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| dates = 1766–1799<br>1824–1830<br>1839–1881
|country=[[File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|23px]] [[East India Company]] (1766–1858)<br>{{flag|United Kingdom}} (1858–1881)
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|branch=[[File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|23px]] [[Madras Army]] (1766–1862)<br>{{army|United Kingdom}} (1862–1881)
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| size = One battalion (two battalions 1774–1799)
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| garrison =[[Pontefract Barracks]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]
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The '''105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)''' was an [[infantry]] regiment of the [[British Army]], raised by the [[East India Company|Honourable East India Company]] in 1766. Under the [[Childers Reforms]] it amalgamated with the [[51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot]] to form the [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]].

==History==
[[File:George Alexander Malcolm.jpg|thumb|left|General [[George Alexander Malcolm]], colonel of the regiment in the 1870s]]

===Early history===
The regiment as first raised by the [[East India Company|Honourable East India Company]] as the '''2nd Madras Europeans''', when it was formed from the [[102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers)|1st Madras Europeans]] in 1766.<ref name=regiments>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/105-862.htm |title=105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry) |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=5 September 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060310120023/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/105-862.htm |archive-date=10 March 2006 }}</ref> It served in India until it was disbanded in 1799.<ref name=regiments/> It was re-raised as the '''2nd Battalion, The Madras European Regiment''' in 1822 but disbanded again in 1830.<ref name=regiments/>

===The Victorian era===
The regiment was re-raised as the '''2nd Madras (European) Regiment''' in 1839 and re-designated the '''2nd Madras (European) Light Infantry''' in 1842.<ref name=regiments/> It was deployed to [[Myanmar|Burma]] in 1853 during the [[Second Anglo-Burmese War]] and then saw action in India in 1857 during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]].<ref name=locations>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/105.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060310073653/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/105.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2006|title=105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry): Locations|access-date=31 March 2017}}</ref>  After the Crown took control of the [[Presidency armies]] in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion, the regiment became the '''2nd Madras Light Infantry''' in November 1859.<ref name=regiments/> It was then renumbered as the '''105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)''' on transfer to the [[British Army]] in September 1862.<ref name=regiments/> It embarked for England in 1874.<ref name=locations/>

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 105th was linked with the [[51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot]], and assigned to district no. 8 at [[Pontefract Barracks]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]].<ref name=training>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/depot/1873.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210172841/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/depot/1873.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 February 2006|title=Training Depots|publisher=Regiments.org|access-date=16 October 2016}}</ref> On 1 July 1881 the [[Childers Reforms]] came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the [[51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot]] to form the [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]].<ref name=regiments/>

==Regimental Colonels==
Colonels of the regiment were:<ref name=regiments/>

;2nd Madras (European) Regiment
*1839: Col. Archibald Brown Dyce

;105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)
*1862–1866: Lt-Gen. Archibald Brown Dyce
*1866–1881: Gen. [[George Alexander Malcolm]], CB

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/105-862.htm|title=105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)|access-date=April 15, 2007|last=Mills|first=T.F.|work=regiments.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080107002713/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/105-862.htm|archive-date=7 January 2008}}

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