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The 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) was a regiment of the British Army raised by the Honourable East India Company in 1742. It transferred to the command of the British Army in 1862. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 103rd Regiment of Foot in 1881 to form the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
A party, on the 26th of September, 1857, was shut up and besieged in a house in the city of Lucknow, by the rebel sepoys...Private McManus in conjunction with Private John Ryan, rushed into the street, and took Captain Arnold, of the 1st Madras Fusiliers, out of a dooly, and brought him into the house in spite of a heavy fire, in which Captain ...
The Army of the Madras Presidency remained almost unaffected by the Indian Rebellion of 1857.By contrast with the larger Bengal Army where all but twelve (out of eighty-four) infantry and cavalry regiments either mutinied or were disbanded, all fifty-two regiments of Madras Native Infantry remained loyal and passed into the new Indian Army when direct British Crown rule replaced that of the ...
It was in 1881 that Spurgin's old regiment, from 1861 correctly the 102nd (Royal Madras) Fusiliers, was merged with the former Royal Bombay Fusiliers (103rd), to form the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. [31] [32] In 1880 he was given the three-year appointment of the command at Aldershot of the 1st Brigade. He had the retirement rank of Lieutenant ...
102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) 1861–1881 [168] 1756 Raised 1742 by the Honorable East India Company as the Madras European Regiment. Came under Crown control in 1858 as 1st Madras Fusiliers. Made a "royal" regiment and integrated into the British Army as the 102nd Foot in 1861. [18] [168] 1881:1st Battalion, The Royal Dublin ...
The 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) was a regiment raised in 1662. It transferred to the command of the Honourable East India Company in 1668 and to the command of the British Army in 1862. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) to form the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1881.
He was about 30 years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Madras European Fusiliers (later The Royal Dublin Fusiliers), Madras Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:
The term fusiliers was first used officially by the French Army in 1670, when four fusiliers were distributed among each company of infantry. [2] The following year the Fusiliers du Roi ("King's Fusiliers"), the first regiment composed primarily of soldiers with flintlocks, was formed [2] by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.