Listed as SERVICE RETURNS No.1 in THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Index ref WO25/871-1120

These records are to be found in documents headed, 'Statement of the periods of service of all the non-Commissioned Officers, Drummers (Trumpeters), and Privates of the---------- Regiment of------------who were liable to serve Abroad on the 24th June 1806'.

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Information contained in index (if available) SURNAME; FORENAME; ENLISTMENT DATE; RANK; REGIMENT; (The National Archives) TNA REFERENCE.

A TOTAL OF JUST OVER 82,800 NAMES HAVE NOW BEEN INDEX IN THE FOLLOWING TWENTY VOLUMES

COMPACT DISC now available for the 1^st to 25^th Regiments of Foot, (31,621 entries). Please note the volumes containing the Cavalry Regiments Volumes 3, 7 & 11 are not included on this CD. They will be on a separate CD in the future when all of the Cavalry Returns have been indexed.

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*Volume 1 TNA WO25/909-911 (4,386 names)

1^st (Royal) Regiment of Foot, 1^st, 3^rd & 4^th battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 1^st Regiment of Foot took men from, Lanark, Wigton, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Selkirk & Roxburgh

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*Volume 2 TNA WO25/912-916 (3,396 names)

2^nd (Queen’s) Regiment of Foot, 1^st battalion;

3^rd (Buffs) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; this regiment took men raised for the Army of Reserve 1803 from London, Middlesex & Tower Hamlets; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 3^rd Regiment of Foot took men from London City;

4^th (Kings) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions.

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Volume 3 TNA WO25/871-873 & 877-879 (3,837 names)

1^st Life Guards; 2^nd Life Guards; Royal Horse Guards (Blues); 1^st Dragoon Guards (King’s); 2^nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays); 3^rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales').

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*Volume 4 TNA WO25/917-922 (3,808 names)

5^th (Northumberland) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 5^th Regiment of Foot took men from Sussex;

6^th (1^st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 6^th Regiment of Foot took men from Lancashire;

7^th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot 1^st & 2^nd battalions, UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 7^th Regiment of Foot took men from Yorkshire West Riding;.

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*Volume 5 TNA WO25/923-928  (4,220 names)

8^th (The King's) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 8^th Regiment of Foot took men from Yorkshire North Riding

9^th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 9^th Regiment of Foot took men from Dorset & Somerset;

10^th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 10^th Regiment of Foot took men from Essex

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*Volume 6 TNA WO25/929-933 (2,541 names)

11^th (North Devon) Regiment of Foot, 1^st battalion; 12^th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot, 2^nd battalion (although there was a first battalion this is not included in the PRO document); 13^th (1^st Somerset) Regiment of Foot, 1^st battalion;

14^th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalion; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 14^th Regiment of Foot took men from Bedford, Buckingham & Northamptonshire.

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Volume 7  TNA WO25/880-884 (3,773 names)

4^th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards; 5^th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’) Dragoon Guards; 6^th (Carabiniers) Dragoon Guards; 7^th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards; 1^st (Royal) Dragoons.

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*Volume 8  TNA WO25/934-939 (4,264 names)

15^th (Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 15^th Regiment of Foot took men from Yorkshire East Riding;

 16^th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot, 1^st battalion; 17^th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot, 1^st battalion;

 18^th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; This Regiment took men raised for the Army of Reserve 1803 from Ireland (counties not established yet); UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 18^th Regiment of Foot took men from Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone & Antrim

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*Volume 9  TNA WO25/940-944 (3,760 names)

19^th (Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire) Regiment of Foot, 1^st battalion; 20^th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot, 1^st battalion;

21^st (Royal North British) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 21^st Regiment of Foot took men from Renfrewshire & Ayrshire.

 22^nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot, 1^st battalion.

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*Volume 10 TNA WO25/945-950 (5,293 names)

23^rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 23^rd Regiment of Foot took men from Anglesey, Caernarvon, Denbigh, Flint & Merioneth;

24^th (2^nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 24^th Regiment of Foot took men from Warwickshire;

 25^th (King’s Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 25^th Regiment of Foot took men from Cumberland & Westmoreland.

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Volume 11 TNA WO25/885-889 (3,323 names).

2^nd Dragoons (Royal North British); 3^rd Dragoons (King’s Own); 4^th Dragoons (Queen’s Own); 6^th Dragoons (Inniskilling); 7^th Light Dragoons (Queen’s Own).

[There are no Records for 5^th Dragoons (Royal Irish), they were disbanded 10^th April 1799 until 3^rd February 1855]

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Volume 12 WO25/951-955  (5,515 names)

26^th (Cameronians) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; this Regiment took men of the Army of Reserve 1803 from the counties of Ayr, Berwick, Bute, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Haddington, Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Linlithgow, Peebles, Renfrew, Roxburgh, Selkirk. Stirling & Wigton and the town of Berwick on Tweed; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 26^th Regiment of Foot took men from Edinburgh City & County, Linlithgow, Peebles, Berwickshire & Haddington.

