109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)

The regiment was originally raised by the Honourable East India Company in 1853 as the 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment[1] and then saw action in India in 1857 during the Indian Rebellion.[2] After the Crown took control of the Presidency armies in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion, the regiment became the 3rd Bombay Regiment in November 1859.[1] It was then renumbered as the 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) on transfer to the British Army in September 1862.[2] As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 109th was linked with the 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot, and assigned to district no.[3] On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot to form the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians).
General Sir Richard Denis Kelly , colonel of the regiment in the early 1880s
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Princess Charlotte of Wales's)50th (American Provincials)50th (The Queen's Own)51st Regiment of Foot (Cape Breton Regiment)51st (2nd York, West Riding, The King's Own Light Infantry)52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry)53rd (Shropshire)54th (West Norfolk)55th (Westmorland)56th (West Essex)57th (West Middlesex)58th (Rutlandshire)59th (2nd Nottinghamshire)60th (De Grangues's)60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps)61st (Gooch's)61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot62nd (Royal American)62nd (1st Highland Battalion)62nd (Wiltshire)63rd (2nd Highland Battalion)63rd (West Suffolk)64th (Loudon's Highlanders)64th (Draper's)64th (2nd Staffordshire)65th (Shirley's)65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding)66th (Pepperrell's)66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot68th (Durham) (Light Infantry)69th (South Lincolnshire)70th (Surrey)71st (1758-1763)71st (Fraser's Highlanders)71st (Highland Light Infantry)72nd (1758–1763)72nd (Invalids)72nd (Royal Manchester Volunteers)72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders)73rd (1758–1763)73rd (Invalids)73rd (Highland)73rd (Perthshire)74th (1758–1763)74th (Invalids)74th (Argyleshire Highlanders)74th (Highland)75th (1758–1763)75th (Invalids)75th (Prince of Wales's Regiment)75th (Stirlingshire)76th (1758–1763)76th (MacDonald's Highlanders)76th Regiment of Foot77th (Montgomery's Highlanders)77th (Atholl Highlanders)77th (East Middlesex) (Duke of Cambridge's Own)78th (Fraser's Highlanders)78th (Highland)78th (Highland) (The Ross-shire Buffs)79th (Royal Liverpool Volunteers)79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders)80th (Light Armed)80th (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)80th (Staffordshire Volunteers)81st (Aberdeenshire Highland)81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)82nd (invalids)82nd (1777)82nd (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)83rd (1757-1763)83rd (Royal Glasgow Volunteers)83rd (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)83rd (County of Dublin)84th (1758-1764)84th (Royal Highland Emigrants)84th (York and Lancaster)85th (Royal Volontiers Light Infantry)85th (1779-1783)85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry)86th (1759-1763)86th (1779-1783)86th (Royal County Down)87th (Keith's Highlanders)87th (1779-1783)87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers)88th (Highland Volunteers)88th (1779-1783)88th (Connaught Rangers)89th (Highland)89th (1779-1783)89th (Princess Victoria's)90th (Irish Light Infantry)90th (Yorkshire Volunteers)90th (Perthshire Light Infantry)91st (1759-1763)91st (Shropshire Volunteers)91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders)92nd (Donegal Light Infantry)92nd (1779-1783)92nd (Gordon Highlanders)93rd (1779-1783)93rd (Sutherland Highlanders)94th (Royal Welsh Volunteers)94th (1780-1783)95th (1759-1763)95th (1780-1783)95th (Riflemen)95th (1816-1818)95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot96th (1760-1763)96th (British Musketeers)96th (1803-1816)96th (Queen's Own Germans)96th Regiment of Foot97th (Queen's Own Germans)97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot98th (1780-1784)98th (Argyllshire Highlanders)98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot99th (Jamaica Regiment)99th (1794-1797)99th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin)99th (Duke of Edinburgh's)100th (Highland)100th (1780-1784)100th (Gordon Highlanders)100th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin)100th (New South Wales Corps)100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian)101st (Highland)101st (1780-1783)101st (Duke of York's Irish)101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)102nd (1780-1783)102nd (Irish)102nd (New South Wales Corps)102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers)103rd Regiment of Foot (Volunteer Hunters)103rd Regiment of Foot (King's Irish Infantry)103rd (Loyal Bristol Volunteers)103rd (1809-1816)103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)104th (King's Volunteers)104th (1782-1783)104th (Royal Manchester Volunteers)104th (New Brunswick )104th Regiment of Foot105th (Queen's Own Royal Highlanders)105th (Volunteers of Ireland)105th (1794-1796)105th (Madras Light Infantry)106th (Black Musqueteers)106th (1794-1796)106th (Bombay Light Infantry)107th (Queen's Own Royal Regiment of British Volunteers)107th 1794-1795107th (Bengal Light Infantry)108th (1760-1763)108th (1794-1795)108th (Madras Infantry)109th (1761-1763)109th (Aberdeenshire)110th (Queen's Royal Musqueteers)110th (1794-1795)111th (1761-1763)111th (Loyal Birmingham Volunteers)112th (King's Royal Musqueteers)112th (1794-1795)113th (Royal Highlanders)113th (1794-1795)114th (Royal Highlander Volunteers)114th (1794-1795)115th (Royal Scotch Lowlanders)115th (Prince William's)116th (Invalids)116th (Perthshire Highlanders)117th (Invalids)117th (1793-1795)118th (Invalids)118th (1794-1795)119th (The Prince's Own)119th (1794-1796)120th (1762-1763)120th (1794-1795)121st (1761-1763)121st (1794-1795)122nd (1762-1764)122nd (1794-1796)123rd (1762-1764)123rd (1794-1796)124th (1762-1763)124th (Waterford)132nd (Highland)133rd (Highland)134th (Loyal Limerick)135th (Limerick)