105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry) [UK]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 04.06.2006

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	105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)
	East India Company / United Kingdom

Titles & Lineage

History

Battle Honours

Colours, Standards & Guidons

Uniforms & Badges

Colonels-in-Chief

Colonels


	1766	2nd Madras Europeans
	1774	2nd Madras European Regiment expanded by absorbing elements of 3rd Madras Europeans:
		1st Battalion 2nd Battalion
	1799	disbanded

	1824	re-formed as 2nd Bn, The Madras European Regiment
	1830	absorbed by 1st Bn

	1839	2nd Madras (European) Regiment
	1842	2nd Madras (European) Light Infantry
	1858.07.03	passed from HEIC to Crown control
	1859.11.03	2nd Madras Light Infantry
	1862.09.30	105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry) transferred to British Army
	1881.07.01	united with 51st (the 2nd Yorkshire West Riding) or King's Own Light Infantry Regiment , to form The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)


		Walking Down the Colonial Lane [Fort Museum, Fort St. George, Chennai], by Natasha Garyali (Chennai Online)

	*Regulars:*
		[1st Battalion] [1766-1799, 1839-1881]
		2nd Battalion [1774-1799]

	*Depot and Reserves:*
		? Depot Battalion [1856-1871]
		8th Brigade Depot at Pontefract [1873-1881]

Badges:

Uniform:

1766-1774:

1774-1776: scarlet; facings: black

1776-1785: scarlet; facings: white; lace: gold

1785-1786?: scarlet; facings: Saxon blue; lace: gold

1786?-1799: scarlet; facings: green

1839-1881: scarlet; facings: pale buff


	1839	Col. Archibald Brown Dyce
	1862.09.30	Lt-Gen. Archibald Brown Dyce
	1866.03.10	Gen. George Alexander Malcolm, CB



	Succession of Colonels, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young) Commanding Officers, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)


		Officers of the 105th Regiment, 1873 [from Hart's Army List]


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	Freedoms:	[none]
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	Musicians:
	Band History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd) Bandmasters, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
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	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*


		[no external sites have been found]


		KOYLI Regimental Gallery, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		KOYLI Regimental Gallery, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, (Simonides listing)


	Full Histories:
		Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. London : P. Lund, Humphries, 1926. (History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ; v.1-2) [from 1755 to 1914]

	Short Histories:
		*Historical record of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment of Light Infantry*. Meerut : Printing Press 105th L.I., 1871.

	Special Topics:
		Deedes, Charles Parker. History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry : A register of officers who have served on a regular commission in the regiment since its formation on the 19th December 1755, until the end of the war on the 15th August 1945. London : L. Humphries, 1946. (History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ; v.4)