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Recruitment and conditions
==Recruitment and conditions==
Fairly consistently six percent of soldiers were recruited as married, based on a According to statistical analysis of the Depot Lists and Embarkation Lists of recruits going to Indiaby FIBIS Chairman, by Peter Bailey, FIBIS Chairmansix percent of soldiers were consistently recruited as married. One of his ancestors joined the EIC Army at very closely nearly the same time as that his daughter was born and was sent to India several weeks later with his wife and new-born baby<ref name=Bail> Email from Peter Bailey to User:Maureene dated 10 April 2014 </ref> c mid 1820s. Although the East India Company provided a passage back to Britain for soldiers <ref> Also including wives "on the strength”</ref><ref name=Bail /> at the expiration of their term of service,<ref name=Bail /> it appears that very few elected to return.<ref> Email from Peter Bailey to [[User:Maureene|Maureen Evers]] dated 10 April 2014 </ref>
Samuel Hickson who was in India 1777-1785 lists the reasons in his Diary: disease, the good provisions made by the Company relating to age and incapacity, the bounty paid on renewal of service, and family ties.<ref> "Diary of Samuel Hickson 1777-1785" in Bengal Past and Present, Volume 49, Part 1 1935, pages 28-30 (computer pages 35-37) which is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website.</ref>

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