Stations of the 100th and 109th Regiments of Foot, and of The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) from first raising until final Disbandment.

1853 – 1922

Compiled by Colonel Peter Walton.

YEAR 100th Regiment of Foot 109th Regiments of Foot
1853 Raised as 3rd Bombay European Regiment
1854-57  Poona
1858 Raised in Canada (Montreal – Quebec)

Shorncliffe

October – Operations

November – Mhow

1859 Shorncliffe (New Colours) Mhow
  May – Gibraltar
1860 Gibraltar Karachi
1861 Gibraltar Karachi
1862 Gibraltar Karachi
  Subsumed into 109th Foot
1863 Gibraltar

October – to Malta

Karachi
1864 Malta

 

Karachi

November – to Aden

1865 Malta Aden
1866 Malta

October – to Canada

November – Montreal, then Ottawa

Aden (New Colours)

November – to Poona

1867 Ottawa

June – to Montreal

Poona

December – to Multan

1868 Montreal

October – to Glasgow

Multan
1869 Glasgow

September – to Manchester

Multan
1870 Manchester

October – to Bury (Lancashire)

Multan

November – to Mean Meer

December – to Delhi/Roorki

1871 Bury

June – to Aldershot

Delhi/Roorki
1872 Aldershot

September – to Portsmouth

Delhi/Roorki
1873 Portsmouth Delhi/Roorki
  The regiments linked for the first time with a common HQ at Birr.
1874 Portsmouth

May – to Dublin

Delhi/Roorki

February – to Dinapore

1875 Dublin

August – to Kilkenny

Dinapore
1876 Kilkenny

June – to Portsmouth

Dinapore
1877 Portsmouth

October/November – to Jullundur

Dinapore

December – to Portsmouth

  The Battalions meet at Jubbulpore.
1878 Jullundur

December – to Sialkot

Gosport

August – to Portsmouth

1879 Sialkot

 

Portsmouth

September – to Aldershot

1880 Sialkot

December – to Amballa

Aldershot
1881 Amballa

 

Aldershot

December – to Preston

  The two battalions re-mustered as 1st and 2nd Battalions

The Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment (The Royal Canadians).

  1st Battalion 2nd Battalion
1882 Amballa Preston

July – to Dublin, then the Curragh

November – to Birr

1883 Amballa

November – to Fyzabad

Birr
1884 Fyzabad Birr
1885 Fyzabad

 

Birr

September – to Fermoy

1886 Fyzabad

October – to Calcutta

Fermoy

May – to Limerick

1887 Calcutta

(March – New Colours)

Limerick
1888 Calcutta January – to Shorncliffe
1889 Calcutta Shorncliffe
1890 Calcutta – to Agra Shorncliffe
1891 Agra Shorncliffe

February – to Aldershot

1892 Agra

December – to Deesa

Aldershot
1893 Deesa Aldershot
1894 Deesa

March – to Poona

December – to UK

Aldershot

November – to Gozo

1895 Tipperary

 

Gozo

November – to Bermuda

1896 Tipperary Bermuda
1897 Tipperary

September – to Birr

Bermuda

October – to Halifax, Nova Scotia [NS]

1898 Birr

April – to Halifax, NS

 

Halifax, NS

May – to Jamaica

October – to Barbados

  May 1898 – the Battalions met at Halifax, NS
1899 Halifax, NS Barbados
1900 Halifax, NS

April – to S Africa via UK

Barbados
1901 S Africa (Operations) Barbados
1902 S Africa (Operations)

October – to Fermoy

January – to S Africa
1903 Fermoy S Africa
1904 Fermoy

June – to Shorncliffe

S Africa
1905 Shorncliffe January – to Mauritius
1906 Shorncliffe

February – to Blackdown

Mauritius

(April – New Colours)

1907 Blackdown Mauritius

December – to Calcutta

1908 Blackdown Calcutta

March – to Jullundur

1909 Blackdown

February – to Devonport

Jullundur
1910 Devonport Jullundur
1911 Devonport

October – to Bareilly

Jullundur

November – to Cork

1912 Bareilly Cork
1913 Bareilly

(February – New Colours)

November – to Fyzabad

Cork
1914 Fyzabad

October – to UK

December – Mobilised in 82 Brigade (France & Flanders)

Cork

SeptemberMobilised in 17 Brigade 6 Division (France & Flanders)

 

1915 France & Flanders

December – to Salonika

France & Flanders
1916 Salonika France & Flanders
1917 Salonika

September – to Egypt

France & Flanders
1918 Egypt, then to Palestine France & Flanders
1919 Palestine

August – to Portsmouth

November – to Madras

Germany

June – to Portsmouth

November – to Colchester

1920 Madras Colchester
1921 Madras Colchester

June – to Silesia

1922 Madras

April – to Chatham, then Colchester

Silesia

March – to Colchester

  12 June 1922

Disbandment

Colours handed to King George V at Windsor Castle