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118 to 135 Foot (also includes some musters for HM Downshire Volunteers Regiment...
Catalogue reference: WO 17/227
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This record is about the 118 to 135 Foot (also includes some musters for HM Downshire Volunteers Regiment... dating from 1762-1795 in the series Office of the Commander in Chief: Monthly Returns to the Adjutant General. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 17/227
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1762-1795
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Description (What the record is about)
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118 to 135 Foot (also includes some musters for HM Downshire Volunteers Regiment of Foot, 1795):
- 118th Battalion of Invalids, commanded by Lt Col John Lind, Dec 1762-Aug 1763.
- 118th, or Fingall, Regiment of Foot, commanded by Richard Wogan Talbot, Feb-Nov 1795.
- 119th, or Prince of Wales Own Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Charles Fitzroy, Nov-Dec 1762.
- 119th, or Rochfort's Regiment of Foot, commanded by John Stanton Rochfort, 1794 May to 1795 June.
- 120th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Henry Williams, 1795 July-Sept.
- 121st Regiment of Foot, commanded by Francis MacNamara, 1795 April-Sept.
- 122nd Regiment of Foot, commanded by John Stratford, 1795 Feb-July.
- 123rd Regiment of Foot, commanded by Edward Letherland, 1795 June-Sept.
- 124th Regiment of Foot, commanded by William Carr Beresford, 1795 Feb-Aug.
- 125th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Newton Treen, 1795 Feb-Aug.
- 126th, or Royal Leinster, Regiment of Foot, commanded by the Earl of Mountnorris, 1794 Dec-1795 June.
- 127th Regiment of Foot, commanded by John Francis Cradock, 1795 April-July.
- 128th Regiment of Foot, commanded by John Ogle, 1795 April-June.
- 129th Regiment of Foot, commanded by William Troughton, 1795 June-Aug.
- 130th Regiment of Foot, commanded by George Picot, 1795 July-Nov.
- 131st Regiment of Foot, commanded by Henry Edward Fox, 1795 Aug.
- HM Downshire Volunteers Regiment of Foot, commanded by Lt-Col the Hon. George Lowry Cole (colonel: Robert Ward), 1795 May-July.
- 132nd, or Loyal Wakefield, Regiment of Foot, commanded by Duncan Cameron, 1795 June-Sept.
- 133rd Regiment of Foot, commanded by Simon Fraser, 1795 July-Aug.
- 134th Regiment of Foot, commanded by John Lewes, 1795 June.
- 135th, or Limerick, Regiment of Foot, commanded by Sir Vere Hunt, 1795 June-Sept.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C601104/
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Office of the Commander in Chief: Monthly Returns to the Adjutant General
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