Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated 14.02.2006
1779-1862
1862-1881
1881-1922
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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  1765.08.05 2nd Bengal European Regiment
formed in HEIC service by division of The Bengal European Regiment
  1765 India  
  1774 Rohilla War  
  1775 India  
       
   
       
  1803 disbanded (absorbed by The Marine Battalion)
  1822 2nd Bengal (European) Regiment
re-formed with volunteers from 1st Regiment
  1822 India  
1825 Burma: Arrakan  
  1826 India  
  1830 disbanded
  1839.07.29 2nd Bengal (European) Regiment
re-formed at Hazaribagh from nucleus of
1st Bengal (European) Regiment
1839.07 India: Hazaribagh
  1840.07 Ghazeepore
  1842.03 Cawnpore recruits from England completed bn
  1842.11.20 Ferozepore 4 Bde, 2 Div
  1843.02.24 Meerut
  1843.11.10 Umballa
  1844.04 Ludhiana [right wing] & Meerut [left wing]
  1844.11 Ludhiana [regiment reunited]
  1845.01 Shikarpore action against border tribes
  1845.03 Sukkur
  1845.09.13 Karachi [less No. 2 Coy at Sukkur]
  1845.12 Sukkur
  1846.01 Rohree Indus Force
  1846.03 Bahawalpore Indus Force
  1846.04 Subatha
  1846.10 Jullundur, Burreewat Ghat, Lahore
  1847.01 Jullundur
  1847.12 Subatha
  1848.10.14 Ferozepore 4 Bde, Army of the Punjab
  1848 Sikh War
  1849.04 Lahore
  1850.01.18 2nd Bengal (European) Fusiliers
1850.03 Agra
  1853.04.19 at sea (embarked at Calcutta)
  1853 Burma
  1856 India
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  <1859> India: Delhi
  1859.11.03 2nd Bengal Fusiliers
transferred to British service
  1860.03 Roorkee  
  1862.09.30 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers)
  <1860s> India
  1871.11.11 at sea (embarked at Bombay) ship: Malabar
  1871.12.16 England: Portsmouth
  1872 England:
  1877.06.03 Ireland: Kingstown
  1877.06 Ireland: Curragh
  1878.04 Belfast
  1880.03 Dublin (Richmond Barracks)
  1880.12 Curragh
  1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers
  1881 Enniskillen
  1882 Malta
1884.03.04 at sea
1884.03.23 India: Bombay
1884.04 India: Kemptee
1886.08 at sea
1886.08 Burma: Rangoon
1886 Burma
1888.11.19 at sea
1888.12.01 India: Calcutta
Chabuttia
Bareilly
Shahjahanpore
<1892> Cawnpore
<1897> Dum Dum
<1899> Dinapore
1901.11.15 at sea
1901.12.30 Natal (landed at Durban)
1901.12. South Africa
1902.10.10 at sea
1902.11.16 Ireland: Queenstown
  1903 Ireland: Kinsale
  1904.04 Gibraltar
  1907.02.28 Ireland  
  1907.03 Ireland: Limerick
  1909 England: Tidworth
1911.06.22 London coronation parade
1913 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1914.08.13 at sea (embarked at Southampton, arrived at Le Havre)
  1914.08 France and Flanders 1 Div
  1918.02 France and Flanders 16 Div
  1918.05 France and Flanders 31 Div
  1918.07 France and Flanders 50 Div
  1919 Egypt & Sudan
  1922.07.31 disbanded