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The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881 and disbanded in 1922. It was created by merging the 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot and the 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry). The regiment's recruitment area included the Irish counties of Meath, Westmeath, Longford, King's County (now Offaly), and Queen's County (now Laois). It had strong historical ties to both Canada and India through its antecedent regiments.
Full two-volume history of a distinguished regiments from its origins in the 1812 war with the US to its heroic service in the Great War before it was disbanded in 1922.
Originally published in 1924, this is a facsimile edition, in two PB volumes , reprinted by the Naval and Military Press, UK.