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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
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109th Regiment
of Foot
(Bombay Infantry) |
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East
India Company / United Kingdom
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| How to find information about individuals who served in this corps |
| 1853 | 3rd Bombay
(European) Regiment raised at Poona in HEIC service from other European regiments and recruits at HEIC depot Warley, Essex |
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| 1858.07.03 | transferred from HEIC to Crown control | |
| 1859.11.03 | 3rd Bombay Regiment | |
| 1860 | absorbed 500 men of Jäger Corps, British German Legion (the remaining Germans returned home in 1882) | |
| 1862.09.30 | 109th Regiment
of Foot (Bombay Infantry) transferred to British Army |
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| 1881.07.01 | united with 100th (or Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot , to form The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) | |
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The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, by Waterford County Museum. | |
| Regulars: | ||
| [1st Battalion] [1853-1881] | ||
| Depot and Reserves: | ||
? Depot Battalion
[1856-1871] 
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| 67th Brigade Depot at Birr [1873-1881] | ||
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| Uniform: | 1853-1881: scarlet; facings: white | |||||||
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| 1862.09.30 | Gen. Sir William Wyllie, GCB | |
| 1873.02.14 | Gen. Mark Kerr Atherley | |
| 1880.01.30 | Gen. Sir Richard Denis Kelly, KCB [continued 1881 in Leinster Regt] | |
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| Nicknames: | The Brass-heads | |
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