 27^th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 27^th Regiment of Foot took men from Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh & Down;

 28^th (North Gloucestershire) Regiments of Foot, 1^st & 2^nd battalions; this Regiment took men of the Army of Reserve from Cornwall, Devon & Somerset; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 28^th Regiment of Foot took men from Devon.

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Volume 13 WO25/957 – 962 (4,687 names)

1^st battalion 29^th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot;

1^st & 2^nd battalions 30^th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot. This regiment took men for the Army of Reserve 1803 –1806 from the counties of Bedford, Buckingham, Cambridge, Hertford, Huntingdon, Leicester, Northampton & Oxford. UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’ further men raised for limited service were recruited into the 30^th Regiment of Foot from the counties of Huntingdon, Leicester & Cambridge.

1^st battalion 31^st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot. UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’ this regiment took men raised for limited service from the county of Cheshire.

1^st & 2^nd battalions 32^nd (Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry) Regiment. UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’ this regiment took men enlisting for limited service from the County of Cornwall.

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Volume 14 WO25/963-967 (4,285)

1^st battalion 33^rd (1^st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot;

1^st & 2^nd battalions 34^th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot; the 2^nd battalion in 1805 took men from various Militia Regiments including Yorkshire, South Essex, South Lincolnshire & Royal Bucks.

1^st & 2^nd battalion 35^th (Sussex from 1805) Regiment of Foot; this Regiment took men from a number of Militia Regiments including over 400 from Sussex, and over 100 from both South Gloucestershire and Dorset, with lesser amount from various Monmouth & Brecon & Oxford among others.

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Volume 15 WO25/890 –895 (4,741 names)

8^th (King’s Royal Irish), 9^th (Queen’s Royal), 10^th (Prince of Wales’s Own), 11^th, 12^th (Prince of Wales’s Royal), & 13^th Light Dragoons.

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Volume 16  WO25/968-974 (4,375 names)

1^st & 2^nd battalions 36^th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot; the majority of 1^st battalion were men from various Militia regiments including Lancashire, Monmouth, Montgomery, Shropshire, Surrey, Westminster, Worcester and later Anglesey, Antrim, Carlow, Cumberland, Essex, North Lincoln, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Westmoreland & 3^rd West Yorkshire. UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 36^th Regiment of Foot took men from Durham.

1^st battalion 37^th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot; 

1^st & 2^nd battalions 38^th (1^st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 38^th Regiment of Foot took men from Staffordshire.

1^st & 2^nd battalions 39^{th [}East Middlesex (from 1807 became Dorsetshire)] Regiment of Foot. This regiment took men from for the Army of Reserve from Cheshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire; UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 39^th Regiment of Foot took further recruits from Shropshire.

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Volume 17 WO25/896-901 (4,890 names)

14^th (Duke of York’s) Light Dragoons; 15^th (King’s) Light Dragoons; 16^th, 17^th, 18^th, & 19^th Light Dragoon.

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Volume 18 WO25/975-980  (5,319 names)

1^st  & 2^nd battalion 40^th (2nd Somerset) Regiment of Foot UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service, were recruited into specific regiments, the 40^th took recruits from Dorset and Somerset. Some recruits also came from Europe.

 

1^st battalion 41^st (The Welsh) Regiment of Foot.

 

1^st  & 2^nd battalion 42^nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot

Mainly but not entirely Highland Scots. In 1803 this Regiment took men recruited for the Army of Reserve from counties of Highland Scotland. UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service, were recruited into specific regiments the 42^nd took further recruits from Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland and Caithness.

 

1^st & 2^nd battalions 43^rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot.  UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service, were recruited into specific regiments the 43^rd took recruits from Worcester.

 

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Volume 19 WO25/902-907 (3,541names)

20^th, 21^st, 22^nd, 23^rd, 24^th, & 25^th Light Dragoons.

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Volume 20 WO25/981-985 (2,848 names)

1^st & 2^nd battalions 44^th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot. This regiment took men raised for the Army of Reserve 1803 from the counties of Kildare, Wicklow, Carlow, Westmeath, King’s County & Queen’s County

1^st & 2^nd battalions 45^th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. Appear to be mainly Irish, with some Scots and English. However UNDER ‘The Additional Forces Act 1804’, men raised for limited service were recruited into specific regiments the 45^th Regiment of Foot took men from the counties of Nottingham and Rutland.

1^st battalion 46^th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot. The men appear to be mainly Irish & Welsh with some Scots & English.

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Latest Volume 21 WO25/874 & 908 (4,632 names)

1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd battalions 1^st Foot Guards. England supplied many of the men for this regiment, which also had many men from Wales & Scotland, but with fewer men from Ireland. For a breakdown of where the men came from see Research page. Also see information on data base held on the men from this regiment.

Royal Waggon Train. The date on this return has been changed to 26^th June 1810 and it appears that those serving before June 1806 and had subsequently left the regiment before 1810 have not been recorded. They appear to be a mixture of all four countries.

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Information contained in index (if available) SURNAME; FORENAME; ENLISTMENT DATE; RANK; REGIMENT; (The National Archives) TNA REFERENCE.

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