
[Footnote: The inscription, which is cut beneath an engraving of the regimental colours, badge and motto, runs:
"IN MEMORY of the Undermentioned officers of the CONNAUGHT RANGERS.
Capt. L.S. Scott, died at [[Jullunder]], 1 April, 1870, aged 31 years."]
The following table shows the principal changes which had taken place in the constitution of the regiment during its service in India (taken from the detailed statistical return rendered on its departure).
