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Article German Voices from India : Officers of the Hanoverian Regiments in East India Company Service by Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi, South Asia, 32:2 (2009), 189-211. Publisher: University of Western Australia Press; Carfax; Routledge. ISSN 00856401. ISSN (electronic) 14790270.

German soldiers from Dutch East India Company Regiments were recruited into the 1st Madras (European) Fusiliers

External Links

• This India List thread advises that there were lots of German Regiments in India especially during the 18th Century and until about 1820, including captured Wuttenburgers from the Dutch service who were brought in from South Africa to fight for the EIC. Many references in the India Office records are listed. This India List thread is on similar matters.
• This India List thread mentions the Hanoverian Regiments and this post mentions Swiss regiments
• This India List thread mentions the Swiss mercenary regiment of De Meuron largely manned by Germans, who were working for the Dutch but who switched sides when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope in 1795
• In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny according to this India List thread
• This India list thread is about Germans in Dutch East India Company regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC