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WO 12/7177
Catalogue reference: PRO 49/52
WO 12/7177
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York Light Infantry
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- York Light Infantry
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1803-1817
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- The National Archives, Kew
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In 1803 the Barbados Volunteer Emigrants were raised in Guiana, as a Dutch corps in English pay, composed of captured Dutch soldiers and later French deserters from Spain.
In 1804 the Barbados Volunteer Emigrants were disbanded and re-raised as the York Light Infantry Volunteers; commanded by Major General Sir Charles Green for service in the West Indies amongst English and Germans as a rifle corps, and placed on the British Establishment from 25 March 1804. This corps was disbanded at Harwich on 19 March 1817.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C150694/
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