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102nd Regiment
of Foot
(Royal Madras Fusiliers)
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East
India Company / United Kingdom 
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1645 |
[independent
companies] |
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1742 |
Madras Europeans
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1766 |
1st Madras
Europeans
redesignated on formation of 2nd
Madras Europeans |
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1774 |
1st Madras
European Regiment
expanded by absorbing elements of 3rd
Madras Europeans: |
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- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
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1799 |
The Madras
European Regiment
reduced to single battalion |
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1824 |
expanded: |
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- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
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1830 |
reduced
to single battalion (1st absorbed 2nd) |
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1839 |
1st Madras
(European) Regiment
redesignated on formation of 2nd
Madras (European) Regt |
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1843 |
1st Madras
(European) Fusiliers |
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1858.07.03 |
1st Madras
Fusiliers
passed from HEIC to Crown control |
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1861.05.02 |
1st Royal
Madras Fusiliers |
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1862.09.30 |
102nd Regiment
of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers)
transferred to British Army |
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1881.07.01 |
united
with 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay
Fusiliers) , to form The
Royal Dublin Fusiliers |
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Arcot, [Plassey]1,
Condore2,
Wandiwash, Pondicherry,
Nundy Droog3,
Amboyna, Ternate, Banda,
Maheidpoor, Ava,
Pegu,
Lucknow
1. the Royal Tiger badge inscribed "Plassey".
2. awarded in error; the regiment was not present.
3. awarded with Royal Tiger badge.
Note: see also successor for belatedly
awarded battle honours.
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Uniform: |
?-1774:
scarlet; facings: |
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1774-1776:
scarlet; facings: buff |
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1776-1785:
scarlet; facings: white |
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1785-1786?:
scarlet; facings: Saxon blue; lace: gold |
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1786?-1799:
scarlet; facings: blue |
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1799-?: scarlet;
facings: light blue; lace: gold |
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?-1843:
scarlet; facings: white |
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1843-1881:
scarlet; facings: blue |
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1748? |
Strirnger Lawrence |
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1862.09.30 |
Gen. Sir Robert John Hussey Vivian, GCB |
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Bird, Spencer Godfrey. The
regimental records of 1st Batt., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, formerly
102nd Royal Madras Fusiliers, 1st Madras Fusiliers, the Madras European
regiment, 1842-1905. [s.l. : s.n., (Biddle
& Shippam)], 1904. |
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Butler, Lt. A sketch of the
services of the Madras European Regiment during the Burmese War.
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1839. |
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Harcourt, George John. The
regimental records of the First Battalion, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers
... 1644-1842 : formerly the Madras Europeans, the Madras European
Regiment, the First Madras Fusiliers, the 102nd Royal Madras Fusiliers.
London : H. Rees, 1910. |
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Neill, J.G.S. Historical record of
The Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment;
containing an account of the establishment of independent companies
in 1645, their formation intoa regiment in 1748, and its subsequent
services to 1842. London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1842.
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Raikes, Thomas. Services of
the 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) from 1842 to the
present time; being a sequel to the 'Services of the Madras European
Regiment; by a Staff Officer'. London : Smith, Elder
& Co., 1867. |
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Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael).
Neill's "Blue Caps"; being a record of the antecedents and
early history of the Regiment variously known as the East India Company's
European Regiment, The Madras European Regiment, the 1st Madras European
Regiment, the 1st Madras European Fuziliers, the 1st Madras Fusiliers,
the 102nd Royal Madras Fuziliers, and the 1st Battalion Royal Dublin
Fusiliers. Aldershot : Printed and published for the
Regimental Committee by Gale & Polden, 1924. |
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Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael).
Neill's "Blue Caps". [reprint] Cork : Schull
Books, 1996. |
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