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*'''1969''' amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
:1st Battalion in India '''1897-1910''' <ref>Dave (Heritage Plus) [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.comorg/topic/forums78081-south-wales-borderers-pre-1914/index.php?showtopicdo=78081findComment&pcomment=717461 South Wales Borderers pre 1914] ''Great War Forum'' 03 July 2007. Retrieved 15 January 201511 August 2018.</ref>
:*10 December 1897 - March 1898 - [[Meerut]]
:*March 1898 - November 1899 - [[Chakrata]]
== Regimental flash==
The flash, also known as the pagri (puggaree) badge, affixed to the pagri around the sun helmet in India, consisted of two outer stripes of green and an inner stripe of white. <ref>FROGSMILE. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.comorg/forumstopic/161930-help-with-photograph-please/index.php?showtopicdo=161930findComment&pcomment=1571543 Help with photograph please] ''Great War Forum'' 31 March 2011. Retrieved 5 March 201611 August 2018.</ref>
==FIBIS resources==*FIBIS Gallery: [https://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/category/82 Ludwell Collection]. Ludwell was in the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot c 1900-1910. Some photographs are dated 1905 and 1906. == External Links links ==
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishinfantry/24thfoot.htm 24th Regiment of Foot] www.britishempire.co.uk<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wales_Borderers South Wales Borderers] Wikipedia<br>
**Headstones in the old cantonment cemetery near [[Mhow]] railway station relating to some twenty deaths from Spanish ‘flu in September 1918 of men from the Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers.
====Historical books on-lineonline====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_05694#page/n11/mode/2up ''Historical records of the 24th regiment, from its formation, in 1689''] 1892. Archive.org. [http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_05694#page/n133/mode/2up Page 90] states the Regiment (the 1st Battalion) left Cape Town for India in 1810
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/commentariesonpu00lawr#page/128/mode/2up "The Second Advance of the 24th Foot at Chillianwalla"], page 128 ''Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49. Including some additions to the history of the Second Sikh War, from original sources'' by J H Lawrence-Archer 1878 Archive.org
