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**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/19th/109_bombay_inf.htm The 3rd Bombay European Regiment becomes part of the British Army] Over 600 men of the 3rd Europeans declined the various inducements to join the British Army and were sent back to England in a sailing ship that took 5 months to make the journey. Reduced to a skeleton force the Regiment looked for reinforcements and at this point members of the Jäger Corps joined the Regiment
**[http://www.leinster-regiment-association.org.uk/history/19th/1863-1881.htm 1863-1881]
*[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/searchresults.asp?mode=reg®iment=3rd%20Bombay%20European%20Regiment 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment Mutiny Memorials, Jhansi] - Indian-cemeteries.org. Images of memorials with 71 names of those who fell in the 1857 uprising. *[http://web.archive.org/web/20091108022740/http://stutterheim.eci.co.za/legion.htm The British-German Legion] stutterheim.eci.co.za, an archived website. The origins of the Jager Corps.===Historical books online===*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZrQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA774 Officers in HM’s 109th Regiment], page 774 from ''The Bombay Miscellany Volume 4, May to October 1862'' Google Books*[http://archive.org/stream/tenyearsinsouth00westgoog#page/n96/mode/2up "The East India Campaign"], page 70 ''Ten years in South Africa. Only complete and authentic history of the British German Legion in South Africa and the East Indies. From the memoirs of Wm. Westphal'' 1892 Archive.org. The Jager Corps in India.*The author joins the 109th Regiment c 1863 [http://archive.org/stream/orientalcampaign00maudiala#page/250/mode/2up/ Page 250] ''Oriental campaigns and European furloughs:the autobiography of a veteran of the Indian Mutiny'' by Colonel E. Maude. 1908 Archive.org. His account includes some information about the Jager Corps.
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