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3rd Bombay (European) Regiment

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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Durham_Light_Infantry Durham Light Infantry] - Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince_of_Wales%27s_Leinster_Regiment_(Royal_Canadians) Leinster Regiment] - Wikipedia
*[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/index.html Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Regimental Association]
**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/18th/3rd_bombay.htm History of the 109th Regiment of Foot, 2nd Battalion the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, previously 3rd Bombay European Regiment] (4 pages)
**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/19th/109_bombay_inf.htm The 3rd Bombay European Regiment becomes part of the British Army] Over 600 men of the 3rd Europeans declined the various inducements to join the British Army and were sent back to England in a sailing ship that took 5 months to make the journey. Reduced to a skeleton force the Regiment looked for reinforcements and at this point members of the Jäger Corps joined the Regiment
**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/19th/1863-1881.htm 1863-1881]
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/searchresults.asp?mode=reg&regiment=3rd%20Bombay%20European%20Regiment 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment Mutiny Memorials, Jhansi] - Indian-cemeteries.org. Images of memorials with 71 names of those who fell in the 1857 uprising.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZrQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA774 Officers in HM’s 109th Regiment], page 774 from The Bombay Miscellany Volume 4, May to October 1862
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