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63rd Manchester - 1893-1912
« on: Tuesday 10 November 09 13:15 GMT (UK) »
Any info please on where the 63rd may have been on active service between 1893 and 1912?  Or any info on how to trace an Alexander Fleming Richmond (born Montrose, Scotland 1872/74) who served with them for 12 years during this period.  He later signed up at age 44 with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1916, but I'm interested where he was with the 63rd.  Also what happened to him - can't find any death for him.
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Re: 63rd Manchester - 1893-1912
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 10 November 09 14:46 GMT (UK) »
The 63rds were until 1881 The West Suffolk Regt...Then they became 1st bn Manchesters

1883 England: Shorncliffe   
1883 Aug London: Tower of London   
1883 Sept Warley   
1885 Shorncliffe   
1888 Ireland: Tipperary   
1891 Kinsale   
1893 Limerick   
1894 England: Aldershot   
1897 Gibraltar   
1899 June: South Africa 
1899 Natal 
1903 Singapore   
1904 India: Sitapur   
1906 Secunderabad   
1909 Kemptee   
1911 Jullunder 

In Oct 1914, they formed part of the Lahore Div of the BEF

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